This quick and easy Mind Trip will have you believing you just stepped into a time warp. During the show we talk about how our eyes play tricks on us. Try this Mind Trip and you will see exactly what we mean.
Step 1: Start with your hand against your face exactly as you see it …
Mind Trip of the Week: #47 Perceptual Time Warp
Mind Trip of the Week #19: The Monkey Business Illusion
Watch this video: Even if you have seen this illusion before…watch this again. Get ready for a new surprise. You won’t be disappointed.
This got us again! Daniel was brilliant in coming up with this and it just goes to show that we are not paying as much attention as we think we are. Are we …
Mind Trip of the Week #18: Lesson from the Bad News Bears
A young boy and his father are in a terrible automobile accident. They are both put into an ambulance and rushed to the hospital. On the way to the hospital the father dies from his injuries in the accident. Once at the hospital the boy is rushed into emergency surgery. The surgeon looks at the …
Mind Trip of the Week #15: Phantom Words
Get ready for this quirky Mind Trip! First,have a piece of paper and pen nearby. Second, if you have loudspeaker stereo speakers, place one to your left and one to your right and make sure they are the same level of loudness. If you don’t have them, no problem, click play anyway and listen.
What words …
Mind Trip of the Week #14: DRM Paradigm
Get ready to be Tripped out! This will be a test of your memory.
You will need a pen and a piece of paper.
Take a breath . . . prepare your mind. Now read out loud, slowly the list of words. When you come to the end of the list, look away. The write down as …
Mind Trip of the Week #10: Put a stamp on it and send it to Mind Tripping.
This year, on January 22nd, 2012 the price of a first class stamp went up to 45 cents. When I was a child the price of a first class stamp was 8 cents.
When I was in college the price had jumped to 18 cents.
In 1988, it was at 25 cents. I remember thinking, “Wow, it …
Mind Trip of the Week #9: The McGurk Effect
Did you know that what we see can influence what we hear? I know that it sounds crazy, but it is true. Do this first: Click on the video link below. First, watch the video and remember the sound that you hear. Then close your eyes and just listen to the person speaking. What sound …
Mind Trip of the Week #8: Altered Visual Perception
In our show Mind Tripping, Katalina and I demonstrate how easily people can be influenced to make very specific choices. Sometimes these actions are motivated by emotional triggers, sometimes they are motivated by false logic, and sometimes they are motivated by distorting one’s sensory inputs. This is a classic example of how you could confuse …
Mind Trip of the Week #7 Days of the Week
This is simple and fast. I want you to name three days of the week. Quickly, do it out loud.
I bet you named three consecutive days. OK, lets do it a little differently. Name three days, out loud, that aren’t consecutive.
I bet that was a little more difficult, but overall pretty simple. You just had …
Mind Trip of the Week #6 Racing with the Mind
You have been training for months for a half marathon. You really want to win. You ran sprints, hills, and long endurance training routes. You have also been preparing mentally, thinking about how to pace yourself in the race. Finally, it is race day. You start the race at a steady pace not trying to …
