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It was thus I discovered that I was having difficulty regarding a very usual aspect of the experimental setup. I was having trouble with, of all things, articulating what I thought I was seeing into the microphone and tape-recorder. I found I had to stop "seeing," and think about how to say what I felt I was "seeing." Then I had to verbalize it. It is now necessary to point up that parapsychologists typically had their subjects SPEAK their impressions into recording machines -- so that their "responses" could be transcribed to enable judges to examine and analyze them. This procedure certainly seemed sensible enough. After all, how is someone to tell anyone else what they have experienced except by verbalizing it? However, I already knew that most verbalizing is a function of the left hemisphere of the brain and which hemisphere does not process images very well. The same hemisphere is also mostly the source of judgments and decisions. The right hemisphere, on the other hand, processes images quite well, or at least mostly does so. Even in 1971, it had become commonly accepted that image information belonged more or less to the right hemisphere of the brain, while linear, nonvisual information belonged to the