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"The brain has the ability to record events that come into our field of observation but which we do not consciously recognise.
This may be graphically illustrated by the following story. In the summer of 1960 I had a friend who left to visit her family in Spain. On her return she was full of joy. Telling me of the earrings that her mother had given her as a parting gift, she turned her head from side to side in order to show them off to me. It was with some misgivings that I remarked that she was wearing only one of the pair. Her distress was immediate. Somewhere along the way she had lost half of the prized gift. With some misgivings, she agreed to an experiment. I hypnotised her, and began giving directions and asking questions.
"You are on the train approaching Kingston. Can you feel both earrings jiggling about?" She moved her head from side to side. "Yes."
"You have left the train and are standing on the platform. Do you still have both earrings?" "Yes."
We moved forward in time, section by section. Outside the station? Walking up the hill alongside the tracks? The top of the hill? Each time she was able to confirm that both earrings were in place.
"The start of the footbridge that leads to my place?" "Yes."
"This end of the bridge?" "No! My earring has gone." The distress was back in her voice.
Together we went out of the house to the far end of the bridge. Searching the ground we worked our way forward. Less than halfway over the bridge we found the lost earring at the edge of the footpath. Her left brain, running ahead to our reunion, had been totally unaware of her loss. Her right brain, living in the here and now had recorded the earring dropping off, but had been unable to convey the message. Had it not been for the mind's ability to record otherwise unnoticed details, the earring would have been lost to her forever; or its whereabouts may have been revealed to her in a dream.
I must stress that I had performed no 'magical' act. What transpired on that afternoon was totally a product of the capabilities of her own mind. I just happened to be someone who knew the technique, and chanced to be there at the time. Had she been practised in the technique of communicating with her right brain at will, she could have done so without any intervention from me. It is this ability to subconsciously note details missed by the intellect, that is half of the basis of intuition. The other half is the unconscious mind's predilection for seeking patterns."