Have you ever noticed how lucky some people are? Maybe you have noticed how unlucky others are? How can we explain luck? Why is it that some people, against all odds, win the lottery twice while others can go gambling to places like Atlantic City, New Jersey for ten years and never come back a winner? What is this mysterious force that seems to permeate some and not be present in others at all? Could we be witnessing something similar to mind over matter and not even realize it? Science has proven that some people are better at chance than others. When experiments were conducted where a scientist holds up a card behind a barrier, some people can guess right more times than others. Does this have anything to do with luck?

I personally know of two people that are complete opposites where luck is concerned. They both go to the casinos about once a month and they go together. This has been going on for about ten years or more and one, lets call her Unlucky, has only won only once in all that time and it was a meager $400 dollars. The other, lets call her lucky, wins large amounts about ever two or thee times she goes. Lucky wins far more than she loses and unlucky just about always loses. Why is luck different for these two people? To complicate matters, both this people are related, one is the mother and the other her daughter. Lucky is the daughter. It seems that people with a close relationship don't necessarily have the same amount of luck. Lucky and Unlucky can both be sitting side by side at slot machines and at the end of the day Unlucky will almost never be ahead while Lucky might be up as much as $5,000.

If we had a special device that could detect auroras around people, would luck have its own color? Maybe lucky people are surrounded by an invisible red or green aura and unlucky people either have none or a black one. There is such a thing as Kirlian Photography that detects auroras around all living things. It is quite startling to see a Kirlian photo of someone. People who have their photos taken this way do exhibit different color auroras. I wonder if anyone has ever tested people this way for luck?

Could it be that lucky people have some other talent or force that they could harness if they knew about it? Maybe someone that was extremely lucky could also heal people if they knew how to go about it, or maybe they could predict the future or be great at the stock market. Can you imagine a very lucky person buying up stocks just using hunches and most of them making money? What would really be the difference, in terms of luck, between this and winning at gambling?

Well guess what? Professor Richard Wiseman conducted a study in Britain. The professor has written many papers on the subject. One I find particularly interesting is the paper that discusses how your month of birth may have a relationship to neurological disorders and adult monamine neurotransmitter turnover. People that were born in the summer half year with a maximum around birth in May and a minimum around November believe that they were born lucky. The test showed that more men felt lucky than women. The paper didn't discuss actual luck but the feeling of luck.

Luck is defined as the chance happening of fortunate or adverse events. Luck may also be explained in the rationalistic terms of probability, such that an individual has nothing to do with his or her luckiness or unluckiness. One thing that seems to be all too true is that a person has no control over their luck or unluckiness. I have known people that went out and purchased all sorts of items thinking that they would change their luck for the better, but nothing ever worked. An object like a rabbit's foot was certainly not lucky for the rabbit that it was cut off of, so why would anyone think that this unlucky object would grant them good luck? But it doesn't matter because objects don't have any powers of their own anyway. They have neither good or bad powers.

There are also the cases of those that think that they are unlucky but are actually very lucky, but just don't realize it. An example of this would be a person that was surrounded by disease and never caught it, yet loses at gambling and thinks that he or she is unlucky. I myself am not particularly lucky or unlucky. When I was very young I fell to the concrete sidewalk head first from about two stories high and didn't even get a bruise or scratch. I have to consider this very lucky for that event. I seem to be a little lucky at gambling though I don't do it very often. I can truthfully say that I am ahead but not by a big amount. One thing that I am sure of is that I am not unlucky in most things, although there is one area that I am very unlucky in. This may sound strange, but I am very unlucky in making purchases of electronic equipment of any kind. Some examples of this are having to purchase three televisions from a famous store before I got one that worked, having to buy two dryers because the first was defective, buying two computers because the first was defective, buying several radios before I got one that worked etc. Sound weird doesn't it? Purchasing electronic equipment is definitely an unlucky area for me. I can bear this because I have been extremely lucky in my personal life.

Is there some mysterious force that makes us either lucky or unlucky? Are we born with this force? There are really no answers to these questions at this time. As a practical matter, it does certainly seem that some people are either born lucky or unlucky or acquire this tendency during their childhood.

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