does visualisation improve performance?

In this study 1000 volunteers were asked to imagine 2 different coloured dice as vividly as they could.

After concentrating on the colour, shape and weight of the dice, the volunteers were then asked to roll these dice 'in their mind'.

The volunteers were allowed to mentally 'roll' several times - and then settle on 1 final result.

A significant number quickly started to appear in our results with great consistency.

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49% of the time the volunteer rolled an 8 in their imagination.

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More remarkable is the fact that 81% of them did so by visualising the numbers; 5 and 3

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The volunteers were then asked to replicate the roll with real dice.

(It is important to note that at this juncture they were handed dice of the same colour they had imagined)

47% of those volunteers actually rolled an 8 with Real Dice

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80% did so by literally rolling the numbers; 5 and 3

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conclusion

The strength of human imagination has significant effects on the outcome of actual events.

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Sports psychologists use the power of visualisation as a central pillar of their therapy to improve performance professional athletes, golfers and snooker players.

This study attempted to prove the direct affect of imaginative force with a simple yet unsystematic task - and without doubt the task was completed successfully by the volunteers included.

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Our next study (yet to be published) will focus on more strenuous physical tasks and ask similar questions of the nature of visualisation and its apparent affect on substantial performance in the real world.