Cleve Backster’s Polygraph

Origin
Cleve Backster shortly worked as an interrogation specialist for the CIA before moving into his own field of study. He experimented on plant perception using polygraphs and similar instruments. His claim was that plants could not just feel pain like animals, but also react to the pain and emotions of nearby living creatures by some network of awareness. Scientists have claimed Backster’s theories as fantasy due to the lack of consistent results and evidence of any emphatic-communication system.

Effects
Being placed near plants and other living creatures causes them to share their existence. The user will be able to feel a plant’s structure and experience how it senses the world around it. The plant will sometimes appear to move wildly, pulsate colors or make unusual whistling noises. They will also receive the plant’s emotional state, undergoing terror, aggression or happiness whenever its chemicals fluctuate and vice-versa. Reactivity towards pain and other physical sensations will increase greatly.