Jose Prager - Watch-ing

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Watch-ing “I will influence your mind two times. The first time I will influence your conscious mind, and the second time I will influence your subconscious mind." The mentalist removes a blank business card and a pen from his pocket, and he writes something and folds it so the writing cannot be seen. He places it onto the table in full view. He now removes his wristwatch. “I will place the hands of the clock exactly at 12:00 as a reference point. "I want you to spin the hands of the watch and stop when you feel it is right. If my influence over your conscious mind works, you will stop exactly at the hour and minute I have written on that piece of paper.” The mentalist hands the watch to the spectator and then places his hand over his spectator's shoulder. They both can look at the face of the watch. “Look at the face of the watch and start moving the hands. Stop when you feel it is right for you.” The spectator does as instructed. He spins the hands for a while, and suddenly he decides to stop. “So you stopped at 3:15. Interesting...” “Now I will try to influence your subconscious mind. This will be a little bit harder for me...”

The mentalist removes another blank business card from his pocket, and again he writes something and folds it so the writing cannot be seen and places it onto the table close to the other one. The mentalist takes the watch. “Again, I will place the hands of the watch at exactly 12:00. "This time, you will move the hands of the watch, but without seeing them. The watch will be facedown. We will work with your subconscious mind.” The mentalist now hands the watch face down to his spectator, and again he places a hand over his shoulder. “Move the hands of the watch until you feel that it feels right to stop...” The spectator again stops. “Let's see where you stopped... 6:50. Very good. "These papers were in full view the whole time. Let's see... "First, you consciously stopped at 3:15. That was exactly the hour and minutes at which I wanted you to stop!” The mentalist opens the paper, and there it says, "Consciously 3:15." “Then, you subconsciously stopped at 6:50. That's what I wanted you to do!” He opens the second paper, and it says, "Subconsciously 6:50."

Methodology: The method is simply Bev Bergeron wonderful Force from his book “Predicting Time” combined with the one-ahead principle. What makes this piece extremely deceptive is that the force seems much fairer and more impossible than the free selection! Also, the use of the one-ahead in this case appears very clean, as you never ask for the unknown piece of information. 1. Before the spectator makes the first selection (the "conscious" selection), write down "Subconscious 6:50" on a slip of paper and fold it up. Place it away from you, but keep it in view. Tell the spectator that you have made a prediction regarding their conscious decision. 2. Set the time to 12:00 as in the presentation. Hand the watch to the spectator face up, pull out the stem and have the spectator move the hands until they are satisfied with the outcome. Once the spectator stops, make note of the time (let's say 3:15), as this will be used for the second prediction you are about to make. Once the spectator has set the time and you note what it is, act as if you are pleased with the result. 3. Write down your second prediction. It should read "Conscious - 3:15." Place it with the first prediction— away from you, but in full view. Note: Pay attention to the position of each slip, as you will want to open them in order during the ending revelation. 4. Moving on, you tell the spectator that she is now going to make a "subconscious" decision. Take the watch from the

spectator and tell her you are setting it to 12:00. In reality, you are setting it to the time you decided upon in step one: the force time (i.e. 6:50 in our example). Turn the watch over so that its face points downward and cannot be seen. As you turn the watch over (or any time attention is away from the watch), you want to push the stem back in. This will effectively force the spectator to "stop" at 6:50, since they will be unable to set the time! 5. Briefly recap what has just happened and create a bit of time misdirection. Finally, open the "conscious" prediction first and have the spectator read your prediction aloud. Then, open the "subconscious" decision and have the spectator confirm this prediction as well. The mentalist has successfully influenced the spectator twice, both consciously and subconsciously!

Additional thoughts: Make sure that your spectator spins the stem forward and backward. Try to extend the period of time he does it as much as you can. This will make them completely lose track of where the hands should be when they spin the watch face down (force). Don't use spectators own watch, usually they are familiar with the workings of their own watch and we don't want that! I personally just use mine or I ask a third person for his watch.

Inspiration: “Psychokinetic Time” (Banachek) “Temporal Anomaly” Seven (Patrik Kuffs) “Sands of time” Contemplations (Sean Waters) “Synchronistic” Nothing (Max Maven) “Watch Routine” Mind Mysteries Vol. 1 (Richard Osterlind) “Kolintrol” Contributions (Colin Mcleod) Colin's Kolintrol has nothing to do with watchs, but the plot of influencing the concious and subconcious mind inspired me while developing Watch-ing.