Intuition is a skill you can practise.
You’ve probably heard of psi: ESP, remote viewing, the psychic spies the US Army trained from the late 1970s. The exercises behind those headlines are much simpler than they sound. For about a hundred years, people have practised them to strengthen their sense of knowing things without being told, often starting with something as plain as naming a colour with their eyes covered. Psichronize turns those exercises into one 15-minute practice you can do every day on a laptop or a phone.
Free during the open beta. Sign in with Google and your first session is ready.
Start with the words.
Psi (you say it like “sigh”) is the word researchers use for perceiving things without the five ordinary senses. You’ll come across a few related terms, and each one describes a different way it can happen.
ESP
Short for extrasensory perception. The broad term for anything you perceive without sight, hearing, touch, taste or smell.
Clairvoyance
Sensing an object you can’t see, or a place you aren’t in.
Precognition
Sensing something before it happens.
Telepathy
Picking up what another person is thinking, or what they’re looking at.
Remote viewing
A step-by-step method, developed for the US Army, for describing a faraway place you know nothing about.
Mind Sight
Telling, with your eyes covered, which colour is on a screen in front of you, or which card is on the table. This is the first skill Psichronize teaches.
Researchers have studied psi since the 1930s, when Duke University began testing people with cards. Stanford Research Institute studied it for the US government from 1972 to 1995. In 1974, NASA paid for a training machine with four buttons: the machine secretly picked one, you guessed which, and a chime told you when you were right. Teachers in Japan and Russia have run classes in Mind Sight for decades, each under their own name for it.
Fifteen minutes, start to finish.
You do one session a day. It always follows the same four steps, so you never have to plan what to practise. Find a quiet room and put headphones on. Underneath the session plays a soft binaural beat, which is a slightly different tone in each ear. Your brain tends to fall into step with the beat, and it’s there to help bring you into a calm, intuitive state.
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Warm up
3 short gamesQuick games to get you alert and focused. In one, a light flashes and a click plays, and you say whether they happened at the same moment.
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Practise
3 exercisesIn most of them your eyes are covered. The app asks you something like which colour is on the screen, and you step through the possible answers with the arrow keys, hearing each one read aloud.
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See your score
1 screenHow often your first answer was right, next to how often someone guessing at random would be right.
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Reflect
1 questionA short question about what you noticed. One sentence is plenty, and you can skip it.
The colour wheel.
Almost everyone starts here. The app calls it the colour wheel because colours are added one at a time, until you’re working with all seven. You begin with just two: red and blue.
First, get to know them. The screen glows with one colour, and its name is read aloud. Close your eyes, face the screen, and notice what you feel or see while the colour is on. Stay with it as long as you like, then switch to the other colour and do the same. Some people notice warmth or coolness. Some see a faint glow behind their eyelids. For others, the word itself comes into their head. Teachers call these faint signals impressions.
Then, with your eyes still closed, turn your back to the screen. The app shows one of the two colours without telling you which. Use the left and right arrow keys to move between “red” and “blue”, hearing each name as you reach it. Press the down arrow on the one that gives you the same impression you had while you were getting to know it.
If you picked the other colour, its name is taken off the list and you choose again. With two colours, your second try is always the answer. Nothing is ever marked wrong. The app just counts how many tries each round took.
As you improve, more colours join. Once you’re right on your first try much more often than guessing usually manages, yellow is added. Then black, white, orange and finally green.
After the session
The app asks you one question about what you noticed. After the colour wheel, it might ask something like this:
“Before you pressed a key, did a colour come to mind on its own? Which one, and how did it show up: as a glow, as the word, or as a feeling?”
There’s no right answer. Over a few weeks, your answers show you how your impressions tend to come to you.
Different schools, teaching the same exercises.
None of this was invented here. Psichronize gathers exercises that teachers around the world have used for decades. These are the main schools it draws on.
Mind Sight
Lloyd F. Hopkins’s Training Manual for Sight Without Eyes gave Mind Sight its name. Most Psichronize exercises come from it.
The Shichida Method
A single school that grew into classrooms in sixteen countries, built on flash cards and picture training.
The Bronnikov Method
Three stages of ten two-hour lessons each, teaching what Bronnikov called “direct vision”, his name for seeing with your eyes covered.
Remote viewing
Developed at Stanford Research Institute and used by a US Army unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, to describe places the viewers had never been.
The ganzfeld
Deep relaxation under soft red light and steady noise, followed by picking a hidden image out of four.
Contact groups
Groups who meditate together outdoors at night, hoping to make contact with intelligence beyond our planet. They follow the same routine every time they meet and keep careful notes of what they see.
Five habits all these schools teach.
The schools above worked in different countries over the last hundred years, often without knowing about each other’s work. They still gave their students the same five pieces of advice, and every Psichronize session is built around them.
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Make it quiet
Your impressions are faint compared with everything your eyes and ears are telling you. So every school begins by turning the noise down: a dark room, a blindfold, a steady sound in your ears. Researchers have found that people tend to score better in quieter conditions.
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Go with your first impression
Answer quickly, before you start reasoning it out. Remote viewers are taught to put pen to paper within a second of being told what to describe. Researchers who looked back over 90 experiments found that people scored better when they had to answer quickly than when they had time to think.
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Catch your imagination at work
When you can’t tell yet, your mind may invent a vivid picture, like a red fire engine, or start reasoning, like “it was blue last time.” Remote viewers learn to notice this, write it down and let it go, then come back to the plain impression of the colour.
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Find out straight away
As soon as you pick the right answer, you hear its name and the next round begins. Over time you learn to recognise how your right answers feel, so you can trust that feeling the next time it comes.
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Keep count
Any single good day might just be luck, so it’s months of results added together that show you how your practice is really going. Psichronize saves every try, and nobody can edit the record afterwards, including you, so what you see is exactly what happened.
Always shown next to chance.
This is the most important idea in the app. With two colours, picking at random gets about one in two right. With four colours, about one in four. That’s chance. A score only means something when you can see it beside chance, so every result in Psichronize shows both, side by side.
First-try score
How often your first answer was right, with how often random guessing would be right printed next to it.
Tries per answer
How many tries it took you, on average, to find the right answer. Fewer is better.
Today’s score
The warm-up games give you one score a day, based on how accurately and how quickly you answered. 100 means every answer right, at the speed each game is designed for.
- Ahead of guessing
- Ahead of luck
- Pulling away from luck
- More than luck
- Far beyond luck
- Beyond all luck
The rarer your result would be for someone guessing at random, the higher the band.
Practice runs and blindfolded runs
A run is one round of an exercise, start to finish. When your eyes are covered and you beat chance by so much that guessing would only do it about one time in 20, the app saves that run as evidence. Those runs count toward your PSI level, explained below.
Six tiers, from colours to a partner in a room.
The exercises are grouped into six tiers. You begin with colours on a screen, because a screen shows a colour exactly the same way every time. Each tier after that asks a little more of you.
- Tier 1
Colour
Say which colour is on the screen, which of a set of coloured papers is which, and which coloured band of a turning ball is under a marker.
- Tier 2
Cards
Name the shape, number, letter or classic ESP symbol on a hidden card, or the answer to a hidden sum.
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Real objects
Name the colour and top face of each die after it’s thrown, press a key the moment a rolling ball passes you, and find coloured papers laid out on the floor around you.
- Tier 4
Pictures in your mind
Hold a picture in your mind without letting it fade, turn it, and enlarge a letter until it fills your view.
- Tier 5
Full decks
Name every card in a whole deck of colours, playing cards, words or pictures, aiming for under a second a card.
- Tier 6
You and the room
Work with a partner while your eyes are covered. Point to where your partner stopped walking, find them in a group, or say which object is on a table in another room.
Opening the next tier
Practise a tier on 4 separate days and bring at least half of its exercises up to their target difficulty, and the next tier opens.
Seven PSI levels
Along the way you earn levels, from PSI 1 to PSI 7. Each level needs two of three things: blindfolded runs saved as evidence, a daily score that holds up over time, and tiers opened. Once you reach a level, you keep it.
Practise here, then find a teacher.
Workshops, retreats and courses in these skills are wonderful. Many students say they learned the most there, with a teacher in the room. A week-long remote viewing course can also cost several thousand dollars, so it’s worth arriving ready to get everything you can out of it.
Daily practice is how you get ready, and finding a way to practise every day is hard, so we built one. Build the habit at home and learn how your impressions come to you. When you arrive at a workshop, you’ll already know your own strengths, and your time with the teacher can go to the things you can’t learn alone.
Mind Sight is the first skill, and we’re adding more.
The same daily session will grow to teach more psi skills, one at a time. Next on the list are telepathy, remote viewing and precognition.
After those come dowsing, psychometry (reading an object’s history by holding it), astral projection, channeling, and contact meditation, the practice of the contact groups described above.
Every new skill will be free to practise.
About the open beta
Psichronize is in open beta. Anyone can join, and the app will keep changing as we build it.
It’s free today. One day we’ll need to charge for some parts of it to cover running costs. When that happens, the daily practice stays free: the sessions, the exercises, the tiers and your records. If you’d like to help us build the next skills sooner, you can make a one-off contribution of any amount.
Ready when you are.
Fifteen minutes a day, a quiet room, and a blindfold for the exercises that need one.
- Open the app and sign in with Google.
- Your account is made, and we send you a short welcome email.
- Your first session is waiting.
Before you cover your eyes, clear the space around you. Never practise blindfolded near stairs, traffic, water or heat.