In Michel Gondry's "The Science Of Sleep", there's a short scene where they go into a bit about the different fun tricks you can do with your body and every day objects, such as touching hands and rubbing your other hand across both fingers, making it feel like the other person's hand is your hand, or something.
There are loads of these - many we learnt at school, some we've forgotten. I can play Christmas carols by turning my hands into a conch and blowing. You can make a high pitched buzz by blowing on a grass reed. Standing in a door frame and pushing your arms against it, and then relaxing makes your arms fly up in the air. Magic-eye pictures and other optical illusions. The "wobbly pen" effect. Making fart noises with your hands or your armpits. Tickling the roof of your mouth and finding it impossibly horrible. Pushing two erasers together really hard for about a minute and then finding that it feels like they are magnetised...
Loads of these as I say, and I can elaborate if you haven't tried them. Any others?
― the next grozart, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:29 (eighteen years ago)
"Standing in a door frame and pushing your arms against it, and then relaxing makes your arms fly up in the air."
??????
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:34 (eighteen years ago)
don't be a tuomas
― electricsound, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:36 (eighteen years ago)
An elaboration was offered, you know-it-all.
― Abbott, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:39 (eighteen years ago)
One thing we would do at school is have the whole class hum one long note really quietly. That would really piss the teacher off, cuz he couldn't just blame one person.
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)
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Okay, stand in a narrow doorway or passage with your arms by your side. Now raise your arms outward so that they're literally pushing against the sides of the doorframe. Do this as hard as you can for about a minute. Now step away from the doorway and relax your arms.
― the next grozart, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:58 (eighteen years ago)
I tried it, lol.
Sort of works... your arms rise because your shoulder muscles relax, and your shoulders fall back a bit.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 25 February 2008 00:06 (eighteen years ago)
Here's another I just remembered.
Stand up straight with your arms out in front of you and your fingertips just touching a wall. Now with your right arm, do a kind of windmill, down, round, back, up, and back in front of you. Where is your right hand?
― the next grozart, Monday, 25 February 2008 00:09 (eighteen years ago)
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board!
― latebloomer, Monday, 25 February 2008 00:12 (eighteen years ago)
What is that then?
― the next grozart, Monday, 25 February 2008 00:13 (eighteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_as_a_feather,_stiff_as_a_board
― latebloomer, Monday, 25 February 2008 00:14 (eighteen years ago)
Try licking the elbow of one arm while pretending you're eating an ice cream the other, only imagine your mouth is on your forehead.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 25 February 2008 00:16 (eighteen years ago)
Oh my god, I refused to do "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" at slumber parties because I knew it must be a trick of SAINTEN.
― Abbott, Monday, 25 February 2008 00:19 (eighteen years ago)
I remember there were a whole bunch of these in the Klutz book "Kids Shenanigans", which I had as a kid. I wish I still had it, or at least that I could remember what all was in there!
― Dan I., Monday, 25 February 2008 00:19 (eighteen years ago)
Tickling the roof of your mouth and finding it impossibly horrible.
This is how you stifle a sneeze!
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:00 (eighteen years ago)
pressing on your top lip will do this too.
― the next grozart, Monday, 25 February 2008 08:01 (eighteen years ago)
er, back where it was at the beginning?!
― ledge, Monday, 25 February 2008 09:48 (eighteen years ago)
you're doing it wrong! ;-) Normally your hand should be a little further away from the wall than it was before.
― the next grozart, Monday, 25 February 2008 13:02 (eighteen years ago)
that's just a dumb dad trick, i thought. then you wind it again and it's even farther away. "oh no, my arm is getting shorter!" "quit it, dad!!!"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 February 2008 13:10 (eighteen years ago)
i had forgotten about this one completely.
i guess these are all dumb dad things really.
― the next grozart, Monday, 25 February 2008 13:31 (eighteen years ago)
There was one which was pretending to break an egg on someone's head, but I don't think it was very good.
― C J, Monday, 25 February 2008 13:52 (eighteen years ago)
Lie down on the floor on your back. A friend will then lift your leg up, so that it is in 90 degree angle compared to your body. She will keep the leg in this position for a few minutes. After that she will slowly lower your leg down to the floor. Once your leg reaches the floor, you feel like it's still going downwards, as if it's sliding through the floor.
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:06 (eighteen years ago)