Trick of the Mind Series 1 - Episode 1, Phone Booth 1

[AC2P]

cool, now i wanna try this on someone :)

[odavenport]

He does this by radpily bombarding confusing instructions into his head. At the end of it all he tells the person to "fall asleep". The subconscious is so glad it can understand something, it'll do exactly as its told :)

[Methusar]

Correct. Thank god someone else understands this stuff.

[taylhis]

hehe.. It is hilarious to me that people fall for this!! This is not hypnosis people! It is a "camera hoax"

[travisjamesmajor]

you know, I also thought that Derren was a big hoax until I watched a lot of his stuff. I am now quite convinced that he knows a lot about suggestion.

[taylhis]

Yes. But this is a camera trick.

[taylhis]

This is not done with hypnosis. It IS done by a very rapid verbal assult when they pickup the phone. When you pickup the phone you hear "You are on TV. This is a TV experiment. You must close your eyes now. Close your eyes now and pretend to sleep. If you want to be on TV then close your eyes now, and sink. Fall asleep. The more asleep you become the more chances you have of being on TV." It just repeats over and over. They are NOT stooges. This happened to me!

[travisjamesmajor]

huh.... if that's true.. its still pretty interesting I suppose. I think that the popular perception of what would constitue a 'normal human response' to a situations like that... is obviously quite off. people are amazing.

[l0lliepop]

taylhis, that is juuust silly.

derren brown:+

once the person answers, I immediately bombard them with a rapid set of confusing instructions and facts. I do this for several minutes without giving give them a break, then follow it by telling them to fall asleep. As seen on the shows, this works.

[burtyjim]

bullshit

[manomazeikiai]

You have only 5 seconds to tell that. Who are you trying to fool?

[Agentsub]

Derren Brown knows what he's doing. No hoaxes here. It's something called a rapid induction.

[sebastian6736]

wow, now that is quick hypnosis