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ESP Trainer – Entertainment Game Review
ESP Trainer is a Entertainment/Casino game from Russell Targ, first launched in 3rd November 2009.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 294+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes ESP Trainer Stand Out
The ESP trainer was developed under a NASA program by Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute.
We have found that people are able to improve their ESP scores by using a machine just like this and get in touch with the part of themselves that is psychic. This is often called a clairvoyant ability, and can enhance your life in many surprising ways.
The player is presented with four colored squares. For each trial, one has been selected at random by the ESP Trainer. Your task is to choose the correct square.
If you succeed, you will hear a chime, feel a vibration, and see a large color picture. Otherwise, the system lights up the correct square, and you proceed with the next trial. The score indicator at the top counts the number of correct choices. Words of encouragement appear as you achieve the scoring levels of 6, 8. 10, 12 or 14 hits. After 24 trials you may begin a new game.
The game offers multi-sensory feedback, reinforcement, and an opportunity to Pass, meeting all the requirements needed for learning this skill. ESP Trainer improves your ability to recognize your intuitive impressions, and it can bring you to a level of intuitive awareness beyond anything you've experienced before.
The purpose of the trainer is to allow you to become aware of what it feels like when you psychically choose the correct square. When you don't have that special feeling, we encourage you to press the Pass button. (So this is not a "forced choice" test.)
In a year long NASA program with 145 subjects (under Contract 953653 NAS7-100) many were able to significantly improve their scores. Four of the subjects improved their scores at the hundred-to-one level or better. This approach has been used with surprising success on Wall Street. But of course, past results are no guarantee of future performance.
Because you are learning a new skill, slower is better than faster.
If you find yourself frequently scoring 12 or more, write to the developer at his web site www.espresearch.com.
This game can provide the first steps toward experiencing and developing the psychic abilities hidden within us all.
software by Levity Novelty LLC
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, ESP Trainer is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th March 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Image duration issue resolved
Download & Availability
ESP Trainer is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Simple but effective to detect your level of ESP ability. We find ours varies this simple app is amazing. We love seeing the messages telling you you have have ESP Ability. We knew it.
This app has awakened our Jedi powers. Been using it since New Year, 2019. It allows us to tune our intuition, psychic abilities, visions, dreams into day to day transformations with our business and connections and every facet of our life. Connectivity is energized when we tune every day. Magnetism is heightened. Its not a game as much as it is a tuning fork to see into another dimension. Thank you to the legends behind this program. Check out Monroe Institute for another facet to these dimensions the Hemi-Sync is a great place to step outside of yourself. Love is a vibration. Cheers.
We were using the app and our cat just started going crazy and jumping to us when he heard the game sounds.
Its a great app, but we wish we could control the volume.
We long known the title and have believed this in our self for we were born into the star hamal And we often have dream vision There isnt a day that goes by with out us trying we can easily get outstanding just of recently final 15/24 we have believed since we tracked a Fireball/ heavenly object from a dream 4 years in advance.
We have been using this app for years and when practiced regularly truly helps you identify and recognize that gut feeling we all talk about but can barely explain. Things exist in this universe we may never be able to explainbut we can try to better understand.
There is nothing quite like it on the market. We love the creator. We love the idea. Thank you for this.
We would like to see this app to connect to heart rate via iPhone camera and flashlight.
We began to sense a pattern in the sequence and have increased our score based on this. Is this increasing our intuition or am we just trying to find patterns where there are none? We sense the patterns like a musical melody. Fairly symmetric and predictable yet altering course just enough to be interesting. It helps to think of Simon, and use groups of four beats. Press pass a lot.
Ive been using for about 6 weeks. The database appears to be completely random and the results follow a binomial distribution. You have 24 trials with a one in four chance of being correct ie a score of 6 is the mean, a score of 8 (mean plus one std deviation) indicated ESP ability present, a score of 10 (mean plus two std deviations) is Useful for Las Vegas, and a score of 12 (mean plus 3 std deviations is outstanding). A score of 14 will indicate physic level (only seen this a couple of times). We find we get the best results by playing at a moderate speed so that our thinking doesnt get in the way (you dont need to wait for the picture to fade before selecting the next tile). When in the zone we can score 10 very frequently and have even had a couple of 12s within a few minutes of each other. We find playing with headphones and listening to binaural beats seems to work best and the app is useful in gaining feedback on what being in the zone feels like. After a year we still use this App daily, mainly as a warmup to remote viewing (which was one of it early uses at SRI). The multiple sensory feedback (vibration, sound, in addition to the visual picture) are equally important in providing positive feedback to successful selections. Those interested may wish to review Jack Houcks conceptual model for his theory on how different modalities process perceptions.
This app is broken using IOS 14.2. We really love this app so we hope they get it fixed. It fails once is launch.
Yeah this app is actually really good Ive been doing this for a day and we already see massive improvement.
Are your friends telling you your not psychic? This app is working! Practice this and you can impress your friends by knowing what's going to happen next. Be careful, because knowing the future isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
So what is the deal with this program? If we go slow and use skip we get 6-12 on average. If we just close our eyes and start pressing rapidly, we get higher numbers easier and often.
This is the best ESP Trainer but this game is way better forAndroid phones as they have a variety of games to choose from. PLEASE UPDATE ON IPHONE.
This was a cool app we saw on youtube. The TED channel.
Thank you for this App, Ive been sharing it around the meditation community. Our highest score was 15. The trick is having an awake, focused and clear mind… Let go, and let it flow. If you havent already, Look into Holotropic breathing, Very deep meditation technique.
We got this after watching the banned tedtalk hoping it would be fun. So far it seems rigged to give you high scores. We always land between 10 – 14 sometimes higher but rarely lower and based on the other review it seems pretty common to do well. If you want to impress your friends you might enjoy it.
This app is a relaxing place for us. The pictures are sick and cute we recommend.
We absolutely LOVE the photos they use in this. They actually look very similar to internal images we have had through the years. This App is very humbling but superb for training. We have noticed when you calm down more you can begin to sense a flow of energy or imagine or sense which block will open up to the next picture. We like that this is very sterile and cold scientific, in that there is no other human involved to pick up hints from. Like any muscle in time one can improve. Long way to go, but we so far we regularly get 6 out of the 24.
If you havent read the book Armada by Ernest Cline, you should do that now. We have a feeling this app has Intelligence services recruiting written all over it. There isnt many instructions on how to use the game but we think thats on purpose. For those of you that go as fast as possible and write down your scores to come up with a high average, youre doing it wrong, as stated in the developers lectures on learning how to be more in tune with everyones extra sensory perception. Take the tests, but be as deliberate as possible, Its not timed. Meditate and calm yourself before you proceed, and if life gets in the way, stop and come back later when you can relax again. As a post script Ill add this: PS: this esp ability ties in perfectly with Teslas belief that longitudinal waves cover the earth, and with Rupert Sheldrakes belief that we live in a conscious universe, and that all molecules are conscious, and with Dan Winters belief that we live in a sea of consciousness and that consciousness is in the longitudinal waves. This isnt woo woo magic, its science.
After 2 weeks of heavy use we were contacted by a consciousness which identified itself as QAAllAQ that resides in the Abell 370 galactic cluster approx. 5 trillion billion miles from our Earth. We are awaiting further instruction.
This is by far the most valuable app Ive ever installed. It really does help cultivate your natural ESP ability. We find we go through periods of doing extremely well (several days) and periods of not doing so well at all. Im reading that sidereal time has an effect on this.
We dont like it because we feel we get it right too often. We do it with our eyes closed and do much better. We dont know. This is weird.
We need to improve more. This app works as advertised, there is no BS in this area of knowledge. Everything can be learned as long as you practice.
We have been using this amazing app for a number of months now. At first, we would hit a lot of eights and would become quite excited. Id even take a picture each time we did so. For us, it has become a balance between being both quietly conscious pared with the love and excitement of an increasing awareness that consciousness is universal and omnipresent. It has become evident that time and distance are mere constructs. This knocked a lot of rust and crud off of our tuning mechanism! This app has played a major role in our awakening to a much bigger universe than we had imagined. We now understand that all matters para and psi have the same undercurrent: consciousness. This has opened the door to our own success with phenomena that we would have (along with most of the world) poo-pood as a bunch of pseudoscientific horse pucky. Our most sincere thank you for the wake up! Yes, we are hitting twelve or more very commonly (daily at least) and had to delete anything below a ten to free up memory on this iphone.
We dont at all believe in this stuff but we look forward to split testing our score with completely random guesses. More a proponent of good old fashion detective work. Intuition based on tangible variables that are assigned levels of probability by way of traditional logic. Bit less sexy but a tad more realistic. Then again, perhaps the kid in us is just jealous of all you magical folks :P Update: Ive played it. Is this open source? It would be interesting to know if there is genuine RNG occurring or if people are being made to believe their psychic abilities are improving as part of a psyop that is as American as apple pie. Assuming that is the case in addition to gamed RNG we would perhaps also add a higher probability of incorrect answers as a user becomes frustrated or loses concentration and guesses rapidly, and 80/20 correct answers at the first genuine attempt after aforementioned series of identifiably guessed selections. Naturally the longer a subject waits to make a selection the probability of a correct answer should increase as well. This rewards the subjects psychic focus and can be accomplished with simple timers. ESP ability present is an absolutely brilliant touch. This thing is loaded with dopamine hits for all of the psychics out there. Highly recommended! Just dont push out an Android version because someone would decompile the .apk to source (we.e. Reverse engineer it) and probably write a blog about it. Borrinngg. Peer nations will never know if we actually have psychics. Muahaha. Well we suppose they probably do by now, but we say let it ride baby! This review was as fun to write as playing the game itself. Brilliant! If the RNG is genuine and this app is an actual recruitment tool it would be fun to reverse engineer to achieve perfect scores. Thatd be a guaranteed visit by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Unfortunately iOS apps are difficult to reverse and the amount of fun we can have playing this game is rather limited as a result. Oh well. Nice work guys. With respect, K. McSheehan Twitter: @123456.
If nothing else, this app has brought us to an authentic approach to the silence of the mind.
We started this for fun. We are into weird stuff like extra terrestrial contact, meditation, remote viewing, etc. But we are coming from a place of being a fairly normal person and viewing these things as a sort of entertainment. WELL. Just wait until the skill this app develops (we score 10-12 usually if we can manage to concentrate) then bleeds into your everyday life. You will start, for example, choosing the correct answer on a test before reading the question, thinking of someone directly before they text or email you, etc. Or begin singing a pretty obscure song only to find your partner has been doing the same independently of having even heard you. We might start buying scratch off lottery tickets. Probably not, but this is definitely a real thing.
We think this app is a really cool idea. The only thing that would make it better is if it was available for the Apple Watch. It should be easy enough to convert the API. Hope the developer actually reads these.
This has been a huge help for us as we learn to understand our intuitive queues! So grateful for this.
Thank you Russell Targ for this amazing contribution to mankind's development of the mind. Our name is Jhon Bernal and we are a 21 year old psychology college student who has always had a nag for knowing or being able to sense something we couldnt explain. You and this app have given us the knowledge and experience we have always been looking for. We are no expert but we have shared this app and our experience with all our alumni and just yesterday was our first day of our new semester and we were able to show more then 20 people the amazing power of the mind. This has single handily changed our life for the better. We will continue to improve our mind and body to reach new levels of success in this field of research. We will also dedicated our studies to your research and hopefully one day we can meet you or someone who can guide us to the next step in our mental evolution. Thank you again and we are forever grateful.
We love this app it helps with our abilities but sometimes we see the color that comes next and end up getting it mixed up with the first maby its just us but there could also be a problem with it.
We enjoy the simplicity in this app. We appreciate all the hard work that went into honing this technique, and that it helps to improve anybody's life at no cost. Only thing we'd love is for it to track our scores. We're tracking in our iNotes :) Thank you for sharing this.
Instant feedback on missed targets. Satisfying targets, audial and visual….Somehow eventually shows you that resting periods are necessary each day, away from the app. Too much trying takes ability down, at least temporarily, as expressed by Ingo Swann. We beat our highest score yesterday….. 11 hits out of 24, twice in one day. That isn't chance. We like the "evaluative" statements when the cycle is done, like "A good beginning", when one's score is low…. They are encouraging!!! Very smart app.
We've found this very intriguing. Thank you for the wonderfully comprised app.
We like how it's supportive then shows a beautiful pic, it really motivates us compared to other psychic games.
Ingenious. Thank you for sharing. We appreciate you! Quite incredible tool.
We really like this app! We would prefer to not have the buzz when getting a wrong answer. We especially don't like that it says what the correct square was. We find ourselves distracted by this and it takes us a bit to refocus. Overall, a great app and very interesting.
This is an extremely interesting concept. We've gotten a highest of about 6-7 we keep getting the feeling of which tile, by position but not color. But we tend to second guess ourselves, we're just astonished at even the possibility of getting 6/24. We're not very skeptical, but we do have our doubts. It's a very intriguing app.
More often we get 12 or higher if we just focus on one color and use the pass it we fell it's not the color we're focused on. By the way, we can't control it but we can see things before they happen, only up to two minutes ahead of time.
Its a good simple app, but make it slightly less simple and add a setting to TURN OFF THAT HORRIBLY JARRING SOUND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A CORRECT GUESS!!!! PLEASE.
The game works great, we like that it shows you the correct square when you make a mistake (dang, we were thinking it was that one!) BUT! As others have mention, the bell tone when you get it right is SO LOUD and takes SO -g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-.. Before you can make your next choice.
5/6 times we have gotten less than 6. We think we have negative ESP. Perhaps this is a skill we can hone.
Great simple app. Would be 5 star if it had a history section and basic stats. Just enough to know how well youre doing vs how well you should be doing.
Is there a way to turn off this horrible high-pitched bell sound?! Adjusting the volume on our iPad doesnt help and we scored better without it (during a video call). We know its to help with reinforcement but we find it very distracting and agitating, plus not great for playing at night when roommates are sleeping. Thanks.
First of all, without someone having the ability to review the source code to see how the randomness is being generated this cant be considered much more than a toy. That being said, its a mighty odd toy. Our initial results ended up averaging around 25% correct, which is right where they should be (users take notea score of around 6 is no better than chance). Then we tried doing it with our eyes closed, and the results immediately improved. We got an average of around 40% correct (scores between 8 and 11). Average is of course the keystatistically, some scores will be above chance and some will be lower. So then we tried randomly whacking buttons as fast as we could, and the scores dropped right back to 25% correct. The closed our eyes again and concentrated and they went back up. Very strange. This app needs to keep track of your overall statistics somewhere. It should have a graph showing how your score changes over time, and it would also be helpful to have one that shows accuracy based on times of day and other factors. More data, please.
A fun game. This game, we think, is slightly rigged. The odds of the numbers being somehow real world random are 100% impossible. We are 99.999 percent sure that what color you push has an effect on the so-called next random number that is used. More of a fun pattern recognition game than anything. On approximately 40 tries per day, we get approximately one or two, useful in Vegas responses and 10 to 15 you have some esp ability. (Guessing, we didnt bother to count after seeing patterns) we do fairly well when we can spot the pattern, and this is why Im fairly certain that intuition doesnt have much to do with it. Im fairly intuitive and this feels different… Take it or leave it, just a humble opinion. As we said before, it is still very fun to spend a few minutes on.
This app is supposed to reward correct responses. However the sound feedback is quite disruptive and cant be turned off.
We downloaded this app from a recommendation in The CE5 Handbook. Out of the gate, we were doing well, leaning into the ways our intuition informs us. This is different for everyone but we like to move our eyes counter-clockwise around the four colors and we sense the correct answer when we feel a light touch or tingle. We all have ESP, but were become disconnected from it. Some have a head start with this ability, but we can train to improve this, and it can benefit us in many aspects of life. Our brains are underutilized and this exercise increases neuroplasticity more than most games that people zone out on nowadays. Please improve the messages. ESP ability present cool..encouraging. For an app touting itself as a serious practice, thats a process used by NASA, the next message, Useful in Vegas is condescending imo. It may as well say, You have a future as a carny. Please provide beneficial messages. This is mind-expanding work. Dont demean people.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.2
- Size: 15.65 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Russell Targ
Last updated: 11th March 2017 | Genre: Entertainment, Casino | Developer: Russell Targ