The midday point
Tomorrow at twelve twelve, a point will be placed at random in this square. Today, designate the place where you sense it. At twelve twelve, you see your point beside it.
One point per person per day · the same account as the colours · the group result from thirty onward
One moment…
The midday point
The midday point is closed for now. Come back a little later.
How it works
When you designate your point, the midday one does not exist yet. It is born at twelve twelve, drawn at random in a square of a thousand by a thousand, then sealed. No one at the Centre can bring it about earlier, or change it afterwards. How to check
At twelve twelve, you see your point beside the drawn point, and the distance between the two (fig. 1). When enough people have placed their point, you also see what the group did.
It is foreboding put to the test: sensing where something will be that does not exist yet. To understand what is at stake, read What Words Have Been Hiding From You for Centuries.
Your account
The midday point uses the same account as the colours. No separate registration, no starting threshold: anyone with an account may place a point each day.
You had not placed a point for this draw.
The group
The point was sealed before it was revealed How to check
The square is open. Place your point before noon; the draw takes place at twelve twelve.
Placing is closed for this draw. The point will be placed at twelve twelve.
Before you place
What state are you in?
A moment before you place
Stillness, slow breathing, attention resting on the body.
Nothing else to do. The square opens on its own.
Tomorrow at twelve twelve, a point will be placed here. Touch the place where you feel it.
Touching elsewhere moves the point; there is only ever one. Once confirmed, it can no longer be changed.
Your logbook of predictions
No prediction yet. One point a day, before noon: that is all the exercise asks.
Among several predictions, the closest is always somewhat close: it is the mean, over time, that counts.
Your gap from chance, day after day
Each bar is a prediction. Upward, your point was closer to the point drawn than chance would have placed it, seen from the same place; downward, further. The line follows your mean. A single day proves nothing; a mean that stays above the chance line, over dozens of days, deserves to be looked at.
By your state, declared before placing
| State | Predictions | Mean distance | At random | Right quarters |
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With or without the minute of preparation
| Preparation | Predictions | Mean distance | At random | Right quarters |
|---|
The minute of preparation is assigned at random, one time in two: nothing else separates these two rows. Even so, it takes dozens of predictions on each side before a difference means anything.
Day by day
Why “at random” changes from one day to the next: a point placed in the centre of the square is, on average, closer to any draw than a point placed in a corner, at 382 out of a thousand against 764. Each prediction is therefore compared with chance seen from the exact place where you put it. Over the whole square, this mean is 521.
The midday point is a matter of observation, not of care, and not of measuring an ability. It has no diagnostic value. A near or far point says nothing about you; only repetition, over thousands of predictions, makes it possible to observe a lasting gap from chance. The data kept are described in the privacy policy, and what will be published, as well as what will not, is written in the protocol.
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