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From: darren_de_bruin
Date: Thu Feb 27, 2003 8:18pm
Subject: a few explanations........
Hi, Im new to this group. To start off here are a few of my opinions
on what Derren is actually doing om his Mind Control series.
I'll start off with the guy on the underground. If u listen closely
u'll see he asks him to think of his stop and very quickly afterwards
says 'thinking of ur STOP THINKING of ur STOP THINKING...etc. or
something like that. I think he waves his finger in front of the guys
face as well to distract his conscious mind thereby allowing those
suggestions to enter his subconscious easily.
At the dog track he slams on the wall with his hand (another shock
technique) and then gives an overt command 'this is the dog ur
looking for'. At the second window he says "thats why we've come to
this WINdow" to reinforce that the dog has actually won (when it
hasn't)
With the chess master he says plenty of things to influence him
before making his decision on what colour peg to pick. I think he
says something like "easy peasy lemon sqeezy" and PEASy and LEMON are
supposed to make u think of the colour green even though lemons are
yellow! Anyway the guy picks green first.
After that he says "I will say NOTHING to influence u" and I
think 'nothing' is meant to symbolise 'white' to the subconscious and
sure enough he picks white!
I cant remember what he says for the other two colours
With the blind athlete I think the whole technique was creating an
image in the guys mind. He says very sneakily "ur sat there with ur
wife, now are u indoors or outdoors?" Of course there aren't going to
be any seats outdoors so he picks indoors of course. Before this he
guesses that he is married but Im sure the research was done on that
beforehand!
The one trick I didn't like was the candle one and i think that can
be explained by the fact that his hand was a bit higher than the
other peoples over the flame and also he moves it up and down very
quickly thereby allowing the heat to dissipate and never allowing his
hand to get burnt.
One of the things I dont know how he does is reading peoples minds
like he does on all chat shows he goes on. How can he do that by
looking in their eyes/reading their mouth movements?!
The other thing was that Martial Arts 'air punch'! I mean Derren was
behind the guy so he couldn't see him! Any suggestions or comments on
this will be very welcome.
| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 2942: Re: a few explanations........ | killerb_0187 | killerb_0187 | Fri 28/02/2003 | 5 KB |
| 2943: Re: a few explanations........ | darren_de_bruin | darren_de_bruin | Fri 28/02/2003 | 2 KB |
| 2944: Re: a few explanations........ | killerb_0187 | killerb_0187 | Fri 28/02/2003 | 2 KB |
| 2948: Re: a few explanations........ | albedo723 | albedo723 | Fri 28/02/2003 | 2 KB |
| 2951: Re: a few explanations........ | nxnzerx | nxnzerx | Fri 28/02/2003 | 3 KB |
