Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal? Well, do this little mind exercise and find out ---- Free will or synaptic wiring? You be the judge.
Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow. There’s no trick or surprise. Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can. Again, as quickly as you can but don’t advance until you’ve done each of them…really.
Now, scroll down (but not too fast, you might miss something)…
What is:
1+5
2+4
3+3
4+2
5+1
Now repeat saying the number 6 to yourself as fast as you can for 15 seconds. Then scroll down.
I know of a better trick, one that had my 4th graders last year going “Hey! How did you know?” The problem is that since I have them again this year (which I am glad to have them again), I have to wait until next year for a new crop of students to try this on…
In the meanwhile, I’ll share it with you all. I’m a lazy bastard and googled the text rather than trying to remember it all and type it from scratch:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A B C D E F G H
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NOW TAKE THAT LETTER AND THINK OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
THAT BEGINS WITH THAT LETTER…
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TAKE THE SECOND LETTER OF THAT COUNTRY’S NAME AND THINK OF AN ANIMAL THAT BEGINS WITH THAT LETTER…
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NOW THINK ABOUT WHAT COLOR THAT ANIMAL IS…
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NOW THINK ABOUT THAT COUNTRY, ANIMAL, AND ITS COLOR VERY HARD
WHILE I RECEIVE YOUR MENTAL THOUGHTS VIA AIRSPACE…
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WAIT…
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SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG…
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THERE ARE NO GRAY ELEPHANTS IN DENMARK!!!
I tweaked it a little bit, since, after all these were ESL elementary school students who probably didn’t know Denmark, but I had the convenience of having a student named Dennis to substitute the question as “Think of a boy’s name that begins with that letter.” Having them do it on the whiteboard together while I faced the back wall, it was inevitable that they would choose the name of one of their classmates. As they started to write down the color, I said, “And by the way, Dennis does not have any gray elephants.” They were absolutely floored.
Later, I had them work out the math for why it worked.
Denmark is the most well-known country that starts with D. Most people wouldn’t say Dominica, the Dominican Republic, or, for that matter, Djibouti.[/quote]Oops I suck at math when drunk. I thought that 2*9+8 was 27. Ooops.
So is there enough empirical evidence here to show it is not the variant of alcohol that would lead one to a brown emu? I think not. Let’s try again. I will attempt with Awamori (Okinawan sake that some say is much like Everclear, but my cousins say this is a particulary good bottle from a special distillery or brewery).