johnpetermalcolm and then he ‘corrected’ himself and said 6.8 seconds, the point is that he read it wrong because the stopwatch said 68 hundredths of a second
I mean... Almost definitely not. He more than likely has a ticking mechanism on himself somewhere that pulses for each second and maybe a special pulse for each minute. And the book trick was just him listening to the guy turning pages until he counted the proper number of page turns to get to the page Derren had memorized. He is a showman, a mentalist, and a magician first and foremost. He tells us that all the time, but everyone just latches onto the whole NLP and hypnosis "explanations" because it sounds cooler. It's just a magic trick. All of it. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing at all. Just that he is not some hypnotizing wizard.
I'm one of those people that always wakes up a minute before my alarm, and I can usually guess what time it is to the minute and be spot on.... I'm also broke, unmarried, with no kids though, so its not the best of talents lol
Guess what you are not the only such person. I used to get up exactly at the time I had wanted to without an alarm. But unfortunately for me that talent didnt last long after I met a strange one similar to Darren. My life took a turn for the worse. And yes , I too am broke , unmarried, no kids no nothing!!! lol!!!
Well, marriage is an absurd and statistical failure of a thing itself. Business contracts and often includes some debunked religion. Legal theft even occurs in cases of prenups (a paper that says well this didn't work but you cannot legally steal my stuff please). Around 70% of divorces are by women and many of the cases don't involve abuse. Around 85% of suicides are by males, the majority of homeless are males, the majority of hard drug users (around 3 million people die annually from alcohol and most are men), most job related accidents and deaths are by men. So, it's safe to say, you're doing great, as you said yourself, you're relaxed. Not paying a rigged child support forced charity system or anything of the sort. More people are realising how awful the world is and don't want children or marriage, especiallyyyy in such a non-vegan operated, purposely poor and unhealthy world. Scientists are saying humans will destroy themselves by 2050 instead of by 1000 years or so. All the wild fish will be gone by 2045 and then the even more unhealthy farm fish will be all that's left, according to major scientific sources. So on and so forth. Puppet presidents and JFK getting killed over trying to end the foreign "Federal" Reserve for the second time in American history, and trying to expose "secret societies" they he was apart of. Nixon's "temporary hold" on trading in gold and silver from 1971 that still exists today for our fake fiat money system. In the 80s, it was illegal for Americans to buy a lot of gold and silver, anywhere in the world. Liars on the left and right. Exposure on the left and right and people turn blind eyes and then just point to the other. Wishy-washy society. Around 36% of Americans are Centrists but only the two party dictatorship fascist tyrannical system wins, though multiple parties exist and it's just not two parties for many other nations. #RichDadPoorDad, the best seller in personal finances since its release in 1997, explains all that and more! So, yeah, you are doing good there! :D Keep it up. I'm on the same boat. Hehe.
I used to feed my dogs at 9pm and it did not take them long before they knew exactly when 9pm what, the only issue was when the clocks changed but they soon adjusted and the accuracy of them knowing exactly when it was 9pm was amazing.
all he did was use different counting methods, he started in his head, then he used his fingers on the chair, his footsteps walking in the room, the number of times that he chewed the thing in the bowl. He also used sips of water to mark the minutes. He is a true counting genius
"I'm astounded I don't know how he did it." Derren even explains the "trick" that he used to reveal his answer. Derren is a master magician and an exceptional reader of body language who has obviously practised this stuff his whole life. No telepathy here.
Ok, here's my best guess for this one. Derren really has through practice been able to measure time with accuracy. By pacing or chewing repetitively it helps to count time. (Of course assuming nothing hidden in his clothes). He had a rough idea of the book and was keeping track of where this guy was at, then by saying '3,2,1' it makes him stop at a significant word.
Wait for him to turn the page. Count until he turns the page again. It doesn't have to be an accurate count of seconds, just a consistent pace. Knowing how far you can count while he reads two pages, estimate the count to the passage you memorized. Count to there. Derren only had to be correct to within 5% of a page-turn interval to impress most people. A better reveal would have been to start saying the words he would just be reaching, as though reading through the guy's eyes.
Right as I’m going to comment on how boring this trick is and how there are too many ways to accomplish it, he pulls out a brain frying book test. Derren Brown is one of the greatest entertainers of our era. Loved it, thanks
I know how Darren guessed the page and words this guy read. Before the show started, Darren got that book, he chose a page and made sure he memorized that page number (which it was 9). Then he chose a a sentence from that page and memorized two words from it. And he also memorized where the sentence was located in the page, whether it was around in the beginning, around the middle, or around the end of the page. So when he started the clock, Darren waited until he reached page 9 , because he could hear him flipping pages and he also noticed about how long he took per page. Since Darren had a good feel of how long it took this guy to read a page, he made an educated timely guess on when he thought this guy was reading that sentence he picked before the show and said "stop!". That is something plausible and not really difficult. Guessing time however, I don’t know how Darren did that.
I think it's more than that. With speed reading courses and the ability to relax on command, it is possible for someone to memorise an entire book just by flipping the pages. I have no doubt Derren has this skill. So he just had to know the timing of his reader, and could have guessed any word on any page
I think he's amazing, but this trick seems easy (compared to his others). I think he simply looked ahead to a page 6 or so pages ahead and found a sentence midway down. Then he spent the next ~8.5 minutes listening (and counting) for when the man turned each page. By doing that he had a good idea of how many seconds (on average) it took to read a page. He also knew exactly when the reader was starting the final page since he was counting the *pages*. From there, he just had to count down 1/2 of an average page time (something on the order of 30 seconds) to know when to stop the clock. I mean, it takes a lot of mental bookkeeping to manage this, but having some internal precision clock/metronome is not needed since it's not a trick about exact time measurement. It's a trick about keeping track of page turns and knowing approximately how long it takes to read 1 page.
It actually took him ~2 mins 18 secs to read a page. He only turned 1 page during the exercise because page 119 was on the right hand side. He started on page 116. All Derren needs to do is count until he turns the page (4 mins 35 secs) and then quickly work out 3/4 of that time (3 mins 27 secs) and count for that amount. Derren already flicked ahead to this page and picked out a word in the middle of page 119 before the exercise started. He didn’t need to be exact, he just needed to be close.
Exactly what I thought, although Derren’s participant probably turned over more than just one page; the sequence was cut and edited to make it seem like a lot of time had passed and probably ‘glossed’ over a few of the participant’s page turns. But your reasoning stands the same: pick a group of words midway down a specific page of a two-fold of pages, work out the average time the participant takes to read a two-fold, and count the number of page turns from the starting point; form there, work out roughly the end point and voila.
That actually happens to me a lot when I need to be up for something specific (not work) - I very often wake up just minutes before the alarm goes off as if my body knows it's time to wake up. It's even happened when I forgot to set the alarm.
Couldn't Derren have just looking over the guys shoulder before he sat down, read what page he was on and pick out a few of the words???? I mean, he was walking around the room behind him and stuff. He was actually 8 minutes off counting the time.
He quite openly looked at the book and what page the guy was up to. That does not explain how he would know the exact phrase he had reached at any time in the future but he got it right. People read at different speeds. Had DB read the whole of this book beforehand to know what was on that later page? Most of the explanations given in these comments are very naive.
He looked at the book before the timer started, he checked lets say 10 pages past his bookmark and remembered a couple words in the middle of the page, then as the timer was going on Derren just counted how many times he turned the page and waited a little until he would be around the middle of the last page.
i have a body clock like a swiss watch. I attribute it to my 4 years as an accountant at a job I absolutely despised. I spent half the day on ten key calculating how many seconds it was until I could leave the place. If I was typing away, people left me alone.
omg the thing where I wake up a second before my alarm goes off is so true. i dont need to set an alarm sometimes if i convince my self before i go to sleep that i need to get up at a certain time, i will wake up at the time I want to. the human body is so weird
He's eating one of those berries each time a page is turned and eyeballed the exact page and word when he fanned the book at the beginning, then probably estimated how long it takes a person to read to the middle of the page. Very clever.
I very rarely use my alarm clock. I set it, but 99% of the time wake up just before it goes off. On the 1% of times it wakes me up. If for whatever reason the alarm doesnt go off because I forgot to set it or power cut etc I "oversleep" and still wake up within ten mins of when I wanted. I am however absolutely shite at judging time when awake!
Derren only had to memorise one page to do this. Count page turns till the guy gets to that page then picture reading that page at the pace the guy must be reading at; which will be easy to work out since he knows the guys time taken to read a certain number of pages. The guy was expecting to be there for an hour and so he will read the book properly. I think that’s about it for this one. Clever me... I actually hate myself lol and just feel lucky to see through this one if indeed that’s the way he did it.
Yes, Derren Brown is quite good at this. He is a professional. You are as good as your job as he is at his. He is training this stuff. I don't even want to know how much time he had to sink into this.
In Magic trick terms, this isn't much of a trick, I think Derrens best trick is making people not question his methods. He planted the seed, we all, sometimes, wake up just before our alarms. That has nothing to do with this (in my opinion). Everything else could be any type of cue, it could literally be a director off screen giving him visual cues, it could be a device on him that vibrates or pulses at pre determined points.
Hmm great, but at that point I would have said "Nice, but that wasn't the trick, you said you could stop me at *.**.** seconds.... Do It." Apart from that, good shit mate. Love your work!
Bit off topic but whenever I try to think what the time is randomly, and I keep thinking about it for a while, going trough numbers in my head, stopping at a number that makes sense, I often am correct within a 5 minute margin. I wonder what that's all about.
Hey, everybody. You know he's not really counting the seconds for 8 minutes, right? He's performing a magic trick wherein he sneakily finds out the page and line of the book.
You don't have to see a timepiece to get the time. Maybe the visually impaired have devices that they feel? And that word combination on the page was probably programmed into the reader's mind to look out for beforehand.
looked a few pages ahead of where he was, counted the amount of buzzes between page turn to get an idea of what would be halfway through a page. If he even picked some words on the same page the guy would have been impressed and reacted in a way that would suggest to viewers Derren was spot on, the closer the better.
I'm one of the ones that Derren mentioned who can wake up at whatever time I want, within about 5 minutes. I've always been able to and have no idea how - I just think about when I want to wake up before bed, about how long that is (it needs to be at least say 4 hours). I've tested it with friends a dozen times or so - that said I can do nothing like what Derren does here so certainly not claiming some power. Anyone else that can do this?
Yeah, I'm exactly the same, even if I have a late night and would like a lie in, my body clock wakes me up a couple of minutes before I need to be up. It always amazed me but I just thought we could all do it! ......edit: I meant to reply to this comment 2 years ago but slept in!
Wow, 3 mistake in 1 silly comment... . Literally and infinite don't go together. . Infinite IQ makes no sense, literally, pun intended . IQ has little to do with this video; Derren Brown is smart, sure, but not necessarily super high IQ
Seems quite easy to replicate this - some sort of timer strapped to your body, pulses every second, big pulse every 15 seconds or minute to help keep track etc. Also guy is supposedly an expert watchmaker but he can't tell the time, 68/6.8 seconds and has a cheap quiksilver watch...
Yup. He often talks about the power of suggestion in Psychology. Just by timing it so close to where he was at in the book, by saying the specific words and redirecting him to the middle of the page, most people validate the answer.
I think I'm in the unfortunate group where I wake up, check my phone and more often than not it's within a few minutes of my alarm due to go off. I hate it haha. Also, when the second time test started I looked away and clicked to pause the video(I was watching in full screen so I didn't see any time indicator since it started) thought for a few seconds and guessed 5 minutes 36 seconds, when I looked at the time elapsed, it was 5 minutes 34 seconds. Not greatly impressive but not a bad guess, I wasn't keeping time from when the video started(maybe more so subconsciously because of the title) but that is still pretty cool. I'm sure a lot of people can guess time closely when they are asked or think about it, but Devil.. I mean Derren is on another level haha. He truly is Extraordinary.
Robin James Thanks... I commented about the video and it's context of time keeping. Sorry you didn't find it interesting. I just wanted to share my experience with the video. Thanks for taking interest in my comment, and thanks for being highly condescending with a small response, a talent and skill you have used well...
Robin James Again another lovely, and in depth reply, with a great insight of the understanding of the comment section, and it's use/function. Truly, a reply saying more than it means, and less than it implies. Fascinating, remarkable, inspirational. Rejoice, all those who need not say anything, but choose to with minimal effort, your saviour is here in the form of one word, a true genius, a martyr if you will, praise on to he, Sir Robin of James. When too many words do too much, say one, and more is said.
The time thing is least impressive as a trick. Anyone with a vibrating alarm or sufficiently accurate watch can rig a small device worn next to the skin to give you exact cues to follow. These tricks are not his best. Still, it's all in the misdirection, the sense of spontaneity. He's a good actor.
I think so. And a helper with a good zoom. At least it cannot be excluded in this setting. So having that in the back of the mind, it does not amaze me.
