Derren Brown cold reads in 'Seance'

[justsailingalong]

I know it's vague at first, but how to you pull up flowers, and names???

[MentirasInusuales]

In fact, I don't really know what you do mean posting this video.

[Kepahl]

I was thinking of my grandmother: 1 point Derren. She had no glasses: 1 point me. She was not short. 1 point me. She worked in a flower shop. Derren 1 point.

[LordKarnov42]

@Kepahl You're doing it wrong. You start vague with flowers and glasses, find the person that responds, and -then- you go to specifics like Grandmother or Sister.

[Lillyvon]

Cold reading is a true skill, like magic etc - but it's all bullcrap at the end of the day. Ask John Edwards after a true tablet - he'll tell you it's all just 'entertainment' - hell his show even says it. Yes it's a skill - but it's just another trick like pulling a rabbit out of a hat folks. Never be fooled. No one has any 'magic' or super' powers - never have - never will. The dead are dead and no one can talk to them. Simple as that. Depressing but true.

[electroschip]

All you are wrong... if you see all the material you can verify that Derren REALLY know how to read signals on the people, it's all about psicological stuff. body language, unconcious movement, and others things, so you need to see it to understand it, BTW at the end of this program he explain how he do it and what he uses to make the people believe it, it's just like he said:

he achieves his results using a combination of "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship"

[goodbeingtheking]

how is everyone else wrong? Jakerobbins said pre hypnosis... there is such a things as covert hypnosis also known as Conversational hypnosis and he also uses NLP.

[Stringfreak]

Hot reading would be the most convincing explanation of this.Because when you are cold reading,there are a lot vague statements.but in this case,all his statements were pin point accurate.Even the name "Laura"...cant be just a guess...maybe he found out about her grandmother before the show.because,a lot of young girls would think of dead grandmothers.

[3632840aa]

真牛啊.great

[saimon20000000000]

when u know how cold reading work..u can just say: derren brown is a genius..

[typewriter10000]

It could be a combination of hot reading and cold reading, the former being collecting information about the person prior to the reading, he did after all choose her rather than you what you would expect from a cold reader; the vague "I'm sensing someone called John, Janet, Jack, Jeremy, James"... ad infinitum.

[EGarrett01]

It's pretty obvious that it was a hot read. I don't know why Derren Brown does stuff like this, but it's very, very irritating. He also apparently uses stooges and confederates and just outright lies about his methods in a manner that is outside normal magician ethics.

[WillOlmen]

I'd love to know how you can say he uses plants when he randomly throws objects into audiences and in turn has audience members throw objects to ensure random pulls. Either he's an expert fucking frisbee tosser or you're a failed magician pissing over someone else's success.

[EGarrett01]

Watch his TV show where he claims to hypnotize someone with a video game then ends the hypnosis by clutching his forehead.

If you have a brain, you should realize that is complete, total, unadulterated bullshit.

[WillOlmen]

Right. So it's the latter of the two options presented to you. Thanks for that.

'Mediums' don't read people's minds. They throw out general information that may or may not be true, read people's reactions and then alter their tone or chosen string of sound or proceed down their line of suggestions. We make it real. We reach out for sounds or pluck truth from fact. If you don't think video can't affect you think about it the next time flashing commercial catches your attention. That plus 100.

[EGarrett01]

You honestly believe that a video can instantly put someone into a coma, and Derren Brown can then end that coma, or put you back out once you've woken up, by grabbing your forehead?

You really, truly believe that?

[WillOlmen]

Yes. I do. For two reasons:

1. I choose not to take the easy path and be purely cynical about the world. Opting instead to have the conviction and drive to challenge myself to believe that there are exceptional people with exceptional talents alive with us today that are rightly admirable.

2. Epileptic seizures operate on much the same principle. Flashing lights. Random light generates a reaction within the brain. Focused and perfected who is to say this idea can not be applied elsewhere?

[EGarrett01]

There are exceptional talents, and there are people who lie and talk bullshit. If you think touching someone's forehead leading to an instant coma after they've been put to sleep by flashing lights and woken up by a tone isn't bullshit, then you can't tell the difference.

I wish you luck in life.

[WillOlmen]

I appreciate your good luck wishes. But I'm not the bitter one angered by those with talents I can't possess. I'll be just fine friend. You might be in need of some eye opening.

Sometimes there are things you can't explain. But sometimes the fact that YOU can't explain it doesn't mean there is no explaination.

I'd also ask you to consider the fact that Derren Brown is a very straightforward guy. He outright calls himself out when he's BSing. He does here. Outright lying isn't his style.

[EGarrett01]

I stand by my previous statement. You have no idea how to tell the difference between something that's feasible and what's pure bullshit or hired acting.

[SkepticalMouse]

Derren Brown, I highly doubt, needs stooges. He knows he is not psychic, and he isn't. The fact is nobody possess supernatural powers, so shut up about that. Derren Brown does, however, possess extraordinary talent and skill that mimic psychic ability- this I believe is real. He's amazing in his craft and he's an excellent 'magician' or 'mind reader'. Call it what you want, but Derren Brown has talent.

[0CookieLoverz0]

i dont quite agree with you, derren obviously has talent, but i do believe that there are actual psychics, or mind readers, call me crazy but i like believing there's something 'more' out there ^.~ pssh i even wish i had miiind powers lol ^-^

[goodbeingtheking]

WOW we have a Bullshit Police! Come on man... obviously we know something you don't... Derren never claims to have "Magical" or Psychic Powers he uses a technology you know nothing about to influence and guide people's thoughts... nothing supernatural and he admits it!

[goodbeingtheking]

EGarrett01, I don't know if its safe to assume that you drive a car. and if you do... I would assume that the following has happened to you...

You're driving... you SEE the road infront of you... you're listening to the radio and your mind drifts off and you're thinking of something that you have to do or a place you have to be at and... you see your exit and its too late... you missed it... what you call "DayDream" is actually a Trance... yes you were hypnotised!

[jakerobbins]

i think what happened here was that there was some pre hyopnisis, where he was hypnotised to go into a trance during a specific part of the game, and forget the pre hypnosis

[EGarrett01]

There's no such thing in reality. Show me a single c itation or example of a phenomenon in any scientific context where someone can be made to go into an instant trance where they lose all memory, and where said trance can be ended by clinching the person's forehead.

[jakerobbins]

sorry i think you misunderstand me, i didnt really explain very well. What i meant was there is some pre hypnosis that goes something like this " in a moment you will forget ever meeting me and being hypnotised, and you will walk into the pub and play the game and at point x of the game you will return back into a trance and only come out of the trance, when I touch your head." the pre hypnosis is not filmed, so it appears to the viewer that it is the game that causes person to go into a trance.

[EGarrett01]

What's your describing also doesn't work in reality. Go to skepdic and look up hypnosis. Those types of effects are pure fantasy.

[jakerobbins]

i went to skepdic, and still do not see why this cannot be accomplished in the way i have suggested. i suggest you read reality is plastic the art of impromptu hypnsis by anthony jacquin

[EGarrett01]

While you're at it, look up burden of proof. If you think it's possible show me ANY scientific study that gives ANY such indication that people can be made to go into magic trances that preclude all memory at the mere saying of a word and that end when they are touched on the forehead.

[jakerobbins]

still, you misunderstand what i am claiming is possible. the subject is HYPNOTISED BEFORE to go into a trance at a predetermined moment. the memory is not actually gone, but the subject is hypnotised into thinking the memory go. Hypnosis can make people believe anything. many studies have shown that there is a signifcant change in brain activity in hypnotised people. the subjects lose memory because the want to, its basically a placebo.

[goodbeingtheking]

Seek and you shall find... do you think you'll find the truth behind things in a website called Skepdic? if you are not a hypnosis expert do not comment on the subject...

[goodbeingtheking]

i've been hypnotised before... and then didn't remember anything... my friend got it on tape too and I couldn't believe the things I did under hypnosis... he shook my hand and asked me how i was doing... I said fine... he told me to take a deep breath and then pulled my arm and said "SLEEP" and I went into a trance... but there's more to it than that its all in the set up... the language and words he used before he put me into a trance that got me to go deep..

[goodbeingtheking]

a video put you into a coma? NO we don't believe that! Don't be rediculous... a video can't do that... but I believe that a person can GO INTO AN ALTERED STATE EGarrett01 when they LISTEN to someone using SUGGESTIVE LANGUAGE. More and more... you have to know how the mind works in order for it to make sense...

[EGarrett01]

As I said...show me any scientific study that indicates that you can be made to go into a coma through flashing lights in which you are conscious but lose all memory and which can be ended spontaneously while being touched on the forehead. One citation from a psychology study or book or ANYTHING remotely scientifically valid. Otherwise shush.

[goodbeingtheking]

scientific? Study? I will gladly shush... IF... you do the following... Go online and find a hypnosis show... since you don't believe its possible volunteer to be hypnotised... it won't work right? so what do you have to lose... do that... and then i'll shush... Thanks!

[veniceadriana]

To back up this last statement, can we have a show of hands here? Derren selected a youngish girl (teens/early 20s) and I would like to know if any other youngish females watching this clip brought a dead grandmother to mind, and if so whether said grandmother was "short", "wore glasses" or liked "flowers".

My own grandmother ticked all the boxes, and had the name Mary; not "Laura", admittedly, but had the crucial "r" sound that a canny cold-reader would have seized upon.

Bravo Derren!

[lygophile]

if you ask me, it soudns like he has the 'gift of intuition' but is in denyal about it :P

cause seriously, "it's a woman"...well he stated it very much without a doubt, and he was right. should be a fair chance of it, but still he couldn't have been that certain right? same with "it's you grandmother".

but what struck me is the name. he guessed "Lora" the first time, when her name is "Nora". i don't know, that's a REALLY lucky guess...

[veniceadriana]

Look at it again!

"Have in your mind someone who's passed on" - well, in the vast number of cases it WILL be a grandmother, as women tend to outlive men so children will be more likely to know a widowed grandmother than a grandmother AND grandfather. Grandparent death is often the first death kids experience. The glasses, flowers and old-fashioned name go with the stereotype granny image.

Clever, but not intuition!

[yougonasorry]

up ure arse

[kszpirak]

Large gLasses oLd Lllady - Lora

[DeluxeWarPlaya]

u ignorant mofo

[korvlada]

how did he know the name? i can sorta figure cold reading out but how did he know the name? muscle reading?

[MaxxPower101]

Listen to what he says; the moment he says "Laura", he almost immediately starts throwing out other names similar to it in a train of rhymes - Laura, Nora, Noreen etc. All "old school" names, the fact he guessed Laura first time was a fluke. He could've gone on; Noreen, Doreen, Diana, Anne etc. Either that or he gained the info before the reading. The thing I like about Derren Brown is that he's honest about his dishonesty - you know with him it's a trick, he makes no bones about it being real

[shadalak]

well said

[naturecollision]

well the trick is real, what else would you expect? Ghosts angels and a god? tssss

[HollandEuro2008]

no idiot! mind reading!!

[Ayumi6661]

oh I want more!

[unitstudio]

Why cut it when he's giving the explanation? ack.

[ipodtouchrocks]

channel 4od might show it again

[dugges]

Is there a full version somewhere??

[spicemonkey0501]

did you find a full version somewhere?

[trolltrumman]

well..... did ya!?!?

[oomiza]

Where is the full version?

[musicaltimepieces]

what episode was thios i wanna watch what hes saying nextt

[88truth]

John Edward is very, very specific in his readings. All you have to do is watch his show to tell that you cannot just guess this type of information. Names, nicknames, places, dates, events, causes of death, medical conditions, and even information the person being read doesn't yet know and has to verify after the fact. It's truly amazing what he and others like him can do. Sit through one of his shows and see for yourself. It's OK to be skeptic, but don't be a cynic. Check out his show online.

[godsentyes]

He's admitting it's bullshit guys... he's only proving that it's not real. Why are you guys acting like he's trying to show people how good he is?

[Swipecat]

Huh? The one guy here that claimed it was "real" was obviously joking. Derren's cold-reading and you're clod-reading.

[musicaltimepieces]

well offcourse its not real!!! but its still fucking cool

[Evolution525]

The only thing impressing is how he got the name.

But i bet it's easy when you first get to know the 'secret'.

[korvlada]

hpow did he know the name?? lip reading?

[superchimpunk]

yeah exactly, most older women have glasses, and like flowers...my grandmother was even called norma so he would have "freaked me out" when he said the name was laura/norma too...

[Fearsting]

yea and another thing why did she have to think about her grandma noob.. (to EvePuchie)

[alexoidztube]

She didn't have to think about her grandma, but it was likely- other info can be got with basic research prior to the show. Derren is very convincing and could change tack should be get any negative answers. Watch any spiritualist use this technique- if you want to test them, have someone in mind and agree with all the wrong answers- the spiritualist will keep giving wrong answers!

Unless they're real, in which case, ring me up on my mobile phone (using your powers to find my number!)

[psychictinalee]

Glad to see there rare people out there who show how a non real psychic can work. Not every one uses tricks though ! Some are VERY REAL when it comes to being PSYCHIC or a MEDIUM. Great clip !

[smaakjeks]

"Glad to see there rare people out there who show how a non real psychic can work. Not every one uses tricks though ! Some are VERY REAL when it comes to being PSYCHIC or a MEDIUM. Great clip !"

How do you know?

[robtul12]

I love Daren Brown. He is excellent. He shows that all of these so called "supernatural" abilites are really nothing more than trickery.

[EvePuchie]

All older women are short and have glasses and love flowers! OMG I'm psychic!

[guitarlord2012]

My grandma is 5 ft 8 has perfect vision and hates flowers. EAT IT!

[smaakjeks]

"My grandma is 5 ft 8 has perfect vision and hates flowers. EAT IT!"

Oh my goodness, you want EvePuchie to EAT your grandma??

[guitarlord2012]

hahahhahaha no i was just proving him wrong.

[smaakjeks]

"hahahhahaha no i was just proving him wrong."

Well good. Because consuming grandmothers is very, very wrong.

Unless you're hungry. *burp* Those are the jungle laws, my friend!

[shayne8448]

My grandma is 5"10 doesn't wear glasses, doesn't like flowers and often says she wishes she had become a lesbian...

[cololyzt]

lol....

[Bigtombowski]

your granny rocks! ;)

[yougonasorry]

lol

[taylerdurden14]

did he explaine the rest in the hole show---than i need it too. if some one can help pleace send me a message. thanks

[LewisYoung]

do u have the whole show!? i have been lookin for this for ages!!! Thanks in advance!

[KJS72]

The perfect room of suggestable people. Fashion victims, film students...ect

A phsycological illusionists dream! :)

[dusunuradam]

i experienced something very close to that. a woman knew my father's name and the color of our car. i am not lying.

[futurekawai]

Is your father`s name a common one? Is the car`s colour a common colour like blue?

[DJAtomikBomb]

What the colour of your car silver?

[naraicks]

unless your car is bright orange with neon spots i would not be impressed

[gusman85]

ok... then how did he get the name!!??

[EldKatt]

Maybe he IS psychic. It's the perfect crime: He tricks us all into believing he's using the fairly well-documented and well-understood techniques of cold reading, but in fact he has supernatural abilities.

[imaroachee]

ha, that would be funny EldKatt!

[aimeebeagrie]

ive thought about that too ha!

[jscotthud]

but how does he get the name? (or get a name very close to the actual name)

[Andyvalver]

I was just waiting for his explanation amnd then the video ended! grrr lol.

[alarik43]

That was all the explanation he offered, he moves directly into a 'spirit cabinet' routine after that.

[garageflower2002]

He stars off open ended and most girls her age would have lost a grand parent. The vast majority of people/women/grandparents like flowers or have either given or recieved them at one memorable point or another. He doesnt say she was a flowerist he says 'Im getting somethin about flowers' and he takes it from there. Hes very good at it.

[billybobsteele]

thats suprisingly closem to what i was thinking just not nescerceraly short or flowers