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The amazing human brain !

In our world of theatre, I always experience the amazing complexity of the human brain.

Today I was conducting rehearsals for a one-act play I'm directing. It is an intense play. The actress in it and I were chatting a little before we began rehearsals and laughing about something. Then I said, OK, Let's begin. I spoke to the actor and the actress about their characters' motivations and gave them some character history - small incidents that I made up to help them build their emotions on. Then I just told them to wholeheartedly put their belief in it as their characters.

They began rehearsing and eventually at an appropriate point in the play she began sobbing for real, as is required. Just like that. In a matter of ten minutes. The girl who was joking with me a little while ago was, due to her belief in what I told her, was sobbing.

I too have experienced this magic of make-believe as an actress.

Should we 'choose' to believe in something, it becomes real for us. We can actually instruct our mind to surrender disbelief.

I marvel at our wonderfully complex brain, how it works and how pliable it is.

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Seema Smile said…
As your previous post says, sometimes it's all about perspective :)
10 June 2012 at 17:13
The Wanderer said…
Absolutely ! In fact, I think, nearly everything is a matter of perspective.
11 June 2012 at 15:45
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