Me_Again
Aug 31 2004, 10:15 PM
I was pondering about David Blaine (the man who was suspended over the bridge)
Also I once saw a show about this man who could stand upside down with his head buried in the sand for hours. Are these considered psychic abilities?
Also post if you've found any other "true" ( something that has been researched with documented results) unexplained happenings done by man/woman.
P.S. I know David is an illusionist, but how does he do it?
aquatus1
Sep 1 2004, 12:08 AM
Those wouldn't be psychic abilities, but rather superior endurance.
As for his illusions, which one do you want explained?
Me_Again
Sep 1 2004, 12:16 AM
Well thank you for the understanding (somewhat). So these superior endurances, how come some have them and some don't

Maybe its in their genes
Well how about the illusion of the bridge suspension

I would like to hear the explaination of that
Thanks for your response
aquatus1
Sep 1 2004, 02:56 AM
Are you talking about when he stuck himseld in a box for 44 days?
That wasn't an illusion. He went on an extended fast for 44 days. He still had water, he still went to the bathroom (number 1, not 2). Nothing too mystical.
Remember, he wasn't spending a whole lot of calories in that box. As long as he got his daily water, there's nothing physically stopping him from surviving. It's very similar to what some prisoners have had to go through in times of war.
Going without food isn't as difficult as many think. I myself have gone on week-long fasts with no other reason than to see if I could accomplish it. As to why some can do it and others can't, well, that would be a bit like asking why some can sing and others cannot, or why some are good at math, or running, and others lack the ability.
_hAiLO_
Sep 3 2004, 12:05 PM
There was a time when he performed a trick to a group of people in an alleyway in day time. He asked if he can take a ring off of a lady and put it in a small bottle, she said yes. So David put the ring in the bottle, did some magic stuff like waving his hands and covering the bottle. When he showed the bottle to the group, the ring wasn't there

?!
Then he went probably 10 feet near the street to a thing in the ground that looked like bars in a jail. It was probably the size of a small window and was suppose to let water in to the sewer. He put his hand in there and took out the ring of the woman he mysteriously lost!
I can't explain this trick

. Can you?
aquatus1
Sep 3 2004, 03:49 PM
Yes, that one is fairly simple. Remember how, after putting the ring into the bottle, he gave it a few shakes so that you could hear the ring rattling around inside? The last shake was up and down. His hand was at the top of the bottle, supposedly to keep the ring from flying out, but in actually, it was there so that on the very last shake, when the ring flew up and struck his palm, he simple scrunched up his hand a bit and palmed the ring. Without skipping a beat, he seized the bottle, performed his incantations, and revealed it to be empty. He then went to the grate, reached down, and pulled out the ring that had been palmed in his hand the entire time.
_hAiLO_
Sep 4 2004, 02:05 PM
oOoOoOoOo........clever.........I guess there are some exlanations to his tricks.
I still think that its a little mindboggling to see him in an icecube for days though. As a matter of dicapline and training, he managed to prove scientists wrong.
The real magic lies when magicians turn napkins into doves

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