Is any of this true?
· By Orivana · 7 min read
No mechanism has been demonstrated for any of the five systems here, and where the claims have been tested they have not held up. What is...
How this works
Why a dream dictionary is the wrong tool
· By Orivana · 6 min read
A dictionary works because a language is held in common. Dreams are not. The lookup table is a genre error before you read a single entry,...
Cold reading, and how to tell it from a reading
· By Orivana · 7 min read
The shotgun, the rainbow ruse, the vanishing negative, the out. The techniques named plainly, why most people using them are not frauds, and the four questions...
Confirmation bias and the honest reading
· By Orivana · 6 min read
A reading that came true is weaker evidence than it feels, because the outcome wrote the record. There is one practice that fixes it, and almost...
The Barnum effect, and why a reading feels personal
· By Orivana · 7 min read
A psychologist handed the same personality sketch to a whole class in 1948 and they rated it 4.26 out of 5 for accuracy. Recognising that kind...