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00:00 [Music]
00:04 Hello again.
00:05 Dude, you want to buy any of those things?
00:07 Of course you do.
00:09 They make you shinier and sexier, why wouldn't you?
00:11 So in this next program, we start off in Oxford,
00:14 and then we go to a boxing gym.
00:15 And this was the only gym we could find in London
00:17 that had that gothic look that we like to go for.
00:20 What I need you to do is to lift Jasmine, alright?
00:24 Just lift her straight up, you can do that.
00:26 Again?
00:27 Perfect. That's great. Now look at me.
00:29 When I say the word "now", you try and lift her.
00:35 Wait. Get ready.
00:41 Okay, now.
00:46 Again.
00:49 You will have noticed, I'm sure, the double meaning of my use of the word "wait" in that segment.
00:54 And you might also like to know that Jasmine went home with the most terrible bruises under her arms.
00:59 And I think it was only the slightly erotic aspect of the stunt which kept her from suing us.
01:04 But we just don't know.
01:06 [Music]
01:09 [Music]
01:32 Faces. We've all got them. And I'm going to show you seven of them.
01:35 If you're trying to remember any, just let them wash over your unconscious. Here they are.
01:43 Okay, I'm now going to show you the same seven faces again, this time in a row and all jumbled up.
01:48 Just look at them and decide on one that's stuck in your mind for whatever reason.
01:51 One that you remember from the first time round.
01:53 Have a look now. Have you decided on one? Don't change your mind.
01:56 I'm very much hoping you went for this one here.
01:59 Do you know why you went for that one?
02:02 Take another look.
02:04 Here they are.
02:09 On the left is the guy most of you chose.
02:12 Your conscious mind didn't see him, but your subconscious mind did.
02:17 Enjoy the next half hour.
02:20 [Music]
02:23 Oxford University. Could have gone there. Chose to go to Bristol, which was great.
02:28 I was invited to the Oxford Union debating chamber to perform at a champagne reception.
02:40 Can I try something with you? What's your name?
02:42 Isabel. Isabel, Darren. Very pleased to meet you.
02:44 All right, let's try this. I'm going to write something down. If this works, you'll know what I've written.
02:47 You just won't know how you know. All right?
02:50 You say Isabel. Isabel. All right, okay.
02:52 I won't go for the first letter of your name. All right?
02:54 The only concern is that's a little bit obvious. Not the first letter of your name. All right?
02:58 So I'm going to write down a letter here.
03:02 Okay. All right. Okay.
03:04 And you put that on your harness. Yep, like that. Okay, fantastic.
03:08 If you try and guess what that says, you've only got a one in 26 chance of getting it right.
03:11 So don't try and guess.
03:12 Equally, if you think that I can just rely on you going for a particular letter, then don't go for that one.
03:16 If you think I'm trying to suggest a letter to you, then don't go for that one.
03:19 I'm just going to go with what feels right. Okay?
03:22 What letter comes to mind right now?
03:24 S. S.
03:28 Have a look.
03:30 Oh, my God.
03:32 I'm just going to do this.
03:34 He kind of looks at you and he does transmit a kind of feeling to you.
03:37 So kind of persuasive and you just can't suppress it at all.
03:40 Picture in a-- not so much a picture, a little more of a vibe.
03:43 Just a kind of voice, maybe.
03:45 In a non-schizophrenic way.
03:49 Alex, Deryn, very pleased to meet you.
03:51 I'm going to write down a letter of the alphabet.
03:53 It looks psychic, but it's just language planting ideas.
03:57 Watch it again and listen carefully.
03:59 So I'm going to write down one letter.
04:01 Hmm.
04:03 Hmm. Okay.
04:05 All right, hold out your hand.
04:07 You've got no idea what that is, didn't you?
04:08 You couldn't see what I was writing with the-- no? Okay, great.
04:12 I'll put a little line underneath so we know which way up it is.
04:14 All right?
04:15 Take just a step forward for me.
04:17 Hold your hand flat.
04:19 As I talk to you, a letter of the alphabet--
04:21 Mm-hmm.
04:22 --should just sort of be popping into your mind as I talk to you.
04:24 All right? Say what comes to mind now.
04:26 What letter are you thinking of?
04:27 M. M. M for mother.
04:29 Have a look.
04:31 [laughter]
04:37 How does that feel?
04:39 Completely free choice.
04:41 I randomly thought of it and I couldn't believe it when it came up on the other side.
04:45 Very strange.
04:47 I think he probably knows everything.
04:49 [laughter]
04:52 Can I try something with you for a minute? Can I take your drink?
04:54 Yes.
04:55 Marvellous. Thank you so much.
04:56 Gradually, I learned to strip away the more obvious clues
04:59 and just trust that they would know what I was thinking of.
05:03 Your hand. Right-handed or left-handed?
05:05 Right-handed.
05:06 My mistake. Let me give you a card.
05:08 I have a drawing on the other side of this card.
05:10 You can't see through the paper, can you?
05:12 No.
05:13 All right, there's a drawing on the other side of there.
05:15 Just go with me here.
05:16 If it's wrong and it doesn't work, it doesn't matter.
05:18 But I believe as I talk to you that you're going to be able to produce a picture in your mind
05:22 of what's on the other side of the card.
05:24 And I'm convinced you're going to be right.
05:26 Or else that you don't change your mind.
05:28 So as I talk to you, just imagine the card with the drawing on the other side
05:31 right in the back of your mind.
05:33 As I talk to you, let that drawing come forward and that image come forward
05:36 until it pours over and you just sort of see it right clearly in front of you.
05:40 When you've got a really clear image of what that is,
05:42 I want you to take the pen and draw nice and big and clear on the back of that
05:47 exactly the drawing as you see it in your mind.
05:49 Don't wash it.
05:50 Wait until it pours right out in front of you really clearly and then draw it.
05:53 I had your hat.
06:08 We don't know what that is, do we?
06:11 What is that?
06:12 It's a bottle.
06:13 It's a bottle.
06:14 Ready?
06:17 Yeah.
06:18 You like that?
06:21 How do you feel?
06:26 I just don't know how you did that.
06:27 I didn't actually think it would be a bottle because there were so many things I could have picked.
06:31 I don't know how you got the bottle.
06:33 I really don't.
06:36 [Music]
06:38 Some athletes use the mind to try and improve stamina and strength.
06:47 Can I use my mind to take it away?
06:50 Let's use this guy here.
06:54 Yeah, Williams, come forward.
06:56 Williams, yeah?
06:57 Now I want to take you up here into the ring, all right?
06:59 We're going to try something up here.
07:01 Come with me.
07:02 Okay.
07:04 Come stand in the middle for me, Williams.
07:06 About there. Face me.
07:08 And tell me, we haven't met before, I haven't hypnotized you, I haven't done any stuff like that.
07:12 No.
07:13 Okay. All right.
07:14 And you're a fit guy, obviously a strong guy. Let me try this with you.
07:17 Jasmine, can I use you? Can you come up here, please?
07:20 Come stand opposite Williams. Face him.
07:24 What I need you to do is to lift Jasmine, all right?
07:29 Just lift her straight up. You can do that.
07:31 Again?
07:32 Perfect.
07:33 That's great. Now look at me. Look at me.
07:35 When I say the word "now", you try and lift her.
07:40 Wait.
07:42 Get ready.
07:43 Okay, now.
07:48 Again.
07:52 I tried to lift her up, and the first time it worked, but the second time it's like he had this, doing this thing behind me, man.
08:01 Couldn't lift her up.
08:02 Yeah.
08:03 When I say the word "now", you will not be able to lift her.
08:08 Excellent. Get ready.
08:12 That's it.
08:17 Now.
08:19 Now I'll say you're weakly.
08:26 Thank you. Thank you.
08:28 Next time.
08:31 Next time.
08:32 Fantastic. What's your name?
08:34 Paul.
08:35 Paul.
08:36 Stand there.
08:37 Hands underneath. Lift her straight up. Straight up, straight.
08:41 Now look at me.
08:47 When I say "now", you will not be able to lift her.
08:58 Stand there.
08:59 Wait.
09:02 There.
09:04 Wait.
09:05 Okay. Now.
09:08 Again. Wait. Again.
09:13 Look at me.
09:20 Okay, look at me.
09:25 You're a big fire, I'll come back to you later.
09:28 What's your name?
09:31 Matt.
09:32 Matt, very good to meet you. I'm Darren. I'm trying to experiment with you.
09:35 I've got a playing card in my pocket here.
09:37 You're going to tell me what this card is. Not yet. And I don't want you guessing.
09:41 There's nothing else in there. Can you see?
09:43 Yeah, there's nothing else in there.
09:44 I'm going to put that there like that.
09:46 Alright, now look at me. Don't try and guess. You've only got a one in 52 chances.
09:49 Not the ace of spades. That would be too obvious.
09:51 Okay.
09:52 As you look at me, starting at the back of your mind, let the identity of the card start to move forward to the front of your mind.
10:00 There's going to be a number, or a picture, or whatever.
10:03 And you're going to get the colour of the suit as well.
10:06 Don't think about it. Just allow that image to slowly come to mind with the number and the suit and the colour.
10:11 And when you get it, say what you think it is.
10:13 Say it out loud, nice and clearly.
10:15 Seven of hearts.
10:16 Seven of hearts. Is that a guess or does that feel right?
10:18 That feels right.
10:19 That's not a particularly obvious one. You could have gone for any one of 52.
10:22 Reach in there.
10:23 Okay.
10:24 Ah!
10:26 You totally faked it.
10:28 Is that it?
10:29 Yeah.
10:30 It's a shame there's nothing else in there. I wasn't looking at that.
10:32 Okay, there's nothing else in there.
10:33 How does that feel?
10:34 That's quite scary.
10:35 I thought it was going to be completely the wrong card. I thought there wasn't a chance it actually would be the right one.
10:39 But it was.
10:40 And I'm quite worried about other things that people might be able to use that for.
10:46 Yeah. People like him, because anyone who has those sort of powers or knows how they work, then I'm quite, quite worried.
10:54 Again, alright? I haven't hypnotised you, I haven't done any stuff like that.
11:01 I haven't set anything up.
11:03 Look at me.
11:11 When I say now, you will not be able to lift her.
11:15 Look at me.
11:17 Yeah. Excellent. Get ready.
11:20 Wait. Wait.
11:24 Okay, now.
11:26 Now.
11:27 I don't know. I just tried to lift her, tried to put all my strength into it and she wasn't moving.
11:39 I was extremely surprised.
11:41 One of the reasons I enjoy going to the opera is the spectacle of an audience enraptured.
11:54 Their emotions are engaged, their passions brought to the fore.
11:58 They become highly sensitive.
12:00 I'm going to amplify that state and see if I can get someone to look into my mind.
12:05 Excuse me, ladies. Sorry to interrupt.
12:08 I'm Darren Brown. I'm here with a TV crew. I wondered if I could have five minutes of your time.
12:12 Alice, did you enjoy the opera?
12:15 Very much. It's gorgeous.
12:17 I want to try something with you to see how the opera has affected your sensitivity.
12:22 We all have unique memories from childhood.
12:27 Images that just pop into our mind.
12:29 And I have very vivid memories from my childhood.
12:35 Images that stay with me, that still feel real, that I carry around with me.
12:39 And I want to try something with you as I step back into one of those memories.
12:44 I want to see how much you can pick up.
12:47 Okay?
12:48 Okay.
12:49 There's a program here. We're going to come back to this a little bit later.
12:52 Until then, thank you very much for helping me out.
12:54 Look as your eyes close and you relax.
12:56 Just allow that sensitivity now to just open up.
13:00 And with your eyes closed, I'm going to take one hand here.
13:03 I'm going to lift your head up like that so I can look at you.
13:07 And I'll take your other hand and place it on the program there.
13:11 Now, as I step back now into this memory, we're going to begin with a feeling.
13:19 There's a particular feeling as I can picture myself now as a child.
13:22 Just tell me, what's the feeling that you get?
13:25 Happy.
13:26 Happy. Excellent.
13:28 I'm going to leave your hand there for a second.
13:32 And tell me, do you see me indoors or am I outside?
13:38 Outside.
13:40 Outside where?
13:43 Outside your family home.
13:45 In the garden?
13:46 Yeah.
13:47 Okay.
13:48 Do you see any other people with me?
13:55 No.
13:59 Anything else with me?
14:01 Yes.
14:02 What do you see?
14:04 Two dogs.
14:05 Two dogs.
14:07 What color are they?
14:13 Black and yellow.
14:18 Excellent.
14:20 Now, roughly how old am I in this picture, do you think?
14:25 Eight.
14:26 Eight.
14:28 Eight. Okay.
14:30 What else do you see around me?
14:39 Flowers.
14:41 Bushes.
14:43 Excellent.
14:45 Now, what I'm going to do is ask you now just to slowly come back to me and open your eyes and refocus.
14:52 And come back to me there. Perfect.
14:56 What I'd like you to do is to sort of pull back from that image.
15:02 What do you sense? What was the day like?
15:05 I think it might have been your birthday.
15:07 Mm-hmm.
15:08 I think it was a happy day here in the garden.
15:10 Me and the two dogs?
15:11 Yeah.
15:12 Let me show you something. Under here...
15:14 ...is a photograph of me on my tenth birthday.
15:22 Is this what you were seeing?
15:24 Yes.
15:25 This is mine?
15:26 Yes.
15:27 This is my two dogs. This is Tammy, this is Lucy.
15:29 Yeah.
15:30 And this is my back garden.
15:31 That's amazing.
15:32 It is amazing, isn't it?
15:33 That is amazing.
15:34 That is what you had in your mind.
15:35 Yeah.
15:36 Thank you so much.
15:37 Thank you.
15:38 It was extraordinary. I felt as if without realising it I was reading his feelings.
15:43 So, I don't know, really.
15:46 After the break, I'll be returning to the Oxford Union for a final experiment involving all the students.
15:53 And I'll be popping into a lap dancing club.
15:57 It wouldn't upset you to be told.
15:59 I wasn't told that.
16:00 No, I was having a go at it.
16:02 I've been here for two hours and to be honest I'm a little bit uncomfortable.
16:13 Normally I'm the poshest person at the party.
16:17 Just think of something in your mind, like a name or object or a memory, anything you like.
16:22 Just something you can get clear in your head.
16:23 Change your mind over and over again until you settle on something that's a decision you're making right now.
16:28 Does that make sense?
16:29 Yeah.
16:30 So, change your mind back and forth.
16:31 Anything you like.
16:32 Yeah.
16:33 You got something?
16:34 Yeah.
16:35 Alright, now look at me.
16:36 Just to verify, first of all, what you're thinking of now is something, a decision you've just made right now?
16:39 Yeah.
16:40 Okay, alright.
16:41 Can you picture this thing in your mind?
16:42 Yes, I can.
16:43 Yeah, can you get a clear image of it?
16:44 Yes.
16:45 Okay, alright.
16:46 Now look at me.
16:47 Shh, just a second.
16:48 I'm just going to tell you some impressions I get.
16:52 If I ask you about the right question, then answer yes or no and be honest, but otherwise keep an absolute poker face.
16:56 Try not to give anything away.
16:57 Alright.
16:58 This is something connected with the past, is that true?
17:02 Yeah.
17:03 Yeah.
17:04 This is something to do with school.
17:07 Yeah, kind of?
17:08 No.
17:09 Alright, very careful not to give much away.
17:11 Alright, okay.
17:12 Alright, you're having a little difficulty imagining it.
17:15 I think you're seeing yourself in this image, is that right?
17:17 Yeah.
17:18 Yeah, okay.
17:19 Instead of seeing yourself go into it, so you're actually kind of there in the image looking out.
17:23 That would help me an awful lot.
17:24 You're seeing yourself and that doesn't help me.
17:25 Alright, immediately, suddenly, oh, it's an activity.
17:29 You're in, yeah, you're with other people, I think?
17:32 Yeah.
17:33 But you kept on giving anything away.
17:34 Be very careful.
17:35 Poker face.
17:36 Poker face.
17:37 You're, um, no, no, no, that's fine.
17:38 Just, just, it's just to do with buoyancy and movement.
17:41 You're in water, yeah?
17:42 You're in water, this is some kind of extracurricular thing with your friends and it's not in the sea.
17:47 Are you swimming?
17:48 This is a swimming pool.
17:49 Are you swimming?
17:50 Is this a memory from when you were young and you were swimming?
17:52 Yeah.
17:53 It's not something you do nowadays, is it?
17:54 No.
17:55 You used to swim and now you've stopped.
17:56 Yeah.
17:57 Thank you very much indeed.
17:58 Well done.
17:59 Fantastic, you've got all red.
18:00 That's great.
18:01 That's very weird.
18:04 Very, very weird.
18:07 Weird.
18:11 I think sense of shame at the fact that he guessed me quite so quickly.
18:12 I think people generally are predictable and therefore he's good at reading them, yeah.
18:16 That's weird.
18:19 [Bell rings]
18:21 [Music]
18:25 For one very exciting morning, I went to speak to the exotic and flirtatious dancers of Spearmint Rhino,
18:31 who nightly inflame the propensities of London's gentlemen.
18:34 [Music]
18:41 You've got private rooms where if I wanted to hire you for a private dance that I would take you in there, is that right?
18:46 As long as I don't touch.
18:48 As long as I don't touch.
18:50 With your eyes I can touch.
18:51 With my eyes I can touch.
18:52 Would it upset you to be touched?
18:54 Yeah.
18:55 Yeah?
18:56 Yeah.
18:57 And do you ever have the situation where somebody's swearing they didn't touch you but you say that they did?
19:01 Every night.
19:02 Every night?
19:03 Really?
19:04 Someone touched on all the time.
19:06 Can I show you something?
19:07 Yes.
19:10 Can I take your hand? Other hand, I think of this.
19:13 All right, hold your hand there, put your thumb in and fingers together.
19:17 Now you absolutely must trust me.
19:20 Okay?
19:21 Yeah.
19:22 Will you close your eyes for me?
19:23 And from now on what I want you to do is to count, just in your mind,
19:27 count the number of times that I touch you on the hand.
19:30 All right?
19:31 Just in your head, not out loud.
19:32 And you too, if you watch and count as well.
19:44 Okay, open your eyes.
19:46 Be absolutely honest.
19:47 How many times did I touch you?
19:48 Three.
19:49 Three times.
19:53 What happened?
19:54 How many times did I touch you?
19:55 None.
19:57 None.
20:00 Did I touch you?
20:01 Yes, three times.
20:02 I didn't touch you, did I?
20:03 No, you didn't.
20:04 No?
20:05 You didn't see me touch you?
20:06 No, you didn't touch me.
20:07 You definitely felt me touch you?
20:08 Definitely.
20:10 Definitely.
20:11 I promise.
20:15 Perfect.
20:16 Now put your thumb in, close your eyes for me, and trust me.
20:21 You must trust me.
20:22 Okay?
20:23 I need you to count in your mind, not out loud,
20:26 count the number of times that I touch you on the hand.
20:29 Okay?
20:30 And the other two, just watch carefully what I do.
20:41 Okay, open your eyes.
20:42 Look at me.
20:44 Honestly, how many times did I touch you?
20:47 Honestly.
20:50 Say it.
20:51 It was three or four.
20:54 Yes?
20:55 Three or four times I touched you.
20:57 You're there, there, and here.
21:00 How many times did you see me touch you?
21:02 None.
21:04 We didn't go anywhere near hands.
21:06 Nowhere near.
21:08 Yeah.
21:09 He touched me, believe me.
21:11 I felt him.
21:15 Excuse me.
21:17 Thank you very much, that was very good.
21:20 So thank you very much for inviting me tonight, it was very kind of you,
21:23 you're all very attractive.
21:24 I'm going to try something with all of you as a group, okay?
21:28 And all I ask is that you just do what I ask you to do in your head.
21:32 First of all, I have here a large black envelope,
21:35 which I've had all evening.
21:37 Can I ask you to verify none of you know what's in this envelope.
21:40 I've not shown any of you, I haven't told any of you what's in there.
21:44 If that's not true, anybody, please put your hand up.
21:47 Okay.
21:48 All right.
21:49 I'm going to try something, I think, with the chap there,
21:51 because you're staring right at me.
21:52 What's your name, sir?
21:53 It's James.
21:54 James, very good to meet you.
21:55 Let me take your drink.
21:57 Can you come and have a seat just here?
21:58 Sure.
22:01 Thank you so much.
22:02 Now, James, let me just--a couple of things.
22:03 First of all, we haven't set anything up.
22:04 You genuinely have no way of knowing what's in that envelope.
22:07 No, I have no idea.
22:08 Excellent, fantastic.
22:10 I'm going to put a blindfold on James
22:12 so you don't receive any visual clues that you shouldn't.
22:16 Can you see anything?
22:17 Nothing.
22:18 Nothing, fantastic.
22:19 Right, here is the envelope.
22:20 I'm going to show the rest of you what is inside here.
22:23 Be very careful not to say anything
22:26 or make any noises that might give it away.
22:29 Remain absolutely silent.
22:45 All right.
22:47 I'm going to hold my hand up for five seconds.
22:49 And in those five seconds,
22:50 you remain absolutely silent and absolutely emotionless.
22:54 But in your mind, you scream at James over and over again
22:58 what this drawing is.
22:59 You scream at him over and over again what the drawing is,
23:02 but only in your mind.
23:04 You make no sound out loud.
23:05 Is that absolutely clear?
23:07 Five seconds.
23:08 I will then ask him what he thinks it is.
23:11 If he gets it right or anywhere close,
23:13 you must react to let him know
23:15 because he won't be able to see.
23:17 Ready?
23:20 Five seconds.
23:32 James, what do you believe the drawing is?
23:35 I think it's a tractor.
23:44 I just thought tractor as soon as he approached me even.
23:47 I just was thinking of exactly that picture,
23:49 a tractor with a small wheel at the front,
23:51 big wheel at the back,
23:52 a funnel for the smoke and a cabin.
23:55 I just had a tractor, just a tractor.
23:58 I've been had.
23:59 And fair play, I know I didn't cheat, nothing happened.
24:02 He didn't tell me anything to think of or anything like that.
24:05 I used to think it was a bit of body language,
24:07 a bit of prepping beforehand or whatever.
24:10 But now I don't know.
24:12 It's actually quite baffling.
24:14 Something really happened.
24:16 I can feel that he touched me.
24:19 Strange.
24:20 Very strange.
24:21 Scary.
24:22 Baffling.
24:23 Definitely.
24:25 It's very impressive that he can read my mind so easily.
24:28 Very strange.
24:29 Very strange.
24:36 Now I know what you're thinking,
24:37 how did he know what was drawn in the envelope?
24:40 Clearly I must have detected in his voice the accent of my hometown, Bristol.
24:44 So he's only going to be thinking of a tractor.
24:46 Or marrying your own sister, and a tractor's easy to draw,
24:49 so Bob's your uncle and your dad.