Was the Obi-Wan/Luke training scene in the Millennium Falcon a charade?

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Obi-Wan Kenobi has often been labeled as being less-than-truthful with Luke. With this in mind, let's take a look at a scene inside the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) where Luke was being trained by Obi-Wan while traveling to Alderaan.
After Obi-Wan tells Luke: "Stretch out with your feelings", we can perceive how Kenobi focuses his peculiar gaze on Luke's and the training droid's movements. Then, Luke manages to deflect three bolts from the droid.
I have always wondered if it could have been that Obi-Wan used the Force to make the droid aim at Luke's lightsaber, instead of his body, as a way to make his apprentice more confident with the Force that he does not yet understand; and in a similar manner, by saying he felt something and that almost saw the remote, Luke just made-up those statements to make his Master happy? In other words, was that training scene a charade?

Milo P · Accepted Answer

From the junior novelization of A New Hope:

He stopped thinking about the remote, just stopped thinking and relaxed, and... somehow, he sensed the remote's proximity. Stranger still, he seemed able to anticipate its movement through the air. Despite his blocked vision, Luke moved fast with his lightsaber and deftly parried each shot.

This explicitly describes Luke being able to sense the remote and predict where it was going.

Was the Obi-Wan/Luke training scene in the Millennium Falcon a charade?

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