Derren:"You'll get a few malignant headaches for the next couple of days.." Martin? "Ah, ok cool, cool." anybody else thought that that was the most Bilbo reply to that ever?
Illusions Unlimited Well, firstly, don't forget that Derren is a magician, but I imagine that it works in the same way that any hypnosis trick works; by suggestion. Derren planted the idea that the crystal actually would have some effect and Freeman had said that he had an open mind about it. But I am 100% sure that the crystal itself did nothing, neither did the fact that he had something on the back of his hand. It's all about getting in his head and putting him into a state of hyperattention and heightening suggestability so that when he suggests that he will not be able to lift the cup, his mind is willing to accept it and comply. It's not fully understood exactly how hypnosis works. Maybe it was just a conjuring trick, but I think hypnosis is more likely. I'm no expert! Cheers.
Nilguiri i know i am a magician as well and i know how the cup part was done....its a metallic glass and the table is magnetic when a switch it pushed, but cant figure out the pencil part other than like u said
No.. This was done with two things in mind. Balance and pressure to hold the cup. Essentially shorts the bodies circuitry to allow the arm to move up as he's applying pressure to the cup and using certain muscles to reduce his lift. Also the power of suggestion to imply the crystal is interrupting his natural rhythm.. Balance. As in balancing the crystal on the back of his hand.
Yes: no stone or crystal vibrates without some sort of pressure or added energy, so something else is going on. These are tricks plus modern, well-delivered, psychological mush.
did you guys even notice the embedded commands that derren gave during the intro of the video? he surely knows how to work with the subconcious mind....
just try and pick up a cup by pinching it, and placing something atop of your hand. it will feel like lead.. with a heavy enough object, the effect will last a while. That's possibly explained cause your hands dont have muscles, just tendons. the muscles you use are remote, and therefor even a relatively light load will acidify them rather quickly, due to the high tension placed on them. no hipnotism required.
Power of suggestion as well as manipulating muscles into position which enables the arms to be strained without too. much effort.. But implying the crystal is "interfering" with his bodies natural rhythm.
Psychology, showmanship and a very well placed crystal.. Also, NLP language and an understanding of how someone needs to be plied in order for this trick to work properly.
The power of suggestion at work. Belief? Why not trust Derren Brown when he puts it in such a way? What allows this to happen? It's not the subject matter but rather finding a some thing to believe in for even a few short moments. Isn't that what Derren's mission has been all along? How deceptable we are, to want to believe?
"Why not trust Derren Brown when he puts it in such a way?" Because he's an *entertainer* and it's his job to be untrustworthy? It is amazing to me that no one trusts magicians cuz we all know it's just gimmicks and trickery, but suddenly if you doll it up in one really specific form of patter - mystic superstition - people suddenly think it's heresy to call it into question. It's all the same basic techniques every magician is using. You don't suddenly think Penn & Teller are *actually* possessed of the ability to catch bullets out of the air with their teeth, do you? You don't think Criss Angel can really levitate, right? David Blaine isn't actually doing any of the things he makes it look like he's doing. It's trickery. That's the whole conceit of magic. It's really impressive, requires a ton of practice and talent, but it's all just a trick. So why would you believe that the nonsense Derren Brown says when he talks about ELP or crystals or whatever are real? It's just magician's patter. He's not even actually trying to get you to believe him for real... it's just window dressing for the trick.
Daryl Harkins It doesn't the bottom of the mug is just painted when the rest of it is white. You do realise even for regular TV a whole team of people watch it before it goes out if anything in the video gave revealed that it was a magic trick they wouldve cut that part out considering he made his whole career on not being a magician. If he was to fake it though it would make a lot more sense to get the professional actor to pretend rather than attaching extremely strong magnets to household objects
Guys. It's a trick. Derren Brown is an entertainer and a magician... not a miraculous spiritualist, or whatever. If a magician, in the course of performing a trick, starts creating fanciful stories about how the trick is supposed to work, you're not *actually* supposed to believe them or take them seriously. It's just window-dressing.
Does anyone know why marty cant do the things asked of him after the Crystal and the phone is placed on his body? it cant be all "power of suggestion" can it? Of course we'd (I) would love to know the trick!
I wouldn't dismiss the use of crystals as some type of quackery quite so quickly. There's a rather off the wall scientist who's name escapes me who made batteries from those massive WW2 gun casings and filled with different rocks including crystals. Sure you wouldn't be able to run your TV off them and the most they were able to do was light up an LED but it demonstrates that crystals hold some extremely unique properties despite what Derren would have you believe.
Yes that's correct, uniformed lab grown diamonds to be exact, which can help in quantum computing and can store ridiculous amounts of information. Funny thing about lab grown diamonds is they hold more carats than any diamond ever dug up from the ground. Indeed the way to tell you have a grown diamond would be the fact it's too perfect!! Also notice how we never hear about grown diamonds? I wonder how much the diamond industry would lose if we just started making them ourselves on mass?! It would be in their interests to keep this kind of info quiet I'm sure (although there is a step by step on the internet)! Oh btw, the scientist I was talking about in my OP is called John Hutchinson. If you type in The Hutchison effect into TH-cam you'll see what I mean. He's one of those nutty professor types, half mad half genius :)
Imagine wearing the Crown Jewels in St. Paul's Cathedral (on a 'ley-line' ?) during an eclipse with some mad bitch/bastard banging away on that damn gorgeous Grand Organ. A bit like that US Treasurer Steve Mnuchin (sp.) Fort Knox eclipse story. Vibrations, man. We are all in constant flux.
I think that this is really all to do with someones will/determination; if one is weak willed then they are going to do what Derren wants them to do. This is also how hypnosis works.
Everyone and anyone can be hypnotised or enter trance it's a natural mind state hardwired into humans. Some are better at it and it's the highly creative and intelligent people it works best with.
James Cox It's a trick. It's only a trick. Derren Brown uses patter that reaches toward the mystical/pseudo-scientific, but that's just a style choice. You can dress the trick up however you want, but the way it works has nothing to do with any of it. In fact, no magician's patter is ever actually going to be close to how the trick really works... that's kind of the point.
i've seen two friends hypnotized , one by derren , one by paul mcKenna . It took less than 2 seconds , i was amazed how quick it happened , nothing to do with being weak willed. Everyone can be hypnotised , some people just take longer and are no good for stage/street hypnotism.
The food plate was metal and they turned on the magnetic table right at the time of the cell phone call. The coffee cup could also have had metal in it, and was "stuck" to the table as soon as a person in another room looking at a video monitor switched "ON" the magnetic table switch. That explains 2 of the tricks, but the pencil was a slightly different type of trick.
Tried the one with the cup, waited the same amount of time he did before allowed to try, similar mug, real quartz etc. Did not work. I presume this works on your arm becoming tired and then the stone backs up some psychological aspect and thus makes you *feel* unable to lift the mug.
Callen He was likely pre-hypnotized. Many people who have been on Derren's show have said that Derren pre-hypnotizes them off-camera and they simply wait for a command for the "magic" to work. It's all hypnotism.
No shit. Obviously its all to do with psychology, but who is not to say this is scripted. Surely you aren't stupid enough to believe everything you see on TV.
Edd O I don't think anything I know how it is done. Put it this way, Derren is very good at it and is a legend in my eyes for exposing and showing the possibilities but it's all dark and deceptive.
Lol easy, he makes him talk while his hand is in that uncomfortable position. Every second passes indeed makes his hand weaker. Ends up with him struggling.
Here my engineering mind goes like: “metal base in the cup and the plate, easy to cast prop cups and plates with a iron base in it. And have an door holding electro magnet, that is remotely controlled in the table top and a nice LiPo battery that power it and voila instant “heavy” plate”. This is how I as an Special Effects guy would do it. That’s a full proof method so you don’t have to rely on a suggestible person. But the latter is easy enough as well, says the stage hypnotist in me, if you selected a few celebs that passed suggestibility tests and you invite one for this demonstration then you are all set. You never really know what Derren and his team decides to use.
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“John, John, Look at me, and SLEEEEP” from Sherlock Homes Series
Legendary! i watched this scene a thousand times...
@@artistsformerlyknown4049 what scene?
MARTIN’S LAUGH IS SO PURE AND BEAUTIFUL I LOVE IT
I think the 'power' comes from the warbly music kicks in
Clever uploading this after a good Sherlock episode is released.
"Has it got Bluetooth on it?"
"no" - shows how old this program is haha
Derren:"You'll get a few malignant headaches for the next couple of days.." Martin? "Ah, ok cool, cool." anybody else thought that that was the most Bilbo reply to that ever?
"If it loses, my precious, we eats it whole"
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 "fair enough"
Whenever he doesn't want him to lift something, Derren says "try" instead of "lift."
"is that sexual energy" 😂😂😂😂😂
yeah. yeah quite complicated 😂😂
Derren Brown's like the real life Sherlock Holmes
No he's not.
Martin Freeman...best Arthur Dent there could ever be.
thetravelinghermit could never get the hang of thursdays
"Arthur Dent (died 1607) was an English Puritan cleric, known as an author and preacher.
" If you say so...
The 00's :
Derren: "Got Bluetooth on the phone?"
Martin: "I'm a modest actor, not a billionaire"
This also works when you put anything on the back of your hand.
Kleavers ...it that a fact that it works with anything on the back of hand
Nope.
Nilguiri i thought so , i tried it with a coin on my hand back and lifted a 2olb weight with no problem....any idea how it works ?
Illusions Unlimited
Well, firstly, don't forget that Derren is a magician, but I imagine that it works in the same way that any hypnosis trick works; by suggestion. Derren planted the idea that the crystal actually would have some effect and Freeman had said that he had an open mind about it. But I am 100% sure that the crystal itself did nothing, neither did the fact that he had something on the back of his hand. It's all about getting in his head and putting him into a state of hyperattention and heightening suggestability so that when he suggests that he will not be able to lift the cup, his mind is willing to accept it and comply. It's not fully understood exactly how hypnosis works. Maybe it was just a conjuring trick, but I think hypnosis is more likely. I'm no expert! Cheers.
Nilguiri i know i am a magician as well and i know how the cup part was done....its a metallic glass and the table is magnetic when a switch it pushed, but cant figure out the pencil part other than like u said
No.. This was done with two things in mind.
Balance and pressure to hold the cup.
Essentially shorts the bodies circuitry to allow the arm to move up as he's applying pressure to the cup and using certain muscles to reduce his lift. Also the power of suggestion to imply the crystal is interrupting his natural rhythm..
Balance. As in balancing the crystal on the back of his hand.
Or magnets?
Yes: no stone or crystal vibrates without some sort of pressure or added energy, so something else is going on. These are tricks plus modern, well-delivered, psychological mush.
ha! true!
“Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!”
can crystal energy also tell when the 4th episode will air??? 😜
bruh how old are these episodes?
Not *bold*?
John Aldred teehee
I'm gonna say like 2007 bc i am a Martin freeman Stan tbh
O wait someone said that 🙃
fbspin quite older
did you guys even notice the embedded commands that derren gave during the intro of the video? he surely knows how to work with the subconcious mind....
Two of my favorite persons? Yes please, thank you so much
just try and pick up a cup by pinching it, and placing something atop of your hand. it will feel like lead.. with a heavy enough object, the effect will last a while. That's possibly explained cause your hands dont have muscles, just tendons. the muscles you use are remote, and therefor even a relatively light load will acidify them rather quickly, due to the high tension placed on them. no hipnotism required.
Electromagnet underneath mug that has a remote controlled variable resistor, the mug has a metal plate on the bottom
David Billingham wrong, try again
Power of suggestion as well as manipulating muscles into position which enables the arms to be strained without too. much effort.. But implying the crystal is "interfering" with his bodies natural rhythm.
i have aids and this makes me feel better watching these thanks deren bron
Darren people are fancying you
Crisps and a sandwich? Could you get any more British....
Bacon sarnie with a cuppa and waiting in a queue and someone says "erm, excuse me?"
Oh come on there is no way that would work, surely Martin Freeman was just acting a part there!
Paul O'Sullivan Or Derren hypnotised him to believe he couldn't pick it up etc.
This is what hypnotizing does. It makes people do or don't do stuff.
Paul O'Sullivan It's psychology. He even states so himself in this video
Psychology, showmanship and a very well placed crystal..
Also, NLP language and an understanding of how someone needs to be plied in order for this trick to work properly.
Anyone notice the metal plate on the bottom of the mug, clearly there is a powerful magnet under the table
2.49 is the time, pause the video and look at the bottom
Didn’t even check the mug before this
The power of suggestion at work. Belief?
Why not trust Derren Brown when he puts it in such a way?
What allows this to happen? It's not the subject matter but rather finding a some thing to believe in for even a few short moments. Isn't that what Derren's mission has been all along? How deceptable we are, to want to believe?
"Why not trust Derren Brown when he puts it in such a way?"
Because he's an *entertainer* and it's his job to be untrustworthy? It is amazing to me that no one trusts magicians cuz we all know it's just gimmicks and trickery, but suddenly if you doll it up in one really specific form of patter - mystic superstition - people suddenly think it's heresy to call it into question.
It's all the same basic techniques every magician is using. You don't suddenly think Penn & Teller are *actually* possessed of the ability to catch bullets out of the air with their teeth, do you? You don't think Criss Angel can really levitate, right? David Blaine isn't actually doing any of the things he makes it look like he's doing. It's trickery. That's the whole conceit of magic. It's really impressive, requires a ton of practice and talent, but it's all just a trick. So why would you believe that the nonsense Derren Brown says when he talks about ELP or crystals or whatever are real? It's just magician's patter. He's not even actually trying to get you to believe him for real... it's just window dressing for the trick.
Can I look at your phone?
Ooh it's one of those fancy ones.
This episode just shows what a great actor Martin is ^^
It's called the ideomotor effect.
Pay attention when they show a close up of the mug at 2:48, and ask yourself, why would a ceramic mug have a metal bottom?
Daryl Harkins It doesn't the bottom of the mug is just painted when the rest of it is white. You do realise even for regular TV a whole team of people watch it before it goes out if anything in the video gave revealed that it was a magic trick they wouldve cut that part out considering he made his whole career on not being a magician. If he was to fake it though it would make a lot more sense to get the professional actor to pretend rather than attaching extremely strong magnets to household objects
That could have been Gareth phoning Tim to make more pig impressions 😅
So funny when he said 'it feels stupidly heavy'! that's what I say about my shopping ;)
Anyone else notice that the bar he is in during this interview is one of the bars he filmed in in the movie "the worlds end?"
Martin is just gorgeous without even trying
Is he doing anything new at the moment ?
Deagh have fun :D I wish I could watch him live
Deagh I hope so...
Zack Shortjohn he just released something a few weeks ago
Guys. It's a trick. Derren Brown is an entertainer and a magician... not a miraculous spiritualist, or whatever. If a magician, in the course of performing a trick, starts creating fanciful stories about how the trick is supposed to work, you're not *actually* supposed to believe them or take them seriously. It's just window-dressing.
You know that he tells Martin at the end that all the crystal vibration stuff he said is rubbish and that he made it all up.
My friend needs to see this :). She puts crystals in her bra and comes to work and sometimes they fall out - but she thinks they are protecting her :)
She should just buy a necklace with a wire cage.
Some things only have as much power as you give it.
Other things only have as much power as their rechargeable batteries will hold.
I've had this done to me before and your arms feel all weak
He couldn't lift the mug or the pencil because he was laughing his arse off.
Does anyone know why marty cant do the things asked of him after the Crystal and the phone is placed on his body? it cant be all "power of suggestion" can it? Of course we'd (I) would love to know the trick!
I wouldn't dismiss the use of crystals as some type of quackery quite so quickly. There's a rather off the wall scientist who's name escapes me who made batteries from those massive WW2 gun casings and filled with different rocks including crystals. Sure you wouldn't be able to run your TV off them and the most they were able to do was light up an LED but it demonstrates that crystals hold some extremely unique properties despite what Derren would have you believe.
Piezo electric crystals are real. All the other new age nonsense is bullshit.
lee cook there was something about storing data or pictures or something in crystal if I'm not mistaken
Yes that's correct, uniformed lab grown diamonds to be exact, which can help in quantum computing and can store ridiculous amounts of information.
Funny thing about lab grown diamonds is they hold more carats than any diamond ever dug up from the ground. Indeed the way to tell you have a grown diamond would be the fact it's too perfect!! Also notice how we never hear about grown diamonds? I wonder how much the diamond industry would lose if we just started making them ourselves on mass?! It would be in their interests to keep this kind of info quiet I'm sure (although there is a step by step on the internet)!
Oh btw, the scientist I was talking about in my OP is called John Hutchinson. If you type in The Hutchison effect into TH-cam you'll see what I mean. He's one of those nutty professor types, half mad half genius :)
Tim has finally taken up psychology
I love how you build them up to believe you are semi sceptical, as if there may be some truth buried I the pretext lol
Crystal Pepsi is the only New Age power that I need.
Never seen Mr Maddens play with crystals
The beauty of magnets :)
This guy really makes people question reality.
Huh, my local pub. Fancy that.
Nuggets of truth. Spot on, DB.
for an older version
Imagine wearing the Crown Jewels in St. Paul's Cathedral (on a 'ley-line' ?) during an eclipse with some mad bitch/bastard banging away on that damn gorgeous Grand Organ. A bit like that US Treasurer Steve Mnuchin (sp.) Fort Knox eclipse story. Vibrations, man. We are all in constant flux.
It's fake, he is a paid actor
Oh wait... he is
Placebo is a hell of a drug.
magnet in cup?
I think he was just hypnotized. Nothing to do with the crystals. My opinion
I think he was hypnotized.
Alda Silva you better believe it
No.. He was mildy tranced.. When he asked him to concentrate on the crystal but listen to him.
Darren does not love us anymore. He’s 1 billion trillion zillion air
my dog got licked by a helicopter and the table became toothbrushes
timestamp: let this be a reminder of another wave of Tai Lopez scam vids. This guy sure is full of KNAWLEDGE
Do you guys prefer derren with or without hair? 😜
With
kelsterz lolli Either is fine by me :) I'm just not a fan of the beard he had in this particular vid
without
With
They have a good chemistry together. Derren you may hypnotise me whenever you want. However it can't be done.
Martin needs to touch all my crystals*-* Ahhh, this made me so happy :3 And how he said "aiaiai". Nawww.
I think that this is really all to do with someones will/determination; if one is weak willed then they are going to do what Derren wants them to do. This is also how hypnosis works.
Then tell me why is it that some people can not be hypnotized?
Everyone and anyone can be hypnotised or enter trance it's a natural mind state hardwired into humans. Some are better at it and it's the highly creative and intelligent people it works best with.
James Cox It's a trick. It's only a trick. Derren Brown uses patter that reaches toward the mystical/pseudo-scientific, but that's just a style choice. You can dress the trick up however you want, but the way it works has nothing to do with any of it. In fact, no magician's patter is ever actually going to be close to how the trick really works... that's kind of the point.
i've seen two friends hypnotized , one by derren , one by paul mcKenna . It took less than 2 seconds , i was amazed how quick it happened , nothing to do with being weak willed. Everyone can be hypnotised , some people just take longer and are no good for stage/street hypnotism.
This guy is an actor.
The power of the mind.
This also works when you believe in make belief
Lord of the Crystals
How
Magnets
Those are vibranium crystals.
The food plate was metal and they turned on the magnetic table right at the time of the cell phone call. The coffee cup could also have had metal in it, and was "stuck" to the table as soon as a person in another room looking at a video monitor switched "ON" the magnetic table switch. That explains 2 of the tricks, but the pencil was a slightly different type of trick.
"you have bluetooth?" "Umm no I don't think so" Fuck me....
Bradley Bell this was like early 2000s
magnets
he's such a baby
I really dont believe the stuff Derren does. I would need to do it myself to confirm or disprove my suspicions.
Tried the one with the cup, waited the same amount of time he did before allowed to try, similar mug, real quartz etc. Did not work. I presume this works on your arm becoming tired and then the stone backs up some psychological aspect and thus makes you *feel* unable to lift the mug.
The stone does nothing, obviously. Derren is a magician.
Callen He was likely pre-hypnotized. Many people who have been on Derren's show have said that Derren pre-hypnotizes them off-camera and they simply wait for a command for the "magic" to work. It's all hypnotism.
It is all psychology. He is manipulating people through it.
No shit. Obviously its all to do with psychology, but who is not to say this is scripted. Surely you aren't stupid enough to believe everything you see on TV.
This is menthol
I am left handed too like martin OH MA GOD
Help me Derren am sick in bed yet
Psychology wins again!
Breath
Martin freeman gained some weight
BILBO BAGGINS!?!?
Electromagnets...
He thinks magnets hehehehe!
What do you think?
Edd O I don't think anything I know how it is done.
Put it this way, Derren is very good at it and is a legend in my eyes for exposing and showing the possibilities but it's all dark and deceptive.
Not all is dark actually but still deceptive none the less. Trickery.
ah ok you think its hypnotic suggestion,
Nonsense
How does Martin Freeman look better now than he did 11 years ago?
Lol easy, he makes him talk while his hand is in that uncomfortable position. Every second passes indeed makes his hand weaker. Ends up with him struggling.
Bruh your arm doesnt just become that much weaker so far LMAO. Have you ever tried lifting? Jeez
When I saw this I got so excited that he did a video with Morgan Freeman then got confused and dissapointed
Here my engineering mind goes like: “metal base in the cup and the plate, easy to cast prop cups and plates with a iron base in it.
And have an door holding electro magnet, that is remotely controlled in the table top and a nice LiPo battery that power it and voila instant “heavy” plate”. This is how I as an Special Effects guy would do it.
That’s a full proof method so you don’t have to rely on a suggestible person. But the latter is easy enough as well, says the stage hypnotist in me, if you selected a few celebs that passed suggestibility tests and you invite one for this demonstration then you are all set.
You never really know what Derren and his team decides to use.
Poor bilbo
martin you are so cute xx
Amazing
Supposed
just hypnosis guys...
Shhhh!
crumpet in my arse
Oh
How much did they pay you, Martin? I can see him finding this hilarious at times.
bilbo baggins
Erm, don't try to talk about physics or biology if you can't, please.
Oi no professionals....