Its been years now that almost every night I watch a magic video and fall asleep to it. Campbell Hausfeld Hs7810 Manual Meat more. Here is a list of the top 5 that knock me out the quickest: Larry Jennings Jeff Sheridan Alex Elmsley Al Schneider (depressing) Darwin Ortiz And the ones that I don't fall asleep to that quick: Bill Malone Harry Lorayne Tommy Wonder Jim Swain Dani DaOrtiz The ones who put me to asleep fast are not because their magic isn't incredible, its simply their tone of voice etc. Larry Jennings DVD set 'Thoughts on Cards' features this blonde spectator 'Terri' that seriously is the driest must unenthusiastic spectator possible. The DVD set is such a powerful sleeping aid that I feel it should require a prescription and be covered by Insurance. So whats your experience? DelMagic Special user 713 Posts.

It's funny that you brought this up. I was just thinking about this week. Just about everything I've watched gets me drowsy. I'm sure a lot of that is due to my poor sleep habits, but magic DVDs are a great antidote to insomnia.

It happens so often I couldn't even give specifics. I'll have to be on the lookout for the ones that don't get me dozing. Certainly many world-class magicians don't come across well on the DVDs. Of course, the professional audiences and cold performing conditions don't help.

I remember watching Al Schneider for the first time and I was already prepared for a low-key performance. It was, but not as bad as I expected.and the man is just amazingly smooth. Even knowing what was going on, I was just amazed at how well he could do some of the coin and card stuff. In my dreams (haha) I'll never be that good. Fonda57 Inner circle chicago 2669 Posts. On Aug 9, 2014, fonda57 wrote: I just bought an Allen Ackerman video that I couldn't finish because he goes through the explanations so fast I couldn't follow along.

Sure, I can rewind and watch it again, and I may do that some fine day. Didn't fall asleep, though. And like you said, the magic is incredible. If you play DVDs on a computer you can use something like VLC media player to slow things down. I usually have the opposite problem and speed up the playback. That's not to say I've never dozed off during any of them -- usually because I'm watching late at night and already tired.

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I have always passed it off as something to do with the monotone nature of the audio. I used to also fall asleep during school and college lectures. I do agree that it has NOTHING to do with content.

Most (not every one, but most) of the videos I have bought contained great magic with easy to follow explanations. I would think there is a scientific study somewhere about falling asleep watching TV, Movies, Instructional Videos. So, all in all, it is not just you. (And, more importantly, not the fault of the wonderful magicians that crank out these DVDs for us) Books - on the other hand, put me to sleep way faster (even though I enjoy them more these days) and I am pretty sure I have heard of studies on this. There is also a big difference between PDFs on an electronic devices screen and a physical book in different lighting.

Eye health also comes into play (glasses / no glasses, glaucoma.) Great subject though, haven't really seen it addressed before (but haven't looked for it either) and I have experienced it for 40 some years. There are definitely DVDs that are boring to watch or cause that sleepy effect. Sometime it's the performer, but more often it's the material, especially card magic. After 30 years of watching videos/DVDs, so much of the material coming out seems like something you've already seen a million times. Variations of variations of variations.

I was watching a DVD a while back and when it was done I felt like I was watching the same trick over and over again. They were just too much alike. I find it had now a days to watch a DVD made up of just card magic. Most of them just aren't original and unique enough.