Derren Brown: Archive
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From: happany
Date: Wed Dec 4, 2002 8:02am
Subject: Re: NLP on Breakfast TV ?
Derren was on Channel 4's RI:SE last month , and when the presenter
mentioned E4's planned preview of his new series he
replied : 'yeah ,there's a real buzz on the streets' . . . could this
be NLP ? He used exactly the same phrase the next time the show was
mentioned. I wouldn't have noticed only when I first heard it, it
made me think of Buzan i.e. Tony Buzan ( the mentalist ). . . but
what would be the point of that?
--- In a previous message highroller entertainment casting wrote:
> Derren was using phonic ambiguities to subtly
> suggest the answers he was looking for. For
> example....
And I would like you to be aware
andle would
like
> you to be aware
andlewood like you to be
> aware
Sandalwood like you to be aware
This is why Bob
> replied 'Sandalwood' as opposed to candles (the answer
> that Derren was trying to suggest)
Other
> examples were disguising 'Hereford' in 'Nowhere that you
> think I might guess' and 'Jazz' in 'And as the waiter
> walks away'.
The bits about the cat and the
> emphasising that it is a waiter not a waitress are merely
> used to distract Bob's conscious so that Derren can
> slip in the suggestion to his subconscious, much like
> the trivial questions he asked Chris Ryan about
> Slippers or Moccasins, or what his father's maiden name
> is. These are simply used to distract and mentally
> wrongfoot the subject.
Remember, Derren said he
> chose Bob because (being blind) he knew he would pay
> more attention to subtle shifts in his voice tonality,
> and Bob simply responds with what pops into his mind
> first, which is Derren's phonetically cloaked
> suggestion. Notice how suprised he is on Sandalwood....he
> says 'For some reason I've got Sandalwood'. It is
> entirely likely that he does not know what sandalwood
> smells like, or couldn't identify it if he were to smell
> it, but that is still the answer that pops into his
> head.
Another easily identifiable technique is the
> 'let's HOME IN on...' line Derren uses before asking him
> whether it is indoors or outdoors. Both Home and In will
> prompt the subject to knee-jerk response 'indoors' as
> opposed to 'out'.#
Let me know your thoughts on
> this!
