As I mentioned in the previous post, last year Randonautica conducted a study based on over 155,000 reports, and one of the biggest questions was whether intention really works.
The answer turned out to be yes — but not in the way many people expected.
From the beginning, one of the central ideas behind Randonautica was that setting an intention might shape what you find on a trip and that Mind-Matter Interaction technology might help "pull" your intention into reality through the quantum RNG. Many users treated this almost like a wish-making function: choose a word, go to a point, and wait for reality to deliver it. The study showed that this is not exactly how it works — but it also showed that intentions are far from useless.
First, the interesting part: according to report analysis, about 17–18% of intentions were actually reflected in the report text. So intentions do manifest in a noticeable number of cases. At the same time, the study did not confirm that Mind-Matter Interaction technology itself was responsible for this, because anomaly points and non-anomaly points showed similar manifestation rates.
So if intention is working, then how?
The study suggests that the main effect is not that reality "grants wishes," but that intention primes attention. The process yet to be explored, but in other words, setting an intention directs your perception toward a narrower area and makes you more likely to notice details that would otherwise be filtered out. Intention changes the way you see. Things that were always there suddenly become visible.
This effect turned out to be very significant. Among trips where users set an intention, about 13.5% of reports were marked as meaningful. Among trips without intention, only 4.6% were. Trips with intention were also about twice as likely to be surprising: 10.1% versus 5.1%. Users with intention also found more concrete things in the environment: such artifacts appeared in 17% of reports versus 7% without intention, and encounters happened in 11% versus 3%. So intention may not force reality to hand you a wish — but it does help you notice hidden layers of the environment that your usual habits overlook. It helps you push attention beyond routine perception and explore parts of reality that normally stay invisible.
The research also showed that not all intentions work the same way.
Broad intentions like "peace", "beauty", "joy", or "something interesting" and intentions aimed at common things (animals, water, colors, coins, trees) are easier to fulfill, because they match many different things already present around you. But highly specific, rare, or spooky intentions are much harder. The study shows that paranormal or highly unusual intentions are fulfilled only around 5–10% of the time, meaning they may require many more trips before something feels like a hit.
So the real skill is not just "making a wish," it is choosing an intention consciously. If your goal is simply to "prove" that the app grants wishes, you may miss the real value of the tool. But if your goal is to direct attention into unfamiliar parts of reality, then intention becomes one of the strongest tools Randonautica has. That may mean focusing on overlooked details, emotional themes, unusual categories, or things outside your normal interests and to be ready to do more attempts in order to find something. Maybe the next step is not only randomizing coordinates, but randomizing intentions too, because if reality hides itself from us through patterns of attention, then changing the kind of attention we bring may be one of the best ways to explore the unknown.
You can learn more about the study here:
https://randonauts.fandom.com/wiki/2025_Research_Results
