NCEIV4 3-0814 Flashcards
Lesson 4
Lesson 4 Seeing hands
Several cases h
Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid and walls.
One case concer
One case concerns and eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls.
This ability wa
This ability was first noticed by her father.
One day she cam
One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe.
Suddenly she as
Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.
Vera’s curious
Vera’s curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic.
During these te
During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child’s game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it;
and, in another
and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet.
Other experimen
Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity.
During all thes
During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin.
It was also fou
It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.
