Hot take: those 'chaos magic' manifesting posts aren't as fake as I thought

I rolled my eyes hard when my cousin started posting about visualizing lottery wins and using sigils last year. Then she showed me her tracking sheet - she'd been doing it daily for 9 months and hit 3 small wins under $200. Not life changing but weird. I tried it for 2 weeks focusing on finding a parking spot near my front door. Got one 4 out of 5 days last week. Still think some of it is nonsense but there might be something to the focus part. Anyone else have a meme trend they tried and it actually worked?

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miles7220d ago

I'll push back a little on the skepticism though because what most of these manifesting posts leave out is that the real win isn't parking spots or small lottery wins, it's training yourself to notice opportunities you'd normally walk right past. Our brains are wired to filter out a ton of information every second, so when you spend time visualizing a specific outcome you're basically telling your brain "hey, this matters, keep your eyes open for it." The actual mechanism is just plain old confirmation bias and selective attention working in your favor, which isn't magic but it's still pretty useful once you understand it.

butler.finley20d ago

You know what, your cousin's tracking sheet sounds a lot like what happened with my buddy Dave? He started doing this whole "manifest a text from an old friend" thing as a joke. He picked a specific person he hadn't talked to in like four years. Dave wrote the person's name on a sticky note, put it on his bathroom mirror, and every morning he'd just look at it for 30 seconds while brushing his teeth. Three weeks later that friend randomly sent him a picture of a cat they found in their backyard. Dave said he almost fell over. I still think it's probably just coincidence, but he's convinced it worked.

patriciareed20d ago

Exactly. So my friend Jenna did something similar but with a specific parking spot. She worked downtown and ALWAYS complained about how long it took to find parking. One day she just started telling herself "I'll get that spot on the third level near the elevator" every morning before she left. Within a week she was getting it like every other day. She SWEARS by it now but I keep telling her she probably just started leaving at a different time without realizing it. Still, it's hard to argue with results.