[Closed] Derren Brown

i'm ashamed to say I fetched my phone after he told me to - just in case

me too!

If you 'fetched the phone' you've just fallen for the first part of the subliminimalistic influence 😉

yay!

All the "volunteers" so far are stooges so it's not difficult.

I told my wife I'm stuck already and would she get me another beer from the fridge?

She said subliminally f*** off

Im going to watch it on +1, will the magic still work?

Love this - the bestest people out there will get stuck - anyone with talent or creativity will stick. (anyone who doesn't = loser) 😈

Im a loser! 😆

Nope didn't work

lol - what a load of shite.

Oh god - I'm a talentless, uncreative nobody 🙁

oh my - its rather obvious what he's doing isn't it. i'm obviously 2nd rate and uncreative

"go with it" "let it happen"

they should set off the fire alarm and see what happens!

I had to get up to reach my beer.

they should set off the fire alarm and see what happens!

Nice 😆

I'm am an art director...walking round my front room. I must be shite

Didn't work with me... another waste of an hour?

I guess it's not live either then - he's disappeared 🙂

"Remain calm"....FREAKS!

Load of bolllix, i'm also an uncreative eejit. I stood up easier than I have in years.

The incentive of a guid dram did help me up mind you

reminds me of when I once volunteered for a stage hypnotist at uni

I got sent back after about 10 minutes as I wasn't as suggestible as others on the stage. At no point does the hypnotist say - now your hypnotised, he just gets everyone relaxed then starts asking everyone to do fairly basic things like, imagine you are driving a car, imagine you are hot

everyone does it - evan me. You don;t shout out, no I'm not hypnotised. no one does

they send back the ones who aren;t really getting into it, then keep ramping up the things they ask the others to do. By this time they are stuck - they can't suddenly say "i'm not going to pretend to be a monkey", because earlier they were pretending to be Freddie Mercury - everyone would think they were an idiot. so they keep acting like they are hypnotised

He's having a giraffe

I am also uncreative (as an art student, this worries me somewhat) 🙁
I have seen my brother 'under the influence' of stuff like this. We were mucking about with Paul Mckenna's 'think yourself thin' CD. didn't seem to have any effect on me or my other brother, but the younger one started shaking quite terribly. he was actually quite frightened. not sure if it's really the same thing though..

Didn't work here either

anyone?

did my arms and legs feel funny?
did i feel VERY light at the blue screen?

or did i imagine it?

pile of shite, I managed to get up for another beer

Its a way to filter out idiots. Anyone who is "stuck" remains there until the men in white coats arrive to improve society

I got sent back after about 10 minutes as I wasn't as suggestible as others on the stage. At no point does the hypnotist say - now your hypnotised, he just gets everyone relaxed then starts asking everyone to do fairly basic things like, imagine you are driving a car, imagine you are hot

all bollox

Its a way to filter out idiots. Anyone who is "stuck" remains there until the men in white coats arrive to improve society

If only... 😀

I think the wife missed the point. She said it must be subliminal as she saw a picture of someone tied to a chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So can I just check I've saved myself from wasting an hour of my life my not watching him? After last week's I really wasn't at all tempted, but just slightly curious to see if it would get any better.

Thanks for the thread - has reassured me I didn't miss anything.

I got up and even the cat went off to his bowl for a drink !!!!

Liked the fact it wasn't live - when the theatre audience was getting up, all of a sudden there were a lot of them at the front showing it wasn't real time. Probably the only bit was the phone in - and of course you couldn't see him as it was just the talking which was live - the screen showed a pre recorded bit.

But to be fair he's done three things

1 - got people to watch for a second time when it was so bad last week
2 - some people were no doubt stuck to their chair - but don't worry you're creative and not highly suggestible
3 - some people phoned up to say they were stuck to the chair and PAID for the privilege !!!!

Yoda - I would NEVER expect you to fall for it

1 - got people to watch for a second time when it was so bad last week

with him the force is not

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Chat forum next time maybe.....

Didn't work on me but worked on my eldest daughter- freaked her out.

He's claiming on twitter that 50,000 viewers became stuck.

Well he would say that wouldn't he. Presumably he gets that figure by taking the average guess of how many people got stuck from a panel of 24 people?

Then again, is 50,000 particularly good? Either his viewing figures were rubbish or the proportion who fell for it wasn't actually that high.