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Target Attributes Most Often Sensed
Shape, from, and color are described much more reliably by inexperienced viewers than the target's function, or other analytical information. In addition to visual imagery, viewers sometimes describe associated feelings, sounds, smells, and even electrical or magnetic fields. As a viewer, I (Russell) have learned that if I see a color clearly and brightly, or something metallic and shiny, it is the aspect of the target that I am most likely to describe correctly. It is even possible for viewers to experience aspects of a target which are not actually manifested. For example, some viewers can reliably describe the color of an object which is inside an opaque box, where there is no light to give it color.
Temporal Sensing
Viewers can sense present, past, and future activities at target sites. Hundreds of successful present time as well as precognitive remote viewing experiments have been done at the Princeton psi research laboratory in the past decade. There is not a drop of evidence to indicate that it is more difficult to look slightly into the future than it is to describe an object in a box in front of you. Actually, it's better not to look at a box when you are doing remote viewing, because you may be tempted to see the target by pretending that you have x-ray vision, which, in our experience, does not work.
It is not proven, but I believe that it is easier to describe a target that you will see in the near future than one you will see many days in the future. It may be a purely psychological effect. If my feedback is delayed by a week or more, then I have somewhat forgotten what my description felt like to me. As a result, the feedback, which is supposed to be the source of that earlier perception, will have less of an impact on me, thereby decreasing the quality of the viewing. The idea that a later event is the cause of an earlier perception is a confusing though very important concept, and we discuss it further in Chapter 5.

 
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