Now there are many sites offering various types of fortune telling online.
For any question, a site visitor can receive both a detailed description and a short answer "yes" or "no". What do such "fortune-telling" give a person?
Modern sites offering fortune telling services are mostly completely computerized. That is, you ask a question and get an answer according to a given algorithm, which uses ready-made templates and texts.
Many turn to such services as entertainment, some half-jokingly, half-seriously. There are people who really begin to ascribe some otherworldly meaning to these actions and in some decisions are really guided by the answers received in this way.
Here are a few psychological traits that explain the urge to spend time this way.
1. Tightening.
One of the main phenomena that arise when interacting with such sites is the delay in the process of getting answers. I would like to ask more and more. Already involuntarily, there is a desire to postpone its solution when an everyday question arises and turn to the fortune-telling site, spreading playing cards, tarot cards, dice, cubes, coins, etc. A kind of addiction arises.
2. Ability to absolve yourself of responsibility.
Although each of us intellectually understands that it is unreasonable to make decisions based on the answer during fortune-telling, but still we often want to do it. Why? The answer is very simple. Sometimes we don't want to be held accountable for some of our decisions. Following other people's prompts allows you to remove this responsibility. In most cases, of course, this leads to negative consequences, but gives time to rest in terms of decision-making. There is a certain type of people who just feel the need for it.
3. A sense of psychological protection.
In fortune telling, there is necessarily an appeal to some otherworldly mysterious force. Definitely, if you are guessing, you are referring to this mysterious force that exists in reality or only in your imagination. This is of value to many due to the fact that it is important for each person to be involved in something greater that can support or protect him. Interacting with such a real or imagined force gives a sense of this protection on a psychological level. But is this feeling a real defense?
4. Imaginary or real possibility to have hidden information.
If we are trying to find out in this way how a girl or a boy treats us, which team will win a football match, what the dollar exchange rate will be tomorrow, then, of course, we want to have some information that is not available to ordinary people. Again, it doesn't even matter so much whether we actually have some hidden information or just imagine it to ourselves, but in any case, there is a feeling of greater control over fate. Unfortunately, in most cases this is precisely a sensation, moreover, an illusory one.
So, turning to online fortune telling has some psychological benefits. As we just saw, many of them are quite illusory and can hardly help in real life.
If you observe in yourself a craving for such activities, think about what they give you and how it is possible to get the same in other ways.
