Here's an idea. A recent episode said that psychic controls don't work in space. This suggests to me there is a limit to how far these traps work. If you go up to orbit...a few hundred or thousand miles up...it seems your psychic abilities spike.
This made me wonder: are there places on Earth where the death traps/psychic controls don't get to? The Pacific Ocean is as a big as the surface of Mars. If I am in the middle of the Pacific, is there nothing there to catch me? No traps? No controls?
I've flown over the middle of the Pacific and back a couple of times. I didn't notice anything too unusual, but I wasn't trying to be psychic either. I was more excited I was crossing the equator for the first time and daydreaming about visiting Australia and New Zealand.