First of all you need the right kind of spit. If it's too watery or sticky it won't work. Your saliva changes consistency when you eat different types of food or drink so try experimenting. I find drinking hot tea or coffe with milk helps.
Gather some saliva at the front of your mouth. Next move your tongue through the saliva and then position it against the inside of your mouth under your bottom lip. Your mouth should be closed and tongue relaxed. Your tongue should be touching the sides of your mouth on all sides so a kind of seal is formed.
Now gently pull your tongue back from your mouth. If you've done it right you should feel a film of saliva stretching between the tongue and your mouth. You need to get this step right first so keep practising until you get a film.
Once you have a film you can open your mouth and gently move your tongue down and forward. Moving the tongue down has the effect of pushing the air under your tongue upwards, through the film forming a bubble. Moving your tongue forward will seal the bubble.
Eventually you will get to the point where you have a small bubble perched on the tip of your tongue.
The next part is the easiest. Poke your tongue out of your mouth and gently blow the bubble from your tongue, not too hard or it will burst.
Once you have mastered this, try blowing the bubble straight up and then catching it in your mouth. See how many times you can catch the same bubble!
Richard
Blackpool, UK - Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 07:07:02 (PDT)
Further to the "Head without a body" idea, when you are flying down the shafts of the gigantic Alien Construction, keep your arms down at your sides but lift them slightly away from your body at 30-45 degree angle. Curl your fingers and touch them with your thumb so each hand makes a circle. Hey presto! Your own pair of 'wings' with attached 'jet engines' on the end. To add to the effect make a soft roaring or whooshing noise with your mouth.
Also when you are walking outside, imagine that your are not moving at all, but that the Earth is revolving underneath you. You will find you can make the Earth move in different directions by altering the way you are facing. You can also make faraway objects come nearer to you by revolving the Earth until they reach you.
If you are walking along next to a low fence or wall, pretend you have a little friend by walking your fingers along the top of the wall. You can make your friend perform amazing stunts by leaping from one wall to the next.
On a bright sunny day look at a part of the sky where there are no clouds. Relax your eyes and you will start to see little white objects zipping around very fast. They look similar to smoke particles in a Brownian Motion experiment if you ever did that at school. These are white blood cells moving through the vessels in your eyes though I like to pretend they are UFOs engaged in a space battle. These aren't the same as the dark objects you sometimes see. They are called vitrous floaters and are the shadows of dead cells floating in the fluid in your eyeball.
Richard
Blackpool, UK - Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 06:28:30 (PDT)
Kitchen Vortex- If you have a garbage-disposal in your sink, turn the water on about half-way and have a bottle of liquid dish-soap (classic, not the dishwasher type)ready. Turn on the garbage disposal and decrease the water stream until it is a thin stream. Aim the soap bottle at the hole and give it a full squeeze and turn off the water right after.
Ok, nothing should be happening yet, as the Vortex is only primed and ready. To open the vortex, slowly allow more water into the drain, just a little at a time. The effects of each dose of water will come a few seconds delayed. What to look for: listen for a growling sound and notice as a white whirlpool slowly constricts inside the opening. You can feed your vortex a mixture of more water and soap, to get it to full maturity. A mature vortex fills the cavity, with a shaft in its center, about the size of a roll of dimes.
A fully grown vortex will have a much deeper voice than the smaller ones, and it will try to form words like "mama" or "Moam-g-g-g-AmoowOOowowaaAAAHH"
You will find yourself shaking-off moments where you realize you are staring at it in wonder.
-Tungston
Tungston
Seattle, WA USA - Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 04:46:26 (PDT)
If you live with a baby, and have walkie talkies, try this. Take the baby moniter and turn both sides on (the base and the handset) Then turn the walkie talkies on, and talk through them. The baby monitor will spit out what you are saying, no matter how quiet you say it. Wierd, I wonder why. (I discovered this when my brother was spying on me with his friend, and they were using walkie talkies, and I happened to turn on the baby monitor, thus hearing every word they said and ruining their game)
E <none>
USA - Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 10:05:32 (PDT)
ok this is from my err .. phycedlic days ..
get a frying pan , a good sized one about 12 inchs or so ..
put 1 inch of milk into it
grab a pack of food coloring , you know the pack that has 1 blue 1 red 1 yello and 1 green.
randome place a drop of each color in the milk .. like 5 drops of blue ( 5 differnt places ) 5 of green , etc .. dont let any of the drops touch each other.
grab some liquid dish washing soap .. put 3 or 4 drops of the liquid in the pan ...
the surface tension of the milk gets moved around by the soap cauzing the food coloring to mix around .. this looks like a living moving tie-dye .. lasts a good 30 mins ( then it just look a dull brown ) anyone on any sort of mind altering substance ( or just those with naturaly weird minds ) will get lost in it.
lucindrea <lucy-spam- a lucindrea.com>
wanye, pa USA - Friday, June 10, 2005 at 07:38:12 (PDT)
take the foil wrapper of a big red, lick it, then stick it on your forehead. it burns, we have contests at my school to see who can hold it longest
me <.>
l, t USA - Monday, June 06, 2005 at 20:26:12 (PDT)
smoke weed, that'll be interesting
ben xavier
USA - Sunday, June 05, 2005 at 22:19:24 (PDT)
Can you turn your eyelids inside out? I bet you can't, but some people who can don't even know they can.
Turning your eyelids inside out does not hurt at all. In fact, it feels kind of good, like if your arm was in a cast for a long time and it finally got taken off. Beware, though, because while your eyelid is inside-out, you will be able to blink, but air will still get through the corners, meaning you can only keep your eyelids that way for as long as you can go without blinking. I am an expert at turning my eyelids inside out, as you can see at my website. There are a few methods for turning one's eyelids inside out. You can use whichever one works best for you, because different people's eyelids react differrent ways to these. Be warned, though - if you are unfortunate and like 99.7% of the population, you won't be able to do any of these.
1. The obvious way
Place your thumb beneath your eyelashes and your forefinger above them, with the tip resting on your eyelid. It's usually easiest if you use your right hand for your right eye, and your left hand for your left eye. Rotate your hand upwards, so that your forefinger is pointing downwards, until your hand is obstructed by your head. You now need to get your forefinger out from under your flipped eyelid. While keeping your thumb where it is, slide your forefinger gently out of the pocket you made. Press your entire thumb on the inside-out eyelid. At this point, you may be done. Lift your hand off the eyelid. If it stays, good job. If it doesn't, do everything over again, but this time, before taking your thumb off, carefully place your forefinger back on the eyelid. Now that your thumb and forefinger are both on top, slowly slide them apart while gently pushing until they are both off of the eyelid. This gives it increased stability. After time, your eyelids will become looser, and this step will be unnecessary.
2. The temple method
Only a very few people are able to turn their eyelids inside-out using this method. Even if you are one of the select few, you will have to practice a few times the first way to loosen up your eyelids before this will work. Here's what you do: Place your middle and forefinger on the temple corresponding to the eyelid you want to flip. This part will probably take practice: Close your eye with force at the same time you pull your hand away from your eye, while applying pressure. Now, keep your face and hand in that same position, and use your other hand to hold the eyelid in the flipped position. Now repeat the optional last step of #1, and you'll be done. Again, after time these last two steps will be unnecessary.
3. The blinking method.
Personally, I cannot use this method, although it seems to be the most popular way to do this. As far as I can tell, this is the same as #1, but instead of rolling your hand upwards, you simply pull the eyelid out gently and blink with force. Then you can use the same steps to finish it.
Have fun!
fhqwghads <jic2000 a [domainname].com (change [domainname] to aol)>
Gaithersburg, MD USA - Saturday, June 04, 2005 at 14:38:50 (PDT)
Hot Pens
Take a pen and rub the tip of it against a surface(like a school desk or table) with the side of the tip so you won't write on the surface. If you do this the tip will get hot. If you do it for about five minutes the tip gets hot enough to char(or burn!) paper. Be careful.
manion <cam626 a verizon.net656345436432>
USA - Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 20:41:15 (PDT)
Freaky Lift...
You need a few people to do this but it is really amazing when it works!
Get together 5 people. Get one to sit in a chair, the other four make their hands into guns like shapes, boths middle fingers and index fingers together, thumbs crossedlittle and ring fingers interlocked. One person puts their hand under the sitting persons left knee, another puts their hand under the right knee, the next the right armpit the last the left armpit. Try to lift the sitting person...unless this person does not weigh much or you have 4 incredibly strong people you won't be able to lift them. THEN the four people place thier hands on the sitting persons head, pressing down lightly. Then they return to their places, left knee, right armpit etc, and try to life the sitting person again..this time you'll lift them right up!
(i can honestly say this works... i am 13 and me and threeof my friends lifted my dad, a 6'2" guy above our heads!..i have no idea how this works! perhaps if you know you could tell me?)
Lea Forester <leaforesterstar a yahoo co uk>
Teddington- near london, UK - Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 06:38:01 (PDT)
When your in a car, lie down so you can ONLY see the sky. Then relax and listen to the sound of the engine of the car and imagine you're in an aeroplane, or flying in some way, its really cool!
i had another one but i forgot what it is.
heres a good one though. flick the side of your cheek while pushing the air out of your mouth, not breathing. it should make a "ploink" sound!
Steve <AAAH>
Aberdeen, Scotland Scotland - Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 04:15:43 (PDT)
Ok, this is good when staying with ya friends.
What you do, you wake up when everyones asleep and quietly fil a bowl( the bigger, the better) with warm water(not to hot or theyll wake up) and place their hand in it
In a few minutes theyll piss their pants!!!!!!
Anonomous
Sydney, NSW USA - Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 03:31:47 (PDT)
One I've always done-
Look at something, preferably a tree outside on a clear day. Well, I say "look" rather loosely, because you kinda have to look through your whole image you see. After a minute or two, the image starts to all go white, and almost rotates. It looks alot cooler than I can decsribe. If you dare move an eye, though, the illusion is lost.
This also works in a dim-lit room, only the illusion is much quicker in a reverse effect; everything goes dark.
Lucas
G'ville, AL USA - Wednesday, June 01, 2005 at 23:08:48 (PDT)
Here's one you smokers can try right this very minute - Perfect smoke rings! Take a hard pack of cigarettes that still has the cellophane on the bottom. Light a cig and smoke it. Carefully pull down the cellophane wrapper so it is three quarters of the way off the box. Using the lit cigarette, poke a hole in the larger side of the cellophane, (it will melt away a circle). Then take a drag and blow the smoke into the hole you just made, filling the cellophane "chamber". Now, flick the bottom of the cellophane with your finger. Little smoke rings will pop up. As with smoke rings made orally, you'll get a better ring if you don't inhale the smoke before blowing it into the chamber.
Kate
Philly, PA USA - Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 20:27:21 (PDT)
Ok I know its 2005 and no one has been here in forever but, ssqueez the skin on your chin really hard in your hand. squeeze it really hard for about 10-20 seconds and let go. Now, as soon as you let go use your finger to Flick your chin where you were just squeezing. Flick it REALLy hard about 3 - 5 times. It should leave a really big red, ugly and very noticable broose for about 5 days. It's very annoying and you can trick people easily.
fart screwer <fsg>
asafa, afg USA - Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 16:03:45 (PDT)
Pick up a large ceramic or glass vase and hum into its neck, making a siren noise from low to high pitch. Usually one pitch will be louder than all of the others. Hum this exact pitch into the vase and stop quickly; you can hear the vase resonating at its fundamental frequency. The closer your pitch is to the vase's fundamental, the louder the vase resonates. There are similar tricks you can do with guitars and pianos: just play one note very loudly and, if the string an octave above it is free, it will start vibrating by sympathetic vibration.
Using a spoon, tap a coffee mug at 3 o'clock from its handle. Now tap it at 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock- it makes the same pitch. However, if you tap the mug at 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 or 10:30 from its handle, the mug makes a different, slightly higher pitch. This is because when you tap the mug, the mug vibrates at antinodes 90 and 180 degrees from wherever you hit it. Directly between the antinodes are the nodes, where the mug doesn't vibrate. When you hit the mug at 3,6 or 9, the handle of the mug is on an antinode and has to vibrate, which increases the mass of the resonator and decreases its frequency. When you tap the mug at 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 or 10:30, the handle is on a node doesn't vibrate, so the mug makes a higher pitch.
Jimmy <witheld>
Moraga, CA USA - Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 22:50:55 (PDT)
i have recently learnt to gleak but i cant do it very far, could someone please help?
If you have a trampoline (or access to one) bounce for a while then as soon as you get off try to jump. you can jump as high as you normally can it just doesnt feel like it. its weird.
lucas
lucas <heidi.radford a tesco.net>
Honiton, devon uk - Monday, May 16, 2005 at 11:05:22 (PDT)
after reading some of the "Do This Now" page, i came across your Neptune's hammer. This is very similar to a party trick i picked up recently, where you take someone's empty bottle of booze, refill it with water, and bash like a maniac. i can only seem to get it to work after two hits, never on the first try.
tom <t0m3e_(at)H0TMA1L.COM>
sydney, australia - Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 01:17:14 (PDT)
There is a book, _Phantoms_In_The_Brain_ by V. Ramachandran that is fascinating. One thing that is great about Ramachandran is that he creates experiments without any expensive lab. equipment, so you can try them out yourself.
Convince yourself that a table is actually part of your body, what fun!
AinSophist
san diego, ca USA - Thursday, May 05, 2005 at 21:12:24 (PDT)
Take a strobe light into a dark room where you have a fan. Ground fans work better than ceiling fans. Set the strobe light facing towards the fan and turn the fan on. The fan will appear to be slowly moving in a circle and will even change directions of travel. This works with spinner belt buckles, and spinner watches, get it spinning fast and it will appear to rock back and forth sometimes. May help to be high when you do this too.
T.J. <mr_tjalicious a hotmailcom!!!!!!!!!>
K-town, AZ USA - Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 12:53:30 (PDT)
i would like to know more information on how to make ur tounge make that loud sound
Jay <Jason18967 a aol.com>
Agawam, Ma USA - Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 11:49:39 (PDT)
Just a simple physical trick; this works best with a small, weaker person and a big larger person. Have the smaller person put their hand on their head. Have the larger person try to pull the hand off. The larger person will be able to whip the little person around, but never pull of the hand.
Antonio <antonio a sarkis-webdesign.com>
USA - Monday, April 25, 2005 at 00:41:18 (PDT)
take a medium sized mirror and place it under your chin so it is parallel with your view. make sure your house is clean. and start walking around while looking down. it will seem like you are walking on the ceiling. just make sure you don't trip on anything on the floor.
lana
Africa - Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 13:53:30 (PDT)
make the sound from the grugde by :having you mouth open but dont breathe, then talk and very slowly let air out your stomach.
Remi
USA - Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 09:26:07 (PST)
this site has cool stuff try the "ghost bottle" and the "mirror under your chin" one they are best
bolby
USA - Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 12:32:13 (PST)
Right I saw this done quite a few times way back and it was always fun make a hot air balloon from a large bin bag by attaching a wire frame to the bottom with tape and at the center of this frame a few inches below the opening of the bin bag create a fuel holder. I have seen this done with a small tin can wired in place.
Right go outside at night,
somewhere remote and light a small fire. Now inflate the balloon from the
heat riseing from the fire ( hold tightly as the lift is something to be
believed) Now before you let go place a couple of fire lighters (alight)
in the can at the bottom and let go.
At this stage it will rise at
about 10feet a second most impressive. This is if you have the right sort
of volume to your bin bag. Now go home and watch the local tv for ufo
reports. Once you become good at this you can look for larger bags or as
we did make them from tissue paper (multi coloured looks awsome).
Phil <xxxxdormousebookshopxxx a xxbtconnect.comxx>
norwich, uk - Saturday, March 12, 2005 at 08:16:04 (PST)
K, Heres a couple :-D
1. Put your each of your hands into a fist position and put them side by side. Let a friend pat them lightly whilest you push your balled up fist together (trying to make them merge) Do this for a good 4 minutes or so. Then slowly move your balled up fist away from each other around 4 or 5 inches. Your fist should try resume the former position they were in! Simple, yet ODD! Like me! Rofl x]
2. Fool people into thinking your levetating!! Omgz0rz! Turn to a side angle where your friends can only see the right side of you. then lift your right foot up of the ground whilest tilting your left foot to the left! this creates a optical illusion type thing. Tis best if you do it in a sightly dim or dark area!
3. Have fun Snewblets! :-D
PwNz0rZ <ImNotTellingMyE-MailBecauseMyMomSaysI'llGetRapedIfIDo a yahoocom>
Derrty Derrty South, ATL USA - Saturday, March 05, 2005 at 17:10:52 (PST)
ok i know like nobody will know how but will somebody PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE teach me how to blow bubbles with your own spit? PLEASE! its gotta be kinda detailed but easy to follow, THANK YOU! EMAIL ME IF YOU KNOW HOW
tricktickler ian wicked <ianbadeanbaboanbabean a hotmailcom>
here, somewhere uuuuusa! - Wednesday, March 02, 2005 at 15:05:48 (PST)
If you take a disposable and hold down the flash and hit youe hand the flash will go of but it won't use film.
Paul McCartney
USA - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 15:15:06 (PST)
Old school display boards which have huge pixels on them - like the ones in airports or movie theater lobbies. Its great if you can find the resonance which they seem to wobble at while humming. Try to keep your pitch as deep as possible and hum from your chest or stomach - not from your throat.
Even stereo displays sometimes work. I discovered this with 5 friends at a
cinema. 6 people lined up, staring into space, humming and occasionally
bursting into hysterics. Got some crazy looks.
Bumcivilian
uk - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 03:24:29 (PST)
THE VANISHING PIECE OF FOOD:
Extend your hand flat with your palm facing down and your index and middle fingers together. Place a small piece of food--M&Ms or a kernel of popcorn works great--on the crack where your two fingers meet towards the end. Now smack the base of your fingers with the other hand. Even though you can't see it, your fingers act like a springboard and launch the food into your mouth. Open and close your mouth very quickly while you do this, and it will look like the food just disappeared. Warning: don't try this with peanut M&Ms or something large, unless you want to chip a tooth or choke to death.
WATCH
YOUR SOFT PALATE MOVE:
Open your mouth wide in front of a mirror.
Inhale deeply, and watch your soft palate move upwards. Where does it go?
CONFUSING PHONE NUMBER:
When telling someone your phone number, break the digits up into a group of 4 and then a group of 3. For example, instead of 5-5-5 *pause* 1-2-3-4, say 5-5-5-1 *pause* 2-3-4. It messes with people's heads. Also works with social security numbers.
LIGHTER PYROTECHNICS:
Turn the flint grinder thing on a lighter slowly (so as not to ignite the flint dust created) several times. Turn the lighter over and tap it over a piece of paper to collect the dust. Now light the lighter and pour the dust about five inches above the flame. The dust will light up like a sparkler several inches above the flame. Also, if you're a smoker, wet one side of a cigarette slightly, sprinkle the dust on it, and let it dry. Every time you take a drag off of it, it will sparkle. Give one of these cigarettes to an unsuspecting victim and enjoy the show.
LOOK OVER THERE. OVER THERE!
Tell someone to "look over there"
without pointing or indicating a direction in any way. They'll look
around and then ask "where?" Look in a different direction and say, "over
there." Repeat.
Aaron
OH USA - Monday, February 14, 2005 at 15:17:13 (PST)
i tried lighting a lighter and leaving it on the ground to blow up. theres this cloud of fire that appears once it blows up.
denis malyshev <bionicglobe a yahoocom132>
brooklyn, ny USA - Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 08:34:41 (PST)
( Psychic Pressure )
meditate for a few minutes, imagining that there is 'energy' that can flow thru your body. start at your feet and imagine 'energy' swirling around your feet and up around your legs and body and then down both arms at the same time. now imagine the 'energy' building/swirling up at your hands. and bring your palms close to each other, but don't let them touch. leave them a few inches from each other, and slowly bring them closer. (but don't touch) bring them apart and slowly together again, repeatedly, slowly, barely moving them.
You should feel pressure from between your hands! like a 'force-ball' or
bar-shaped, like a magnet.
The Architect
USA - Monday, February 07, 2005 at 21:17:04 (PST)
Here's one to try that is a little different.
Everyone has an
inner monolog. Try changing your inner monolog's "voice." So when you're
thinking, you don't hear yourself, you hear instead, say, Sean Connery or
Bill Clinton or someone.
Keep doing it for 10 minutes or more. It really messes with your mind. I
find it raises the hackles on the back of my neck when I use a female
voice (being male myself.)
At any rate, unless you want people looking at you strangely when you
burst out laughing for no reason, try it by yourself first :)
Sam
USA - Monday, February 07, 2005 at 12:28:23 (PST)
Stand in the middle of a doorway and let your arms hang loose at your side. Slowly raise your arms straight out until the backs of your hands are touching sides of the door frame. Continue to press hard against the frame and count to 50. Now step away from the door and totally relax your arms again. They will "levitate" without you even trying.
brian lottis <bjlottis a yahoocomMM>
Portland, OR USA - Thursday, February 03, 2005 at 15:58:22 (PST)
Sit in front of a computer monitor and hum loudly at a low frequency. Watch the monitor. At certain frequencies, the image will start to wobble up and down, because your retina is vibrating in sync with the monitor.
Kent Lottis <kentlottis a mindspring.com>
Bellevue, WA USA - Thursday, February 03, 2005 at 15:36:34 (PST)
The amazing ghost bottle
---------------------------------------------
ok Freeze about half a bottle of water. Then when it's frozen take it out and sit a small thin light coin on top of the lid, to block the top. The coin will move. AMAZING
Mat Hobson
USA - Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 07:09:05 (PST)
i need help!!! ok i learned how to wink than ross my eyes than cross one eye now i wont to no how to make one eye look up and the other down and/or make my left eye look left and my right eye to look right (at the same time) [I haven't spent much time trying to do this one. It might be impossible (it might require brain damage!) -billb] please help me thankz tons e-mail me how
ray <supersniper707 a yahoocom>
gilbert, az USA - Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 23:21:03 (PST)
do stuff that is fun now go home
genral <ddhbucbeucec a wdkjfbwebj.com>
washington, oclahoma USA - Monday, January 17, 2005 at 12:21:57 (PST)
Okay, here's an awesome microwave trick that I really like. First, get a toothpick or a match; second, put the toothpick or match in something that will hold it erect(like a robitusen cup with a hole punched in the bottom). Next, put the cup with toothpick, or match, intact into the microwave. Now light it, and turn the microwave on! Do this for only a few seconds, any more and your microwave may either melt or break. Fireballs pop out the burning toothpick(the toothpick doesn't have to be on fire, just a decent cherry will work). Don't believe me? Try it for yourself
casey <csyjensen a yahoocom7867>
Loveland, Co USA - Saturday, January 08, 2005 at 19:00:38 (PST)
I love this site. find an ordinary metal yard fence. look at it while allowing your vision to relax and go blurry. It will appear to be closer than it is, and you will feel that you can put your hand right through it.
shatda <shekem180 a yahoocom>
Rochester, NY USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 10:22:52 (PST)
Okay, my friend taught me this... get a friend to hold out both your hands. Slap them. Ask them which hand hurt more. Have them turn it over, palm-up. Run your finger gently along each of their fingers (aka tickling their fingers)... ask which one tickled the most. ask them to concentrate on either A, B, or C. Then stretch the skin on their fingertip so it is mostly whiteish coloured. The letter will appear slightly pinkish in their fingertip. Me and my brother have found that all letters work for this, only mistakes are made, like you might msitake a G for an O for a C... it's just easier to do just A B and C. This is really really creepy and works almost every single time.
Jesse <sugarstars a gzusgirl.com>
Lalaland, KS USA - Monday, December 27, 2004 at 21:12:53 (PST)
Yo, u know whuts kool, if u lay on the ground and take like 30 deep breaths, then stand up real fast and hold ur breath, u'll like pass out 4 like a couple seconds. its awesome, u like start laughing and doing shit if u stay standing up, its like smoking weed, only doesnt last as long, lol. ill hit u back up if i think of n e thing else. PZ
Dixie Normous <Iforgot a lotsa.cum>
321 sesamea street, NY USA - Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 11:13:53 (PST)
youve all propably read the one with the hand miror under your chin bellow a little ways well try wiggleing the mirror while you walk FREEAAKKYY just dont fall or try if you get mostion sicknes
bobby fringer <noobsaibot2000 a html.com>
USA - Saturday, December 18, 2004 at 23:19:28 (PST)
try this take an 2 litter orange soda bottle to a shooting range leave abount 2 inches of soda in the bottom shake it up good and soot it witha 22 right in the bottom corner it launches about 20 ft in the air try this with different guns and soda bottles
bobby fringer <noobsiabot2000 a html.com>
cloverdale, nv USA - Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 10:30:17 (PST)
I discovered this in my pick-up truck ,but it can be done in most any car as well. have your passenger hold one of those mirrors (about 4 foot tall & 12 inches wide)that you have on a door or wall, horizontally, across the top of the front seats just behind the driver`s head while driving. the driver can watch in his rear view mirror. man it is a weird sensation. Try videoing this with a camcorder mounted on the dashboard facing the mirror & play it back on our tv for friends & family! it`s a freaky feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ken f. <marlenesuf a sympatico.ca>
london , ont canada - Wednesday, December 08, 2004 at 19:59:18 (PST)
walk around with a hand mirror held under your chin this gives the effect of walking on the celing! its a bit disorienting but effective.
Speedyplstic <willscr a hotmailcom>
Mankato, MN USA - Tuesday, December 07, 2004 at 15:41:04 (PST)
One thing about making a Super-Lighter by removing the shield and overadjusting it- DON'T hold the flame on too long- the little brass nozzle that the gas comes out of can overheat, melt the plastic, and blow out, resulting in a huge fireball, a scorched ceiling, and missing eyebrows.
RatsOfFire <CDH106 a hotmailcom>
Trafford, PA USA - Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 06:03:26 (PST)
In the winter when static electricity abounds, go into your bathroom and turn on your sink so that only the tiniest trickle of water comes out. It must be a steady stream, not dripping---almost dripping---but not dripping---just a tiny little steadily trickling stream---got it? Now comb your hair with a plastic comb until it's crackling with electricity. Then place the comb near the stream of water. The static electricity will bend the stream of water into an arc. with a little practice you can actually make the water flow against gravity and up out of the sink!
David E Jones
L'ville, GA USA - Monday, November 22, 2004 at 22:26:20 (PST)
To write backwards, use the hand you don't normally use. Relax, don't concentrate, and you will see that you can naturally write from right to left. It looks a bit spidery, but hold it up to a mirror to see how well it worked.
Darren Longhorn
Leeds, UK - Saturday, October 30, 2004 at 14:20:16 (PDT)
You've probably seen "light saber" toys, consisting of a plastic rod fiber optic and a laser-pointer-like base that has a flashing LED instead of a laser. Two things you can do here:
1. Attach the plastic optics to a laser pointer. Gives interesting sparkles, and may let you lens smeared laser onto your walls.
2. Close your eyes and point the flashing LED right into your face. This works best if the LED is red, but green will sometimes get through enough as well. After a while, you will begin to see color dots and fringes similar to those you get poking at your eyes, but without the discomfort or risk. They will flash in time with the LED (not surprising). A rate of about 4 to 5 Hz and a short duty cycle seems to work quite nicely. I've seen some that blink once or twice a second, with a long duty cycle. That's not going to cut it.
Don't do this if you're epileptic, or even have had a seizure. It's probably best to do it laying down even if you aren't worried about having a seizure. But it doesn't hurt to be baked or otherwise chemically enhanced.
OTHER THINGS TO DO WITH TECHNOTOYS
1. Shine a bright red LED into thin skin areas like the webbing between two fingers. You'll see a diffuse glow that is eerie itself, but you'll also see blood vessels and maybe even finger bones. Red lasers work too, but the sparkle effect tends to screw up seeing blood vessels.
2. Shine a laser pointer into a translucent object. The sparkle effect can be quite mesmerizing.
3. Shine a laser pointer through a transparent, half-filled bottle of water, then shake the bottle to jostle the water around. Watch the laser dance on the far wall.
4. Cats generally love to chase laser dots, as do some dogs. Birds are likely to try to eat the dot, but that's not particularly entertaining for long. But if you can get your pet to chase it, it's a lot less effort than playing fetch, and there are no soggy tennis balls.
If there's a mirror in the room, lead the laser dot over to the mirror (slowly, you don't want your pet to crash into the mirror) and beyond (bounce it off the mirror). A typical cat will only track the real dot going into the mirror, but see both the real and reflected dots after it reaches the mirror, and will look at the two alternately, trying to decide which one is real.
Mal-2
Mal-2 <miaowara_tomokato a yahoocom>
Los Angeles, CA USA - Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 03:16:26 (PST)
Ok, this one is only for people with braces. Get a standard, fully charged 9 volt battery and put 1 of the prongs on the top braces, and the other on the bottom braces. You'll start to get a strange feeling/taste in your mouth, and then, all of the sudden your whole face will get a violent JOLT. Most of the time, you will see a blue flash of light, as the shock forces your eyes to close. Trick people with braces into doing this and you'll probably laugh you ass off! Now if noone minds, i'd like to shamelessly plug my own site, http://www.boredom-induced.com <--we make stupid movies.
Boner Jones <bonerjones a gmailcom>
West Palm Beach, FL USA - Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 19:55:05 (PDT)
Ok, I haven't done this one since I was a kid, but it should work fine. First, lay down on the ground face down with your arms straight and relaxed over your head. Relax your whole body, then get a friend to grab your hands and pull them up, lifting your head off the ground. You must keep your head hanging loosely the whole time. After your friend holds you there for a good 2-3 minutes. (If it doesn't work after 2-3 minutes, try longer). After waiting with your head hanging, have your friend lower your arm slowly to the ground. When done right, your arms will feel like they're going through the ground. Your mind is tricked into thinking the ground is alot closer than you'd previously thought. PEACE!
Boner Jones <bonerjones a gmailcom>
West Palm Beach, FL USA - Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 19:26:14 (PDT)
When you feel that you have to sneeze, take control of that involuntary action and let as much air out of your lungs as you can. This stops you from sneezing without causing pressure to be built up in your ears and possibly blow your eardrums.
Joe
Canada - Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 11:28:22 (PDT)
Have u noticed how cats always lands on their feet, and the same when you accidently drop a slice of peanutbutter bread and it always lands on the peanutbutter side! So here's what you do. Take a cat and one slice of peanutbutter bread, and attach the slice to the cats back(any way you want) and drop the cat from the roof. Now notice how the cat stops about half meter from the ground and rotates furiously. They have reached an invinite equalibrium of their inverted quantum energies. This is good. Now all you have to do is connect a dinamo and you have an infinite energy source. Legal Note: I am NOT responsible for any loss of animal life. I will also ingone any requests to clean up blood and peanutbuttered pavements. Tip: Use variations of bread.
Dewald Steynfaard <12922897 a puknet.puk.ac.za>
Kathu, RSA - Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 06:41:42 (PDT)
BE the record player. Put a record on the turntable and turn it on, but instead of putting the needle on the record, use your fingernail. It takes some practice to hold it steady enough and with the right amount of pressure to stay in the groove, but if you get it right you'll faintly hear the record playing out of your fingertip. DO NOT use your mint condition first pressing of Abbey Road, because doing this probably ruins the record.
Ross <rdwesterbur a yahoocom>
Detroit, MI USA - Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 12:37:01 (PDT)
You're seated and have just finished your bottled water and slip the empty plastic bottle behind you between your back and the seat. Leave it there a while so no one's aware.
Out of nowhere you give your head a twist-like you're trying to pop your
neck- and lean back on that bottle. It's loud. People cringe and often
scream.
Fun.
jim <friskylamar a hotmailcom>
memphis, TN USA - Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 20:06:04 (PDT)
This is a follow up to blowing up lighters.First- the lighter when it explodes can fly twenty feet or more in any direction so make sure you're not going to hit anybody or yourself. Second- if you throw the lighter down hard but it doesn't hit the ground at the bottom part, it will break but not explode.You know you've succeeded when you hear a fairly loud bang, see some fire(more discernable at night), and their are no lighter pieces in sight.
Oren Politi <orenp2001 a yahoocom>
San Francisco, Ca USA - Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 03:04:17 (PDT)
Blow up cheap lighters. Get a cheap plastic lighter filled with lighter fluid, go outside and throw it as hard as you can on the ground.Make sure you throw it so only the bottom of the lighter hits the ground vertically. It takes some practice but if you do it hard and precise enough the lighter wiil explode and fly everywhere. The more lighter fluid inside the bigger the explosion.
Oren Politi <orenp2001 a yahoocom>
San Francisco, Ca USA - Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 02:20:33 (PDT)
Works best with three people. Two people stand on either side of a swivel chair. One person gets on their knees in the chair. The person in the chair kneels down and puts one side of their head on the top of the back of the chair (so they are facing a wall looking at it sideways). They should then close their eyes. The two people on either side should start spinning the other person. At a certain point the person will no longer feel like they are moving. At this point, the two spinners should stop the chair immediately. If done properly (It's hard to mess up) the person will be unable to stop himself from falling forwards (if the direction of spin is the direction they were facing) or backwards (if otherwise).
John
Lakewood, CO USA - Monday, October 04, 2004 at 22:28:44 (PDT)
magic tilting soda can. I discovered this on my own while being bored on my lunchbreak at work a few years ago. (disclaimer; This trick only works once in front of witnesses before half of them figure it out and do it themselves later on in front of another set of witnesses - thereby creating a tilting soda can pyramid scheme) Drink about two thirds to three fifths of a can of soda - the kind with a bevelled bottom edge works best (most cans have this kind of bottom edge). Tilt it at a diagonal angle and place it by the bottom edge on a flat surface and carefully let go. The can stands tilted there on its own! It may take a little adjusting by sipping a little bit more to get it balanced just right. If done perfectly, you can further entertain people by carefully nudging the side of the can to make it wobble around in circles. Another wonderful thing to do is set up a bunch of tilting cans all around an empty cafeteria or kitchen or wherever there's a lot of flat surfaces where people are bound to come in and be completely befuddled by the cans as though they're in the Twilight Zone! The trick is a simple act of evenly distributed liquid on the inside of the can to form a perfect V angle with the bottom bevelled edge; gravity does the rest.
Mathyula <rainingcats a netzero.com>
Baldwinville, MA USA - Monday, October 04, 2004 at 12:54:30 (PDT)
ANTIGRAVITY
next time you are going down in an elovater, jump! you get a cool feeling of no gravity. just make sure you are the only one in there or else everyone will think youre crazy
james <wizewonson a shaw.ca>
edmonton, ab canada - Saturday, October 02, 2004 at 15:52:34 (PDT)
where's my finger?????
(help if u can go cross eyed) sit on a chair in front of a table,now place your elbow on the table so that your palm is flat with your forhead.now look directly straight and bring the index finger of your other hand around and pass it behind the wrist of your fixed hand. your wrist should cover your finger. now do it with your eyes cross.... your wrist thickness becames as thin as paper yet your finger is cut so short. mess with you head
Elie <mrpink a hush.com>
syd, nsw australia - Friday, October 01, 2004 at 19:05:38 (PDT)
Crossed Eyes...even better effect....look as far left as you can ...slowly cross your eyes and then look to the right....do it smoothly back and forth and your eyes will appear to independantly "flip-flop" ...it will freak out your friends if they are watching
Randy Jameson
Toronto, Canada - Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 14:38:14 (PDT)
Okay, i learned this when i was all blazed at my friends house. he has one of those electric zappy things, but it is elongated and twirly, but im pretty sure a "plasma globe?" would work. Take a penny and spit on it, then put it on the glass. The electricity will go through the glass and into the penny, now if you get near it (you have to get close) it will zap you pretty good. Do it to your friends while wasted, it inspires hilarity.
charlie <sevendaystogo a yahoocom>
milwaukee, WI USA - Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 22:01:13 (PDT)
Take a standard wire hanger and pull it in the middle by holding the top and pulling center out C=====?. Stick your index finger in the loop of the closed end so you can twirl it with your finger. Bend the top slightly so the point of the hanger is vertical when the hanger is hanging down from your finger. Now place a penny face up on the point. If you are carefull it will balance. Now slowly rock the hanger back and forth until there is enough force to allow you to start spinning the hanger 360 degrees with your finger. The centrifical force will keep the penny in place and trip everyone out.
Choda Shortknob
USA - Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 10:50:35 (PDT)
First you need an office chair or any other type of chair that can easily swivle 360 degrees. Second grab a standard bicycle wheel (the larger the wheel such as the front wheel of a beach cruiser the better this works). Spin the bike wheel as fast as you can while holding it by the axles. Sit in the swivle chair and left your feet. By tilting the spinning wheel left or right the gyroscopic effect will cause your body to spin around in the chair. Joy!
greg pucci <gregpucci a hotmailcom>
folsom, ca USA - Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 10:33:32 (PDT)
Another two cool eye tricks I've discovered that Ive never heard mentioned of ANYWHERE.
1) open your eyes really wide. Now with your index fingers, gently press inward towards your nose on the outer corner of your eyes. Soon your vision will fade black around the corners, and continue until all you see is a small circle of vision, then complete blackness (sometimes with nifty swirley blue things). Release the pressure, and your vision fades back. Nifty trick involving pinching the optic nerve.
2) stare at any one of your eyes in the mirror... really closely, so that you can see the patterns and lines clearly. Now tilt your head as if your eye was the center of a wheel. Your eyeball will twist in its socket to maintain "upright" vision. You can notice that the lines and patterns in your eye dont move with your head. freaky!
Kerrick <Poncepimp84 a aol.com>
Daytona Beach, fl USA - Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 10:23:37 (PDT)
put an aluminum can tab between your forefinger and index so your fingers touch through the big hole, then fling it forward and the can tab will take flight. It will spin like a helicopter or frisbee through the air. They stall a bit so don't expect them to go where you aim. These fly very far and sometimes cannot be seen because of their low profile or speed. Try experimenting with different ways of launching them to make them fly farther.
manion
plano, TX USA - Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 15:51:38 (PDT)
the gum rapper thing below, it has to be spicy cinnamon gum.
will <expickwickmoose a aol.com>
USA - Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 22:59:03 (PDT)
If you take a gum wrapper, lick it then put it on your head for about a minute it will feel like it's burning you.
Emil
chicago, IL USA - Saturday, August 21, 2004 at 16:36:13 (PDT)
Paralize your hand. Grab the fingers of your left hand with your right hand and squeeze them as hard as you can. Hold them for as long as you can take the pain. Now reduce your grip very slightly and remove your left hand without moving the fingers on your right hand and wait for about 1 min. Finally VERY SLOWLY try open your hand you will find that some of your fingers will not move.
Hotdog
Uk - Wednesday, August 04, 2004 at 14:03:57 (PDT)
From "Scientific American", in the age of dinosaurs. Use an flash equipped camera, take the film out, or set the flash to "test". Get in a totally dark room, with no light source whatsoever. Put a newspaper (rember those?) on the floor, with the headlines or a big bold ad showing. (this is really cool if you haven't read it yet) Let your eyes get accustomed to the dark. With your eyes wide open and staring at the newspaper (if you could see it). pop the flash. Close your eyes, and be careful not to move your head too much. You can still read the paper!. Try the same game without the newspaper and so you could see your legs, and then squat down. Your body will feel "squatting", but your eyes still see "standing". Be careful not to lose your balance.
Tomr <tomr_tas a hotmailcom>
Chicagi, IL USA - Thursday, July 29, 2004 at 11:07:21 (PDT)
Domo rigato, Mr. Roboto.
Jonathan <dyingevolution a aol.com>
Turnersville, New Jersey USA - Monday, July 26, 2004 at 20:36:36 (PDT)
Lift your right leg off of the ground in front of you. Then, make cirlces with your foot counter-clockwise. Then draw an imaginary '6' in the air with your hand. Your leg should switch directions! It will go clockwise. If not, you're probably doing it wrong. Try circling your foot clockwise instead of counter-clockwise. It will go vice versa. If this scientific discovery doesn't work, do it again and again until you get it right. -Jon.
Jonathan <dyingevolution a aol.com>
turnersville, nj USA - Monday, July 26, 2004 at 20:32:40 (PDT)
When you get up in the middle of the night and your eyes are adjusted to the darkness, keep one eye closed while you turn on the lights. the open eye will adjust, but the closed one will not, and when the lights go off all sight in the open eye will be black but you'll still have night vision in the one you closed. go into the dark and stick a penlight or keychain laser into your mouth. something with a momentary switch. when you turn it on, you can see a vague redness (or whatever color) light but it's not coming from anywhere in particular. it is like all of your peripheral vision glows a little bit. with the laser you can actually shine it on differnet parts of the roof of your mouth, and "see" the redness in some places but not in others.
Rawr
USA - Sunday, July 25, 2004 at 23:58:37 (PDT)
this is very difficult to get, but once you do, its easy. stick the tip of your index finger in the webbing of your other index finger and middle finger. something like this: <- . now push your index finger (the one in the webbing, we'll call him finger 1) so that the joint closest to your nail bends up and the other joint bends down. _/\ like that. now put this under your chin in the fat, so it makes a air pocket, then bend the joint near your nail down, and if you get it right, it should make a popping noise.
will <expickwickmoose a aol.com>
woodlands, tx USA - Friday, July 16, 2004 at 17:12:03 (PDT)
Put a recordable CD (Used or not, it doesn't matter) into the microwave. Maybe add a cup of water to make it a little eaiser on the magnatron. Sparks explode over the whole surface of the recordable side. It only takes a second-- any longer and the disk melts and smells bad and your co-workers give you a hard time. Needless to say, this ruins the disk.
Paul Rako <winopaul a yahoocom>
Sunnyvale, CA USA - Thursday, July 01, 2004 at 19:03:35 (PDT)
Cross your fingers then touch a skinny object like a pencil or your nose with the groove formed in between your crossed fingertips. Since your fingers are crossed your brain thinks that the object is located "around" your fingers even though it is between your fingers. I discovered this when I was in first grade and everybody probably thought I was a freak since I was always touching my face with crossed fingers. Anyway, another thing that feels really weird is that you can make yourself "breathe" without actually using your diaphram. If you take in a breath then hold it with your mouth open and twist your torso back and forth you will hear a weird sound that sounds like breathing. I'm not actually sure whether or not air is entering and leaving my mouth since I can't feel it but it sounds pretty odd. This was discovered much more recently, only about a couple of years ago in high school.
Matt Ligon <mafiew
Los Angeles, CA USA - Monday, June 28, 2004 at 04:45:13 (PDT)
While sitting in front of a computer monitor, take a 30cm wooden ruler and clamp it tightly between your teeth with one end protruding. Twang the free end of the ruler while looking at the monitor. The image on the screen will wobble in a very odd manner.
I suspect this won't work with those newfangled flat LCD monitors. If you haven't got a wooden ruler, anything you can hold in your teeth and twang should do the job.
Pont
NZ - Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 22:17:49 (PDT)
A great trick for parties: You and a friend both need to be drinking beer from long necked bottles ( Stella bottles are the only ones that I know work for certain). When your unsuspecting friend is distracted, beer in hand, lightly tap the base of your bottle squarely on the opening of theirs and it should cause ALL of the beer in the bottle to instantly froth all over their hand and if they're not quick enough down their trousers too. Stella bottles work, because they have a conical base - don't know which other brands do, but if one brand doesn't try others until you get the desired result ;)
Chris <chri5chandler a msn.com>
Manchester, United Kingdom - Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 16:56:09 (PDT)
Here is an interesting effect that can cause much amusement and pain.
When current flows into an inductor, energy is stored in the magnetic field. The larger the inductor (and therefore the larger the magnetic field) the more energy is stored. If the current is suddenly cut off, the energy can no longer stay in the magnetic field, and so transfers into the coil as voltage. This will cause a very large voltage spike across the inductor. So......
Take two AA batteries, and alot of wire. Have enough wire, preferably magnet wire about 26, 28 gauge, to have about an ohm or two of resistance. This will allow several amps to flow.
Wrap this around a iron core, or permalloy, or something else that focuses magnetic fields well. Get as many turns as possible. Hook this up to the battery. Holding both of the wires, disconnect suddenly.
I haven't tried this myself, however, from what I have heard, if done right the shock can hurt for days.
Rig it up with a relay so you can switch it off and shock your friends (or enemies to be, whatever you prefer).
Chris The Great <downnessisgoingup a hotmailcom>
Fort Langley, BC Canada - Friday, June 11, 2004 at 23:38:40 (PDT)
First of all, just a simple physical trick; this works best with a small, weaker person and a big larger person. Have the smaller person put their hand on their head. Have the larger person try to pull the hand off. The larger person will be able to whip the little person around, but never pull of the hand.
Secondly, just a warning. There is quite a bit of mention here about the "breathing ddeply, stopping and temporarily losing conciousness" tricks. What you are actually doing with that is starving your brain of oxygen, so it shuts down your consiousness so as less of your brain is taking in available oxygen. What ends up happening at the moment you lose conciousness is that some of your brain cells die before your brain can protect them. If you do this to often, you can end up being extremly suseptable to headaches and migraines in later life.
Iruliia
Calgary, AB Canada - Thursday, June 10, 2004 at 20:45:16 (PDT)
1: Cup both your hands so when put together, they only have a hole between your index fingers.
2: Open your mouth in a tall O-like shape.
3: Clap your hands so the hole ends up almost right in front of your mouth.
Open your mouth with different sizes to make different noises.
Alex M <holy_b a hotmailcom>
Toronto, Ontario Canada - Tuesday, June 08, 2004 at 15:08:14 (PDT)
Next time you are in a public toilet stall (alone) try making low humming noises with your lips closed through the musical scale. When you hit a frequency that matches the distance between the stall walls, you will achieve a "standing wave" and your head will start to vibrate with the stall walls.
Mark Schwendau <MarkS a kishwaukeecollege.edu>
Malta, IL USA - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 at 08:23:54 (PDT)
Try and catch floating dust when theres a beam of light coming throug a window, its seems impossible because when you 'catch' it the shadow of your hand makes it dissapear, go to www.funnysecrets.cjbnet and read peoples personal secrets!
Liem <nismogtr2 a hotmailcom>
Melbourne, Australia - Wednesday, June 02, 2004 at 04:51:52 (PDT)
when you and you friends goes camping and make a fire stand around it 6 or 7 feet away. each one should take a hand full of flour or sugar powder and throw it in the air abowe the fire. this will cause a flame 8 or 9 feet high. beware part of the flame wiil move towerds you and your friends.
aner cohen
israel - Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 03:10:02 (PDT)
put your tongue on a 9 volt battery. Or lick your upper lip and put it on there
alex wagner <alexwags a sio.midco.net>
sioux falls, south dakota USA - Monday, May 17, 2004 at 14:03:05 (PDT)
take a large amount of aluminium foil and press it to the front of a TV that is OFF. the remaining static should hold it there. then take one crocodile clip or wire and attach it to the foil and another wire and attach that to a water pipe or another electrical ground. basically you can do a lot of stuff with this, you can attach the wires to two separate metallic objects such as a drinks can and then with an insulator (plastic rod or other plastic or glass object) move them near each other. as you turn the tv on a spark will jump between the two cans. if not move them closer together. DO NOT TOUCH THE FOIL OR EITHER CAN you will get a total bitch of a shock, will hurt for bout 10 minutes. i've had sparks jump 2 or 3 inches to hit me as well so generally avoid going near it. when you are done touch the two cans together to drain the power and peel the foil of (preferably with gloves in case of remaining static charge)
James
USA - Sunday, May 16, 2004 at 10:04:11 (PDT)
Fill a large bowl with cornstarch (the more the better) and keep adding water until it's a thick liquid.
When you get it right, you can blow on it and run your hands through it
slowly and it looks and feels like milk. But if you punch it, your hand
bounces off the surface. If you squeeze it, it feels like rock, but when
you relax, it dribbles through your fingers like water.
Craziest thing ever. I'm a college student, and some friends and I made a
big tray of this stuff and played with it for about three hours. It's
simply amazing. Easy to make, too. Cornstarch is cheap.
(I think the reason this works has to do with the way long chains of organic molecules slip past each other, but I'm not certain.)
xkcd
USA - Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 17:35:04 (PDT)
Shamanic Dieting
Get a single raw almond, walnut meat, chunk of jerky, etc., put it in a baggie and carry it around with you. When you're hungry and have not yet eaten, go somewhere private, close your eyes, and eat it in small bites. The flavor is stunning. And usually this lets you skip lunch.
Bill Beaty
USA - Thursday, May 06, 2004 at 12:07:16 (PDT)
this works best in the outfield of a baseball field)at night . spin around really fast for a looooong time and let your arms float out beside you. after spinning for a very very long time, close your eyes, drop to the ground, and roll up into a ball. do not open your eyes. you will imeadiatly feel like the ground is tilting and you are just going to slide off. the longer/faster you spin the bigger the effect. oh yeah, when you open your eyes and look straight ahead you will think you are acually looking the other way. keep posting i love this stufff!
Jojo <arffyjo a netzero.com>
yukon, OK USA - Tuesday, May 04, 2004 at 18:39:33 (PDT)
Here's a mini one:
Got a stainless steel sink? Turn the water on full cold, and listen to the
wooshing noise. Pretty much white noise and fuzz. Now, turn the hot water
on, and suddenly the pitch changes. Two neat things happening at once
here: The metal sink is tightening and loosening like a drum and changing
the pitch, but the weird thing is the water sound doesn't read as having
any particular pitch at first- it sounds like static, all mixed up. But,
when you change the general distribution of all the different pitches, you
hear the change, and suddenly you can tease out a single pitch from all of
the noise. Congratulations, you now have a heat controlled drum that
wastes water.
confuseatron <rkscott a spamthlink.net>
agoura, ca USA - Monday, April 26, 2004 at 11:02:51 (PDT)
stand in a doorway and push your armes againsed the sides, and wait for 1min. then walk forward and stand stil. your arms will then go up!!!
zac <zacmac2010 a yahoocom>
gaylord, mi USA - Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 20:48:13 (PDT)
Stand in front of a window, almost touching it. Look at the house or building across the street. Take note of the size of the building - not estimating its height in feet, just looking at the size of the visual image. Now turn around and walk to the other end of the room. Turn back around and look at the building from your new position. It will appear several times larger and twice as close.
tg
USA - Monday, April 12, 2004 at 15:44:26 (PDT)
The next time you're out for a run (or walk), try altering the natural swing of your arms while maintaining your usual foot pace: swing them twice as fast (bizarre), twice as slow (cool upper body slo-mo effect), or keep them straight down at your sides (Ministry of Silly Walks?).
Chris Nauyokas
Chicago, IL USA - Thursday, April 08, 2004 at 13:32:27 (PDT)
Keith Millard posted a trick here about making breath noises by altering the shape of your mouth and throat. There's actually a much weirder thing you can do by singing a constant note instead of just breathing. Look up throat singing, also known as overtone singing, on Google. With a little practice you can produce unnaturally deep rumbles like a big pipe organ, twanging sounds like a mouth harp, high-pitched whistles like an ocarina, or anything in between. It's even possible to sound more than one note at the same time. Throat singing is great for harmonizing with ambient sounds and resonances like other posts have described.
NOTE: A car is a good place to practice this. Anywhere people can hear you is generally a bad place to practice.
JP
USA - Tuesday, April 06, 2004 at 00:02:23 (PDT)
Once I fell into weeks-long altered state while working on a big hardware project. I started working round the clock without sleep, only getting short catnaps. "Thomas Edison Sleep Mode." It turns out that others are exploring this:
Uber-sleep
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720
http://circadiana.blogspot.com/
Be warned: playing around with this stuff is very similar to getting into
the "vision quest" mental state. It's similar to long term fasting and
meditation: it MIGHT kill you or drive you insane, but usually is fairly
harmless.
[Later Note: Hahahahahah! Spoke too soon! On April 7, two days after
this entry,
I was flung into vision-quest mode and remained there for almost two
weeks! Collected lots of stuff for mental derangement
page. Dipped in and out of mild delusions. ]
William J. Beaty <
>
Seattle, WA USA - Monday, April 05, 2004 at 16:03:00 (PDT)
I used to do this, they called it a 'Gong-Bong' back in the headshop days -- you squat down, and vigourously breathe in and out about 6 or 7 times; then, stand up real quick, stretching your arms over your head while going up on your tiptoes -- you'd better be near something soft, because you will be falling over, almost unconscious!
mechaboy <BCoburnree a aol.com>
Chicago, Il USA - Sunday, March 28, 2004 at 20:00:29 (PST)
This is a pretty cool one i heard this from a friend it is like how to make ice burn, what you do is you put about a teasnppon of salt on your hand and wait like 5 secondes then put some ice on the salt after a while it will bur nit leaves makrs for a couple weeks so do it!
Garrett
Auburn, WA USA - Friday, March 26, 2004 at 22:40:02 (PST)
Try "two-stream simultaneous writing": practise writing two different sentences at the same time, one pen in each hand...
David Golden
Ireland - Friday, March 26, 2004 at 17:48:56 (PST)
'Who turned the lights down?'
Hmmm, this could be neurologically damaging but hey, I'm still alive after many years of practising this:
Take a 9v battery in one hand - moisten the 'groove under the nose' with tongue - now apply one terminal to your tongue tip and the other to the 'moistened groove' result?
Your vision temporariry darkens slightly! (remove battery and everything's fine again!) This must be affecting the iris somehow. or the brain. go on try it!
spotburst <spotburst a hotmailcom>
Southampton, UK - Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 07:56:41 (PST)
get one of those adjustable lighters where you can control how much gas is released when you turn the knob. it can get pretty big....but try this...take off the metallic covering on the lighter, and push the knob upwards, and you will see a white cog underneath. push the knob left, then down, and crank the cog to the right, repeat that, and everytime, the lighter will release more fluid at a time. WARNING: the flame will get HUGE!
amaze your friends
Mitch
Montreal, canada - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at 19:54:49 (PST)
It takes practice, but clasp your hands, but dont let the bottom of your palm touch each other, while clasping find your middle finger of any hand . put your chin in the little crevices of where your middle finger is between the other 2 fingers of the other hand, while your chin is on top, push your middle finger with force through the 2 other fingers it was between, if done right you will hear a popping sound which sounds like you just cracked your finger, but all you did was make a vacume with your chin, with practice it can be very loud! (it takes awhile before u can do it on que but just practice)
jonathan
toronto, canada - Sunday, March 07, 2004 at 08:59:26 (PST)
Get a 2 liter thing of club soda, and stick it in your fridge for months. The bottled up carbonation will pressurize the liquid so much, it'll turn to ice (in your refrigerator)!
Lance <kpkineticpenguins a yahoocom>
Spokane, WA USA - Thursday, March 04, 2004 at 09:21:18 (PST)
hey, have you noticed that if you have a gameboy colour, played a game with a colourful screen at the time, then tilted or shoook the screen repeatedly, the screen will have a lot of faint lines on it (like a spoilt tv chanel). why's that?
i tried the floating when your half
asleep thing years ago. i can easilly do it when i'awake, sitting upright
and opening my eyes. if you do it while looking down from a window
(closed, with your face pressed against the glass so that you can't see
any thing but ground bellow if you dont trust yourself) you can
practically feel your self falling. shaking your head makes it easier to
do.
speaking of shaking heads, sometimes, waaay passed curfew (im
sixteen), around 3 or 4 at night, AND after i stayed up all night on the
computer, i some times shake my head quickly while closing my eyes and i
see my whole vision light up, like lighting surges without bolts,for
verrry sort moments. can any one explain?
...oh yeah, and whats the deal with all that dejavu stuff, is creepy...
noura <crossbow_lili a hotmailcom>
cairo, egypt - Tuesday, March 02, 2004 at 01:30:46 (PST)
This is very easy get your index and thumb and make them together so that u make a little circle. say girl it will make your voice change and u might acctally say gooey and if u move your thumb it will go higher or lower.[the voice] Aint that cool!!! =-)
Vladymir
Gaithersburg, md USA - Sunday, February 29, 2004 at 17:49:27 (PST)
get another person. lie them on the floor. lift JUST their arms off the floor, about 2 feet. hold it there for about 45s.slowly put their arms back down.they will feel like thier arms are going through the floor!
Snake <drewskybrewsky a hotmailcom>
surrey, BC Canada - Saturday, February 07, 2004 at 23:44:32 (PST)
Bite down on your index finger for 30 seconds. Then take them out and put them together and pull. It should feel like your bones are coming apart. Well if not you have real tough bones.
McKala 10 <kttm a earthlink.com>
Jackson, ms USA - Sunday, February 01, 2004 at 12:29:28 (PST)
Rapid fire leaf blower tennis ball shooter... ...thing. take your leaf blower, get some pvc pipe (about 4 ") cut one 1' 3" piece and one 2 foot piece. in the 1' 3" piece cut a 4" notch out about 2" from the end going toward the blower. now duct tape the 1' 3" piece to the blower (notch up)and duct tape the 2' piece sticking up out of the notch fill the 2' piece with tennis balls Sometimes you might have to drill vent holes behind the 4 " notch (Or just leave a leak in the duct tape)
countspatula <bootmoufyo a yahoocom>
warren, pa USA - Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 16:15:06 (PST)
i'm a teenager but i love science and fire one night while bored in my room i took plyers and grasped a tic tac in the plyers then i took a lighter and moved the tic tac over the flame after a while you'll hear a sound like the tic tac is blowing out air remove the lighter and watch.
david <twoboarderman a yahoocom>
Reno, nv USA - Friday, January 02, 2004 at 13:31:14 (PST)
OK, here's another one. Create a 'gravity ball'. Hold your hands about 1 foot apart from each other (palms facing inwards). Get someone to do the same but put their hands 'outside'. Now try and force your hands outwards while the other person is trying to force their hands together. After a minute or so stop. you will now find that as you try to bring your hands together there is a gravity ball between them. You can even move your hands around as if you were holding a soccer ball and still feel the effect.
Chris <ctaylor a ct-design.freeserve co uk>
Margate, UK - Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 18:46:59 (PST)
Ever wondered how to distort the fabric of space? Read on....... This page is a good thing to try it on. Put your hand about 6 inches away from your face (palm towards you) and spread your fingers out. Now, focus on the text on the screen. If you move your hand slowly enough, you will notice that the writing on screen 'warps' slightly as you move your hand around. You have to move it fairly slowly otherwise you don't have a chance to catch the effect.
Chris <chris a somewhere.com>
Margate, UK - Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 18:11:47 (PST)
This takes a bit of practice, but it's a neat little trick. Make a fist with no holes except on the end with your index finger. With your dominant hand, put your thumb on the lighter like you're about to light it. Stick your thumb and the lighter into the hole in your fist, making sure the whole thing is more or less airtight. Then press down on the little button that makes the gas flow out (but don't light it yet) such that it's going into your fist. Hold this for a second or two, then simultaneously light it and open your fist. If you timed it right, you should get a small fireball that looks really cool in a dark room. It lasts for such a short period of time that you hardly feel any heat, let alone burn your hand. A few tips: You actually need to strike the lighter a fraction of a second before opening your hand in order to get it to work. Also, don't hold the gas button after you strike it, because you WILL burn yourself - all you need is a small spark to light it.
ross <ross(at)listentome.net>
USA - Monday, December 22, 2003 at 20:44:50 (PST)
okay, this really is a cool thing. ride your bike down a gravel road for a fairly long time, and stare at the gravelthe whole time. (using periphial vision to watch where your going.) you can look up once or twice if need be, but only for a short time. now, stop biking and look at the sky. it works best on a day with only a few clouds in the sky, but the sky and just about everything will look alsmost as if it its moving away from you. or maybe it looks like an overlaying negative of the gravel you were just looking at, only in reverse. i used to go bike riding as a kid for the sole purpose of experiencing this.
abs again <skypilot500 a hotmailcom>
WI USA - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 11:08:01 (PST)
This one may have been submitted already: A cool trick with a grape is to cut it nearly in half, leaving just a small bit of its "skin" connecting the two halves. Now microwave it. If the conditions are right, you will see an electric current pass through the skin where the two halves are connected! It fries the skin and seperates the two halves rather spectacularly. I really don't know how it works, perhaps it has something to do with how thin the grape skin is (a few hundred microns, so it is on the order of microwaves?) (Inhomogeneoties in the microwaves?) Cool nonetheless
Alex Kane
Tustin, CA USA - Saturday, December 06, 2003 at 03:30:44 (PST)
Spit Ball Cannon! First thing you need to do is get a bic pen. You need to get the cheapest kind they have, the clear ones with the little cap at the end. It's probably sitting on your desk. Remove all it's parts so all you have left is the long hollow tube. Next grab a hanger from your closet. Cut the top of the hanger off. Straighten 2/3rds of it as best you can. Next take the last 1/3rd and wind it in a coil. Now start making spit balls. You need two. The first one make just small enough so you can jam it down the pen about 2/3rds. Use your hanger to jam it down. Don't make it so bing that it won't come out! Next make the second spit ball a little bigger. Put this one in the pen as well but near the end. It should be fitting just a snug as the first. The pen actually tapers slightly. You are now ready to fire. Hold the hanger so that the straight part is just inside the pen up against the second spit wad. Now hit the springy coil end of the hanger as hard as you can. The pressure from the second wad pushing down on the first blast the first one out of the pen like a cannon. At 15 feet you could serious injur someones eye, and at 30 feet they will still definately feel it.
Rob <rob a bestwebimage.com>
San Jose, CA USA - Friday, December 05, 2003 at 22:16:34 (PST)
how to fix a phoneline
Jerimia <Jwg1212 a hotmailcom>
Fontana, Ca USA - Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 19:53:29 (PST)
Make you fingers numb. take ur first two fingers on ur left hand and sqeeze them with ur right hand for 30 seconds. let off a tinny bit of pressure of ur right hand take ur left two fingers out slowly. now rub the buttom of ur right rist with the same two left fingers.
Jordan Earle <talon777 a yahoocom>
Tampa, FL USA - Friday, November 14, 2003 at 07:07:38 (PST)
This one is quick and simple.
1) hum for a second or three
2) whistle for a second or three
3) Now hum and whistle at the same time. Move Jerkily.
POOF! you're a robot!
Vrai Bois <None, right now>
Somwhere, in Freakin Iraq - Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 08:11:06 (PST)
could some one please tell me how to gleek (gleeking or spitting under your tounge) i know its up at the top but i still cant do it. if someone could please give me a veary good in depth explanation i would be veary thankfull.
ooooooooooo yeah now the trick part i dont think this has been posted yet.
if you put bolagna on somebodys car it will peal paint, at least thats
what one of my friends told me. i have never tried it,
and.................... if you buy one of those big pack of ballones (50
pack of the regular and a 4 pack of those really big punching ballons is
what i usally buy)you can entertain your self for hours in a pool with a
watering hose . i like to fill up those really big ballons and go under
water then you can smack it and it will wiggle like a big blob of jello or
you can blow half air into the baloon and half water so it will float on
the surface and you can hit it and it will sound like a techno sound like
ping.... me and my brother fill about 10 of them up and you can have a
techno band (remeber about gleekling pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee) ('o')
matthew
paducah, ky USA - Thursday, November 06, 2003 at 16:38:47 (PST)
make a sheild i got a fun 1 it will take a few years to do it did for me anyway first draw energy then swirl it around you picture what you want it 2 l a a k like it should work then if it starts to go away + more energy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! p.s.:hope you like it and if it doesnt work keep on trying have fun
ty
ellijay, ga USA - Friday, October 17, 2003 at 15:08:16 (PDT)
Ok youre in for the coolest thing ever..(SAW THIS AT A RAINBOW GATHERING) This is best done over the heads of a large crowd...nice with lots of drums too.. Ok get one of those plastic things that you can blow a really big soap bubble with and a few laser pen flash lights. you'll need a few accomplices...one person in the middle of the crowed and two on either side with the flashlight laser pens. Yup now you blow a big bubble in the middle and then keep blowing on it to keep it up while your pals point lights at it. It is a luminous orb just hanging there moving a bit. Totally alien people flip on this one! Enjoy
Harmony <pan97 a hotmailcom>
USA - Thursday, October 09, 2003 at 19:59:47 (PDT)
Okay, this mostly works on a school bus or next to a school bus, and you have... I mean HAVE to be next to a school bus, and the other one has to have the nose about 5" infront of you, okay, now turn around and don't look at the bus or out the front window or the other side and wait for the other bus to start moving, now look out towards the bus, and you'll get the feeling that you're moving fowards, then you'll think you're moving backwards, fowards, back, it goes until you finally see the end of the bus. I do this alot, but, you know, you have to be stupid like me, to actually be fooled by a bus.
Evan B. <Evilpinklettuce a hotmailcom>
Iowa City, IA USA - Saturday, October 04, 2003 at 20:54:01 (PDT)
Position yourself so that you can see a television screen in the next room. This effect is enhanced if the screen is relatively small, is black and white rather than color and shows a static or slowly moving scene. (Security system monitors are ideal.) Now get some crunchy food such as pretzels, hard candy or crushed ice and chew it. The image on the TV screen will dance and vibrate but everything around it will seem normal.
RedDawg <reddawg a speakeasy.net>
Baltimore, MD USA - Thursday, October 02, 2003 at 07:13:07 (PDT)
Go outside and find the biggest, thickest blade of grass you can (The weedy kind with the ridges works good). Fold it in half along the crease and place it between your palms (Your hands should be in the "pray" position). Blow. If you did it right, the blade will act like a reed and make a loud squeaking noise. When I was a kid, we'd smuggle blades of grass into the classrooms and annoy the teachers. Also: when you are lying in bed half asleep, imagine yourself tumbling through space. If you're good, you can convince yourself that you are really falling and you'll reflexively thrash around trying to break the fall.
KingFlathead
Denver, CO USA - Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 01:21:34 (PDT)
Pull on your fingers until they "pop". It's something to do with the fluid surrounding the joints. You can make any joint in your body pop if you do it right. My favorite is swinging my arms down and making my elbows pop. It's really loud and the noise disturbs people :-)
KingFlathead
Denver, CO USA - Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 01:10:13(PDT)
Take a really right LED penlight (white and red work best), go into a totally dark bathroom, and wait 5 minutes or so for your eyes to adjust. Now, shine the light up your nose while looking in the mirror. You can see your sinuses glowing red! Looks really weird to see your face backlit.
KingFlathead
Denver, CO USA - Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 01:03:17 (PDT)
Sit on your couch with your feet streight out infront of you on the coffee table. now smack yourself in the back of your head, not too hard, at the point where your head connects with you neck. Now feel your toes tingle.... dont do it too much or too hard or you might cause some serious problems...(ahh, the wonderfull things I learned in college)
dickie <df3photo a hotmailcom>
erie, pa USA - Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 23:54:20 (PDT)
Take a sheet of paper color one side. Of the paper and the other side a different color.Yhen stare at one side for 30 seconds. Now look at the other side quick.
Tyriel <ecarr1 a cox.net>
Zachary, La USA - Friday, September 12, 2003 at 15:56:22 (PDT)
Breathe through your butthole: climb on your bed, get on your hands and knees with your head down, and stick your butt up into the air. Hold this position until you feel your sphincter "relax" and your colon fill with air. It may take 5 or 10 minutes. Now, when you breathe in, air gets pushed out of your colon, and when you breathe out, air rushes in your butthole to fill the vacuum. It's a euphoric feeling. Don't push too hard though, or your butthole will close and you'll have to start over again. Bouncing on your back: lie on top of the bed, on your back. Bend your knees above you, and raise your arms up into the air so only your back is touching the bed. Now, try to bounce just by rhythmically straightening and contracting your legs upward, creating resonant momentum. No cheating with elbows! With practice, you can clear the bed by a foot or more. It's also very very funny for anyone watching.
Nick <phaseblade a hotmailcom>
Toronto, ON Canada - Wednesday, September 03, 2003 at 13:23:06 (PDT)
Ok ok, I read most of this stuff, an i know lots of it already too. I cant think of much else like this, but i'd like to talk about some of my weird trips ive had whilst on ECSTACY. ooh scary. kids look away. right. well one time, i was 'up' on ecstacy, and my friend had this light that flashes really fast (i cant rememba what its called). Me and about six other people took it into this room with the light off, and turned the flashing one on. We all started dancing, and i looked at this little light on a plug socket, and slowly the light began to move across the floor! i showed my friends, and they ALL said they could see it too, apart from one person who was just drunk... weird... i have loads more weird stuff but its all mine! hehe
THiNK <vital_d a msn.com>
Sussex, Brighton England - Friday, August 15, 2003 at 10:43:07 (PDT)
if yuo have spare 9 volt batterries and spare time tyr this: Put a 9 volt batt. on your toungue. Feels strange? now hold it there. then it hurts after a while. well try having contests with your friends to find out who can hold it there the longest.
scott hadley <frenchyfries a mr-potatohead.com>
Roswell, ga USA - Wednesday, August 06, 2003 at 12:47:36 (PDT)
This is the greatest and best site in the world. Trubite.
Couple of things... As a guitarist and general interested-in-stuff person, I wonder what the effect would be of running a video signal through a delay pedal, as opposed to audio. I don't have a delay pedal, nor access to one. But go and try it! Or how about a phaser pedal?
Secondly, a variation on a post below. With your eye open, press on the eyelid above, so that you can still see out but you're not poking yourself in the eye, because that would just be silly. (But rich in comedy value to onlookers.)
Soon (10 seconds ish) you will lose sight in that eye - don't worry, it often returns afterwards. Keep pressing. Strange patterns appear. Not organic, random patterns but symmetrical patterns of straight lines and circles. Explain that! Eh? Probably far more entertaining when you're high. Do both eyes at once! To make sociology fun, try this while standing in a packed bus or train.
Once again, great site.
Crazy Eddie <fanged_eddie a yahoocomm -the m>
Swaffham, Norfolk UK - Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 05:27:41 (PDT)
This is fun to do to a kid. (Was done to me by my dad and older brother). They put me on a wooden plank about the size of my feet, then blindfolded me. Put my hands on their heads and slightly picked up the plank and sat down. I felt like they picked me up very high. They told me to jump off. I stepped off and fell, even though thy lifted me not even an inch off the ground.
Boris
Old Bridge, NJ USA - Tuesday, July 22, 2003 at 11:38:39 (PDT)
u know those cans of presseirised air u kan get at hardware stores? well spray it upside down and get a cheap ice gun. shoots almost 5 ft also there is sompthing very mean going on i got a email on it www.bonzaikitten.com it is so creul e mail me to help stop it
dan B. <k2cougar3334 a netcape.net>
hertland, wi USA - Friday, July 18, 2003 at 19:09:32 (PDT)
Someone said something about staring at someone with an emotionless expression can really freak the person out. the same thing works with cats and other animals. (And you wonder why people say Cats are similar in emotion to humans?)
Whitney
Kansas City, MO USA - Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 23:15:44 (PDT)
My father was a musician for many years and the stories of bands doing drugs are on the money. He used to come in off the road and do this trick for us, much to my mother's dismay. Even though when he did this in hotel rooms on the road, I'm sure he was pretty stoned, we as children found it fascinating! Take a wire coat hanger with no paper or plastic or cardboard on it and pull it down from the center to form a long diamond shape. Take one (or more) sheets of the plastic that comes over your clothes after you get them back from the dry cleaner and tie this in several knots forming a small rope of sorts. Take the hanger and in the part you bent on the bottom, tie the plastic sheeting to it. Get a 5 gallon bucket (my dad used a large trash can) and fill it about halfway with water. Hang the coat hanger in an open doorway with the bucket directly underneath it and light the bottom of the rope you made from the plastic with a match or lighter. Turn of the lights and sit back and watch. The plastic will drop off in colorful blobs and make a noise as they drop to the bucket. An awesome show! Thanks for the memories Dad :)
Shells <shellie a live4him.zzn.com>
Nashville, TN USA - Wednesday, July 09, 2003 at 14:57:22 (PDT)
Take a penny. Any coin works, but pennies are cheaper and more mysterious. Walk around handing people the coins and telling them "circulate this coin" in a grim voice. I have seen people run in fear, and other strange reactions. It can provoke some weird responses!
Ike <ikefox a earthlink.net>
Greenwood, SC USA - Tuesday, July 01, 2003 at 15:18:07 (PDT)
Mirror game from childhood: Get a largish mirror (10"x12"...a shaving mirror is too small), hold it horizontally, a little below your clavicle...and, looking only in the mirror, walk around your house on the ceiling. You'll be stepping high to get over doorways, ceiling fixtures, etc. This doesn't work too well outdoors.
trudy <trudiweaver a yahoocom>
Whitehaven, MT USA - Friday, June 27, 2003 at 15:21:31 (PDT)
okay, to everyone who gave the pushing on your eyes to see the color. i did that a lot in early elementary. i naow have massive astigmisism from permanetly deforming my eyes. of course, i have recently realized that i could undo the damage through occasional steady pressure. im working on it.
alex <the_leaking_pen a yahoocom>
kissmy, az USA - Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 12:42:33 (PDT)
Im not sure if this has been posted but im sorry if it has. Get a Plasma Globe and an Floresant Bulb. Now touch the globe and the bulb. The bulb will light up as if you are full of electricy.
Jesse <foreveryawn a netscape.net>
Lilburn, GA USA - Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 00:11:41 (PDT)
Take an average size candle and melt it onto your hand(it doesn't hurt,if it does hurt you,then dont be stupid,stop doing it,but for most people,it wont hurt) cover your whole hand,but make sure its in a fist.make a few layers of the wax on your hand,now,try to get your fist out of the encasing without breaking the wax shell. if you can,congrats you have a cast of your hand.If you cant,then either just break it and throw it out,or you can hold your hand a few inches over the flame and watch it gradually melt off,but dont get to close to the flame, it's hot.... duh. ok now try it again.but do it on your other hand. then you will have a pair of wax hands.
Ricky <rbedard a mindspring.com>
Houston, Tx USA - Friday, June 13, 2003 at 21:48:26 (PDT)
Rubber Fingers (I don't know if this hase been posted, so forgive me if it has.) If you take a look at your fingers (not the thumb)you (should?)see that it has three segments. The first one with the nail, the second in the middle, and the third, attached to the palm. Now if you bend your pinky down, so it is bent at the palm and after the third segment, but not at the joint between the first and second, with the whole thing forming a 'u' shape with your palm and the third section being the base. You should now be able to tap at the nail and it will bounce like it's made of rubber! works with the other fingers too, but not as good. Note: Only bend one finger at a time, or it might slack down.
Chua Yu Xiang <Ihatespam>
Singapore - Friday, June 13, 2003 at 10:00:05 (PDT)
More Fun With Plasma Globes Take a store bought plasma globe and gently, *with an insulator*, place a metallic wrapper from gum, candy, etc. I've noticed that Airhead wrappers are nearly the best. Using a knife with a sharp point, touch the wrapper gently. Wear gloves or hold the knife by a plastic area, because the metal can burn you almost instantly, and it HURTS A LOT.
Nickbo <infiniter a excite.com>
USA - Monday, June 09, 2003 at 17:22:08 (PDT)
Ha cool party thing...I'll try and explain it best I can... You need five people to do this. I would try it but I don't have any friends, and no money to pay people. Get someone to sit on a chair. Preferably someone heavyISH. Fat chuffers not allowed. The other four people stand at each corner of the chair and clasp their hands together, then extend their index fingers only (so you have a pensive pair of hands..). All four people can then try to lift the chair - with the person on - by putting their hand under the seat and lifting with their extended index fingers. It shouldn't work. If it does get someone heavier. When they've stopped trying to lift the chair, each lifting person hovers their hand over the head of the person sitting down - the first person places the hand over their head, the second person over the first person hands, the third over the second persons and so on. Then each person does the same with their right hand. So now you have the four lifters with their left and right hands hovering over the sitter. This does something spooky, I'm sure. The lifters take their hands away, then clasp them together and extend their index fingers again. Try to lift the person in the chair, and you should be able to lift them. Magic. If it doesn't work, your not magical enough. Kill a unicorn and pick your nose with it's horn to achieve the desired level.
Raa Raa Touche <bum a boobies.com>
Cheese, Fridge - Friday, June 06, 2003 at 07:17:52 (PDT)
Stand in a doorway (helps if the door's open) and bring your arms up until the outsides of your wrists touch the doorframe. Keep pressing your arms HARD against the frame (as if you are trying to raise your arms with the doorframe stopping you) and do this for about a minute. Then, walk into the middle of the room and let your arms completely relax. They will begin to rise of their own accord! Spooky...
Belch <Belcheee a hotmailcom>
Lancaster, England - Friday, June 06, 2003 at 05:58:38 (PDT)
At nite, Hold a flashlight up to one eye. Keep both eyes open. Everything you can see with the unobstructed eye will look black and white. I have no explanation for this.
bille
USA - Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 03:44:07 (PDT)
omg,, so GREAT! lay on your bed or your sofa face down , rub your tongue on the inside of your bottom lip until it TINGLES 9works better witha little spit in your mouth)wierd tinlgy sensasion, lasts for awhile!
kelly <asd a sweetdreamfire.nz>
USA - Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 03:39:48 (PDT)
buy a 2-liter bottle of soda. Drink in your spare time. When it's empty, suck out all the carbon dioxide for a MASSIVE HEAD RUSH!!! Works best if an inch or two of soda has been allowed to go flat. You will feel a burning in your lungs(though not at all painfull), shortness of breath, followed by a reddish-orange haze filling your entire field of vision. Wicked good stuff, we called it "sclhuffing", "orange haze", or "kaz"
dude <yo a yo.toy>
USA - Sunday, June 01, 2003 at 03:36:38 (PDT)
Wow.. I started out with a whole bunch of things to try, and then I started to see them one by one appearing on the list. So the ones I have left aren't the coolest, but... Look up a recipe for sterno online, or go to your local cook-it-at-your-table restaurant (the "embers" are usually sterno). It burns at a very low temperature. Set it on fire, dampen your hands with water, and juggle flaming snowballs. You'll need to re-dampen your hands after a while. Make a longish mask for yourself (out of black construction paper, or something) that restricts your vision to a field of view a little smaller than your palm at arms length. Wear the mask while playing soccer, cooking dinner, whatever. After a few hours, take it off. You will have great appreciation for the amount of information your brain has to process as you suddenly realize how vast your real field of vision is, and how bright the world is. Acquire _The Flying Circus of Physics, With Answers_. Have fun replicating many of the items therein. (Like plunging your naked hand into a vat of molten lead. If you do it right, your sweat vaporizes and forms a protective gas "glove." But don't do it.)
Nils
Seattle, WA USA - Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 22:28:57 (PDT)
Odd that nobody's mentioned this one. Find a wall with patterned wallpaper. Not just any old patterned wallpaper, but with a small repeat-distance -- about 3-4 inches is good. Now, move up close to the paper and focus on two different bits of the pattern, one with each eye. Get the two bits of pattern to sit directly over each other, so that you can't tell they're different. (A bit like those Magic Eye things, only there's no hidden image). Move away from the wall a couple of feet. Now, reach out and touch the wall where you're looking at it...
Darksatanic
UK - Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 13:22:37 (PDT)
bite ice-cream and feel the cool sensation
terminator
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 06:50:24 (PDT)
Weird Levitating Arms I didn't see this one listed, so if it is a duplicate, please forgive me. Place your hands at your sides with your palms facing inward (towards your legs). Find a door way and stand in the middle of it. Extend your arms away from you body so that the back of your hands contact the sides of the door jamb. Press your arms outward like you are trying to make the doorway wider. Do this until you can't do it any longer, then quit. Walk away from the doorway and your arms will float up on their own with no effort at all. It is kinda wierd feeling. Have fun! Hacker
Hacker <blislamb a aol.com>
Toledo, OH USA - Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 21:10:22 (PDT)
This is a list of just plain fun things to do. I do these every once in a while and it attracts attention, whether it be wanted or not.
Here goes:
1. If there is a large crowd of people looking at something which requires perfect silence from the crowd, make sure you're in the back, out of anyone's view. Make a very weird noise. For instance, push the back of your tongue against the back of your throat (near your uvula) and it will make a "ghe" noise. People will wonder about you...
2. If you are on a manual, small form of transportation on a road for cars, wait for an extremely polite driver to give you extra space. If you're lucky enough, he'll have his window open, then you scream "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE DRIVING, (place random cussword here)!!!"
3. If you really want to give someone a fright, be in a car with them at night. Whil the car is off, and it's just you two, hope and pray that they stay silent. Look at the back of a seat or the dashboard. DO NOT make eye contact with them. After a while, scream at the top of your lungs. For added effect, get out of the car and run away. The other person may have a heart attack.
4. This is a cool way to take ANYBODY down. Get going at a good speed, a mix between a slow trot and a jog, then leap up and hook your arm around someone's neck, not pulling it. If they stay up, say, "You passed", and if they fall, you've got them in a headlock!!! This is really only meant for short people like me.
Please use these "tricks" and enjoy. Oh, email me of any experiences that you feel are worthy of sharing. Thanks!
Starfisch <jule_theshow a hotmailcom>
Cinci, Oh USA - Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 14:30:12 (PDT)
When you are stuck in the car on the highway do this. Look down at the road centered on the white lines. right before a line passes the car blink. It will look like the lines are moving away from you but eveything else is coming towards you. This works best if the street is smooth. Don't try it while driving, just when you are with your grandparents or anyone else you don't want to talk to in the car.
Dan <Footlzrd120 a msn.com>
warrenville, ill USA - Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:59:19 (PDT)
Try sneezing with your mouth open, it turns into something else.
Ellen
Bellevue, WA USA - Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 11:39:27 (PDT)
O.K. Say you and a friend are at a fast food place. (Did you say it?) You ordered a diet cola, your friend ordered cola sans the diet. They guy behind the counter forgot to push down the little button on the lid that says diet, how can you tell the difference with out tasting them? Take the lids off and put the straws in making sure that the ice doesn't keep the straw from moving. Wait a few moments. The straw in the diet cola begins to collect lots of bubbles immediatly and starts to rise in the cup until it falls over, the straw in the sans cup pretty much stays put. Something to do with covalent bonds. They are weaker in the diet cola.
Ron
Esperance, NY USA - Sunday, May 04, 2003 at 18:55:46 (PDT)
Another strange idea inspired by Bill B's Caught in a Face Warp. And I just noticed it now so it behooves me to share!
Scroll back up to the fat necked/pointy headed geek. Take anything that's flat with a straight edge like a 3"x 5" index card and hold it against the computer screen so that the face warp image is only half exposed.
Watch Bill B's face tilt back and forth like a drunk weeble-wobble.
I must say that I too am having way too much fun and I am very close to damaging my self!
Ron
Esperance, NY USA - Saturday, May 03, 2003 at 19:31:02 (PDT)
I can't claim credit for this idea but it's still fun so I wanted to pass it on.
This is actually the brainchild of the late famed
ventriloquist Paul Winchell whose alter ego was Jerry Mahoney. As a
matter of fact he actually marketed the idea for a while many decades ago.
Get a mirror about the size of a standard sheet of paper so that
it's easier to see yourself. Using the medicine cabinet mirror, position
the portable mirror in such a way so that you are looking at your face
upside-down.
Now concentrate your view on your teeth and chin.
Once you can do this fairly easily, draw upside-down eyes and a nose on
your chin. Make sure you use a marker that washes off easily! Now back
to the mirrors. Give your new character a voice and start talking!
Pretty wierd, huh?
Now, in his kit Paul Winchell actually included
a mask that represented the body of this rather strange puppet and a
concave mirror in order to flip the image upside-down.
It must
have been hard to entertain an audience with this style of puppet since
you had to have the mirror directly in front of you to see the resulting
image. I saw it demonstrated on TV so all the studio had to do was flip
the image electronically.
Maybe it was intended primarily for the
user's enjoyment. Paul Winchell did admit to being a shy, withdrawn young
man with a stutter.
Once again, if somebody walks in on you while
you are engaged in entertaining yourself, you are on your own! Maybe this
time however you can put on a show for them but first you will have to
master standing on your head so that they can see the full effect.
By the way. See how much practice it takes to make this little character
stick out his/her tongue in the correct direction so that it doesn't look
like he/she is licking it's nose.
Ron
Esperance, NY USA -
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 19:52:06 (PDT)
Lick the white part of a Big red bubble gum wrapper and stick it to your forhead. ITf you leave it there it will burn but try it.
Nokojono <None>
Antioch , Tn USA - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 18:59:57 (PDT)
Walk or run on the back of your feet. Easy to master, just don't put to much pressure on you feet. Fun to do walking down steps.
disco stew
norfolk, va USA - Monday, April 14, 2003 at 22:17:05 (PDT)
Get a camera without film and go into a pitch dark room. (by yourself or with friends. ..freakier by yourself) Find a painting or picture of anything freaky or gothic like ..ex. skulls, ugly faces. Something that isn't pretty to look at. Now make sure your friends are all looking at it and flash the camera onto the image..it'll light up very bright and vivid-like.. you'll feel like you're in a dream. Right after the flash everything will fade to black but the image will still be floating in your mind.
Jenny <frolicsome_insomniac a hotmailcom>
USA - Saturday, April 05, 2003 at 20:22:14 (PST)
1.Take a coathanger and cut the flat bottom of it in the middle.
2.Cut of the top hook thing.
3.Bend coathanger in to a half circle.
4.Bend the ends of the coat hanger in so it is sort of a loop.
5.Take 2 elastic bands and a washer tie one of the elastic bands to one side the other elastic band to the other side.
6.hook 1elastic band to the loop of the coat hanger and the other elastic to the other loop.
7.wind the washer up till you cant.
f8. stick mashine in the middle if a thin maggazine.
9. sit on the magazine and lift one leg should make a loud farting noise.
note:use thick elastic bands and small washers. do this in office or liabrary people just stare at you and wonder.experiment with different washers and elastic bands.
Nick <nicnic40 a hotmailcom>
pemberton, bc canada - Friday, April 04, 2003 at 19:33:10 (PST)
Make color meaningless and irrelevant. Maybe even your entire existance!
I discovered this effect many years ago while waiting
to get into my high school early one morning.
On a clear morning
look up at the sky and stare into the sky until your brain only sees the
blue of the sky and nothing else on the periphery.
This is the
beginning of the eerie feeling that nothing else exists but you and the
sky. Continue to stare into the sky until the blue becomes so
overwhelming that you can't see it anymore.
Start to ask yourself
wierd questions like: "If I can't see any other color, is it really blue?"
or "If I can't see anything , am I really here?"
When you have
sufficiently diminished your existance to a vacuum stop and look around
you and breath a sigh of relief as you reassure yourself that you were
there all along!
So is the school building! No biggie! Friday
afternoon is not that far off anyway!
Ron <rwconti a midtel.net>
Esperance,
NY USA - Tuesday, April 01, 2003 at 20:01:14 (PST)