The Luckest Person in the World II

It happens again. This idea that I can make luck happen based on a superhuman ability has comeback to becoming the circle of interest and wonder for me and my life. I could be apophenia or coincidence I do know but my intuition, which I respect says there's more to it than basic arising fortune that come out of 'raw nature'. I feels like more than that, I feels internal, like a mental ability, yes, like a psychic power. Of course there is the whole fact that I want superhuman abilities and that this could seemingly be my desperation in a, like I said, apophenic method of understanding. Yet this doesn't stop me, its more of a faith and, as I said, an intuition.

On a Saturday, in fact two Saturdays, I was bored, I had a bored friend, we decided to be bored together at his and see what happens, maybe the Internet gets a percentage funnier, maybe I become twice as interest based on what was happening, who knows. Anyway, people came and poker was decided. Texas Hold'em if it makes an different, point was I knew how to play and it was a while since I did, I was in. We played some games and in the end I was winning, it felt odd, me just winning bit by bit, it was then that all-in was used in order to finish the whole game that I ended up winning it all. Like was a big high for me and my believe in my psi-luck. This however was nothing compared to blackjack. I'm sorry but if some three 21s in a row doesn't seem lucky you're a try pessimist but that's what happened, a few 21s and some blackjack and I was hitting it really well. Again, big high, psi-luck seeming confident.

On Sunday morning before working I decided to look up probability manipulation as in the superpower not as a paranormal/supernormal physical phenomenon and found some interesting theories on it especially on an X-men-based-wiki. In particular was an idea which made sense to my mind even if it was a seeming stench. The idea that a person's mind can affect the quantum state of things, breaking down all the possible outcomes in order to get the one they are mentally going for. For, well most of the week the idea of me having the ability to telekinetic manipulate the quantum state of events, objects, overall; outcomes.

On Thursday the whole seeing if I could influence the odds came back to me when I introduced a game of poker and won a multiple number of times, a large amount of times in a row as well. It was sensational and would've been especially good if I won the 'all in' which didn't happen, maybe I need more practice on this whole luck business or maybe something was influencing things much more than I was. There was after all a bit of cheating against me.

However, on Saturday explaining this to my friends they all seemed to think I was mad, first of my saying that the flow of cheating affect the quantum state of the cards, as well as asking why I didn't just correct the quantum state to its appropriate accuracy and then that I was using 'quantum' when it had nothing to do with quantum. This second criticism, for some reason got to me so I decided to look into quantum luck and looked into so basic, not-too-advanced stuff on the Internet, basically an article, a blog entry and then back to the comic solutions.

Today I considered the different theories to explain probability manipulation in fiction and there was some interesting ideas I remembered including 'probability fields' from the Marvelverse, 'accelerated probability' from the Heroesverse and the supernatural approach in the DC universe.

The Luckest Person in the World

It has something that I've been thinking about for a long time. Longer than I can ever remember. At first I thought it was the complete opposite, I thought it was all going downhill for me and it came to the point of which I believe that it was in my fate to be a misfortune individual. However, things have changed for me and now the change has become its own explosion of intuition and random pointing to the sparks of usual, personally-seemingly improbable events.

A few good booster packs, some out of the ordinary moves, even if I lost the games I play there seems to be a move that questions the point in probability.

In January of this year (2009), I great snow sleet covered Britain and I have still come to believe that it was all down to one day; one day where I was questioning my own potential. I walked around the campus, no enthusiasm to get to any destination, seeing what came at what time. There was rain quite a bit, something of an annoyance to me. I am usually fine with rain but it was so erratic, so irritating at the time and I had just walked out of an exam, the post-event stress was perhaps tightening me up. So I used the rain as target practice, I wasn't sure what I was going to get and I was a mild bit skeptically due to my reasoning and questioning but I put that one side in order to the truth and faith of my own potential, my own will.

I tried to make the rain go away but only perhaps the slightest bit of stabilisation was in place, it was still raining. It was then that I considered that I didn't have the potential to stop the rain but I wasn't giving up and decided to see if I could make it not rain by changing the rain, transmuting it into something more probable, like for example release it all in a minute super-pour so that it could stop after that minute. I aligned my thoughts tried to make my own luck and after I was in the zone of things, the rain stopped and became snow.

Snow was now flowing down with gravity and not a trace of rain was to be seen, only the rain water which had pooled on the grounds. I was in shock, amazement, it seemed like a success, a true success indeed. Now I believe that I can make my own luck in some subconscious, mental form. The problem with this is that I don't know how it works how and why it switches on, was it down to stress? Is it fate or synchronicity? Is it luck or parapsychological? There are a lot of questions especially since it would seem hard to experiment. Interesting enough the idea of stress causing this superhuman luck has inspired me, I need to do a psychological experiment for my work and well what with the idea that stress can make people lift cars or dodge bullets, maybe stress does hold its own paranormal secrets.