I Tried to Read My Parents’ Minds Using Science… Did It Work?

This video is released in collaboration with the creators, Theo and Miles Kowalski of Kids of Wonder. We hope and expect that Theo will eventually become a Guest Host on New Thinking Allowed.

Can you read your parents’ minds… using science? You’ve seen it in Stranger Things when Eleven floats in water and reaches out with her mind powers… But what if that idea is actually based on a real experiment? In this episode of Kids of Wonder, Theo tests the Ganzfeld Experiment – a method scientists have used for decades to study telepathy. Ping pong balls over his eyes. Red light. White noise. Cut off from his senses, Theo tries to receive images from his parents' minds. Along the way, we break down:

• Who were Wolfgang Metzger and Charles Honorton
• What the Ganzfeld Experiment is
• Why scientists have studied it for decades
• What the results actually show, including some mind-blowing math
• And of course… whether Theo can really read his parents’ minds.

00:00 Intro
00:40 Professor Isaak Von Hooten Explains the Ganzfeld Experiment
03:18 Setting up the Experiment
04:32 Entering the Tank
06:33 Precognition???
08:07 Final Thoughts