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The only "problem" with these additional experiments was that they required lots of repetitive trials -- sometimes sixty to two hundred at a pop. This was my first exposure to repetitive trials. It was fatiguing and soon boring beyond belief. But I was made of staunch stuff, and determined to learn all I could from the increasingly numerous experimental trials. If I had at all realized that I would be doings thousands upon thousands of such trials in the years ahead I certainly would have promptly retired and worked on the novels I had in mind. But a few years later at SRI, we ultimately stopped counting the trials when they numbered over a quarter of a million. Chapter 24 SOME BACKGROUND REGARDING THE FIRST STORM AT THE ASPR - FEBRUARY 1972 - I don't recall the exact date the first real storm began at the ASPR. But I remember it was just after the second of the formal OOB experiments, and just after I had begun wondering about what perceptions consisted of -- why certain perceptions are called "psychic" while others are not.