How do magicians make things disappear?
A true magician will say it is a crime to reveal how a trick is performed, but making something disappear is a skilled illusion that is facilitated by the human brain.SkillDisappearing tricks, when performed by skilled magicians, leave an audience believing an item or person has vanished into thin air. The skill involved to achieve these illusions comes from a practiced hand and knowledge of how the mind works.ShortcutsThe human brain often completes a picture or movement without all the information, which makes disappearing tricks seem real. “The brain takes shortcuts, constructing a picture of reality with relatively simple algorithms for what things are supposed to look like,” according to an article in “Wired Magazine.”FocusWith distractions like smoke, lights and music, magicians are able to convince an audience to not focus too closely on a trick. When a magician makes something appear to disappear, the audience doesn’t always see all that is going on—instead they are focusing
