#3: Killin’ Em With Kindness

Hypothesis:
A State of Mind is a Form of Pretending

Terms – Solipsism

• Experiment 3.1:
  • Participant 1 – Face the wall, close your eyes, don’t turn around and open them until you can see the world as pretend.
  • Control: We are in a world of gravity.
  • Variable: Music.
  • Participant 2 – Ask questions.
  • Results:
    • 10:15 – “I think I made up my favorite people in the world.”

• Experiment 3.2:
  • Participant 1: – Start telling a story while pretending to be someone else.
  • Control: The personality of the person Participant 1 is pretending to be?
  • Variable: Improvisation.
  • Participant 2: – Pretend.
  • Results:
    • 16:58 – “Are y’all an improv troupe”
    • 19:27 – “Wow, what a train!”
    • “The kind of quality that can only come from a derailed train.”

Conclusion:
True Fact.