Derren Brown: Archive
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From: wayneryder
Date: Thu Oct 31, 2002 1:29pm
Subject: Re: General stuff on MC3
I also found something on about.magic which DB may have employed at
one point. Quote-
The Method:
Take your friend's right wrist with your left hand and his left wrist
with your right hand. Talk you your friend about how you plan to read
his mind.
As you are talking to him, shift your hands so that the forefinger of
both your hands is directly over the pulse of his wrists. (Don't use
your thumbs as they have a pulse of their own.)
Now, as you are holding his wrists in this manner, tell him to close
his eyes and to just think of one of his hands. Tell him to visualize
that hand.
As he does, an interesting thing happens: The pulse will change in
the hand of which he is concentrating. It should slow down, then skip
a beat or two, and then become faster. As people are different,
however, what you feel from this individual may also be different, so
just be aware of any change in the pulse rate.
When you recognize the hand, tell him to open his eyes. Then, just
raise that arm and your friend will be amazed!
This can be repeated a few times, but please, don't over-do it.
-unquote.
I think he holds the guy's wrists at some point, doesn't he?
--- In a previous message ujermagaddi wrote:
> --- In a previous message vlaca_malacca wrote:
>
> > If Derren's simply using dual semantics (for/four), then surely
he
> > could work other numbers into the trick (e.g. one/"one" as
in "this
> > is the winnin ONE"; "eight"/"wait" as in "this is the ticket
you've
> > been wAITing for", etc.)
> >
> > Crap examples, but you catch my drift.
> >
> Oh sure, but I can only comment on what made the final cut - he may
well have tried different lines for different winning #'s. It's just
that in the examples we see, the winning dog was #4 which coincided
with his choice of words.
>
>
> >
> > [re: the coin trick]
> > > oh, I'm aware of the techniques used in guessing the hand, it's
> > > just the heads/tails aspect that is a bit of a 'cheat'.
> >
> > So what factors does Derren use in deciding which hand the coin
is
> > in?
> >
> essentially non-verbal cues (nose-point, furtive glances etc). note
the hands-crossing one - the hand with the coin is beneath the empty
one, almost as if he's trying to hide something...
