Is it possible to . . .

[banja]

. . . flip a coin in your head?

My housemate and I were discussing this earlier. I'd had a dream where I was flipping a coin but was unable to look at the result without knowing it first. I woke up and tried it, but it's pretty hard to do.

I imagined throwing the coin so it landed behind the settee so I could sneak up on it, but no matter how I clear my mind or try to focus, the result of the flip always enters my brain a split second before I see it.

I need to get out more.

 

[banja]

NO,

because you need to know what the result is, otherwise your brain can't imagine the picture on the coin.

Well your brain can hold information that your conscious mind cannot access. For example when you can't remember the name of a band or an actor or anything. You know the info is in there, but you can't grasp hold of it. Then later on it just pops in there.

I suppose this problem is asking whether you can instruct your subconscious to do something, while you remain unaware of it. Nikola Tesla could supposedly do something like this, where he would give himself a mathematical problem or something to work on, then would consciously return to the results in his big brain later on. I don't have any proof of this though.