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From: Blue Chip
Date: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:09am
Subject: Re: [Derren Brown] Actual Tips On How To Do The DB Stuff !
>Arg, I just wrote a huge message, and clicked preview - and it then
>wanted to confirm my password (entire message lost!)
Try "back" next time - sometimes you get lucky and it is still there - cut
to clipboard and you're away :)
>1.
>The S thing (like he did on the last show)
>
>For this example we want them to think of the letter S. Tell them
>your drawing a letter down (which you do, only you can see it) and
>they are gonna try to 'see' what it is. Basically, you gotta use as
>many 's' sounds as you can to improve the chance of them picking S.
>Tell them not to guess it yet, that would be 'silly' as there would
>be a pretty SLIM chance of gueSSing from twenty Six letterS. So,
>inStead, *imagine* <-thats important, imagination is the key!- (im
>gonna change perspective here) "I am scribbling down this letter
>(drawing an S shape in the air, if you are doing it in front of them
>make sure to do it backwards) and as I do this you start to get this
>image of the letter on some kind of screen. You may change your mind
>a few times, but make sure you choose the one that feels most natural
>to you, probably the one you first imagined."
was this the trick when "isssssssssabel" had to guess a letter which was
-not- the -first- letter of her name.
say "ssssssssss" as you write
say "i am trying to suggest something to you" and glimpse toward your hands
with fingers knitted into an S shape
Take either hand
ask: "are you left handed?"
wait for answer
say "oh my mistake"
take other hand
>3. Hand on table.. (like one of them radio shows)
>I don't know how to make this work really, but briefly, "put your
>hand on the table. Push it into the table hard! (thats important
>methinks). Look at me." Look at them! A bit below their eyes, you
>want to speak to their sub-conscious. Say in authoritive voice "When
>I snap my fingers/pick my nose etc. you will be unable to lift your
>hand. No matter how hard you try to UNSTICK your hand it will remain
>FIRMLY STUCK to the table, the harder you try, the more it presses
>into the table." Try waving your hand while doing this, and then
>while picking your nose, wave your hand again and challenge them
>to 'try lifting their hand'. Can this work?? Am I missing something??
>The same for memory loss, get them to recall what its like to lose
>their memory, when they do, perform an action you can use again to
>make them forget (hand wave), also telling them they will not
>remember their name (or how to spell it or how old they are)... but
>this hasn't worked for me (tried 1 person!)
try to repeat derrens patter word-for-word, pace-for-pace and
tonality-for-tonality; be quick and clearly spoken; my fave is "the hard
YOU TRY IN VAIN" - you can also anchor the state to a some finger waggling
if you like.
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| 3297: Re: Actual Tips On How To Do The DB Stuff ! | metric2009 | metric2009 | Tue 11/03/2003 | 4 KB |
| 3298: Re: Actual Tips On How To Do The DB Stuff ! | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Tue 11/03/2003 | 8 KB |
| 3302: Re: Actual Tips On How To Do The DB Stuff ! | mat_2001mat | mat_2001mat | Tue 11/03/2003 | 3 KB |
| 3308: Re: Tips etc. On Doing The DB Stuff ! | metric2009 | metric2009 | Tue 11/03/2003 | 3 KB |
| 3315: Re: Tips etc. On Doing The DB Stuff ! | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Tue 11/03/2003 | 4 KB |
| 3316: Re: Tips etc. On Doing The DB Stuff ! | metric2009 | metric2009 | Tue 11/03/2003 | 2 KB |
