sentences:  As they put it, "(W)e began our studies on ESP after numerous students had suggested we 'wake up' to psychic reality".At the time, surveys were showing what seemed to the authors to be a startlingly large percentage of people who believed psychic phenomena were or might be -real.Far from setting out to disprove psychic phenomena, "(W)e considered it entirely possible that the psychology of perception was about to go through a psychic revolution, and if so, we wanted to be included.