How Does Our Brain Deceive Us?
Sensory Deprivation
Hypnagogic and Hypnapompic Hallucinations
Misdirection
Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another.
Managing the audience's attention is the aim of all theater, it is the foremost requirement of theatrical magic. Whether the magic is of a "pocket trick" variety, or, a large stage production, misdirection is the central secret of all magic.
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