Expecting 'n' Detecting

[Andy2640]

Nice1 you lot.  Some decent input there.  

Ive been using 2 detectors lately, the nox and the nexus MP.  I have to say, the nox is my favourite by far.  Its so bloody easy to use, the discrimination is outstanding, simply awesome.  But its very early days with the MP.

Its funny, cus i think some people can become attached to a detector if they make an awesome find/s with it.  So fickle as some of us are ?  

 

I like your replies, because it has so much variation, for some getting out of bed and simply going detecting is enough, for some simply getting outside and away from work is good enough.  For others, only a coin, or silver is a good day, its all very interesting and widens my perspective on other peoples lives.  So thank you for sharing.

I sometimes wonder how much the law of attraction comes into play.  Ive always felt the subconscious mind has a unique power to it, with complex capabilities, and even perhaps future predictions and future intelligence.  Some of you may think im a little batty, but think how many times we have been avoiding someone, or thinking of someone, when suddenly ... BAM! ....We bump into them.  So just following your intuition may lead to some of the best finds.  I think there's something to this for sure.  Usually ive noticed i find the best stuff when im relaxed, thinking of other things and aimlessly wondering around.  On the flip side, when im thinking about finding coins, coins coins!!  I NEVER seem to find em.  

Or going right off the woo woo deep-end, perhaps Dr Nick Bostrom's 5 simulation assumptions come into play, and realluy there are no coins or relics under the ground untill we dig em!  ?

Right i think i'll quit while i have some credibility still left ? 

 

LOL, Cheers everyone.

 

Andy.

[flakmagnet]

Hi Andy, 

You have plenty of credibility left. The variety of replies is interesting and encouraging as you mentioned. Your comments on the law of attraction are interesting. I am not sure where intuition fits into that but am a big believer in following your hunches - and being relaxed is a large component of that. I wish I could think of a good example from personal experience but you know what I mean. The Simulation Hypothesis you mentioned puts up a lot to get your head around...I don't have an opinion on it right now haha.

[Chase Goldman]

Most of my best finds are pleasant surprises.  Pulling out a keeper that I did not actually expect as I was recovering the target (gold ring that I thought was going to be a nickel, Civil War breast plate that I was convinced was another piece of aluminum trash).  I think I only willed myself to a specific recovery a few times, once when I was determined to pull some 19th century silver from a certain area of the site that had been giving it up to others.  I got my first Seated Quarter that day as well as my first Civil War plate on the same day.  But the best days of detecting are when I can share whatever I find with detecting buddies and then watch out as the trash talk, exaggerations, and good natured chain pulling commences at the end of the detecting day.  Good times.