Remote viewing is the ability to gain information, insights, and/ or mental images regarding a location or subject without physically being present at said location, or near or seeing the physical subject. Remote viewing was recognized by the government, and was famously known for its Stargate Project in the 1970’s. The CIA even declassified the project and released their documents and findings online. Even though I love a good rabbit hole, remote viewing felt more scientific than mystical and honestly…the least sexy of all the psychic abilities out there. Oh how wrong I was!
I started my metaphysical journey in 2013 by taking beginner tarot classes at a local metaphysical shop. I was interested in anything and everything psychic, magickal, and divination related. I was fascinated by the notion of Spirit guides and how to get to know mine. Back then remote viewing wasn’t a term that I was familiar with or was even on my radar. On September 27th, 2014 I published a blog post, where I talked about an online “psychic test,” that I took from a website that is still active today. The test was simple enough. I was shown a blank white screen with nothing on it. The instructions were straightforward. Write down what you see in the box, and then click “revel for the image.”
When I got my white screen, I typed the following words in the prompted box: “Nature, natural, floral, lotus?, pink, white, small, horizon, stones, pebbles, growth.”
When I hit “revel” I was shown an image of a brown tabby cat.
By the standards of the psychic test, I failed miserably. I couldn’t have been further off from my target; a term that again back then was not within my scope of knowledge. According to my previous blog, my thought process went as followed; “Welp, I guess I am not psychic. Screw it, I am going to watch Netflix,” and turned on the show House MD.
Less than 20 minutes later a scene takes place in the bedroom where two of the main characters were having a conversation. Then I paused the show, noticing the picture hanging on the wall in the background. The image was of a portrait of a white lotus, with pink tips surrounded by lily pads in nature. I was shocked and wondering if I was to be judged by government officials how they would “score or rate that.” The truth was I was bothered by this, because this did not feel like a coincidence.
I wish I could say that I had the ability to let things go. However, that couldn’t be any further from the truth. The reality is that that online psychic test, and my results truly plagued my memory, haunted me, and lived rent free in my head for over a decade. Talk about not being able to let things go… During that time, I was still relatively new to the tarot world, and had very little knowledge of different psychic abilities, or clairs (i.e., clairvoyant, clairaudiant, clairsentiant, etc.).
Years rolled by and I redirected my focus on my growing family and career, until 2019 when I started taking tarot more seriously after putting it on the back burner for years. During the beginning pandemic is when I felt the call and push towards exploring mediumship. I felt like something was erupting inside of me, and I was on the hunt for missing puzzle pieces, and keys that would unlock the truth of where I was supposed to be. For the past 3 years I had taken dozens of classes, workshops, and trips to out of state conferences to learn about all the different types of psychic abilities, and techniques to apply to my growing mediumship skills. Some of the most recent classes and skillsets I am working on is remote viewing.
Remote viewing had piqued my interest because this was a skillset that police and government officials appreciate and recognize when trying to find missing people and kids. And if I could work on cold cases and offer that sense of peace and closure to families then that would be the most selfless thing I can do for humanity, and the best thing I could possibly do with any of the abilities I did have. So, I was ready to learn remote viewing. I had taken several classes with a couple different teachers and joined different social media support groups where they give you a space to practice remote viewing by giving you a blind target; an image, or coordinates where the remote viewer can see what information or images they can get based on a structured process.
During the first couple of remote viewing classes I was frustrated because I felt like a beginner mediumship student all over again. I found myself making amateur mistakes. I was filled with doubt, not trusting what I was seeing or getting and talking myself out of things. One of the main issues was not documenting everything that came into my mind. The instructor did say “if it wasn’t written down, then it doesn’t count.” And she was right. I had no proof other than my blog from 11 years ago that I even came up with a pink and white lotus on top of water. All I had to live with was my own frustrations and lack of proof.
In the remote viewing class there was even a session where we had to find a missing person. This was a solved case that we did not have the details to; in order for our instructor to be able to verify our information that we had to submit. All we were provided was the fact that it was a person, gender, and photo in order to tap in and visualize this person in order to locate where they were found. When I tapped in and attempted to remote view this person I came up with an urban-like city, concrete jungle, and wrote down New York, and then I saw their body in a black contractor trash bag being dumped in a dumpster. My thoughts that followed that vision was “Damn Danielle, that was dark. Your teacher wouldn’t give you something that morbid to practice on.” When the teacher revealed that the female who was murdered by her ex and was found in a dumpster behind a restaurant in the back ally, in New York I was mad because I didn’t document all my findings, and I second guessed myself. I thought that my vision was a product of my A.D.D joining my dark thoughts and I wasn’t sure if the person I saw in the trash bag was a real situation or my brain going to the worst case scenario like it likes to do. Thank you anxiety…
I was getting my A.D.D brain mixed up with my intuitive/ mediumship brain. The instructor even acknowledged that those who are mediums can struggle with remote viewing, because you have to tap into the energy of the image, coordinates, or person and cannot rely on spirit to provide you the information or evidence as you would in a mediumship session. One of the largest reasons is if you are trying to find a missing person there is a chance they are alive so you can’t work with their spirit like someone with mediumship skills normally would. You had to tap into that person’s physical body or energy. I decided to take a break from the stress of remote viewing and promised myself I would pick it back up once I had the mental space to fully commit to it, and told myself that there is something there, I just need to invest the time to refine my skills a bit more.
On July 9, 2025, 11 years later I went back to that same website that offers these free psychic tests. I clicked on a similar or possibly the same test that I had previously taken. Only this time I noticed that it was titled as a “remote viewing” test. This test followed the same structure I remembered from 11 years ago and provides a randomly generated target ID number, a box to list your notes, and no context regarding the computer-generated image, and you had to click on the Target ID Number to reveal the image once you were done typing out your notes and findings.
I failed the first test, but I learned some valuable lessons with that first failed test. I took the test admittedly in a low vibration state and was emotional, and sad. I had just gotten off the phone with my sister and we were discussing family drama that invoked feelings of sadness, depression and tears and I used the psychic test as a way to distract myself, which was my first mistake. When I failed that psychic test I was way off. It wasn’t like I saw the image appear somewhere else a few minutes later like I had with the picture of the lotus from 11 years ago. Mundane life, imposter syndrome, ego and feeling spiritually disconnected had been getting the better of me lately and was creeping up again once I saw how off base I was in my findings.
However, for whatever reason I was feeling determined. Before I took the second test, I was a little calmer, and able to reset with the intention of connecting…
Once I started my second test my A.D.D started kicking in high gear and going bonkers and I could not think clearly… I joke that it’s dark and scary inside my head, but you will get to see my exact thought process and my A.D.D in all her glory in my notes below in the provided screenshot. Yay! For documented proof!
I tried to ground the best I could without giving up on the assigned target, and I used my original and unique signature process that I normally use before a mediumship session. I did not use or apply my remote viewing structure that I had learned, because I was still not confident with implementing that method yet. I imagined my ego exiting through a door then envisioning a blank white dry erase board. And then I saw a red tulip that was hand drawn in a red dry erase marker on the white erase board in my mind’s eye. Then I hit the numerical ID to reveal the pop-up image of the target. The image revealed a vase of red tulips on top of a desk.
I instantly appreciated this beautiful moment, and felt proud of where I had started, and coming full circle. When things come full circle in my life and I can recognize it, it triggers a deep and profound gratitude. However, I still had some shock and wanted to see what the odds were of this even being possible and wanted to rule out a coincidence. Modern problems, call for modern solutions. So, I asked Chat GPT (AI) and AI said:
“If you had 1000 images the odds of guessing the correct image from one of those 1000 images would be 0.1% chance. However, the reality is that there are millions to billions of images that our minds can come up with or select from. BOTTOM LINE: With zero context, the chance of guessing someone’s mental image correctly on the first try is nearly impossible – close to 0%. But with intuition, shared memories, or a psychic connection 😉 … The odds get more interesting.’ And no joke, Chat GPT sent me a winky face emoji, which was a little unsettling itself.”
All of this information allowed me the space to reflect, and what I realized the most important lesson I also learned was the importance of regulating your emotions, and intentions in order to be able to tap into your own abilities. I also learned that my brain also struggles with structure, and the way I came up with the images results of the red tulips was not by using the approved remote viewing methods, but again the importance of trusting my intuition and my own process.
I still find remote viewing challenging and I am far from an expert but it’s these little victories that keep me going and let me know when I am on to something and should keep going down this path. I will continue to try to learn and master the official remote viewing structure that is nationally recognized, however; I am proud to be able to put this experience in my win category, not just because of the final results, but the information and experience I learned from my failed attempts. ✨