+Gennaro rossi Why are you focussed on gay sexuality? Having some issues with your own sexuality? Does it secretly turn you on?Because.. why bother if that's not true.
The suggestive techniques and cinematography is top notch. Absolutely impressive and all the reasons to make you love Derren and fear him. Great video, and really wish this show was more widely known in the states... But then again I feel like I'm in a secret society for seeing this. Well done, cheers mate.
+Chet Bennetts Doing suggestion on yourself is very difficult. I mean if you prescribe yourself a placebo, you have to be a special sort of person for it to work for you.
+Chet Bennetts PhotoReading by Paul Scheele (Learning Strategies Corp) is very similar technique. One of the key points made by Darren’s was that all the information will fade away if it isn’t reviewed, PhotoReading teaches you how to review and activate the information. This is the closes I have come to finding anything near a real world application for this technique.
This is my favourite treat of all - I'm a manic quizzer. It's true that answers can just pop into your head without trying. Our team was once asked in which decade Tolkein published his LOTR trilogy, and '50s' just appeared in my head, as I had read it somewhere - and not recently, either. It had been about ten years before, when I was trying to read the trilogy itself. Unfortunately a team mate thought it was the 60s, and I started to doubt myself, so we said 60s and lost the point. Thanks to that, I now insist on going with my - or any other team member's - gut instinct, in lieu of a solid 'I know this' answer.
@Tim He's Derren Brown. There was a Tick and a Treat card. But he's Derren Brown. You cannot pick the card he doesn't want you to. He had him a moment where he'd been shitting himself a few seconds ago, so he was in a highly suggestable mood, letting Derren direct which one he picked easily.
How amazing was that? I have watched several of these type of Derren's missions on tv and missed this one and probably a few others. What an experience that must have been and what an incentive to go on and learn more. I struggled at a good Grammar School and left as soon as I could at sixteen. (I'm 61 now). I would love to go back and do my GCE's again having learned like that!
I am confused , bacauce he wrote about this method in his book "trick of the mind" and there he explained how he went in a class which was supposed to teach people how to process massive amounts of information and expand their memory. The method was the following: they were thaught to only look at the pages of the book and to create a mental picture of them without any reading. Derren said that this was absurd, fake and does not work like that... Not sure how he managed to pull this off.. Maybe he used suggestion to make this guy answer his questions in the beginning , but how he won 2nd place in the pub quiz is beyond me. Incredible... I would love to know his tricks and how he did it. Derren is freaking legend, love him so much. Cheers!
I used this method of cramming for my year ten certificate and got a 98% in a subject that I never listened in. I tried to explain it to my friends as "you're not memorizing one thing in particular, you're remembering things you already know that are linked in your mind to the new information''. Anyway, I did it and they all thought I was crazy.
I think sometimes this happens to me in general, not with everything of course. But i might read something, then a day or so later i'll have a conversation and i'll bring up what i had read about, and the information just comes out of nowhere, even though i made no attempt at remembering what i read.
Yeah I find this too and even just by speaking or typing this up I'm not actually thinking about what I'm saying words are just spilling out of my mouth. Before I wrote this sentence I had no idea what I was going to say yet as I type it, it seems to come straight out.
+Francesca Marshall it's like the thing about us only using 10% of our brain so when we answer a question we're using more of our brain to access prior knowledge. If we couldn't do this then we'd never remember how to speak in the first place
Possibly the only book he's reading there (assuming he is reading them) is the big red book at 7:41 - The Penquin Ultimate Trivia Quiz Game Book. Not only is this full of general knowledge which he needs to know (in comparison to thick books on one or few subjects), it's actually a book that quiz hosts often carelessly use.
A similar thing happened to me in school, I was doing a Physics GCSE and didn't know anything so just skimmed over my books the night before. During the exams all the answers just seemed to come to me and I got all but one question correct. I can't remember anything from those books now though
Just to clarify one fact that Derren makes, the quiz master is the only one in the room that knows the questions beforehand, notice that Derren or a team member that may be controlling the device isn't in the room, and why Derren didn't say just "the only person who knows the answers"
I can't believe no one notices that the way those Trick or Treat cards are written, they can say Trick if held one way, and Treat if held around the other way. Pause on the card, then turn your head and it will say the opposite word. It's Derren's choice what they get.
+Josh Zook Considering Derren divulges this information in one of his shows this isn't exactly uncommon knowledge. But also it's only one of the cards that is gimmicked to be able to read trick or treat, and the other one just says trick.
+Josh Zook You're actually wrong this time. It was true they were ambigrams in the first series. This is the second series where he used regular trick or treat cards.
I'm sure what Derren did here was took a reasonably suggestible person and taught him the 'Linking' technique which he explains in his books. He will have taught him this technique subtly without the person realising. Everything else like the speed reading is just misdirection. This is confirmed with some of the things the subject says. Clever editing as always from Derren's team and although the actual linking technique might be quite simple, it is still the main idea for the idea of the show - that trying to remember a long list of words (or answers to pub questions in this case) can be easy to do even though you may believe you aren't the best at remembering things. However, it does mean that Derren needed to know which questions would be asked and i'm absolutely sure he does know.
but this is why i have a problem with Derren if hes letting this go out into public and presenting it as a technique if in fact its really just a trick. i hope he would have another honestly to say so if this is the case. But Derren does seem an honest guy that leads me to lean on the side the technique does in fact work.
I agree and Derren is a mentalist, NOT somebody claiming to stick to some moral code. If you watch any number of his shows it is pretty clear these are more elaborate mind f*cks than what we are being told. Sometimes he explains them and sometimes he doesn't but when he doesn't it is to prove the point that with the proper training in deception techniques you can convince people of anything.
The way that he remembered the SHOES sign is the same way that those people who wake up after an accident and can speak a new language works. They think genuinely that it's supernatural or a past life - but it seriously is that they see small things throughout their lives and it's unlocked In a way
+Torbax Yeah, we could always use some new material. But there is the shows, which are great! And it is a nice touch by Derren to make these older videos available.
I'm from the Netherlands, never seen his shows or tv stuff, just kinda stumbled upon them on youtube and been trying to figure out how to watch more material, but this is nice haha I love that it gets uploaded on youtube ^-^ but yea like with this episode you kinda miss some here and there I guess
+Torbax Then you have some goodies ahead of you. There are several tv series, specials, documentary style features, and stage shows. The latter are really my favorites. I have rewatched them several times. There are even two books where he talks about hypnosis, suggestion, magic etc.
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS. 8:22 in slowmo. 319,pic of hummingbird, car and fax. Guy was given cues just like you have in this video. Brilliant Derren Brown. I know how this sutff works but enjoy the excellent routine anyways.
He did a thing with Richard and Judy where he made them think of the word 'shoe'. I reckon he used a similar technique here and just let the man believe he had subconsciously remembered.
This shows that everyone has superior qualities so called, it's really up to you and based on your thought processes on how it manifests or how one triggers it....
+Matthías Örn Friðriksson No, it is something almost anyone who hasn't already got the Alzheimesr's disease can learn. I could have you learn some 30-50 new words and so much of the basic grammar of a language you have never seen before, that you can form your own phrases - all in about 45 Minutes. It is really easy - it is a matter of working with the basic capabilities of your mind and not against them like it is done 90% of the time.
Črt Sužnik The umbrella term for such techniques is "mnemo techniqes", and specifically we are here dealing with the socalled "photo reading", a method of speed reading. There are lots of YT videos on these subjects. And about "the writing on the wall" - there is nothing really strange about that and we also do not know what happened during his train journey. All we know, is that the woman in the red coat was close to him all the time. So there has been several occasions to anchor the term "shoes" in his mind, like the woman sitting within his view adjusting her shoes or something like that, mentally connecting that with the red coat, which again makes him look in the direction of the ATM. This obviously works as a "convincer" so that the trainee not just has to believe this will work, rather than he knows it - and thus it becomes imaginable that the photoreading of the books will actually make sense. He was obviously taught other mnemo techniques too - otherwise he would hardly have visualized things like a car and a fax for "Carfax Galleries".
+Octopussyist and photoreading would also work with learning a new language? For instance one could photoread a dictionary and suddenly know most of the words in it?
Črt Sužnik Basically yes, at least what your passive vocabulary is concerned. The problem is, you need to review the material a relatively short time after photoreading it to make it stick for a long time. For learning languages and to boost your vocabulary in a language there are better methods for keeping acquired knowledge active for a long time.
Awesome Derren! I would absolutly love to learn such a technique. I already achived a small Memory Palace because of your techniques. Ill figure out how this one workes ;D
+Marc Kletz (Vulkanos) PhotoReading by Paul Scheele (Learning Strategies Corp) is very similar technique. One of the key points made by Darren’s was that all the information will fade away if it isn’t reviewed, PhotoReading teaches you how to review and activate the information. This is the closes I have come to finding anything near a real world application for this technique.
The elevator thing... Oh hell no. I'd have had a serious panic attack! This guy was so freaking calm, why wasn't he screaming and pissing himself lololol
The Sheffield Wednesday question (maybe others too) shows that this couldn't really have been done by somehow absorbing masses of information from a load of books, since it relies on combining two distinct (if seemingly related) facts: which teams are not in the Premier League at the moment, and of those teams which has won most league titles?
@@jameskilgour387 I grant you it's far from impossible, though his knowledge is surely a bit beside the point, since the key to him doing so well surely lies in something DB does.
what a strange thing, in this episode and the one of the poker woman the two participants arrived second, seem like darren doesn't want to exaggerate and let people think it is fake
yh man idk if its real or fake some of it is just too crazy. but i must say i can relate to this video, sometimes i just randomly know stuff its weird. like i would be doing a quiz or something and i'd get the answer without really thinking about it.
I used a similar technique to score well in school. But I can't do that scanning thing, I link things I need to remember to things that are already in my memory. Like that Carfax Gallery thing. It showed up in his minds eye as a picture of a car emitting a fax....ergo Carfax Gallery.
The text seen at around 10:05 is from the "Tate Etc" magazine, and not from a book (unless there's a hardcover compilation edition of the magazine). The second book is the Reader's Digest Book of Facts (you can see the cover), but the text seen in the closeup seems to be from a website (the "new world encyclopedia"). I don't think those closeups are what's on the actual pages.
Could easily be me... I think (most probably not though) I have some knowledge how it is done, it is still amazing to watch... It is like I did a really simple trick to an "amateur" magician... and watched he's mind got "blown"... i was ashamed to show him how I did it because it was so simple.... and what he did was for me "mind blowing"... so my lesson learned was it is not how complex the trick is, it is the way you perform the trick that makes it a good one or not. And even "tricksters" can be "mind blowned"... We are just people... Derren is just the master mindblower :-) And I love it! can't stop watching him...
I've heard of People having Brain injuries and then been able to speak fluent French even thoe they haven't studied French for years, and when they did they weren't that good at it. It's amazing how the subconscious mind stores everything we sense.
I'd learn more from Derren than the 10 years I've been in school to be honest. I'm going to (not) try my very hardest to use this technique for future exams. I'll probably update this a lot further into the future to see if this worked or not. (Basically risking my year 10 exams for you guys).
Hello, my dads mate was driving my dad to work one day, and fell asleep at the wheel, luckily my dad woke him up quick time and the driver re positioned the car... Now when my dad was home from work, my relatives were round including my gran (dads mother), and she felt that she HAD to ask my dad, what he was doing in the morning at around 8am. (time of the incident) She felt so compelled to ask because she woke up at around that time, shouting "MARTIN!!" (my dads name). She didn't picture a crash of any sort but she did feel as if she had to know if he was okay. An experience she had never had before. I just thought id drop this story in here because you type of people will probably be interested and you may even have something interesting to say back.
+MrWeeRhys Everything is 1, all part of the same consciousness...they way we treat others, we do to ourselves...the butterfly effect, quantum entanglement, call it what you want. For this reason I don't eat meat/dairy because I know animals are suffering for it and I can get everything from plants. Also I hug trees, jump and feel the earth's vibration/energy with my hands too to connect with the earth. And I believe we should love our muscles, not try and burn them out. It's all a matter of perception...and I've gone off on a tangent so I'll just stop haha
+MrWeeRhys Wow. That is nice. Loads of such things happened in my family too and especially among my father's relatives. Look up Rupert Sheldrake - he as done some thorough research in such matters.
Derren is a great covert hypnotist, I don't know how, but I was thinking of the word car aswell, "from somewhere in the darkness something will come forward" not really sure but he put it there somewhere.
Did anyone else notice that Glen was not applying the reading technique with the horned fingers in some of the cutaway shots where he is just turning over the pages very quickly. I think it’s all an act for tv entertainment a bit like Criss Angel magic tricks for TV.
I think the key here is that Glenn does actually have a poor memory which aids in him picking up long term visual queues and the linking technique. The books he was given have an abundance of pictures and answers most of which were tailored to the questions he would be asked. Spend a couple days only seeing imagery and answers that will be relevant on a short quiz and your gonna do pretty well.
Notice how they get a Trick when the card is the one that can be trick or treat just by turning the card upside down, but they get a treat when you can't do that, and the cards are different (like now)
6 and a half months before my GCSEs, knowing nothing about maths and only a moderate knowledge on biology and trying to get grades which enable me to study psychology... i can't say I'm not thinking about using this for revsing
i think derren roughly knew what the questions would be and doctored the books in certain ways to subtly reveal the words that needed to stck in Glens head.
You two made good observations, and with Derren being an illusionist, what you both stated is a possibility. But that would mean that he would have known what the quiz questions were prior to the event. In the video though, Derren stated that he had no contact with Andy, and Andy didn't know that Derren was involved. So assuming that's true, then Derren either 1) snuck a look at the questions beforehand, or 2) implemented subconscious photo-reading as demonstrated in the video. Either way, I found it really interesting.
Jeff O derren usually does a lot of preparation so maybe he went to loads of pub quizes prior to see what the most likley types of questions/subjects are at these events. even though he never met andy a bit of internet research/stalking could probably provide insight onto where hes pulling his inspirations for questions. i wouldnt be surprised if derren went under cover online as an anonymous social media "friend" of andys and influenced the questions picked by providing links/pics/fake ads etc that all direct andy to interesting world facts that if saw by a quizmaster would make them think "wow i didnt know that...that would make for a good question at the next pub quiz" so yeah my best guess is that derren influenced the questions first then made sure the books were set out in certain ways to plant the answers in Glens head
+CJ Rocky Even if that is true, let's say Derren ACTUALLY PICKED the questions, the way Glen accessed and provided the right (enough to place him on #2) answers is remarkable!
I would give a lung to be taught almost anything by Derren. Not my lung, but a lung.
+Gennaro rossi IM NOT GAY BUT I WOULD SEXUALY PLEASE HIM OUT OF RESPECT FOR HIS INTELIGENECE :)
inteligenece
Magnivore519
im stupid so its ok
+Gennaro rossi Why are you focussed on gay sexuality? Having some issues with your own sexuality? Does it secretly turn you on?Because.. why bother if that's not true.
+Magnivore519 I've got two but what do I get out of it?
Derren's one of the best things to ever happen to British television.
to the world!!!!
he's a bit of eye candy as well. The sort I could never be with because he would wind me up to the point of murder
+Stella4eva Well he's gay, so I guess there's more than one reason you could never be with him xD.
"I'm feeling like that's the most bizarre episode of my entire life."
Derren: "Fantastic. Okay."
i tried this for my gcses and got 6 Us 3Cs and a B cheers darren
Alfie Mills You must be a failure in life.
Really??
can't even remember his name... how you supposed to remember your answers!
what's a fucking U. is that even a possible grade? ABCDEF.....
Alexander Supertramp unmarked because it’s so shit basically
What I love is the fact that, upon hearing a question, the answer comes into his mind and *then* he learns what he already knew.
The suggestive techniques and cinematography is top notch. Absolutely impressive and all the reasons to make you love Derren and fear him. Great video, and really wish this show was more widely known in the states... But then again I feel like I'm in a secret society for seeing this. Well done, cheers mate.
+TheMysticCraft86 are you able to expand on your observation of what suggestive techniques are employed and can one do them on themselves?
+Chet Bennetts Doing suggestion on yourself is very difficult. I mean if you prescribe yourself a placebo, you have to be a special sort of person for it to work for you.
+TheMysticCraft86 is it worth 20min can u use some tehniques as uni student please answer , i dont have 20min atm
+Chet Bennetts PhotoReading by Paul Scheele (Learning Strategies Corp) is very similar technique. One of the key points made by Darren’s was that all the information will fade away if it isn’t reviewed, PhotoReading teaches you how to review and activate the information. This is the closes I have come to finding anything near a real world application for this technique.
+TheMysticCraft86 I know what you mean. I feel like I'm the only American that watches Derren Brown.
This is my favourite treat of all - I'm a manic quizzer. It's true that answers can just pop into your head without trying. Our team was once asked in which decade Tolkein published his LOTR trilogy, and '50s' just appeared in my head, as I had read it somewhere - and not recently, either. It had been about ten years before, when I was trying to read the trilogy itself. Unfortunately a team mate thought it was the 60s, and I started to doubt myself, so we said 60s and lost the point. Thanks to that, I now insist on going with my - or any other team member's - gut instinct, in lieu of a solid 'I know this' answer.
Here is a token of my appreciation
I feel like this is all Glen does now.
Glen lives happily in his mind palace now.
Can we take a moment and appreciate just how good that guys handwriting is. I wish mine was that neat
It's print not handwriting but yes it's very good printing.
My head master is a member of the winning team.... what a small world
BRO, tell us more!!! do you know ANYTHING about this???? plzzz
I watched this video the night before my science exam after getting Ds in every mock. I came out with a B. Thanks Darren mate. Bloody hell.
Lol no way 😂 fair play mate
I really hope he put this stuff down in a book somewhere because I really want to try it myself. Looks ultra cool to me!
I need Derren in my life so much always love watching him live xx
Was anyone else very surprised that the card actually said treat lol
They both say trick and treat, turn it upside down and treat becomes trick.
no, no they dont, only in his previous episodes it does
Correct, in this episode they both say treat.. He never showed the unpicked card;)
@Tim He's Derren Brown. There was a Tick and a Treat card. But he's Derren Brown. You cannot pick the card he doesn't want you to. He had him a moment where he'd been shitting himself a few seconds ago, so he was in a highly suggestable mood, letting Derren direct which one he picked easily.
How amazing was that? I have watched several of these type of Derren's missions on tv and missed this one and probably a few others. What an experience that must have been and what an incentive to go on and learn more. I struggled at a good Grammar School and left as soon as I could at sixteen. (I'm 61 now). I would love to go back and do my GCE's again having learned like that!
I love how that sign said "hell here", you tricky Derren.
I am confused , bacauce he wrote about this method in his book "trick of the mind" and there he explained how he went in a class which was supposed to teach people how to process massive amounts of information and expand their memory. The method was the following: they were thaught to only look at the pages of the book and to create a mental picture of them without any reading. Derren said that this was absurd, fake and does not work like that... Not sure how he managed to pull this off.. Maybe he used suggestion to make this guy answer his questions in the beginning , but how he won 2nd place in the pub quiz is beyond me. Incredible... I would love to know his tricks and how he did it. Derren is freaking legend, love him so much. Cheers!
I used this method of cramming for my year ten certificate and got a 98% in a subject that I never listened in. I tried to explain it to my friends as "you're not memorizing one thing in particular, you're remembering things you already know that are linked in your mind to the new information''. Anyway, I did it and they all thought I was crazy.
I think sometimes this happens to me in general, not with everything of course. But i might read something, then a day or so later i'll have a conversation and i'll bring up what i had read about, and the information just comes out of nowhere, even though i made no attempt at remembering what i read.
+Cloud Strife yeah me too
Yeah I find this too and even just by speaking or typing this up I'm not actually thinking about what I'm saying words are just spilling out of my mouth. Before I wrote this sentence I had no idea what I was going to say yet as I type it, it seems to come straight out.
+Francesca Marshall it's like the thing about us only using 10% of our brain so when we answer a question we're using more of our brain to access prior knowledge. If we couldn't do this then we'd never remember how to speak in the first place
AFMakers 10% that's a myth, we use all of our brain.
+AFMakers yeah we just use 10% at one time
Just watched the whole episode, tv never gets any better than this, or when Derren comes on.
This is possibly his most amazing trick. To learn anything in a matter of seconds? Yes please.
Possibly the only book he's reading there (assuming he is reading them) is the big red book at 7:41 - The Penquin Ultimate Trivia Quiz Game Book. Not only is this full of general knowledge which he needs to know (in comparison to thick books on one or few subjects), it's actually a book that quiz hosts often carelessly use.
Love how many know it alls or jealous folk can’t just appreciate a great show and his skills with many techniques.
Great feel-good run. That wistful look in his eyes. Really lovely.
A similar thing happened to me in school, I was doing a Physics GCSE and didn't know anything so just skimmed over my books the night before. During the exams all the answers just seemed to come to me and I got all but one question correct. I can't remember anything from those books now though
Beats me why DB even bothered with uni. He coulda just learnt all the law books during his lunch break.
That's because university isn't just learning facts. It's more about skills really.
Just to clarify one fact that Derren makes, the quiz master is the only one in the room that knows the questions beforehand, notice that Derren or a team member that may be controlling the device isn't in the room, and why Derren didn't say just "the only person who knows the answers"
magicmansell yup I also noticed that before seeing this comment
Anyone else genuinely impressed by Glen’s handwriting?
I can't believe no one notices that the way those Trick or Treat cards are written, they can say Trick if held one way, and Treat if held around the other way. Pause on the card, then turn your head and it will say the opposite word. It's Derren's choice what they get.
+Josh Zook Considering Derren divulges this information in one of his shows this isn't exactly uncommon knowledge.
But also it's only one of the cards that is gimmicked to be able to read trick or treat, and the other one just says trick.
+Josh Zook What are you smoking?
+Josh Zook You're actually wrong this time. It was true they were ambigrams in the first series. This is the second series where he used regular trick or treat cards.
No they aren't.
I'm terribly sorry, gentlemen, but they are not. You can't believe everything you see on TV as the truth. There is manipulation everywhere.
I've use some of Darren's suggestion techniques to help me earn a job, This guy is absolutely brilliant with the human psyche.
Do you remember which ones?
I'm sure what Derren did here was took a reasonably suggestible person and taught him the 'Linking' technique which he explains in his books. He will have taught him this technique subtly without the person realising. Everything else like the speed reading is just misdirection. This is confirmed with some of the things the subject says. Clever editing as always from Derren's team and although the actual linking technique might be quite simple, it is still the main idea for the idea of the show - that trying to remember a long list of words (or answers to pub questions in this case) can be easy to do even though you may believe you aren't the best at remembering things. However, it does mean that Derren needed to know which questions would be asked and i'm absolutely sure he does know.
but this is why i have a problem with Derren if hes letting this go out into public and presenting it as a technique if in fact its really just a trick. i hope he would have another honestly to say so if this is the case. But Derren does seem an honest guy that leads me to lean on the side the technique does in fact work.
Get a life ur not writing an assay kid
I agree and Derren is a mentalist, NOT somebody claiming to stick to some moral code.
If you watch any number of his shows it is pretty clear these are more elaborate mind f*cks than what we are being told.
Sometimes he explains them and sometimes he doesn't but when he doesn't it is to prove the point that with the proper training in deception techniques you can convince people of anything.
I love how he's just an average guy and he learned so much so fast, really impressive
The way that he remembered the SHOES sign is the same way that those people who wake up after an accident and can speak a new language works. They think genuinely that it's supernatural or a past life - but it seriously is that they see small things throughout their lives and it's unlocked In a way
Derren is the best!!!! Keep doing what you do!!!!
I remember using a mind palace briefly. I gave up on it but it helped sometimes. I just don't have much of a use for one.
Ohhh I didn't know these were still in production :O!!! Awesome!
It's from 2008.
Marius Periwinkle Can't remember seeing this episode, but now I'm sad haha
+Torbax
Yeah, we could always use some new material. But there is the shows, which are great! And it is a nice touch by Derren to make these older videos available.
I'm from the Netherlands, never seen his shows or tv stuff, just kinda stumbled upon them on youtube and been trying to figure out how to watch more material, but this is nice haha I love that it gets uploaded on youtube ^-^ but yea like with this episode you kinda miss some here and there I guess
+Torbax
Then you have some goodies ahead of you. There are several tv series, specials, documentary style features, and stage shows. The latter are really my favorites. I have rewatched them several times. There are even two books where he talks about hypnosis, suggestion, magic etc.
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS. 8:22 in slowmo. 319,pic of hummingbird, car and fax. Guy was given cues just like you have in this video. Brilliant Derren Brown. I know how this sutff works but enjoy the excellent routine anyways.
He did a thing with Richard and Judy where he made them think of the word 'shoe'. I reckon he used a similar technique here and just let the man believe he had subconsciously remembered.
very good...
A happy Bambi
Yes he is.
4.24: "(The reason why we) shoes (her)...". But there are other references, I'm shure.
This shows that everyone has superior qualities so called, it's really up to you and based on your thought processes on how it manifests or how one triggers it....
He must already be a genius and the only thing Derren did was to make him forget how brilliant he really is, similar to the woman who played the piano
+Matthías Örn Friðriksson
No, it is something almost anyone who hasn't already got the Alzheimesr's disease can learn. I could have you learn some 30-50 new words and so much of the basic grammar of a language you have never seen before, that you can form your own phrases - all in about 45 Minutes. It is really easy - it is a matter of working with the basic capabilities of your mind and not against them like it is done 90% of the time.
+Octopussyist explain further perhaps? Whats this tehnique called (so we can google it at least)
Črt Sužnik
The umbrella term for such techniques is "mnemo techniqes", and specifically we are here dealing with the socalled "photo reading", a method of speed reading. There are lots of YT videos on these subjects.
And about "the writing on the wall" - there is nothing really strange about that and we also do not know what happened during his train journey. All we know, is that the woman in the red coat was close to him all the time. So there has been several occasions to anchor the term "shoes" in his mind, like the woman sitting within his view adjusting her shoes or something like that, mentally connecting that with the red coat, which again makes him look in the direction of the ATM. This obviously works as a "convincer" so that the trainee not just has to believe this will work, rather than he knows it - and thus it becomes imaginable that the photoreading of the books will actually make sense.
He was obviously taught other mnemo techniques too - otherwise he would hardly have visualized things like a car and a fax for "Carfax Galleries".
+Octopussyist and photoreading would also work with learning a new language? For instance one could photoread a dictionary and suddenly know most of the words in it?
Črt Sužnik
Basically yes, at least what your passive vocabulary is concerned. The problem is, you need to review the material a relatively short time after photoreading it to make it stick for a long time. For learning languages and to boost your vocabulary in a language there are better methods for keeping acquired knowledge active for a long time.
Awesome Derren!
I would absolutly love to learn such a technique.
I already achived a small Memory Palace because of your techniques.
Ill figure out how this one workes ;D
+Marc Kletz (Vulkanos) PhotoReading by Paul Scheele (Learning Strategies Corp) is very similar technique. One of the key points made by Darren’s was that all the information will fade away if it isn’t reviewed, PhotoReading teaches you how to review and activate the information. This is the closes I have come to finding anything near a real world application for this technique.
8:22 319, carfax
+87in7 shit thats well spotted
+87in7 I sotted that too, but what disturbs me is that I answered 320...
319 and hummingbird just before that?
Holy shit that's awesome
Watched this video about 20 times now and Derren still finds new ways to fuck with me
How do I know that Derren?
He always picks great nice seeming people for these.
he is cool and do this things just for others ... like you derren
The elevator thing... Oh hell no. I'd have had a serious panic attack! This guy was so freaking calm, why wasn't he screaming and pissing himself lololol
One of your best. Thanks
at 5:45 you can tell that "Shoes" is computer imagery tracked to the background
Yeah that was so Glen gained confidence he could do it.
I just passed my university exam using this method by Derren 😂
The Sheffield Wednesday question (maybe others too) shows that this couldn't really have been done by somehow absorbing masses of information from a load of books, since it relies on combining two distinct (if seemingly related) facts: which teams are not in the Premier League at the moment, and of those teams which has won most league titles?
I mean, Glen did say he watched football so it's not that unlikely that he would have got it without the reading
@@jameskilgour387 I grant you it's far from impossible, though his knowledge is surely a bit beside the point, since the key to him doing so well surely lies in something DB does.
he's the luckiest man on earth... I wish I can learn that for my studies so I can get through readings in uni quickly..
what a strange thing, in this episode and the one of the poker woman the two participants arrived second, seem like darren doesn't want to exaggerate and let people think it is fake
He does that a lot, on purpose.
Same with the roulette episode, just one number off
do you mean apart from the fact the poker lady only came second cause of a lucky 9 on the turn?
yh man idk if its real or fake some of it is just too crazy. but i must say i can relate to this video, sometimes i just randomly know stuff its weird. like i would be doing a quiz or something and i'd get the answer without really thinking about it.
This dude just did a speed run with a memory palace. That's badass.
How To Become A Pub Quiz Master: Be an actor in Derren'show!
Come across the pond, mate! Would love to be a part of these videos
Can anyone explain to me how this works? Would it work for exams or do you need to be asked a direct question to trigger the memory?
I used a similar technique to score well in school. But I can't do that scanning thing, I link things I need to remember to things that are already in my memory. Like that Carfax Gallery thing. It showed up in his minds eye as a picture of a car emitting a fax....ergo Carfax Gallery.
The text seen at around 10:05 is from the "Tate Etc" magazine, and not from a book (unless there's a hardcover compilation edition of the magazine). The second book is the Reader's Digest Book of Facts (you can see the cover), but the text seen in the closeup seems to be from a website (the "new world encyclopedia"). I don't think those closeups are what's on the actual pages.
Could easily be me... I think (most probably not though) I have some knowledge how it is done, it is still amazing to watch... It is like I did a really simple trick to an "amateur" magician... and watched he's mind got "blown"... i was ashamed to show him how I did it because it was so simple.... and what he did was for me "mind blowing"... so my lesson learned was it is not how complex the trick is, it is the way you perform the trick that makes it a good one or not. And even "tricksters" can be "mind blowned"... We are just people... Derren is just the master mindblower :-) And I love it! can't stop watching him...
Does anyone know the name of technique that derren used?
+1
television
I've heard of People having Brain injuries and then been able to speak fluent French even thoe they haven't studied French for years, and when they did they weren't that good at it. It's amazing how the subconscious mind stores everything we sense.
This is my uncle. Amazing.
do you have to read the pages or just look through them
With that entrance, what is the chance that Derren Brown is literally the devil messing around with his own show? He's got the suave look for it.
I'd learn more from Derren than the 10 years I've been in school to be honest. I'm going to (not) try my very hardest to use this technique for future exams. I'll probably update this a lot further into the future to see if this worked or not. (Basically risking my year 10 exams for you guys).
Awesome thanks!
Np ;D
Year 10 exams mean nothing bruh - might blag my 'A' level exams!
Ooo you risk taker xD If you actually do that, you are one truly brave soul.
ChloeIsRUclips. Yeah, not sure I am that brave
Hi Derren my GCSEs are just around the corner, just wondering if you could teach me how to do this
13:05 Andy is the only one IN THE ROOM that knows the answers
I need to learn this!
What building would actually allow someone to tamper and control the lifts like that, hmmm....?
Hello, my dads mate was driving my dad to work one day, and fell asleep at the wheel, luckily my dad woke him up quick time and the driver re positioned the car...
Now when my dad was home from work, my relatives were round including my gran (dads mother), and she felt that she HAD to ask my dad, what he was doing in the morning at around 8am. (time of the incident)
She felt so compelled to ask because she woke up at around that time, shouting "MARTIN!!" (my dads name). She didn't picture a crash of any sort but she did feel as if she had to know if he was okay. An experience she had never had before. I just thought id drop this story in here because you type of people will probably be interested and you may even have something interesting to say back.
+MrWeeRhys Everything is 1, all part of the same consciousness...they way we treat others, we do to ourselves...the butterfly effect, quantum entanglement, call it what you want. For this reason I don't eat meat/dairy because I know animals are suffering for it and I can get everything from plants. Also I hug trees, jump and feel the earth's vibration/energy with my hands too to connect with the earth. And I believe we should love our muscles, not try and burn them out. It's all a matter of perception...and I've gone off on a tangent so I'll just stop haha
+MrWeeRhys
Wow. That is nice. Loads of such things happened in my family too and especially among my father's relatives. Look up Rupert Sheldrake - he as done some thorough research in such matters.
cheers boys
+Dubsteppin2DnB even in Africa? watching starving kids?
Dubsteppin2DnB it's never too late to learn the truth.
I need this for GCSE's
Please teach me
getting answers from a dark place in the back of your mind is exactly how remote viewing works
Derren Brown is like an NZT pill
i frigging love derren brown
"how to cheat your exams"
cool, then the exam system is flawed
It’s not really cheating, the knowledge is still inside his head like it normally would be. It just got there faster
Derren is a great covert hypnotist, I don't know how, but I was thinking of the word car aswell, "from somewhere in the darkness something will come forward" not really sure but he put it there somewhere.
8:22
Did anyone else notice that Glen was not applying the reading technique with the horned fingers in some of the cutaway shots where he is just turning over the pages very quickly. I think it’s all an act for tv entertainment a bit like Criss Angel magic tricks for TV.
he already looks like a pub master.
I wonder if this works with everything we hear too and I wonder if this technique actually works
Can anyone link me to this type of revision stuff, like a tutorial?
after this. im so doing this with my A level chemistry books !!!
Imagine this before exams
OH MY GOD. JUST THIS THIS WITH 290 PAGES of my chemistry book. took me 1 hour
+callum collins What a waste of an hour. It will not help you. Now go ask someone to ask you questions that are in the book see if you can do that.
Mod Menu didn't fucking work. Wasted my life
Yea of course it didnt, Its fake lol
would it be possible to learn a musical instrument very quickly using this method, Jim(Canada)
No. This is fake
Do a video on your Thorpe park ride??!!
Derren using the "baphomhet hand signal" naughty naughty devils little helper!
was sliding your fingers and looking at the words through the book needed to be done more than once on the same page?
Hi Derren! Can you please inform me how to do that?
Ultimate studying strats
I love West Ham and Derek brown
I wish I'd known of this during my undergrad psychology exams! Okay, so how much do we have to pay to learn this system?
I think the key here is that Glenn does actually have a poor memory which aids in him picking up long term visual queues and the linking technique. The books he was given have an abundance of pictures and answers most of which were tailored to the questions he would be asked. Spend a couple days only seeing imagery and answers that will be relevant on a short quiz and your gonna do pretty well.
the treats make me so happy
They're pretty easy quiz questions.
Notice how they get a Trick when the card is the one that can be trick or treat just by turning the card upside down, but they get a treat when you can't do that, and the cards are different (like now)
Ordinary Man:"I am feeling that that's the most bizarre episode of my entire life." It is just another weekday for Derren: "Fantastic, okay"
Does anyone know what the technique is?
Yes, misdirection.
derren is my teacher!!!!!
This is incredible
6 and a half months before my GCSEs, knowing nothing about maths and only a moderate knowledge on biology and trying to get grades which enable me to study psychology... i can't say I'm not thinking about using this for revsing
picks treat, goes to the library to read, imagine if he picked trick ; )
i think derren roughly knew what the questions would be and doctored the books in certain ways to subtly reveal the words that needed to stck in Glens head.
yeah, I never thought of that. at 13:05 he did say that Andy was the only person "in the room" that knew what the questions would be.
You two made good observations, and with Derren being an illusionist, what you both stated is a possibility. But that would mean that he would have known what the quiz questions were prior to the event. In the video though, Derren stated that he had no contact with Andy, and Andy didn't know that Derren was involved. So assuming that's true, then Derren either 1) snuck a look at the questions beforehand, or 2) implemented subconscious photo-reading as demonstrated in the video. Either way, I found it really interesting.
Jeff O derren usually does a lot of preparation so maybe he went to loads of pub quizes prior to see what the most likley types of questions/subjects are at these events. even though he never met andy a bit of internet research/stalking could probably provide insight onto where hes pulling his inspirations for questions. i wouldnt be surprised if derren went under cover online as an anonymous social media "friend" of andys and influenced the questions picked by providing links/pics/fake ads etc that all direct andy to interesting world facts that if saw by a quizmaster would make them think "wow i didnt know that...that would make for a good question at the next pub quiz"
so yeah my best guess is that derren influenced the questions first then made sure the books were set out in certain ways to plant the answers in Glens head
+CJ Rocky Even if that is true, let's say Derren ACTUALLY PICKED the questions, the way Glen accessed and provided the right (enough to place him on #2) answers is remarkable!
Sergiu Balan yep its truly amazing stuff :)
What happens if you keep going over the same thing like a dictionary? Would you be able to know every word in it
Yup
they editted him out making a comment about the cards.. 'one says treat is an overdub faded in'