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It's funny I see it as just the opposite- I think people might vote against the popular opinion for fear of sheepleness - to be contrary or "alternative". Someone get Derren Brown stat.

>> ^Stormsinger:
I still vote that she's an accomplice. Just like Copperfield's "make the space shuttle disappear" had the entire audience lying participating in the illusion.
Nobody can cold read tells that subtle...they're simply not that consistent across the population. It takes time to study your target in repeated situations to see what the various twitches actually mean.


Which is why he screened the audience for someone that will do exactly what he expects.

Thanks for the promote!

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That was brilliant. I wonder what her tell was on the last one - he didn't say. *promote

part 1: http://www.truveo.com/derren-brown-instant-conversion-part-1/id/1575390472
part 2: http://www.truveo.com/derren-brown-instant-conversion-part-2/id/326814217

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This trick is real.

There is an explaination on how to do it here:

Russian Scam at mindtrickster.com

yeah simple magic trick brilliantly executed. this is what derren brown talks about in 'the devil's picturebook'.. showmanship.. entertainment.. mystery..

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>> ^RhesusMonk:
>> ^SaNdMaN:
But how can he be so confident that this would work? It seems like one of those things that would not work on everyone. What if he does the trick and it fails on live TV?

This is called Neurolinguistc Programming (NLP) and is based strongly in Gestalt psychology and a huge amount of statistical data produced in the 1970s and 80s concerning how human brains associate speech, concepts and sensations and what the testable results of those associations are. The actual origin of the phenomenon/heuristic is fascinating (literally a combination of psychology and math), and is a must-read for people interested in how humans influence and are influenced. For a long time it was used as a kind of quick-fix psychotherapy a la behavioral modification in clinical settings (patients would be imparted with associations of sensation and cognition without conscious awareness in order to relieve symptoms). These days, it's used in board rooms and at card tables as well. Not all of it works all the time, but unless you're performing tricks for an audience, no one is even going to know you're trying, so failure looks the same as doing nothing at all. Derren Brown is not just a practitioner of this art, he is a major contributing pioneer; he is, as he mentioned, aware of the risks of failure, and he has even stated that this awareness, imparted to his subjects, is immensely influential in getting the tricks to succeed.


I'm aware that it's NPL, but NPL doesn't work with everyone, just like hypnosis doesn't work with everyone. Yet he supposedly uses this technique in situations where he can't afford for it not to work. That's why I think he's using some other trick and just says that it's NLP.

>> ^SaNdMaN:
But how can he be so confident that this would work? It seems like one of those things that would not work on everyone. What if he does the trick and it fails on live TV?


This is called Neurolinguistc Programming (NLP) and is based strongly in Gestalt psychology and a huge amount of statistical data produced in the 1970s and 80s concerning how human brains associate speech, concepts and sensations and what the testable results of those associations are. The actual origin of the phenomenon/heuristic is fascinating (literally a combination of psychology and math), and is a must-read for people interested in how humans influence and are influenced. For a long time it was used as a kind of quick-fix psychotherapy a la behavioral modification in clinical settings (patients would be imparted with associations of sensation and cognition without conscious awareness in order to relieve symptoms). These days, it's used in board rooms and at card tables as well. Not all of it works all the time, but unless you're performing tricks for an audience, no one is even going to know you're trying, so failure looks the same as doing nothing at all. Derren Brown is not just a practitioner of this art, he is a major contributing pioneer; he is, as he mentioned, aware of the risks of failure, and he has even stated that this awareness, imparted to his subjects, is immensely influential in getting the tricks to succeed.

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I agree with both of you. The only other thing I noticed was he said the words send, screen, psychic, shout, and shouting a few times each (maybe not on "psychic"). However, I didn't notice it until the second time through when I was only listening for words similar to "boot", "shoe", "foot" or "leg".

>> ^Haldaug:
Derren is looking down all the time, I imagine he's looking at their shoes. He is also talking about sitting and the ground all the time.

>> ^handmethekeysyou:
I caught "Can you both look, (foot), just take your hand down..." at 5:17. Anyone else catch anything? Also his hand gestures, starting around 5:30 and ending when he has Richard settle on something, imply an object around the size of a shoe (as opposed to a large landscape or room or building or person, etc.)

>> ^Xaielao:
The simple horoscopes in the daily paper form of Astrology is bunk and everyone knows it. But true Astrology, the type that has been practiced for millennial, is actually very insightful and very mathematical. Whether you believe in it or not as someone who has practiced it in the past it can hit on small details in someones life that 1: are not remotely common and 2: uncannily accurate such as very specific dates of major events in peoples lives. When I meet people who read their daily astrological prediction in the newspaper and are like 'omg thats so like me' I have to laugh as they are buying into the bullshit. I try and tell them, 'look, there are hundreds of millions of people with your sign, a general daily reading based just on your sign isn't going to tell you jack squat and is almost always going to be basic generalization.'
For example, a lot of people don't know anything about classic astrology and it's seaming coincidences. Such as the fact that a great many American presidents and other world leaders very often have some particularly significant similarities in their natal charts. That doesn't mean nobody else does but in the hundreds of natal charts I've produced over the many years (though I haven't done any in half a decade,) nobody has ever had that similar pattern. Again thats not scientific evidense but if your looking for that, your not going to find it. However it's fantastic coincidental evidense.


its all bollox, you're talkin complete sh*t, its all been proven to be all bollox. if you want, watch stuff derren brown has done, where he's more accurate than your so called proper astrologists, the difference being he freely admits its all bollox and has nothing to do with anything outside the realms of science, you can do it through probability mostly but there are all sorts of techniques.
its all bollox. NEXT!