The Power of the Mind
Oh, the wonderful tricks our minds can play upon us. Once upon a time I got into an animated discussion with a friend about Walt Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice starring Mickey Mouse. We not only discussed the basic story but also spoke at length about the quality of the animation. I was particularly amused at the recollection of an army of brooms carrying buckets of water as an increasingly worried Mickey Mouse attempted to undo the enchantment.
Flash forward about an hour.
I'm walking up the sidewalk to pick up the children at the Daycare Center. I glance into a window as I walk by and stop cold, mouth open in shock and horor as I watch a broom slowly moving back and forth all by itself in the middle of the room. I blink and look again. The broom is still there and still moving in defiance of all natural law.
As I'm standing there with my mouth flapping open and shut like a fish out of water the young lady wielding the broom, previously concealed from view by the table in front of the window, stood up. She had been kneeling on the floor and holding the broom right above the straws, using it to sweep dust into a dustpan. She saw the shocked look on my face, gave me an odd look, and walked away.
[chuckle] As I alluded to in the title: oh, the power of suggestion.
Flash forward about an hour.
I'm walking up the sidewalk to pick up the children at the Daycare Center. I glance into a window as I walk by and stop cold, mouth open in shock and horor as I watch a broom slowly moving back and forth all by itself in the middle of the room. I blink and look again. The broom is still there and still moving in defiance of all natural law.
As I'm standing there with my mouth flapping open and shut like a fish out of water the young lady wielding the broom, previously concealed from view by the table in front of the window, stood up. She had been kneeling on the floor and holding the broom right above the straws, using it to sweep dust into a dustpan. She saw the shocked look on my face, gave me an odd look, and walked away.
[chuckle] As I alluded to in the title: oh, the power of suggestion.