Johnny
Thompson is a well known magician, presently performing in Barcelona,
whose number 1 most famous illusionism consists of changing the white
coloured dress of his attractive assistant right in front of the
public. He announced the intention, clapped his hands, and the lights
turned dark on the stage, for merely a briefer than brief seconds when
the lights came back on, spotlighting the the assistant now in a bright
flaming red dress. Not just the dress either, but the skin of the
girl. People laughed, some whistled; but that's not all of it: he
clapped his hands again and the intensity of the lights deemed once
more until the stage suddenly 'exploded into supernova whiteness
(Astronomy: characterized by brightness up to 100 million times that of
the Sun), while the damsel still in the same dress but now crimson.
Scientists
Stephen Macknik & Susanna Martinez-Conde have written: 'The
trickery of the mind' stating magicians constantly exploit the
characteristics of our visual system. The rapidly switching off all the
lights in a room before illuminating it again, produces the effect of a
flash that causes our sight to requite a couple of seconds to adjust;
moments in which, by means of some threads falling on the white dress
which hides the red one underneath, disappearing by a quick scuttle.
The
fact seems to be, that it's our brain that constructs the reality,
visual or in any other form. What you see, hear, feel or think, is based
on what you expect to see, hear, feel or think.
I, for one, am not entirely convinced by that definition. My mirror contradicts me too often!
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