I saw an intriguing ‘Trick’ program once where a shy girl just starting out on piano asked a hypnotist whether he could help her out learning to play. In the space of a week he had her executing a really complex classical piece in front of an sizeable audience. Turned out that the twist at the end of the show was she had already been a concert pianist but the hypnotist had convinced her she wasn’t before she made her request.

The conscious and the subconscious are worlds apart…