> I've done it!! Or I should rather say, that we have done it! I had
> ritually wrapped a rubber band around a shiny half dollar, and sat
> there defocusing my eyes, with my hand floating over the coin. I've
> been trying to get it to move. Finally I hear this voice, from
> outside the invisible glass in this zoo I live in. A quiet whisper,
> "You should help him".. And then a light comes flying across my bed
> into the room. Out of the peripheral of my vision I said hello to
> her, and she unfolded into a beautiful woman in a white dress, but I
> could only just imagine her in such detail, and didn't dare directly
> look at her.
>
> Then the coin started to move.. At first it felt just like my
> imagination, I could see it move, like the way you see optical
> illusions move. It just didn't seem to change position on my bed at
> all. I kept at it for a few minuets, and eventually it almost looked
> like it was made of quick silver. I focused my imagination on the
> part of my vision that was telling my brain that the coin was in the
> same spot on the bed.. And then finally I saw the coin move, and this
> time it changed positions on the bed, it was as if the coin was moving
> in one direction, and the bed was moving in the opposite direction.
>
> When I decided to examine what had happened, the movement seemed so
> real, that I believe in it.. Like I believe in the dreams I have at
> night.. But I am still unable to provide any proof that the coin had
> actually moved across the bed at all in the most physical of realms.
> But I saw that it moved in dreams and spirit.
>
> Perhaps this is what copperfield does? He must practice just dreaming
> with his eyes open, as he says illusion is just the art of making
> people dream. He says that if you believe, and want something enough,
> nothing is impossible. So perhaps this spirit woman will continue to
> help me with his, and one day I will visualize the coin moving so
> strongly that other people will see it just he same as me.
>
> This is real progress!