| This is known as ideomotor action and is present in the waking as well as the hypnotic state. |
| The ideomotor effect also explains a number of other ostensibly paranormal phenomena. |
| As an illustration of how the mind can play games, members of his society have learned how to trigger this ideomotor effect in people holding pendulums, he says. |
| Good examples of ideomotor action can be observed among the audience at an athletic contest. |
| Scientists would say that Nunn was a victim of the ideomotor effect, when the power of suggestion causes unconscious movement. |
| The movement of pointers on Ouija boards, tables during seances, or rods in the hands of dowsers are also examples of ideomotor activity. |
