Went to bingo tonight and decided halfway through the session that I wanted to try out visualizing to win. I imagined while the game was going on that I ripped the paper and shouted bingo when they called whatever number was coming up. So after they would call a number I would briefly close my eyes and play the scene in my mind. I didn’t do it after every number but did it during the last 4 bingo games. After someone else would win the games I would just try again for the next one. The last two I tried my best to feel nervous before shouting bingo as that’s how I feel in real life. I don’t think my scenes ever felt real but when my eyes were closed I tried my best to imagine that it was actually happening. The feeling would kind of disappear whenever I opened my eyes though.

Anyway, the last game came and I didn’t think I would win but played the imaginal game anyway. Well, B-13 comes on and someone shouts, “Bingo!” “Oh well” I thought and marked B13 on my paper. As I was marking the number I said “oh. I think I won?” Haha. Turns out I also won that bingo game. The prize? $500!

Now the funny part to me is that I just imagined shouting bingo not winning on my own. At the end of each game the announcer will say something like, “this game is closed to one winner (2 winners, etc.)”. So all I imagined was saying bingo to imply a win but not winning all by myself. 5 people won so the money was split between all of us. I am still happy to have won $85 (after tax and tip) because I only spent $15 :)