Ouija board

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Has anyone done a ouija bored? I haven't. My partner has. Scares the shot out of me. Is it real?

For me it's like crack. Never do, go near, touch, etc etc

No, never. Because, if they don't work, you've all scared yourselves stupid for no reason. And if they do, you've opened a door to goodness knows what & can't close it again.

This^^. Either they work, so don't mess with them, or they're a load of nonsense, so don't waste your time with them.

I was on a school camp with an 11 years old mixed group. We heard the rumour that one tent of normally well behaved and sensible girls was going to try and use an ad hoc ouija board and have a seance. Of course, we forbad them to do so and, of course, they went ahead. I was a just dozing off when I heard a frightened voice at my tent entrance say "Ms Tezza, we think we raised a ghost and our tent is haunted." They were nearly hysterical and to calm them down, and "protect them from evil forces," I had to sleep in the tent with 8 giggling nervously/terrified girls.

How I hated overnight camps.

Ouija boards pose a genuinely serious danger to people with a latent psychosis.

As such individuals are usually unaware of their pre-disposition, anyone who uses them is potentially at risk.

Acute psychotic illness brought on in this way is extremely difficult to treat and many individuals never fully recover.

My school was the only school in the area which never had any Halloween events. We were told this was because the deputy headmaster's daughter had played with a ouija board and killed herself.

Possibly not true but i've refused to have anything to do with a Ouija board since,.
Do not open that door. The safety of all of us and our children depends upon it!

The safety of all of us

Haha! Someone better tell Hasbro then, who even sell this nifty glow in the dark version over at Amazon

And if they do, you've opened a door to goodness knows what & can't close it again.

^^this

Honey Bee Mum - as an ex-Mental Health Nurse, of the hundreds of people I nursed with psychosis, I've never come across that. And nor had my colleagues, who would definitely have told me as they loved scaring the shit out of me about the hospital "ghosts"

Now smoking weed - that'll bring out latent psychosis. And steroids. Really, ouija boards? Really? (Looks up word gullible in the dictionary).

I did it when I was a student . It told me the exact date of grandma's death.
She was ill at the time though and it was in the near future.
It was weird, our hands and arms were freezing cold and it moved really really fast to spell the words. There was a lot of stuff which was quite odd and eventually the glass flew off the table across the room and it smashed. I've never done it since.

It's ideomotor movement and many tests (including ones by Penn and Teller) show that it doesn't work when people are blindfolded and the board turned upside down without their knowledge. It was originally a Victorian parlour game.

I never have, my mum is terrified of them after doing one.

She done one with her brother and cousins when they were teens, they asked who would die first out of all them, it spelt out one of her cousins name, then glass. Years later she was in a car coming back from a wedding with her brother and cousins and they crashed. They watched their cousin bleed to death after going through the windscreen.

If you want to properly scare yourselves watch the News.
Ouija boards are an illusion for people with overactive imaginations. Like ghosts, seances etc.
I have had a go, nothing happened.

I'd have a go. Sounds like fun.

TheMagicFarawaySleep - I am sorry you have misunderstood me. My post has nothing to do with ghosts.

The perceived power of the ouija board combined with latent psychosis can - and indeed does - cause, in some cases, catastrophic mental illness.

The fact that this is not a common occurrence and is outside your (apparently) considerable professional experience does not negate the considerable suffering experienced by those affected.

While you have got the dictionary out, you might want to look up 'hubris' and 'clever clogs'.

Just don't do it, you are right, it invokes evil and powers that cannot be explained.

Of course they don't "work". How could they as there is no such thing as ghosts. They can frighten people who are gullible enough to believe that dead people are talking to you though, so for that reason are best avoided.

Noway, you have to know what your doing or it can get nasty. Even my professional medium friend who's a white witch will not touch it.

A group of us used to have seances regularly, until we were terrified out of it.. The ideomotor effect does not explain some of the things that happened during the ouija board sessions, including the glass & other objects in the room moving on their own, sounds, etc.
I think it is like opening a door to something, unconscious forces, the supernatural, or however you want to frame it. I wouldn't do it now, as it is not easy to control.
I am interested in Penn & Teller's findings, though. I will look it up.

I am a witch- I would have no problem having a go. But then I don't believe in the devil.

worra. There's a guy in my local shop who I quite fancy seems like a nice chap, but whenever I go near him, he starts whistling nervously. Does that mean he's an evil spirit, or that he thinks I am?!

My mum is so anti this stuff (went to a Catholic convent boarding school in the late forties/fifties) that while I'm a non-believer, I couldn't bring myself to do it!

Can somebody explain the ideomotor effect in simple terms? I'm sleep deprived & tried reading the Wikipedia but it was like gibberish

This is something that has always interested.
I would never do one (just incase). But surely if ghosts were real there would be some scientific proof by now?

To me it's not real but I won't shoot down anyone who thinks it is.
In my opinion though like with drugs if you believe something is happening it can be very psychologically damaging which is why I don't advise doing it.

I think it's the same of all magic, it only works if you believe in it.

My 15 year old son asked me if he could go to his friends house and do a ouija board. I told him i massively disapproved and that it was bad news. I asked if friends mum would be home, he said yes, they'd be doing it with her, it was her idea. I can't believe an adult would be stupid enough to do this with kids.