u/TheCatMinister

In countless movies and medias or such, there's always this phrase that someone would say to help a character about to perform, "Imagine the audience is naked!", and I never understood how it's supposed to calm them. If anything, wouldn't a shy performer get even more nervous? Hell, I've also seen that EXACT scenario play out in other medias, where the performer fucks it up due to that imagination. In what way is that advice meant to help? Is it even an actual tidbit in real life?