Methinks not everyone was always completely honest in this game!! 𤣠It was just a game, so hopefully no harm done.
But your daughter is very smart and indeed up to something. I was immediately reminded of the book "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtains" by Ostrander and Schroeder, which I read many years ago. Wasn't there a description of a lady who was able to "see" with her fingers? And indeed, here it is:
CHAPTER 14: EYELESS SIGHT
In the early 1960s, about 300,000 people lived in the Ural mountain city, Nizhniy Tagil. One of the least noticeable women in town was Rosa Kuleshova. Rosa was as plain and unmanicured as a potato, rinsed and sitting on the side of the sink. Living in industrial, mining-oriented Tagil, on the border of Europe and Asia, the twenty-two-year-old Rosa inhabited her own odd dreams. Since sheâd been sixteen, this short, pudgy girl in her utilitarian print dresses had led drama groups for the townâs visually handicapped. Various members of her own family were blind, and with them Rosa had learned to read Braille proficiently.
One day Rosa noticed something strange. After that, an odd daydream began to outpalpitate all the others in Rosa: she would teach the blind to see â to see light, colors, pictures, and even to read without Braille.
In the spring of 1962 Rosa told her very doubting doctor, Iosif M. Goldberg that she could see with her fingers. Then she showed him. Carefully blindfolded by Goldberg, Rosa moved the third and fourth fingers of her right hand over sheets of paper, naming colors, âGreen, red, light blue, orangeâ. Goldberg put newspapers, magazines, books under Rosaâs impossible fingers. Her hand read as easily as her eyes. It looked like everybody elseâs hand, but Rosa was acting as if sheâd grown a second set of eyes in her fingertips.
âWhen I first found I could see print with my fingersâ, Rosa admitted to Dr. Goldberg, âI thought, wouldnât it be grand if I could read notes in my pocket during tests in schoolâ.
Goldberg, a neuropathologist, checked and rechecked. Finally he took his patient to a regional conference of the Society of Psychologists, meeting in Nizhniy Tagil in the fall of 1962. For the first time in her life, a lot of eyes were focused on Rosa, even though she couldnât see them through the bandages the psychologists wrapped around her head. Rosaâs remarkable fingers, however, did see the color of the scientistsâ clothes, the shades of objects taken out of their pockets. Her hand âlookedâ at a person in a photograph. She described the manâs posture and appearance. How did she do it? Practice, Rosa said. âI trained myself several hours a day for the last six yearsââ. (...)
Excellent to see you here. Many thanks for chiming in about the game we played. Yes, Esteban most certainly cheated but i don't think anyone else did. Luna's idea to play this specific game was unusual because a few months earlier i had seen this interview with Nicola Farmer and become aware for the first time of what was possible:
I didn't tell the children what i learned in this film so it was amazing to see the way she sensed my desire to investigate this subject further. Am planning to make a Mindfold style blindfold which completely blocks out all light. They are young enough still to take advantage of this. Though with that said i understand Farmer is now taking on adult students too and training other practitioners. What a great movement this could be!
Many thanks for the book link. Have just downloaded it for future reference.
Enjoy the warming weather âď¸