We had a young girl in Kansas, who never could understand why the grown ups liked the game fish? She found it boring because she was able to pick out the cards she needed from the other players. So accurate was she that they conducted experiments. This little gal seldom missed! They thought that in some way she was tapping into the minds of the players and in that way able to pick the cards. To prove their theory they had someone shuffle the deck and no one at all knew how the cards were stacked. That's right-her accuracy didn't change and she left the scientific community perplexed to say the least.

Using powers is not so much a moral issue (I'm sure there is some) as much as what we lose in the bargain and that's a whole lot.

When I went gambling at Vegas I short circuited any of the machines I touched, the lights dimmed and I got  politely moved on lol so never got a chance to try my powers out <gg> Touching anything metal there sent sparks flying, so maybe I was being warned off?

Thank you Gem. Years ago when I would dialog with someone, I would use descriptive phrases such as children of darkness (unlearned in arcane) and children of Light. I knew every time I would use the phrase darkness the lights would go out and I knew that as soon as I spoke of the Light they would come back on. Always worked to the point that others would say I was demonic. What was interesting to me was not the power that was manifested but how on one circuit line, one room would remain dark and the other two rooms were lit? Really interesting. So, few tried to figure out what device I was using. Ha ha ha. One of my stories. As for being warned off, it may be, or simply too much energy. Who says we lose energy with age.  

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I have had a couple of experiences with something like this.

I dreamed I had to play a certain machine numbered 14. I went to the local club and played machine 14. I won quite a lot that day. Hasn't happened since.

I had a dream of winning numbers. In my dream I was watching a tv screen and the numbers came out one by one. I didn't have the numbers in and so didn't win. When I woke up I wrote down the numbers....as you do of course....and played every lotto in town...nothing. A week later I was in a club and we played keno with my numbers. Nothing. My friend suggested we change to our birthday numbers and I reluctantly did. One by one the numbers came out....the ones I was no longer playing and I didn't win....just like in the dream. Hmmm