This episode of Gingermagic TV is not by me. I saw this magic video by Richard Wiseman yesterday and had to show it to you! I don’t want to spoil it, so wont say any more, just click the link to play the video. I’ve written more underneath, but don’t read that yet. Watch the video first. And watch ALL of the video …
Don’t be put off by the ‘less than inspiring’ screen shot! Just click it to see the trick …
Don’t read below here until you have watched the video …
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Well, did it get you? It certainly got me! I was watching if and feeling all clever because I had worked out how the trick was done, then realised that I was the one that had been fooled.
Don’t you just love things like this? Our brains are incredible things and we ‘think’ we have a pretty good grasp on ‘reality’. Demonstrations like this just go to show how selective and malleable our perception actually is.
That’s part of why I do what I do for a living. The biggest kick I get out of magic is the look in someone’s eye when a trick has just made them momentarily question their perception of reality. It’s also a feeing that I love to experience myself, which is why this video put a big grin on my face yesterday.
I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know in the comments below if it ‘got’ you.
Until next time,
