Nevertheless, because this phenomenon occurred routinely, it was obvious that the student's eyes were actually registering, and his subconscious was actually perceiving, the location of the first BB's dent in the spinning washer, but not sending that information to the conscious mind. However, the student's subconscious mind would then direct his muscles to point and shoot the gun so that the second and third BB hits would lie right next to the first one. The student's subconscious had previously memorized the trajectory of BB's fired from that particular gun, and it had also memorized a time-to-target table of BB's fired from it to hit targets at different distances. Now, while the student's current target, the flat washer, went sailing up into the air, the student's subconscious was computing and extrapolating the trajectory of that washer on that particular throw, its ever-decreasing rate of climb, and its ever-decreasing spin-rate. And his subconscious was solving all of those guidance-and-control problems so rapidly and accurately, directing the applicable muscles of his body with such precision, causing the student to group his first three hits within a millimeter of one another on the rapidly spinning flat washer—by selecting precise points to aim at that he could not even see, then hitting right next to them.