Derren Brown: Mind Control

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wtf lioke...

I have been watching this for the last few weeks on C4 and E4 and its frightening, altho its on television I truely believe that he's out to prove his power....what does everybody else think?

DERREN BROWN channel 4 site

freaky **** imho

D-Generate

He has to be the coolest guy ever. However he is only a very good and well trained psychoanalysist. He admits himself that it is not magic just purely psychology and I also assume that many psychologists can do a lot of his stuff.

aine

I think its intriguing! Id love to be able to do some of that stuff! he's just using that part of the brain that lies dormant in most of us! you can exercise it though with simple mind games!

Guy Incognito

The series on now on Channel 4 / E4 was either on before or includes bits and pieces from his last series. I've watched all the series and the repeats the last time and now it's really easy to see how he does some of the stuff.

There's one with guessing a card in some manner. He talks away in his usual quick manner and hand gestures. The card turns out to be the six of hearts or something like that.

When you see the 'trick' again, you see him hit his chest with his fist a couple of times. He also holds up his hands to tell the woman to guess but puts down all his fingers on one hand, except his index finger and a lot of the things he is saying are 's' sounds. There's your 6 of hearts.

He had another one where he showed how he did some subliminal advertising on some advertising people. Really cleverly done.

If you watch them closely, you can see how a lot of the mind control is suggestion and making the other person more susceptible to the suggestion (sort of like hynotising-lite).

If you notice too, some of the more impressive mind control is done at parties where there's drink or at other racetracks or outside football grounds where it's noisy.

A few of the things he does are a bit freaky, like the one with putting up a wall in someone's mind with their biggest fears behind it, then "breaking it down" with a wave of his hand. Even more strange that the other person has their eyes closed and can't seen him.

I'd love to be able to do all the stuff he does though.

eth0_

I think he has mad skills yes but he has said himself many times that a lot of it is just subliminally planting information in people's minds, as guy incognito just said. He also works a lot off body language and even watching the pupils of peoples eyes to tell if they're lying for example.

He must be good at this as he's banned from most of the big casino's in the UK, fact!

One really cool thing he did was go to the British National Library in the last series and get the librarian to pick out books for him which he would then speed read and memorise in about 20 mins, and then got the libararian to ask him what it said on column x of page y, for example, and he got it right every time.

He has got a book coming out soon, can't wait to get that!

Oh, and he's a bit sexeh!

eth0_

"two live specials in October, culminating in a game of Russian Roulette with a member of the public, live from whatever country they'll let him do it in..."

Russian roulette! He must be really sure of himself to risk shooting himself in the face :-O

BTW, the new series is 50/50 stuff from specials and new stuff. He's on tour...I wish he'd play here!

http://www.derrenbrown.co.uk/news.asp

http://www.channel4.co.uk/science/microsites/M/mindcontrol/behind/distraction.html