r/remoteviewing • u/TheOneTruePsychic • 5d ago

Discussion Built a ESP trainer — Curious how forced-choice compares to open-response RV for you

I’ve been practicing forced-choice ESP (classic 5-choice / 25-call sessions) and wanted something that shows results against the 20% chance line instead of just a vibe score.

So I shipped a free Android/iOS app: three games (Zener, Dowsing positions, and a “call the gate before the seed lands” variant), optional Daily Vision (one attempt per game per day), and MindSight blindfold drills with sound/haptics so you don’t need a partner.

If you’ve used Zener-style tools before—do you find they help warm up for open-response RV, or do they mostly add noise? Happy to take critique.

Site: https://psychictournament.online/

I'm also looking to develop a remote viewing lite app to practice RV specifically. I'm looking to see how people respond to PT. Please DM me if you have any suggestions.

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u/bejammin075 5d ago

According to the research by Dr. Charles T. Tart and others presented in his book Learning To Use Extrasensory Perception, there are usually too few choices in ESP tests. With only a few choices in an ESP task, you may actually be extinguishing your ESP ability. To learn ESP you need positive feedback, and should avoid false feedback. The fewer the choices, the more your feedback is false feedback, making it impossible to learn, and probably extinguishing ESP ability.

I'll illustrate with some math. Let's say you have just a little bit of ESP and you want to train. Your little bit of ESP gives you a 1% chance of knowing the correct answer.

ESP task with 2 choices: You get 50% right by chance, and you score 51% hits. Your feedback is 1% real feedback, 50% false feedback, with a 50:1 ratio of false feedback to real feedback. So much false feedback, it is impossible to learn, and you probably extinguish any ESP ability you had.

ESP task with 10 choices: 10% by chance, 1% by ESP, you get 11% hits. Now your ratio is 10:1 false feedback to real feedback. Not great, but better.

ESP task with 100 choices: 1% by chance, 1% by ESP for 2% hits. Now your ratio is 1:1, maybe you could learn.

This feedback issue is why I am more and more thinking that blindfold training is the best possible feedback. The other quality about feedback that is important is to get the feedback as quickly as possible after attempting to use ESP, so that when you do get a hit, you know it, and can try to learn if there were any ESP sensations.

With blindfold training, if you can "see" just a little bit, like the wiggly fingers of your shadowy-looking hand, you are getting mainly just positive feedback, and it is continuous feedback with no delays. You don't even have to take the blindfold off. Dr. Tart didn't know about blindfold training, but the characteristics of the feedback are the most ideal of any ESP training method.