Like numbers, names etc.
Is it gifted or anyone can learn to do it?
2007-12-23 14:38:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Anyone can learn how to do it. Without giving away secrets, the trick is that they get you to think of a number, name or word that they want you too, and they have a way to make it seem like a completely random choice. I can go into details, but I'd rather not. It'd be boring to you, and I couldn't tell ya anyway, I'm sworn to secrecy there.
2007-12-23 14:44:54 · answer #1 · answered by Jason M 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Cold reading is a skill with no psychic basis. It can be learned by anyone.
All that is required is a brief study of human psychology and statistics. Some names are more common than others and magicians tend to avoid skeptics and choose subjects who are impressionable and who want the magician to be right.
When the magician provides a name or number that is wrong, he can either persuade them that they misinterpreted what he meant or he can quickly change the subject so they forget it. When he gets it right, he focuses on it so that they remember it. At the end of the session, he may have had more 'misses' than 'hits,' but the subject with still view the session as a success because of their selective memory.
2007-12-23 14:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is not a gift, it is an art or more like a science
they learn to read peoplez faces, we all have react to certain things in certain way , body language is a separate discipline, which people study and then trick everyone into believing that it is MAGIC!
2007-12-23 21:04:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Magicians use tricks not magic. Slight of hand, marks in the audience and so-forth.
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2007-12-23 14:45:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They don't really read your mind. These are magic tricks. It takes a lot of practice to do that well, but there's nothing supernatural about it.
2007-12-23 14:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-17 15:56:19 · answer #6 · answered by Dustin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your card is the 3 of hearts.
2007-12-23 14:41:29 · answer #7 · answered by ǝɔnɐs ǝɯosǝʍɐ Lazarus'd- DEI 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can be learned. It can take years of meditation like Buddhist monks do though. You have to expand the "wiring" in your right brain lobe to open your connection to the subconscious in order to do so.
2007-12-23 14:42:47 · answer #8 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋