Theme Week, Part Coat Rack

Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents:   
Music Fact Check Week!   
LMFAO wishes they had Precognition in order to see something coming, not Telekinesis   


Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis? 


Today's topic is Extrasensory Perception, or ESP.  ESP covers a range of para-psychological abilities that people claim to have, though no scientific evidence of anyone actually demonstrating them.  All studies showing ESP ability have been shown to have flaws in the experimental design and have been debunked.  

That said, these types of abilities are far-ranging and some are remarkably interesting.  I studied them intently for an entire part of a semester when I was in college because I had to take a liberal arts course, and ended up in a Psychology class that was available at a convenient time.  Janine Melnitz captured a good many of these types of phenomena in Ghostbusters, though UFOs, Nessie, and Atlantis have precious little to do with perception.  

She does mention Astral Projection (Out-Of-Body Experiences), Telepathy (Communicating with others outside of normal sensory channels like hearing or sight), Clairvoyance (The ability to see hidden objects, again, outside of the normal sensory channels), among others.  The important one we'r dealing with today is Telekinesis.  

Also known as psychokinesis, it is the ability to physically influence objects without actual physical contact.  For example, using your mind to Move A Coat Rack From Across An Office.  The term Telekinesis was first coined by a Russian scientist in 1890.  

"Love Lockdown" is a "song" "by" "rapper" Kanye West, released in 2008.  Some time later, party rock enthusiasts LMFAO (An acronym for "Loving My Friends And Others") released a house/techno remix of the song which featured a couple new verses.  Why?  I don't know...it's what musicians do these days.  One of the lyrical lines from the newer version of the song is as follows:  "But you done broke my heart, into a million pieces.  I should've seen it coming, wish i had telekinesis" implying that if he could have looked into the future, he would have been able to foresee his heartbreak and perhaps prevented it.  

Unfortunately, moving a coat rack from across an office doesn't give you that ability.  

The branch of ESP that deals with seeing into the future is something entirely different, known as Precognition.  Redfoo and Sky Blu should probably leave psychoanalysis to professionals and stick with shuffling.  Apparently, they do that every day. 

Ball's In Your Court, Freud

Anyone else have that dream where a blue-painted Justin Bieber drops an elbow on you from the top rope?  

Oddly specific.  I've had similar dreams, but I don't think he was painted blue.  Close, though.

So yeah...I don't have much of an explanation for this.  Not that it really needs or deserves one.  I will mention that at the time, I was more upset about the fact that the blue paint rubbed off and got all over my couch than the fact that I was just hit with a flying elbow drop.  I can't really explain myself sometimes.   

What did this mean?

Déjà vu: The experience of feeling sure that one has experienced a new situation previously.


Really?


It's true! Today's Sametime Status is the first in a series of messages designed to edutain people about various parapsychological conditions. I have a very mild passing interest in various psychological and parapsychological phenomena, including my own irrational fear of applesauce, so I thought I'd spend some time on the Blag here shining a little light on them. It'll be a thing!


We're already getting hate mail over this.


How is that even possible? This is the first one!

What did this mean?

Déjà vu: The experience of feeling sure that one has experienced a new situation previously.


Yeah...great. Can we move on now?


I'm not sure what you're talking about. Today's Sametime Status is the first in a series of messages designed to edutain people about various parapsychological conditions. I'd hoped to make it a recurring thing on the blag here.


It's not as if it's difficult to scroll down and see yesterday's message, you know. The Internetz do have that technology.


Yesterday's message was about Bird Flu or something...I really can't be bothered to look it up.

What did this mean?

Déjà vu: The experience of feeling sure that one has experienced a new situation previously.


Uhm....wait a second...


Yes...today's Sametime Status is the first in a series of messages designed to edutain people about various parapsychological conditions. It's gonna be a thing!


Are you messing with me?


Not at all...I consider myself an expert on the subject having taken a freshamn-level psychology course at the technical school where I went to college. I also used to run an online ESP ability test. It was fun!


Not exactly what I meant...


So enjoy today's Sametime Status, everybody!