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  • Not as good as the stuff in the Mindreading Exposed ebook

  • I just had an apiphany!

    Imagine some simple skill that you mastered - like remembering multiplication table. Then you would find boring multiplying small numbers, right? But!, if you were at risk of walking off a cliff if you made multiplication error, this would be exciting again! And this is it for Derren. For him this is nothing more than putting some fun into boring skill.

  • @Zotov13 People have driven with blind folds on for magic. People have acted like they can not see while knowing where audience members hide objects. The story changes, but the tricks are not new. What often sells people is that they really can not see though the bag, blindfold or what is used as a blindfold before the performer puts it on. Derren Brown's explanation gives people plenty to look up & fill in. Others have driven with more over their eyes than blindfolds.

  • this is fake. He told the guy to lie to him. So all he had to do is go the opposite way each time.

  • @thut69 Didn't you hear he said "You can lie or you can tell the truth. It's up to you." ? Also, how do you think he jumped of the podium right on the crashmat?

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  • @thut69 It's certainly not what it seems. Anyone versed in magic or mentalism tricks could tell you at least a dozen ways this trick could be reliably done. Your explanation is a complete oversimplification of any of those tricks and frankly is somewhat retarded. Try doing this yourself and see how just going the opposite way works out for you.

  • Brownies never cry.

  • He's good, he was losing the initiative, that would have been bad. He had it back within a few seconds (look when the ex-SAS enters the control room). Look how he's testing his truthfull talking by asking small questions which cant be lied about. (shoo size etc). He is creating a pattern of truth, which makes it hard to tell a lie. If he does lie he'll have a hard time which makes it easier to spot

  • i could do that also

  • while the guy went to walk to the "control" room, the lights were turned on and derren's hands were undone being that they were never really tied in the first place. Think about why derren would want the lights off if you really couldn't see through the blindfold? It wouldn't matter if there were lights or not. This is why he tied his hands, to show that he couldn't have lifted the blind fold when in reality he did.

  • ah derren. lets all be thankfull that your choice in suits has evolved

  • This is showmanship at its best.

  • Gotta love Ryan at the end, "I'd have loved to see him fail", and i bet he was telling the truth there haha.

  • he can tell if they are lying or not by how the person responds to him, it's quite difficult to tell for others to tell the dif, but derren brown is a genius

  • 7:30 he litterally looks over to his right.. why do that if you are blind folded? a perfect way to decieve people is to decievingly tell them you are not decieving them

  • @sk1llshot

    tell ya what, go set up a course like this, walking it, and tell me if you don't get nervous and start looking around even if you can't see

  • @sk1llshot

    He looks over to the right because he is turning to go that way. Couldn't be more obvious...

  • unbelievable

  • Podium number 1: Yes

    Podium number 2: Yes

    Podium number... Oh shit.... (falls)

  • Thats a nice jacket he has.

  • It's damn funny at 0:16 when it starts appearing plenty of images of Derren dancing and acting like an idiot !!

  • which program this its?

  • that was cool, cheers to him

  • "fuck".. he sounds so real fooling us.... genius

  • richard dawkins and derren brown are friends...there is no way anything darren does is fake.

  • it would be fake if he said that he was psychic. he says he isn't and he achieves all his results through ways in which anyone could, if they learned how...sorry; not fake.

  • That's not what he says. He says what he does is supernatural. He admits that everything he does is tricks.

    It's like a magician who vaguely explains his tricks, only, he's an illusionist and a mentalist.

  • i disagree with the below comments i think that it was real and Derren could hear the difference in the words that Chris was saying. Icould tell a difference an example is 8:27 the first yes is just yyyyes(an extended y) and the second had y-yes(had a skip between y's).

  • and how does he do that with his hands tied behind his back ghuegel??? Think before you make accusations..

    For every other jackass out there that says Derren Brown is a fake then do a bit of research, this is all part of neurological and psychological science (fields I'm currently studying)... all graduates learn the skills and abilities to do what Derren does.

    In this particular episode he is looking for stress in his voice to separate a lie from the truth, your claims are more far fetched!

  • Nah. There are several ways to trick the audience here.

    It's fine to try and tell when someone's lying, but it's much more effective to actually know by "cheating".

    I love Derren Brown, he does some amazing things; but he's too smart risk his life on his ability to tell when someone's lying. Those techniques are not iron-clad, and he knows it.

    He isn't exactly a fake, but he admittedly uses various techniques to pull off his performances.

  • @ghuegel this isnt a magic show, its a psychology show. so how is it fake when he says he uses psychological technique

  • True, he also gives him suggestion that he must lie to him. Sure, at the begging he says you can lie or tell the truth; but then he says his job is to misdirect him. He sets him up to lie and Derren play process of elimination. Brilliant.

  • lool at the end ''i would like to see him fail"

  • Lies make baby Jesus cry.

  • "Fuck." xDDDD

  • ROFLMFAO

    "FUCK"

  • The only reason the guy lied to him when Brown was struggling was cause Brown initially told him whether 'I beg, plead or cry like a brownie, your job is to mislead me'. He was subconsciously brainwashed.

  • Its simple. Sure this guy is hardened and would likely make an enemy step on those things, but Darren gets on well with him and touches him often to build trust. As a spec ops guys he's used to working in teams and looking out for his buddies and has been conditioned to do so at the risk of his own life.

  • He is using NLP when he touches him. For example, for every time I say all right I touch your shoulder, then, if I show you something wrong and touch your shoulder, you will believe it is right

  • true

  • "i would have like to seen him fail." What a dipshit at the end.

  • Derren Brown is a God!

  • I would of left everyway open on the first one so he would have to go back to the starting spot again to advance.

  • "alright i htink i got a little too cocky" LOL

  • i wish that was a bed and me in it then he;d fall onto it hehehehe lol ok too graphic sorry?

  • Appreciate the idea.

  • I love his showmanship, he obviously knew it was right but he made it so dramatic

  • he should also start beliving u might have balls.

  • how how is it not real??

  • So like, all the crap about needing light for night vision doesn't matter anyway. The blindfold would stop him from seeing anything, him turning the lights out is just extra proof.

  • hed be awesome on takeshis castle

  • lol

  • lmao !!

  • hes alive folks

  • love you deren you are AMAZING  :)

  • scott thinks this is the best thing ever

    he love you derren

    x

  • "or cry like a brownie"?

  • he's gay, what do you expect

  • guy in front of the TV should have closed his eyes, case closed.

  • "i´d have like to seen him fail" :D

  • and umm...he could someone talking to his ear whille walking

  • All powers can't be seen!

  • People who say this way too risky to be true, i'm not so sure, i mean if he'd have touched one of those traps with his foot it wouldn't hav been much of a problem and they could have had crash mats at the base of all the podia just incase.

    I still be believe he managed it anyway.

  • I reckon he gets a glance when the guys going from the room to the control room. Or he's really good at reading people. Both is possible.

  • Night vision requires light to function. Granted, it requires very little light, but this tells me that the room Darren Brown is in is NOT in fact perfectly dark, meaning everything that happened in this video loses credibility.

  • u retard!!!!!!!!

    night vision actually uses infra red light which is not visible to human eyes. Meaning the room was completely dark.

    credibility is back people!!!!

  • No. Most night vision is light amplification - especially the green tinted ones.

    Along with your idiotic brain percentage claims you're one of the most roundly stupid people here.

  • alot of night vision sends out infra red and then picks up the reflection in the same way of light sorry

  • and a lot doesn't

  • And it is in no way possible that they used an infra red version? Why is that?

  • Yeah, except he's also wearing a blindfold.

  • There's something called a Magician's blindfold tho.

  • It was pitch black, he couldnt see without the blindfold anyway

  • Do you really think Derren would risk his life (or at least feet and a whole lot of bones) just because of one single routine?

    There has been some discussion concerning the night vision. I'm not an expert in that area, but I do believe Derren either does see or he's getting help from somewhere else. As a magician, I don't think for even a second that Derren is going with just his abilities during this specifik trick.

  • It is very "easy" to tell if someone is telling the truth or not, IF you have been practicing this for years like Derren. And i know he isn't A full-time magician only, with his T.v. shows he works as a mentalist and a mentalist only. He has done many other more life threatening tasks, and in the ones that weren't life threatening you can tell how amazing he is with his trained mind. And trained mind only

  • I do know he's good at catching lies, but this doesn't do it for me. There's to much for at risk. And what other life threatening tasks are you talking about, besides Russian Roulette? I've read every book about him, watched every series he made and seen every live tour and once you get a feel of when he's telling the truth and lying about the methods behind his routines, it's kind of easy to tell that the Assault Course isn't based on Derren being a lie detector. It's just his type of magic.

  • What I am saying is that he probably could make it through this test without getting harmed. But no one knows what could happen. Derren trusts himself a lot and he makes mistakes too. I doubt anyone will find out if this was real other than Derren so why argue.

  • That's true. But once again, what life threatening tasks where you talking about?

  • The Russian Roulette and Broken glass stunt, even though it wasn't "life" threatening he risked his feet, and also he has done many "career" risking stunts at the theatre. Also hes done very crazy things with his mind though, like making someone wake up in Morocco and making someone think they had and OBE in a car crash etc. He doesn't do big stunts, even though he probably can and should.

  • obscurity works in his favor

  • I completely agree. I too am a Magician/Mentalist. Anyone who believes he would risk so much for so little is falling for the same trick Derren says not to fall for... Blatant Belief in something you have little knowledge on.

  • and why do you think so?

  • The reason he asked him about all those questions where he would be forced to tell the truth such as his shoe size, what shoes he wears, his full name, his mother's maiden name, etc. to continuously hear what he sounds like when he tells the truth.

  • kinda reminds me of Saw

  • chris ryans a bastard trying to make derren walk into barbed wire XD

  • he is truely amazing he has got his mental powers working so well he can detect all changes!!!!!!

    we can all do this if we are disiplined belive me\

    he has proved that we can use more that 10% OF OUR BRAINS!!

  • You do know that whole 10% thing is bullshit and isn't true for anyone right?

    We all use all of our brains. Brain matter is very expensive in terms of body maintenance/nutrition and if we only used 10% the other 90% simply wouldn't be there.

  • Yes, but we do use much less than 100% consciously. If you could consciously use 100% of your brain, you would be incredibly superhuman - your reaction time would be a fraction of what it is now, you could control your mood, blood pressure, immune system, hormones, muscle development, body mass index, metabolism, aging, skeletal structure, genetic makeup, and a whole lot of other things.

  • No we would be an incredibly sub-human vegetable in a full time state of trying to maintain just staying alive.

    Ask yourself this: who is the better sportsman (let's take throwing a ball as an example) the one who has to think about every tiny muscle contraction and plan the arc the ball makes with mathematics, or the one that does all that automatically, unconsciously, behind the scenes and just thinks 'throw'.

  • With throwing a ball, probably the guy that can control every muscle contraction etc.. because he can generate much more power by utilizing and shifting weight and momentum more adeptly than someone who just throws with an unconscious reaction, because the guy that just think's "throw", yes he can throw, but his attributes when doing so are less significant.

  • I really can't be bothered to explain why you're wrong so I'll leave you to your ridiculous fantasy

  • RG007145 and laddyboy are right.

    we DONT use all of our brain.

    geniuses and the smartest people on earth like isaac newton, barrack obama and albert einstein use the left side of their brain.

    ever seen a CT scan of a brain? Red/yellow/green usually means area of activity and only 10-15 percent of the whole picture of the brain are of these colours.

    RETARD!!!!!!!!!!

    type it in google if you're still in doubt.

  • actually we use all of our brain, just not at the same time. also the smartest are the ones that are equally left-brained and right-brained.

  • You are one of the most utterly stupid people on the planet.

    What a hypocrite.

  • I hate you so much, you simple fucking shit.

  • The left brain/right brain thing is not the most solid theory. So you are saying that Obama doesn't use the right side of his brain. In that case he wouldn't be able to read, according to the left/right brain theory. Left brain = language right brain = pictures. So basically the letters wouldn't make any sense to him. And why do you think Obama is a genius?

  • stfu...

  • i wanted derren to fail 4 once

  • Love how he says the F bomb

  • i would have laughed so hard if he just fell off and instead of hearing the soft padded cushion you heard crash! then 'o fuck' dont get me wrong though i love dereen brown and think he's amazin

  • Start - tricks him into truth.

    1st intersection: 3 options, one he just did, + 1 lie, equals the right choice.

    2nd intersection: He asks twice which is the way and gets two lies, leaving only the correct choice.

    3rd intersection: 3 options, one he just did, plus one lie, then he fakes confusion but also gets two lies to confirm, leaving one option. Because Derren made fun of him at the beginning, he ensures a lie this time.

    Everything else he says/does is misdirection.

  • Exactly. Thanks for saving me a lot of typing. I cant believe how many people dont get its a simple process of elimination, even when they do it everyday in the toilet. I think anyone with half a brain couldve done that...cept for the end anyway, I sure as hell wouldnt have dropped backwards like that, that saved the whole trick for me.

  • I don't believe Derrens ever in any danger nor his victims, think about it, TV is too well manipulated, accidents would end peoples trust in him.

    Damn i love Derren Brown lol xXx

  • Brilliant, as alwayz!! Combining many elements on this effect!!

  • gotta love the f bomb at 6:38

  • This is awesome. One of my favs.

  • subtitulen the conversation please

  • Derren claims he kept using the word "podia" just to be really annoyingly correct.

  • I like derren too much to be able to trick him like this XD

  • i love derren brown

    its rele amazin what he does

    i find it so interestin

    i went 2 see one of his shows, i really wana go again!!!

    brilliant experience

  • ha, sweet.

  • I dont know about the rest of the course, but I think he knew from the beginning where the crash mat would be. This may be a total shot in the dark, because I don't know jack about this stuff! But Derren's face often lights up when he knows his plan has worked (1:29, he gives a hint of that smile). & I bet most people would try to catch him out by keeping the mat close to where it originally was - also to make less noise as well as put it where Derren did NOT end.

    I wish I had Derren's mind!!

  • its obvious how he does this but its still really cool

  • It's a triforce!

  • LOL gfg

  • He uses his foot to strike the wood,

    if there is something on the plank you

    can hear it or feel it in the way

    it responds. He does it with very little

    body movement, just a straight strong step

    downward disguised as a fidgeting unsure

    pace. He keeps jason talking so the audio

    feed doesn't pick up the sound of the step.

    The crash pad is located because of the resounding echo in the bunker. I assume

    you could hear the sound becoming dull against the crash pad as opposed to the hard ground.

  • while that may not be the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life, it is definitely top 2.

  • You must be either very blessed or very alone.

  • Podium number... -falls-

  • he says "fantastic" quite a lot

  • this one is kinda boring. not much mind blowing trick in it

  • Derren Brown never fails! He really is genuine, he;s learnt these techniues for years and years and is very clever and 'on the ball'. Great video.

  • When he asks 'is left really safe? is it relly safe?' it makes the person confused as to whether to say 'yes yes' or 'no no'. And this, if the person is lying leads to hesitation, which Derren picked up on.

  • ZOMG ITS CHRIS RYAN MY HERO! xD

  • He is amazing

  • derren brown is the best in his field of mind control and suggestion.

  • The thing you have to remember is that Derren is not saying it's "magic" but more psychology and something ANYONE can learn. It's easy enough to say "that's bs" or "hoax" but really, there is a ton of logic in what he does.

  • yes

    and that takes a lot of time, effort and devotion to be able to do what Derren Brown does

    he is amazing <3

  • I think hes amazing, i believe its a mixture between noticing whether the guy was lying, and also listenning to him put down the obstacles before the course began. If you notice he is standing there all the time. He can hear where certain things are being placed.

  • Derren Brown is a fucking psycho crazy super intelligent mentalist bastard

  • he is an advocate for advanced memeory techniques so he just remebered the route easy for him hard for those not in the know

  • how could he have done? he knew the shape of the course, but not with obstacles, he was blind folded and faced the other way when chris set up the obstacles and the crash mat

  • if that would`ve been the first video i saw of him, than i would agree... but after all what i`ve seen of derren brown doing, i`m sure that there is no "trick" about this whole thing, xept for the reading the unconscious auditory signals that guy sends... when you would read about that stuff and not just talk bullshit, than you could even learn the basics of reading if people are lying or not... ok, well maybe you couldn`t because it might be very likely that you just miss the necessary empathy

  • @ nofuckingwai

    I was commenting on all the people talking about how he could might see under his blindfold, and was saying, this isnt about seeing in the dark, anyone can walk along a beam if they try and move slowly feeling for the edges. Yes, we know from derrens videos that he is a mentalist, a hypnotist, a magician and good with sleight of hand, but we dont truly know if in his other ear was a piece with someone ready tell him if hes about to step on razorwire. I like his other videos more

  • well yeah, you got a point... and furthermore, we can never be sure... about anything what he does we can`t be sure at all... everything COULD just be a giant hoax, but i think that`s very very unlikely... and when i count all things together i know about him and the possibilities of different "mind reading" techniques, i think it`s more likely that he also here just really does what he says he does, without help. (and in the end, i agree, i also like his other videos more)

  • i agree with you

  • the man is a legend

  • if he went down the wrong line he would of felt the raised plank of wood anyway

  • Learn some yourself, re-fuck-tard.

  • Cry like a brownie!

  • everyone says jesus christ....

  • he's just very inteligent, so he can think very much [and remember] more than we normal people can

  • haha he swore

  • he didnt even wait for him to say yes for the thrid one

  • He looks like darth vader in that robe thingy

  • He made quite an assumption that he wouldn't put anything on the two segments at the very end between the three podiums.

  • America uses every word and magnifies it by millions! Derren Brown is a real person who uses real life to entertain, he doesnt hide behind all the glamour that the Americans 'NEED' for fullfilment.

  • Way to make sweeping generalizations. I NEED you to tell me what fulfills me.

  • It is of my strongest opinion that he used echo location at the very end.

  • thats actually a really good idea that never occurred to me. i agree!

  • This proves that the psychology laws hold no exceptions for all humans

  • Saying "it's genuine ok?" is worthless as an argument, and it does indeed seem like you are trying to convince Xedome this is genuine.

    If he is unable to perform the feats he claim to do, faking them would make it seem like he actually can perform them, which is more impressive that not beeing able to perform them, and thus makes for a better show.

    Better shows means more money in the long run.

  • derren alredy kinda knew wer the mat wud be at nuber 2 or 3 cos at 0:53 he is subliminaly instructing chris with his hands on wer the 'end' of the course is and wer he shud put the mat.

  • i dont think so. because derren stood between 1 and 2, not 2 or 3. just watch

  • i dont think so. because derren stood between 1 and 2, not 2 or 3. just watch

  • woop woop this is filmed in newbury greenham commns in newbury but he shudnt be allowed near the bunkers there is loads of fencing and stuff?! anyway derren rocks

  • I was thcared...:'(

    He is really brave.

    To be honest, I've had enough of all the psychological comments explaining how its done. The whole point of Derren Brown's shows and clips is to make the point he has extraordinary thinking capabilities and things, and can manage things not many other people can do. So what's the point posting a comment that goes: Look at me, I know how its done, I'm so