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A mentalist brings Colin on stage to spin a handless watch and imagine a time. The mentalist guesses 3:05. When Colin checks the watch, he realizes there were never any hands to see. He imagined the whole thing.
A mentalist brings Colin on stage to spin a handless watch and imagine a time. The mentalist guesses 3:05. When Colin checks the watch, he realizes there were never any hands to see. He imagined the whole thing.
Colin, I'm just going to take my watch from my wrist, pull out the crown of the watch. Now I'm going to allow you, without either one of us seeing, to spin the crown. You're going to spin it, and as you spin it, the hands will turn. Spin it that way. That's right. And as you do that, anytime you like, you can stop and you can press the crown back in, and that will stop at a random time. Yeah. Good. Now, neither you nor I saw the time, correct? Correct. I'd like you to look at the time and remember it. Do you have it? Yes? Yep. Okay. Colin simply chose a random time. You're going to hold on to the watch. There you go. Now, Colin, look at me. Is there any way that I could know the time that you're thinking? I want you to think of the time that you saw and visualize the hands. Is there any way I could know? No. No. I want you to concentrate as I tell you the time that you stopped at, a random time under your control. Are you thinking of 3:05? I was trying not to. But yes. Yes, it was. He was trying not to, but yes, he was. Thank you. Yeah. So that means that you stopped at 3:05, yes? Sure. Yes. Random? I didn't— there's nothing I could have done? No. All right. Here's what I want you to do. Colin, I want you to have a look at the watch, examine it, and tell me, do you notice anything unusual about it? Yeah, there's no hands on the watch. There's no hands on the watch. That is true. There are no hands on this watch at all. In fact, when I bought this watch, I had the hands removed completely. And the reason that you thought you saw 3:05— did you notice I was doing this to you? Yeah, maybe in your subconscious. Perhaps now consciously, what does this look like if this were the hands on a watch? 3:05. You simply imagined it, Colin, but it seemed real, didn't it? 3:05. Let's give him a big round of applause. Thanks for coming up here.
