Are you in tune with telepathy?

Scientists have proved that telepathy is possible - but only, it appears, if you are an arty type.

A study by experts in the paranormal suggests that many of those involved in music or art can communicate using minds alone.

Investigators at Edinburgh University asked 300 people to take part in tests to see if they could telepathically receive thoughts from someone in a different room.

In each test, one person was shown a very vivid short film clip and told to concentrate on "projecting" it with their mind.

The 'receiver' - sitting on the other side of the building - was then shown a random selection of four film clips and asked to decide which the first person saw.

Ordinarily, people get it right 25 per cent of the time, as you would expect for guessing one of four options.

Among creative people, however, the success rate was 40 per cent.

Professor Robert Morris, an expert in the paranormal, told the festival: "What we are finding with especially creative individuals is that they tend to consistently higher accuracy rate of 40 per cent.

"This is likely to occur less than once in over a million times just by chance. Some people seem to be aware of the contents of another person's mind, even when they should have no normal way of accessing it."

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