Derren Brown - Inside Your Mind

A volunteer, blindfolded, guesses the drawing Derren Brown shows to the audience, at the Oxford Union

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• psychology
• oxford
• university
• reunion

[semiautosyclone]

"I've been had."

proper english for: I got pwned!

[aiwassiva]

:27 he slips the words "a tractor" into "attractive". the conscious mind doesn't hear "a tractor" because there is no context for saying that - so it assumes he said "attractive". he substitutes "towed" for "told" to reinforce the tractor image. he chose that guy because he could tell by his blank stare that he was already suggestible. When he takes the guy's drink he is establishing dominance over him which puts him in an even more suggestible state. a combination of NLP and basic psychology

[nogie8]

"you're all very attractive [a tractor]."

"a [large black] envelope" (suggest something large and black)

"I haven't told [towed] any of you what's in there."

"Be very carefull not to say anything or [make any noises] that might give it away."

*laughing*

"remain absolutely silent. And absolutely [motion]less."

"If he gets it right or anywhere close you mus[t react to] let him know"

James also knew it was a drawing: "scream at james over and over again what this [drawing] is"

[Bigturns33]

Ya the greater part of what Derren does is being able to see who is in the suggestible state in which he says it, "Ill take you the guy looking right at me"

[FlashJack85]

Beautiful bit of language seeding. "Attractive" first and then when he's blindfolding the guy, saying "A" emphatically with a pause -- leading, of course to the guy finishing the word in his head "tractive." But attractive is not a noun, is it. However "A tract" is very close to "a tractor" and so that is naturally what the fellow picked when asked to form a picture. Brilliant

[FlashJack85]

Beautiful bit of language seeding.  "Attract.ive" first and then when he's blindfolding the guy, saying "A" emphatically -- leading, of course to "tractive." But attractive is not a noun, is it. However "A tract" is very close to "a tractor" and so that is naturally what the fellow picked.

[TheSimonBrookes]

@aiwassiva I replayed this and he does say "attractive" and "told" or I've been taken over by the power of suggestion:-)

[TRiggAmiKe132]

The dude's drink disappears off that box that Derren places it on.

[reghin79]

@illusionmagic19

Well, I was going to give you a made up number like 234,3,4 but then I thought it would be much funnier if you actually found the word in the dictionary. But then I realized that if you owned an older or revised edition with no more than one new word, it would spoil it, so I told you the word.

Now obviously I know what you mean by "projecting thought", but I also know how flawed this paradigm really is. So no, I wasn't actually impressed, I never even looked for your word.

[illusionmagic19]

@reghin79 Aww... you're the non-believer I was when I couldn't do all this. :) You were impressed enough to pick up your own dictionary and look for the word.

AND, what I meant was see, "Thought Projection - Live." It's the same effect as this one :)

[reghin79]

@illusionmagic19

Wow, thanks mister Indian, you've made a believer out of me. I have one for you too: 320,3,11. That's page 320 of the same dictionary, column 3, paragraph 11; and in case you have a different or revised edition, it should say "fraud" :)

[illusionmagic19]

@reghin79 I've done something like that :) It works! :) check out my videos for it :)