Ouija boards came up in conversation and I asked her if she'd ever done one. She said she had but they were not to be messed with?
To which she then goes and gets the ouija board anyway, even after such an ominous warning. Hmmm?.
?nothing happened at all for about 4 minutes of sitting there with me beginning to smirk a little. However my Gran hadnt moved and had her eyes closed, so I asked her if it would work. She opened her eyes and just said "be patient and watch". OK i thought and waited a minute longer. Then all of a sudden the small glass tumbler started moving?
Perhaps after four minutes of building your suspense she started losing your attention. One minute later your anticipations are rewarded.
One thing that amazes me is how people say they waited five minutes, ten minutes, started getting board, and then the thing starts moving. As if five or ten minutes is really that long. My skepticism meter might tip just a little if I were told that someone waited with their fingers resting on the tumbler for an hour, maybe even two or three. Most things require work and serious effort before getting results. Why should talking to spirits be any different?
started asking it/him questions like how was he doing in heaven and all this really crazy shlt to which he replied "BEEN SITTING IN THE GARDEN AND HAVE HAD A HARD DAY AT WORK"
I find his statement conflicts with your grandmother?s explanation of heaven:
she calmly told me that heaven was in some ways like life on earth, people worked, never got ill or died, never suffered from crime (after all if theres a heaven there must be a hell right?) and were perfectly content.
If he never gets ill and is perfectly content why does he describe his day using an expression mostly used to convey the opposite? ?I had a hard day at work,? suggests fatigue (a form of illness since it?s a physiological impairment brought on by physical exertion) and it also implies discontent. Of course, one could be tired at the end of a workday but still feel good because of the day?s accomplishments and, therefore, not subject to discontent. But this would usually be interpreted by the speaker?s tone when he utters the words: ?I had a hard day at work.? In fact, voice inflection is so crucial to the proper understanding of what that phrase was intended to mean, that I find it odd that a spirit trying to communicate with the living through a pointer and a printed alphabet would even use such an ambivalent expression.
Anyway to cut an overly long story short, everthing i have described above is the absolute truth as i saw it?
I can believe it really happened and you have retold it as you saw it. I only doubt your interpretations of what you saw.
StatisticianOG?s link refers to the ideomotor effect. Perhaps this can explain why the tumbler moved without you or your grandmother moving it.
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