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Lesson 4 |
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Seeing hands |
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How did Vera disover she had this gift of second sight? |
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Several cases have been reported in Russia recently |
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of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, |
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and even see through solid doors and walls. |
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One case concerns an 11-year-old schoolgirl Vera Petrova, |
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who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. |
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This ability was first noticed by her father. |
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One day she came into his office |
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and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. |
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Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, |
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and even described the way they were done up in bundles. |
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Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, |
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and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic. |
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During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still,by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto |
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she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it; |
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and,in another instance,wearing stockings and slippers, |
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to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet. |
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Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. |
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During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. |
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It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers |
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this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet. |
