Derren Brown Subliminal Advertising with explanation

the question is, what the hell did this guy study? general psych? just that? impossible.

i can do that been doinit for ages now and im only 18

you can also notice that when derren says "images" at 1:24 he motions his fingers down his face in the way you would to symbolize tears. one more quick subliminal to redirect their minds to think back to what they had been unconsciously absorbing.

Wow so this proves that we're influenced by things we see and hear around us. Wow what a relief and here I thought I got my ideas from....nowhere. Good to know that I live and breath in the real world.

he did something very similar on the UK version of the show.

WOW just wow

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TALK TO ME someone smart please help me bX

seen it yesterday! lets chat hi anyone want to chat hK

i just thought that it was a bit of a coincidence that he chose to put the cat ontop in the US series. And as for writing it, the cameras normally have live feeds to another room, so as the guys are writing, derren can draw his own. But then how'd he know in advance to set up the taxi stuff? Dunno! - perhaps it was an out, perhaps it is the taxi journey on the way back after revealing their designs.

That is so incredible

That's possible but don't you still need some sort of writing device? It would work with the cat maybe, but less likely in some dude's pocket like the chess episode. But that is possible for this one maybe.

Undoubtly he is able to, but i'm just saying that in this trick there is an alternative possibility to the before mentioned. Also, i've been experimenting with the idea of Zink Paper (google it) for prediction tricks ... maybe he took a similar idea first?

As an amateur magician, you have a vested interest in keeping the solutions mysterious and shooting down the simple, boring answer. The reason I think it was a switch is the chess episode. Derren 'predicted' the number of pieces left over at the end of three chess games he did not actually participate in. This makes me think that he's more than capable of a quick switch.

Derren says this at 2:08 "a chain of taxi-joureny stores".

You're right about the first thing - he does suggest a method of how it is done that is almost all a lie, but your solution to this is not correct unfortunately. I have tried something similar so i have an idea on how it could be done.

I'm skeptical of this subliminal messaging explanation. I think it's a distraction for however he's actually doing the trick - the trick of mimicking what the guys were working on and switching the envelopes.

You can test it yourself if it's true. Let see a friend the first minutes of the video. Then ask him to make a poster for a product (the task Derren gave to the people). When it's influenced by the subliminal signs in this video, you can be sure that it works. Otherwise, you can have doubts about it.

Taxidermy... yuck. Fascinating experiment.

how is it bullshit?

you already know - he explains it

Wish I knew how to pull this shit off.

What's BS about it? not the most articulate criticism.

This is so much bullshit

i saw this on tv, i thought it was 1. brilliant 2. fucking scary and makes you NEVER wanna watch an advert again!

IM NOT A SHEEP