If you dig, aren't you eventually going to come across water anyway?
2006-12-18 05:16:30 · 10 answers · asked by smooshian 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Dowsing can be used to find water but you can use it to find other things like buried water lines or buried electrical lines. When I was working on construction I was asked several times to search for lines that way and always succeded.
2006-12-18 05:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by Haven17 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dowsing has been reported to being able to find water, but results will vary, and really isn't a new concept. If you perhaps were going to dig for ages you may come across water- and you may not- take the desert for example, you dont know if you will be fortunate enough to find water in time.
2006-12-18 05:23:21 · answer #2 · answered by Gardenia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dowsing for water (or anything, for that matter) is real only in the sense that people believe it to work. But they're wrong. It doesn't work.
There have been no successful controlled, double-blind studies of dowsing. None.
Yes, if you dig somewhere, eventually, you'll probably find water. But dowsing relies on imperceptible, subconscious muscular contractions -- the ideomotor effect -- for it to "work".
2006-12-18 21:47:57 · answer #3 · answered by BubbaB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Dowsing for water is really real. Really.
No. You aren't always eventually going to successfully strike water when you dig.
2006-12-18 06:55:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.But I have seen people find water pipes under ground,by dowsing with welding rods! Just bend a handle and hold softly in hands.When they start to move to cross each other .That's the Spot!
2006-12-18 05:22:57 · answer #5 · answered by Tom W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes and no. There isn't water everywhere, so many places, anything that helps is considered good.
However, I tend to believe that dousing is really about the subconscious reading real physical signs of water, and making the stick look like it's finding the water.
We make lots of observations and decisions everyday. Most of them aren't conscious. And most of us know more, and observe more, than we think we do.
2006-12-18 05:21:46 · answer #6 · answered by Jean Talon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, dowsing for water is really real. Go to this addy for all you need to know: http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa072902a.htm
2006-12-18 06:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by wize2day 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been kinda curious about that myself, but I do know my dad has a place and the guy who dug the well used one....and considering the well is at the top of a hill, I'm guessing he was either really lucky, or there might be something to it...
2016-05-23 04:38:31 · answer #8 · answered by Diane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have seen dowsing done and it works.
2006-12-18 05:45:41 · answer #9 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and not always
2006-12-19 19:41:54 · answer #10 · answered by swolfshields 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋