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Paranoid
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The mystery behind this wasn't included in the email. I figured it out so i decided to share with everybody in case you can't figure out and thought that it was really magic. Haa. The first thing you needed to do was to think of one card. If you followed the instructions, like any other rational human who wants to see the "magic", most if not all your thoughts would be directed towards that card. The number and the shape, be it clubs,spades,hearts or diamonds.
All the subsequent instructions that followed such as not touching it and not clicking it jsut served as a source of dsitraction away from all the other cards that were available for you to choose from. This includes that of telling you that he dosen't know you etc etc. blah blah blah. Even if you "cheated" and memorised two or three cards, you would notice they would all disappear. Why?! How did it happen?!
There are several levels to this trick.
Firstly, the cards have two elements, namely the number and the shape. Typically you would have to try a little harder than usual to remember the card you chose as compared to just memorising a number(that's a lot easier).
Secondly, when you focus on a particular card, you would most likely ignore all the other cards. Even if you looked at them, they wouldn't leave much of an impression in you, unless you have a photographic memory, which I highly doubt so.
Thirdly, it's the very nature of this "game" in itself. Your objective is to look for the card you chose. Naturally, you would forget all about the other cards you came across previously and would be focused on looking for the card you chose, only to find it missing. If you looked carefully enough or didn't fall for the trick or if you tried the trick for all the cards one at a time or otherwise, you would notice that none of the cards were there when the cards were shown to you again subsequently. You wouldn't notice that unless you paid really close attention to the cards.
Interesting play of a trick on the human mind. How easily we believe what we read or see... Or rather in order to obtain or get something, we would do what's necessary without really thinking much about it or doubting it. Such is the nature of trust. Unless, your a very skeptical person of course. Then maybe you wouldn't follow the instructions and tried something funny.