"The Zone"

[magiluke]

I was going to mention what Brunson said in his book, but you beat me to it... Anyway, I think a lot of that has to do with your subconcious paying attention to what has happened already, and then it tells you what might be coming up.

I actually experience something like that when I'm playing craps though. The dice will be thrown, and as they are in the air, I know what number they are going to land on. It's only when they have already been thrown, and it isn't every roll. Just maybe one in every 5 - 7 rolls, I just get this gut feeling that "It's going to hit the point", or "Oh no, the 7!" And every single time I'm right. I wish I could do it before the roll is made.

I actually saw something about "the zone" on a documentary. They had a sharpshooter shooting at a target. They compared him to someone who wasn't nearly as good as him. They both did pretty much the same thing as far as aiming goes (they had a laser to show where they were aiming); they were fairly unsteady, and got the laser to the general area of the target. But as the sharpshooter pulled the trigger, his sight went almost instinctively to the center of the target. My description can't do it justice, but you get the general point. Maybe there is something about it on the internet. Google it.