HOW does a ouija board work?

Answer 1

The movement of the planchette is not due to paranormal forces but to unnoticeable movements by those controlling the pointer, known as the ideomotor effect. The same kind of unnoticeable movement is at work in dowsing.

Answer 2

Well really it doesn't work. Its an inanimate object onto which some kind of pointer or a glass is placed.

The idea is that the pointer or glass moves to letters/numbers/words marked on the board to answer a question.

How does it move? Simple....someone pushes it.

Now some might tell you that it's the ideomotor effect which is causing someone to subconsciously move it..

but more than likely the person moving it is doing it completely consciously for a laugh.

There's absolutely nothing evil/dangerous about it. They're marketed by the same people who manufacture monopoly, and its just as harmful as monopoly.

However they are quite good for scaring the crap out of the hard-of-thinking and the terminally gullible.

Answer 3

Oh well it kinda depends on your veiws toward it....do you think it really works? Do you think it's a stupid toy? It's basically a divination tool.....but a strange one. It's outcomes are sometimes creepy and chilling.....people have had bad things happen to them because they didn't know how to close the portal. A ouija board may somehow contact spirits or forces in order to help you answer your questions and some of them are malevolant and so at the bottom, you can see the words goodbye (unless you don't in which case the spirits/forces just spell out goodbye). To close the portal, say goodbye and let the spirits/forces move the arrow around...if it points to goodbye or it's lens is over the word goodbye, you have nothing to worry about. I have a ouija board and my friend was scared and didn't want me to get hurt or bring malevolant spirits/forces about so she told me to say goodbye. Ever since using it, I've keep it locked away.

Answer 4

Being clairevoyant this question to me is quite easy.
a ouija borad is a table with letters of the alphabet on it, a yes and a no .

they then sit around the table all with their fingers on the glass and then ask for spirit present to move the glass and communicate with them moving the glass and spelling out the answers to the questions.

the ouija board acts as a portal for the spirits to come through. this should never be used to hurt as it can be a doorway for malevilent spirits.

Answer 5

Who knows spirits energy, someone pushing it, it all depends.. but a little story I did this once at primary school at a sleepover, nothing much happened that i can remember,but the next day we all go to school, no one had spoken about it at ALL ... then just a class is starting the school Priest walks in and starts going mad about Ouija board and how bad it is, full of evil and that we should never ever do it.... freaked me out and does even to this day... for he only came into our class and not the class next door which was the same year as us... have never done it since!!!!

Answer 6

The spirit or energy uses your energy to push the glass to spell out words.
Only certain people can use a ouija board properly, if you can use it on your own while meditating, then you have the ability.
Usually when its used in groups its someone either conciously or subconciously pushing the glass.

Answer 7

A Ouija board works because the people using it are in a self - hypnotic trance, and their sub conscious minds know the answers to the questions.

Answer 8

Whether fake or not, I had the most frightening experience of my life doing a ouija board and will never do it again.

Answer 9

It doesn't work. But the concept of it is to ask the board a question and then let the board spell out the answer.

Answer 10

It supposedly works by subconscious impulses causing subtle movements of the hands on the planchette. Some think that spirits get involved. All to often it is some joker moving it on purpose for whatever reason.