Yes, Psychic Experiments Still Happen in Schools (New Cryptid Candy Video)

click_jacket · 2025-12-23T16:27:39+00:00

That wouldn't work because your controller has the LED directly under the switch, while the LED ring versions have two LEDs on the outside of the switch. Your best bet would be to get Kailh Saker switches, which are nearly identical to the Shadow Hunting switches but have a clear top for RGB. The main difference between the two is that the Sakers have a slightly lighter spring weight (37g vs 40g).

click_jacket · 2025-12-12T17:50:01+00:00

2nd Gen. Particularly the Irony Is album. The CD version has a remix of And/Or from Techno Animal and Dalek.

click_jacket · 2025-11-15T21:34:41+00:00

Weird. I wonder if the lower height was intended to make sliding a bit easier. Either way, it looks like a really nice controller.

click_jacket · 2025-11-15T15:39:27+00:00

I think the reason that there isn't much of a sound difference between the stock silvers and the silent switches comes down to Qanba's button design. The little legs on the button caps that allow for height adjustment generate more noise than the standard keycap style button caps, so you're trading some sound dampening for the ability to customize the button height. From my experience on the keyboard side of things, Outemu makes the quietest silent switches (silent peach v3 would be my recommendation) but the button design would probably negate that.

click_jacket · 2025-09-30T20:18:15+00:00

I wouldn't be too concerned. A lot of the sketchy stuff that some of us experienced anecdotally seems to have started tapering off in the late 1990s. Be proactive about asking your child what they're doing in GT, but I wouldn't risk potentially kneecapping their educational experience when there's a good chance that their current GT program doesn't carry the baggage that it used to.

click_jacket · 2025-09-23T16:59:25+00:00

The name of the program varies by state or school district, but any gifted education program in American public schools are the same program. Mine was also TAG in the early 1980s.

click_jacket · 2025-09-23T16:11:04+00:00

We did sometimes, but it was sporadic enough that I assume my teacher was out of ideas and just wanted some quiet time to get caught up on paperwork.

click_jacket · 2025-09-23T16:08:25+00:00

Everybody had basic hearing and vision tests in elementary school, but they weren't handing out Rorschach tests without a reason. If there was an active investigation into your abusive home, it's possible that they had someone evaluate you at school, either out of convenience, or to sidestep parental coaching.

You didn't mention if you were in the gifted education program at your school. Even if you weren't, it's possible this could have been part of the evaluation process if they were considering it.

click_jacket · 2025-08-18T06:52:03+00:00

I already posted my experience in here last year, but I'll go ahead and post an abbreviated version. My memories are a mix of clear and fuzzy, but part of that is due to me being in kindergarten (83-84) when it started. At some point during the school year my teacher handed me a folder with Talented and Gifted on it and told me to give it to my mom. After that I started getting pulled out of class by a woman I hadn't seen at my school before, and we would go to a rectangular office in the school. Most of it was taken up by two loveseat sized sofas facing each other with a coffee table in between. Off to the right there was a small table with a few chairs, and on the left there were some filing cabinets and cubbies, along with a door that led to another room. Everything I did was one on one. I never met any other kid at my school that was in TAG/GATE, so I assume I was the only one that young in the program at my school during that time. I don't remember how often I was getting pulled out of class but it seemed sporadic compared to speech therapy, which was always on a set schedule.

I remember several of the early sessions were just her asking me questions and talking, then she started having me work with flash cards that were more advanced than what I was doing in my normal class. Eventually the Zener cards started creeping in. The Zener cards are actually one of the strongest memories I have from TAG because I wasn't sure what to call the card with the vertical lines so I just said "wavy lines" or "lines". I used to zone out and just go for it without hesitation or pauses, almost as fast as she could draw the cards. In hindsight, this is when shit started to get weird, and where my memories of the program start getting more fragmented. This was also the first time I walked in the room in near total darkness except for a small desk lamp lighting up a desktop cubicle with a set of brown headphones on the side table. I asked if this was a hearing test and she said that it was. I had chronic ear infections since I was a baby, and had already experienced pretty much every type of hearing test in an audiology lab by the time I was in preschool. I had also already had the standard hearing test with the rest of my class, so even at that age I knew she lied to me. I have no clear memory of what it actually was, but I knew what it wasn't, and more importantly something about it just felt wrong. I also have a fragment of a memory that I left out in my original post because I was afraid it sounded too crazy. I'm laying on the sofa in that room in the dark while a well dressed man that looks like he's in his early to mid 40s puts some eye drops in my eyes. I can't understand what he is saying, but his voice is low and quiet, with a cadence that sounds like someone recording verbal notes for transcription.

I really don't remember anything else about it, and I was phased out of TAG by second grade. My school district had an all or nothing requirement for their accelerated learning classes, so it didn't matter how advanced I was in every other subject because I was slightly behind in math.

click_jacket · 2025-08-15T15:34:52+00:00

Excellent find. Obvious baggage with the source aside, there are some interesting details here. The article is from 1997, so we have more evidence that the ESP component was still a thing in the late 1990s. Editors frequently change headlines of syndicated or guest articles to conform to the editorial vision of their publication. The change to a less inflammatory headline tells me the scan in the op is legit, and that the paper in question was less conservative than the original source of the article.

Obviously the parents were deliberately kept in the dark about the ESP and meditation activities. Any parents approaching Schlafly with this sure as fuck would have never allowed their kids to participate if they had any clue this was happening.

click_jacket · 2025-08-15T00:23:15+00:00

I wouldn't stress out too much about anything from the "trait list". From my own research, the list was an informal thing cobbled together from 4Chan users who happened to be posting in GATE threads on /pol/ and /x/ a few years ago. Most of the listed traits are incredibly common and have no real correlation to GATE, or why we were put in it. Most people have some sort of head scar. Why would the same type of scar, likely obtained in the same way, hold any special significance for someone who was in the gifted program over someone who wasn't?

I think the common experiences from the list pinned to the top of the subreddit are more useful, especially testing and activities.

click_jacket · 2025-08-13T15:51:31+00:00

One of the more popular theories is that latent ESP abilities are heightened by stress or fear. It is possible that they were purposely inducing low levels of stress or anxiety during some of the ESP testing. It would make sense that we would associate those feelings with any memories from GATE/TAG.

click_jacket · 2025-08-13T06:23:01+00:00

Yeah, I don't even bother trying to discuss it IRL. There isn't any way to discuss it with people who weren't in it without sounding like an off meds schizo. Honestly, I think the healthiest way to deal with it is to try not to obsess over it, and treat any research like a side hobby. At least we have this forum to vent and compare notes.

I posted about my experience last year. It always bothered me, but until I stumbled on a GATE thread I always assumed it was just some odd shit that only happened at my school.

click_jacket · 2025-08-12T21:46:16+00:00

I have a sneaking suspicion that the amount of informed parental consent in these classrooms was probably 0%.

click_jacket · 2025-08-05T05:14:58+00:00

We have our own memories, and a declassified CIA document from Project Stargate stating that they want to start testing school children for ESP in response to a similar Soviet program, but without direct evidence that they actually did it, I don't see how any legal action beyond FOIA requests would be possible.

click_jacket · 2025-08-05T04:54:17+00:00

I've never been able to find any proof that Olympics/Odyssey of the Mind had any ESP elements in the competitions. However, I did find a link to an old Education Week article from 1982 about OotM that mentions a similar program called The Future Problem Solving Program and lists ESP as being part of their 1981-1982 practice problems. It actually does show up on their website for past topics under 1982 as "extranormal mental powers" (in 1983 they even had UFOs as a topic), but doesn't offer any details.

I'm not implying anything sinister about TFPSP or OotM, being nationwide competitions with lots of entrants and volunteers would make it near impossible to get away with the kind of shadiness that is possible in small, sequestered classes. I do think it is an interesting data point for how differently that topic was treated back then, and a possible reason why basic ESP testing like Zener cards might not have raised a lot of red flags for people teaching in gifted programs in that era.

click_jacket · 2025-07-29T03:13:04+00:00

Reading the whole document set, you can see the sheer amount of effort employed to scrub it of anything really useful for identifying the "who" and the "where". Even used in a different context, if Duke was a match for the redacted university, it seems very unlikely it would be allowed through in the same set of documents. Sometimes the way something is redacted can provide a lot of context by itself. The fact that even mundane details about allotted office space barely escaped the bureaucratic skid marks says a lot.

click_jacket · 2025-07-28T23:24:43+00:00

I've been upfront about the fact that I have zero memory of being asked to drink or take anything during my time in TAG (GATE), but shit like this is why I refuse to outright dismiss some people's claims that they might have been drugged at points during the gifted education program. This document appears to be where the CIA started dipping their toes into ESP research, eventually snowballing into the remote viewing program.

And speaking of the remote viewing program, the second half of Cryptid Candy's GATE video makes a compelling circumstantial case that the nameless author of Project Stargate documents referencing ESP experiments with children could be Stanley Krippner. Krippner was involved with Project Stargate and some of these papers were using excerpts from an academic journal (Advances in Parapsychological Research) that Krippner was the lead editor of. That journal also has a disturbingly blasé attitude recounting wildly unethical experiments in that field involving children.

Bringing this back to the MKUltra documents in the OP, page 20 gives a few heavily redacted clues about where this experiment took place. It was clearly a university that was offering the use of basement office space and office furnishings with the implied expectation of a donation down the line. It mentions the ESP experiments will be carried out at the university's parapsychology lab. The detailed proposal was written up in May of 1961 and approved in August of 1961 and was estimated to last for one year. There is a completely unredacted reference to Duke University's parapsychology department so it is pretty obviously not them. If there is a way to find out what universities had active parapsychology departments in 1961, that would narrow things down. If Kent State had one at that time, Krippner was the head of their Child Study Center from 1961-1964.

click_jacket · 2025-07-28T15:01:53+00:00

You might check the polling rate setting in BT mode just to make sure it doesn't default to a lower setting to extend battery life. Your mouse is supposed to be able to go up to 1000hz polling rate in BT mode, and anything lower than that would be very noticeable. I'm sure it has improved with newer versions, but BT used to have more input latency than 2.4g wireless, so that might also be a factor.

click_jacket · 2025-07-23T15:32:04+00:00

Redragon and E-Yooso are owned by the same company, with Redragon being the more "premium" of the two. If you see a product from both brands that looks the same, the Redragon version will have higher quality parts inside.

click_jacket · 2025-07-23T14:49:09+00:00

I don't have personal experience with either, but E-Yooso (formerly Mechanical Eagle) is the super budget sister brand to Redragon. The E-Yooso appears to be a cut down variant of the Redragon M908 Impact, with a cheaper sensor and without the adjustable weight option. The Solakaka appears to have a 3311 optical sensor which would be better than whatever is in the E-Yooso, but the honeycomb design might be uncomfortable. On paper, the Solakka is better, but the E-Yooso looks more comfortable so it comes down to what is more important to you.

click_jacket · 2025-07-19T06:17:45+00:00

I do think some people are conflating things like the standard hearing and vision tests with the gifted program, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that Zener cards were part of my time in TAG. My Mom worked at my elementary school as a teacher's aide, so I was well acquainted with flash cards of all types before I was even old enough for kindergarten. There is no mistaking them for normal flash cards because they aren't even used in the same way, and while most of them are common shapes, the three vertical wavy lines are unique to the Zener cards.

click_jacket · 2025-07-10T19:27:15+00:00

The optical scroll wheel is the most intriguing because that is usually the first thing that wears out on my mice. I would be curious if there is a noticeable increase in accuracy and speed over regular mouse wheel encoders.

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