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

What happened when you twigged what was going on?[/QUOTE]

heres how,
first of all I remembered something I saw on the tv years ago. its one of those thimgs you don't forget
there was a real hypnotist, it wasn,t stage hypnotism, I don't know what the program was. he had this young girl sitting, about 16 years old, and he showed how a hypnotic trigger worked. he had obviously hypnotized her before to implant the trigger. he said something in her ear and she immediately went into deep somnambulism. she didn't slump but remained upright and you could see, the muscles in her face relaxed and she had a blank look on her face. she went straight from normal consciousness to a wide awake trance. he then took a fold of skin from the back of her hand,pushed a needle through it and her face remained expressionless.
to return to my story. about this time I decided to take a coach trip to london. on the return journey a strange man sat on the seat beside me, although there were several vacant seats on the coach. he engaged me in conversation, and also offered me a can of beer which I refused.
during the conversation he repeated a phrase 3 or 4 times, I felt drowsy and the next thing I awoke and the coach had travelled some distance.
over the following days I began to have suspiscions, during the conversation this man, although a stranger, seemed to know personal things about me. could this phrase hve been a hypnotic trigger? could these dreams have been hypnotism.
to find out I placed a chair against the bedroom door and left a tape recorder running while I slept.
I played the tape back the following morning, 'low and behold' someone had turned the door handle and tried to enter the room.
at this time I owned my own house and had a female renting a room, I confronted her with this and she knew the game was up.
you see the trigger phrase did not work the first time, he had to repeat it.
 
I get this all the time in my standard hypnotism act. In fact I wish I had a pound for every time after the show someone has confronted me with using stooges. Sometimes very aggressively and I have given up trying to explain as they flatly refuse to see it any other way.

I used to spend hours after a gig trying to explain that you wouldn't get that reaction from someone just pretending and the fact that sometimes unexpected things happen during a show (IE a different reaction than you were expecting to get from the suggestion (Not an abreaction just some unusual interpretation of the suggestion by the subject))

I'd also often go to the lengths of explaining that I wasn't from this town, didn't know anyone and had arrived alone by car and not a mini-bus! And the fact that on what they were paying me, I couldn't afford to pay other people.

But I gave up that after the 100th time of doing that and now just smile and say in the most patronising tone I can "Is that how you think it's done? Well that would be one way, wouldn't it?" - This has the great effect of really annoying them as they really don't know at all and were just fishing for answers. Their belief system just won't accept that I just hypnotised them and so I don't waste my time trying to convince them otherwise.

The usual response from them is for them to carry on fishing with "So you are saying that you do/don't use stooges?" This is countered with the answer all non-answer of "Well it's interesting, what do you think?"

The only way with people who want an aggressive confrontation is not to give them one. They hate being agreed with in a not agreeing way. Their belief system won't accept reality they are after the big secret to it all. They will never accept that there isn't one.
 
I only tuned in for a few minutes when he decided to get up and help on the plane. The only plus I could get from that 5 odd minutes of viewing was that Matt was rather hot in his shirt and tie. The rest of the programme seemed a load of balls! :D
 
A friend of mine once told me she had "undisputable proof" of "guardian angels". She showed me a book written by a woman who had met and spoken with one. It had told her all about the world of these "angels" and how they operated.

I tried explaining that this was either an attempt to bilk gullible souls out of money or the musings of someone who was mentally ill.

Eventually I gave up when she said "but she has been investigating them now for 15 years. Why would she lie?"

The book cost
 
Apologies I did there is an earlier trick with a cabbie and an A-Z which I referred to. however I have now seen the trick you refer to!



Invisible compromise is what it is. Still isn't a stooge.

Can we go back to your post where you claimed Derren uses stooges.Then provide proof please. As yet you haven't.
 
Just as a little aside to this.

Browsing through the local paper yesterday and noticed in one of the 'court round up' snippets that a guy got four months in the jail for a crime that was described as 'taking a van without permission'.

Next time it happens he might want to rely on what will soon become known as the 'Derren Browne Defence'; that he was only trying to turn his life around, and become a more confident and productive member of society.
 
None of the footage contained within last night's programme was "live".

The first I thought it wasn't live was right at the begining whereby Derren says it was "coming up to 10 o'clock" - in reality it was about 2 minutes past.... that should have given the game away to most people I would have thought....
 
Why would Derren be faking then? There's nothing in that page that contradicts what we see him doing; the control by "an operator", forgetting everything afterwarRAB, it's all in there. Why would Derren fake it if it's achievable?

I see that the page also finishes explaining how hypnosis can be used to regress back to former lives. Um... ok. Does this work, bramly? Can you offer an explanation how we live multiple lives? Do we have souls?

I hope Ginger Geek comes back soon, because I'm sure he'll back me in wanting some proof for these claims. Just because somebody writes it, doesn't make it so.
 
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