An incredible thing happened the other day. My skepticism was slaughtered as I watched a cloud dissipate before my very eyes.

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I just finished reading the book The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto. In it, the delicate and most peculiar traits of water crystals are examined. When exposed to spoken or written words, the water crystals were photographed and seemed to be affected by positive vs negative words, ideas, and images. This fascinated me. Was it possible that water understood the difference between negative and positive words and images? And if so, how?

Besides the entire concept of the book being somewhat strange to me, there was one idea in it that struck me as, well, kooky. The author suggested that the power of our thoughts is so strong it can make a cloud evanesce. That is to say, I have the power to make a cloud disappear with my mind! Just by thinking the cloud can disappear, I can make it actually disappear. A cloud… In the sky…

Crazy, right?

Skeptical by nature, I insisted on testing and debunking this theory. So, I followed the directions in the book given by Dr. Emoto:

“On a particularly clear day, look up in the sky and target just one cloud, maybe one not too large… When you are ready, imagine an invisible beam of energy being sent from your consciousness towards the cloud, breaking it up into pieces… Then say in the past tense, ‘The cloud has disappeared,’ and at the same time… say to the energy, ‘Thank you for doing that.’ If you follow these steps… the cloud will start to thin out and disappear in a matter of minutes.”

It was indeed a particularly clear day as I drove in my car down a long stretch of road. Driving in my car I looked up at the sky at a small, unassuming cloud. I thought, “OK, let’s try this one.” Focusing on the cloud as much as I could while driving with cars on either side of me, I said to the cloud, “The cloud disappeared. Thank you for disappearing.” I repeated it a couple times as I looked up at the cloud.

Trying not to run into the car in front of me, I switched my focus back to the road. And about a minute or two later I looked back up to an empty spot in the sky. I looked for the cloud I had just told to get lost, and to no avail… I couldn’t find it. But, I thought to myself, “Eh, I lost track of it. It probably moved and now I can’t find it.” Experiment #1 deemed unsuccessful in my eyes, as I was sure the cloud had simply moved.

True scientific research relies on repeated experiments. Thusly, experiment #2 was underway after I parked my car. I had to test it again so I could really debunk this crazy cloud idea. I looked up at the sky and found a cloud slightly bigger than the last one. I stood there, alone, just me and the cloud.

I focused all my attention to this cloud and said aloud, “The cloud disappeared.” And again focusing my energy, I said to it, “Thank you for disappearing.” I repeated this statement as I stared straight at this cloud, still with a hint of disbelief.

After 5 seconds I noticed the cloud break into two pieces. OK, not a big deal. Clouds do this all the time.

After 10 seconds both pieces of the cloud were completely separated.

After 30 seconds both pieces seemed to shrink.

60 seconds, the smaller of the two pieces was virtually gone. The larger chunk was undeniably smaller and shrinking by the second.

All the while I was still repeating the phrase, “Thank you for disappearing.” And after about a minute, my voice began to get a little shaky as I tried to hold my composure while watching this cloud evanesce before my very eyes. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I didn’t even want to blink! My mind was officially blown.

Just about a minute and a half to two minutes later the cloud was completely gone. I watched, barely blinking, as the cloud just disappeared. Once it had vanished, I stopped repeating the phrase and just stood there in complete awe and amazement with my jaw almost to the ground. I had actually made a cloud disappear with my mind!

I had tested every cynical and doubtful cell in my body, and I was left astonished and stupefied by what had just happened and what I had just accomplished.

Dr. Emoto was right. It is possible to “erase” a cloud with your own thoughts. My skepticism was completely defunct. The power thought is a lot stronger than I had originally believed. Moreover, water actually understands our thoughts and responds to them. It may be because we are all made of water… somewhere around 60% - 70%. So perhaps we should take the time to express our gratitude (something we don’t do enough) to our old friend, H2O. It is, after all, a part of us. And according to this experiment, it connects our minds to nature as a conductor of love and gratitude.

Well, there’s one important experiment that you didn’t perform – you didn’t select a cloud and NOT focus your cloud-dissipating energy on it. If there’s something to this, then we would expect that such clouds would not dissipate.

On relatively clear days, when the air is relatively dry, clouds have a natural tendency to dissipate, and if you can find a cloud at all on such a day, chances are good that it is already in the process of dissipating, thanks to the dry air and regardless of your intentions. You probably haven’t noticed this before because you haven’t spent enough time watching clouds on dry days.

As a young child during the cold winter months, I had to walk up a hill every day on my way to school. It was often windy, and the cold wind was very uncomfortable. So I started “willing” the wind to stop: I’d say to myself over and over again “Stop blowing, stop blowing, stop blowing…” Eventually, the wind would stop! Being a budding scientist even at a young age, I was eager to test my “powers”, so I’d wait for the wind to blow again, tell it to stop blowing, and eventually it would stop! This confirmed to me my powers over the elements.

Masaru Emoto's findings were not very scientific, he is also selling little bottles of supposedly geometrically perfect water for 30 or 40 bucks. But who really knows.

Not to be yet another one to rain on your parade, but if one could demonstrate action-at-distance through thoughts, such as consciously dissipating a cloud, then just call randy foundation and get your 1 million bucks But I guess it cant really be done, and there must be other reasons to explain it, such as stated by gilbran2.

I would love if you proved me wrong though

(and yeah, Masaru Emoto's "findings" are not really science, they have never been replicated scientifically as they claim to be)

H2O definitely needs praise and thanks. If we are going to designate a "spirit molecule", I vote water. HOWEVER:

All clouds dissipate. The majority of clouds dissipate remarkably fast. Keep doing your experiments, particularly on thick cumulonimbus clouds. You are bound to fail, unless your patience is inexhaustible. Then do Gibran2's suggestion. I think you'll find this myth quite easily dissipated if you concentrate hard enough!

JBArk

Psychokinetic or telepathic abilities(or whatever you want to call these things) are a really murky topic that receives a lot of flack. Sometimes, of course, we are just tricking ourselves or believing without obtaining facts which prove other explanations more likely. But a lot of times they can happen to people to the point of leaving them beyond a doubt of their validity but at the same time remain peculiarly unrepeatable at only the most inopportune moments.

For example, at a restaurant a few days ago-while stoned- me and my friend were anxiously waiting for our food when i started a random psychic game. We have a lot of psychic stuff happen but never really go about testing any of it since it usually occurs randomly.. So I had some wrappers in my hand and after shuffling them around under the table he would try to guess which hand they were in. The first 19 times in a row he guessed the hand that contained the wrappers. after that we stopped and told other people sitting with us to check out what was going on. I had a feeling his streak was all over..and right once they started watching, he messed up the first time (he just texted me as i was typing this, i kid you not hahah)

Another thing i recall, more similar to your cloud story, was during my second mushroom trip years back. i was outside smoking at a good friends house and was deep into thoughts. I was having one of those epic mushroom-moments where your mind feels perfectly in sync with the external world of space and time. On a whim, looking for a 'sign', i focused on the street light right near us and said "on" in my mind while imagining an electrical surge run through its circuits. The very moment i thought "on"- it popped right on. I was pretty flabbergasted and couldn't do much but laugh. Of course things like this aren't very repeatable in the least.

I'm not saying any of this proves the validity of these kinds of experiences, just that its a very interesting topic of inquiry in need of further exploration! Although your cloud experience may be "debunked" since clouds usually just dissipate in dry weather, don't stop experimenting with things like this and reporting your results! We need more people exploring this stuff and reporting what they find