22/08/2026
Last night at the Edinburgh Fringe, I had my first experience with a mentalist — and I even got to meet him afterwards.
Colin Cloud, “The Real Life Sherlock Holmes,” is a mentalist — someone who uses extraordinary observation, psychology, suggestion and deduction to create the experience of seemingly reading or predicting another person’s thoughts.
With a background in forensic investigation and criminal profiling, Colin became a semi-finalist on America’s Got Talent and has performed on the West End, Broadway and the Las Vegas Strip.
The experience left me overwhelmed and thinking:
How much do we really know about the potential of the human mind?
Our brains constantly read subtle signals, recognise patterns and process an astonishing amount of information beneath our conscious awareness.
And while what we experience as “mind reading” is not scientifically proven telepathy, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the extraordinary complexity of human perception.
Perhaps one of the greatest frontiers still waiting to be explored is not somewhere outside of us.
It is the human mind itself. 🧠✨👩❤️💋👨 Mindset Consciousness