conunundrum: Thoughtography ( also known as; projected thermography, psychic photography,
conunundrum: Thoughtography ( also known as; projected thermography, psychic photography, nengraphy or nensha).Thoughtography is the claimed ability to burn images from one’s mind onto such surfaces as photographic film by psychic means.Around 1910, Tomokichi Fukurai, an assistant professor of psychology at Tokyo University began pursuing parapsychology experiments using subjects. Fukurai published results of experiments with Nagao (one of the subjects) that alleged she was capable of telepathically imprinting images on photo plates, which he called nensha. In 1913, Fukurai published Clairvoyance and Thoughtography (an English translation title). The book was criticized for a lack of scientific approach and his work disparaged by the university and his colleagues.In the 1960s, it was claimed that Chicago resident Ted Serios, a hotel bellhop by trade, used psychokinetic powers to produce images on Polaroid instant film. Serios’s psychic claims were bolstered by the endorsement of a Denver-based psychiatrist, Jule Eisenbud (1908–1999), who wrote a book called The World of Ted Serios: “Thoughtographic” Studies of an Extraordinary Mind (1967) arguing that Serios’s purported psychic abilities were genuine. Although, some argued that his ability was mere “slight of hand”. (x) -- source link