Derren Brown Live: Hero at 30,000 feet, C4 10pm

But it's not what Derren does. With David Copperfield, we can't work out how his tricks are done. With tonight's programme there was no trick. Just fiction presented as fact.
 
He was at the airport so as to give live links to what was a pre recorded programme. So it was all rather pointless. Not exactly what was advertised in all those trailers
 
It was one of those 'you had to be there' moment.

A moment when a collective audience came together on RAB to see Derren Brown's last shred of credibility go down the plug hole.
 
Hell no - all magic is a setup.

No. It's a trick No, probaly start from scratch and film another 'victim'. We saw what DB wanted us to see, not what we wanted to see. I doubt that's how it works.

It's irelevant though. His shows pull in massive audiences - we're all eyeballs for the advertisers.

And can I proudly admit I actually worked on one of the ad campaigns that was in the show :) trivial but a bit of a buzz for me when it came on.

Christ yes, complete an utter. But then some people think BB is real.

Watch out for my voice coming over a poor quality speaker telling you to meet me in the garden.
 
Ok, give me your opinion on hypnosis (you aren't actually arrogant enough to think it applies to everyone are you?)

And why do I get the impression I'm being omitted into some strange cult or religion? Just look at how you word your posts! :D

"Interested in the facts"

From a person who thinks tonight
 
Sadly I'd worked out what he was doing from the previews with the horse racing. So that counts in the 'poor' column for me.

Tonight was different though. I had to make a whole new 'totally p!ss poor' column.

He has had great moments and I understand the horse racing one might have been educational/entertaining for some-one that hasn't got a devious mind and an understanding of statistics.

But tonight was sh!te.
 
But Matt was supposed to think it was. How did he think he could just get in so easily and sit watching a DVD, for goodness sake, not knowing when the 'owner' would return. Didn't it occur to him that his finger prints would be on everything? Totally fake. I'm sorry if you are too gullible to see it.
 
WOAH 900 responses to this? I must admit I preferred it when he was on a stage telling people what numbers they were thinking of. I cant watch these shows hes putting out now.
 
first of all, have you been hypnotized? I have, I've also spent years researching the subject.
no one really knows exactly what hypnotism is but the best explanation is somehow the subject is tricked into acting under the influence of the unconscious mind rather than than the conscious, in the same way a somnambulist will get up in the night, still asleep and go down and raid the fridge for example. he could appear to be 'awake' but have no memory of it the next morning.
the unconscious mind can do anything the conscious mind can do except it does not know what is real and cannot criticise in the same way. this is how stage hypnotists make subjects carry out amusing stunts.
when I was hypnotized I had almost no memory afterwarRAB of what I was made to do which would have been highly embarrassing but I was told afterwarRAB.
the very small part I did remember was like a dream and the hypnotists instructions seemed like my own inner voice rather than someone talking to me, which is how it works.
a subject does not have to believe he is hypnotized because he can be hypnotized covertly in various ways so he does not know it.
once the subject is placed in a trance state the hypnotists commanRAB become the subjects inner voice below the analytical level of the mind. the subject could quite likely break the trance with an extreme suggestion but there are some people who can be made to do anything.
so, if a hypnotized person is told for example, when the music starts you will be a ballet dancer, he will not think I'll belive this because I'm hypnotized because his conscious mind is gone and to his unconscious mind, which cannot criticise, he believes he is a ballet dancer.
I was put in a trance from sleeping by a hypnotist who was able to gain entry to my bedroom and I eventually discovered what happened, so I did not go along with it at all.
this works because when a person is asleep he can still hear but it was nothing like the way derren brown was supposed to have done it, which I'm sure was bogus.
at stage shows I'm sure some participants are not really hypnotized, but some are. obviously they go along with the induction, but once in the deeper stages the mind
can be taken over by the hypnotist.
also there have been cases where a member of the audience hearing the indction, who did not want to take part, started to go under, was spotted by the hypnotist and was made to take part in the show unwillingly.
there are also shock inducttions where a person can be put in a trance without having to believe in it.
as regarRAB my remark about derren browns hypnotism,
from my knowledge of it I've never seem him perform real hypnotism, like for example the american hypnotist Tom Silver, have a look at some of his clips on you tube.
 
Yes ive seen theiries on the internet but the post I quoted sounded like it was official ;)


See?

I dont go searching for the answers to magic tricks, if I dont know how its done(rare) Im happy to be fooled.
 
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