Fooled by an Inanimate Object - Experiments

Please read my previous post on how I was fooled by a cash machine. The experience got me thinking on certain ideas.
These ideas were on my mind often enough that when the opportunity arose I acted on them without even realising until afterwards.
The key idea here is that if I perform magic without the audience perceiving my intention to deceive then the magic experience will be stronger.
Below are the results of these accidental experiments


1) I was at a house party with some friends, one friend in particular is rarely fooled by my magic, we consider him an honorary magician even though he doesn't perform magic. He is a performer and film maker so has a lot of insight into magic.
There were several fridge magnets on the fridge, each depicting a different vegetable. I took one with my left hand and then (false) took it into my right fist, holding it in front of me. My friend started guessing what kind of vegetable was on the magnet - at this point I realised he was already fooled. I allowed him to keep guessing, with my hand held clearly in front of his eyes. Meanwhile I ditched the magnet into my pocket and slowly lifted the other hand up to be in sight, open and empty.
Wen he gave up, I opened my fist, the magnet was gone. The reaction was one of the best I've ever received.
I am a card guy, I don't do coin (or object) vanishes very well (at all). I think this one worked so well because it was a game rather than a trick, my friend was enjoying guessing the vegetable and so didn't even consider the idea that I was deceiving him in any way.


2) With this one I was just messing around. There was a penny on the table, I rubbed the coin on the table mysteriously, then turned my hand over - the coin was still there. I was just messing around and didn't realise anybody was watching. A friend (not the honorary magician - someone else) laughed and told me he thought the coin wasn't going to be there when I turned my hand over.
I laughed too, and said "no, I was just doing this" and then I rubbed the coin again. This time I lapped the coin, when I turned my hand over the reaction was stronger than any time I've ever vanished a coin in this way before. In fact normally when I lap the coin people quickly jump to the method.
I think the reason this time worked so well is because the spectator thought I was trying to deceive him, when I didn't he relaxed and presumed I wasn't. So when I started to demonstrate what I was doing he presumed I was doing exactly the same thing again - therefore he perceived no intent to deceive.


Now I need to figure out how to apply this intentionally, and how to apply it to card magic - the stuff I normally do.