How To Hypnotise Simon Pegg - Derren Brown 

if i was friends with derren i would have serious trust issues

Re-watching this is amazing when you notice the entire room of bike themed subliminals.

I like how he says "I've got no need for a leather jacket" with SUCH sincerity, to convince us (and himself) that he would never have written that.... but does not realize he has NO NEED FOR A BMX BIKE EITHER!

I dig how early-'00s everything about this is.

You got red on you

From like 2 minutes on he looks genuinely distressed. Like he knows something is happening and it's scaring him but he can't put his finger on it

1:29 "handlebar" 1:31 "what to saddle for" 1:37 "re cycle the same two tired (tyred)" 1:47 "bike" 1:52 "pumped up" 1:56 "Beam excitement" 2:17 a really nice car like a BM or an xbox..."

The way this is Filmed, this looks exactly like an episode of Spaced.

Thanks man, hypnotising Simon pegg was on my bucket list.

My brain just shat ittself

Wow this video totally reminded me about how I've always wanted a red BMX bike

This actually makes me afraid to ever meet Derren Brown in real life.

You know, as skeptical I am about this, I love the clever subtle puns

The script is brilliant. The embedded commands, the situational pacing, the tone, volume. Everything.

Always great to see this. Watched it like 100 times and still cant stop watching it. Derren Brown is an extraordinary performer and he never fails to amaze and inspire me.

That 'BM or X-box' line is even more genius than i first thought - not just BMX but BMX in a box.

2 of my favorite people in one room

It was the touching of his shoulder ,locking him in, the rapid hypnosis induction handshake, the wrist pressure and constant dialagoue mixed with the external visual cues , Derren's linguistics are unbelievable and not easy to master to the level of ease he just spews out subliminals off the tip of his tongue as if its daily conversation. . Much more than that went into this . Incredible to think .

We all think "our movie" in our heads is so real. Derren just comes along and works with that.

Derren recites the whole thing so flawlessly and smooth. Lots of practice went into this. Unsurprisingly. Brilliant.

another thing he does here in addition to suggesting things while talking is that he puts him in a suggestible state by interrupting the handshake quickly and instead of shaking his hand he puts it down on the table. The way this works is that unconsciously we know what we are doing when we shake someone's hand and by interrupting that unconscious action, it puts the person into a more unconscious state where they are more open to suggestion and more easily influenced by things they the don't consciously notice such as the bike themed room or the language derren uses to implant the idea of a bmx bike into his mind.

I've always wondered how you hypnotise Simon pegg

i spotted the point when he said ''you could get a nice car or a bm X.. box''

Terrific how receptive the mind is. That's why we have to be careful of real con artists in our lives.

the audio reels in the back spinning are like bicycle tires going.

How do i learn how to do this?? Please make a program called "Derren's apprentice" an make me the contestant

This was the first video of Derren Brown in action that I ever saw. To this day, it still gives me chills. The planning, the experience needed to pull this off, and that he makes it look so effortless. It's freaking amazing.

The song is *Victor Malloy - Different time*

Simon pegg and Nick frost my fav duo

The colour was obviously going to be red 😂

I keep coming back every once in a while to study this. This time it was to look at the touching done here, particularly when he laid his hand on the table. ~~~ But, now I'm looking at the props in the room. Lot's of circles in pairs. That reel-to-reel tape recorder has to be a prop (6:11). It's running, but I don't see any audio cables coming out of it.

Derren is also using NLP =Neurolistic programming to anchor the hypnotic suggestions. Nice work.

I walk up to a woman *S* o how was your *EX* periance? Are you *S* aying you'd like more *EX* periance?

Thanks Garnt

i would think this is fake but i can't accept that simon would be in on it

As others have said, I think it was a simple envelope switch and forged handwriting, and the "psychological tactics" were just for show. That said, I think it is entirely possible that Derren's techniques shown here could actually make someone feel at least a temporary sense of positivity and excitement about a bike. First he gets Simon to remember that feeling when he really wants something, which makes him experience it in part, and then anchors it to a touch on the arm. Then he uses the same touch on the arm to emphasise his embedded suggestions about bikes. So the arm touch will create both a feeling of positivity and excitement, and subconsciously elicit the idea of a bike in him. It's not unlike what adverts do when they show you images and music that are designed to make you feel good and then show their product at the end so you attach the feeling to the product.

listen to what he's rambling about. When I 'Bi(ke)' gifts or presents. Get all 'Pumped up' and excited Would rather 'saddle' for something else don't want to re-'Cycle'. Very clever shit Derren

Go and see him live. Amazing show :)

5:08 Derrens Laugh 😂😂😂😂

"Bike."

"Two-Tired" bottle of wine, I see what you did there derren

This is brilliant!!!

Bike gifts, what to saddle for, recycle... pumped up, incredible script from derren. Love his work

I need this for when I'm on a date.

6:28 "BeaM eXcitement" was the only one I didn't pick up on initially.

This was amazing

For anyone wondering who doesn't know... the target of this trick is NOT Simon.... It's the audience :-)

When you read the techniques, you find out that the actuAl trick is on the audience. Simon is awestruck because he DID write down that he wanted a BMX bike. How Derren got a hold of the note, replaced it with handwriting similar to Simon’s, and then staged a show for us to make it seem like he did all this influencing with the red, the words, all that showmanship, that is what Simon is gobsmacked about. You have to take Simon at his word that he is flabbergasted, but more about how Derren knew about his red bike, but also how he got the leather jacket note in his wallet. Probably with a bit of help from inside Simon’s circle,: wife, friend, girlfriend. As for the handwriting, Derren is sure to know excellent forgers. But what you learn about mentalists is that the big trick they pull is the showmanship, the better you are at that the better the audience experience. Just thinking that somehow Derren had the note lifted, got a duplicate forged but with the words leather jacket, buying a red bmx bike then setting up the room with all these hints, and taking a couple days to do that, certainly isn’t as cool as thinking he Influenced Simon to forget about what he wrote and replace his wish for a leather jacket for a BMX bike. That’s what make Derren a great performer.

I love Simon pegg

why am I realy happy after waching this 😂😂

Ok, comment section, let's think a bit deeper here. Obviously, Derren didn't really hypnotize Simon Pegg or "use NLP/psychology" on him. What if...Simon did indeed write "BMX Bike" and Derren's team simply stole the card and swapped it with another one that reads "leather jacket?" If that were the case, then all the mumbo jumbo coded language with bike references and B-M-X references was misdirection. Simon would still, of course, be generally surprised that Derren knew what we wanted. Also, he would be 100% right when he claimed to firmly state that he wrote "BMX bike".

yes i see it's like ear worm. good.. i caught myself sometimes humming tunes from yonks ago,, i be thinking why when I don't really like the song. If I relax and think about it.. it played somewhere n public.

"sus this out" different meaning in 2021

The real deception is when he convinces the audience that NLP was the reason this worked and not the standard tricks a magician employs.

At risk of making myself sound like a dummy, when I first saw this I was so mesmerised by the performance that it went over my head, so when Simon said “I want a BMX bike” I thought that’s what he had actually told Derren originally he wanted. Then when they unwrapped it and it was a BMX I was like “where’s the trick? He wanted a BMX and he got him one?” And then I thought “wait why the fuck does Simon Pegg want a BMX?” And then it dawned on me I was the joke

did anyone actually find them self wanting a bmx (red) bike? i didn't :(

Manipulation through hidden puns. Bro this is brilliant 😁

Thanks to Trash Taste for mentioning this in passing.

Did he get stunt Peg(g)s on it......... Ok I'll go now.

I’m a doubter on this one

Word of caution to derren's friends. He asks you to hang out before your birthday and he's changed his floor plan for some weird ass art or something, he's up to some shit.

This legitimately made me want a red bmx bike. Wow...

I only catched Derren saying "pumped up"...

You are a genius , I'm a hypnotist project and this reinforces what I think inductions do not need all those movements and outdated standards.

Someone has been reading Edward Bearnaise.

Nevermind, I found the music in the background. It's: "Different Time" by Victor Malloy. Almost nowhere to be found on the internet, I confirmed that it indeed is that track by listening to a sample of it. Jesus fucking christ it took me 3 hours but I did it. Thinking that shazam got it wrong. If anyone can find the mp3 please send the link to me. Cheers.

Notice him touch him basically every time he says one of these subliminal words used in this conversation, which include but are not limited to: Spoke (we spoke on the phone) (0:23) (0:32) Ride (write down) 0:27 Bike (buy[k]gifts) 1:23 ([by c]reating) 1:47 Handle Bar (best way to handle, bar none) 1:28 Saddle (settle for) 1:31 Cycle, Two-tired (Recycle) 1:37 Pumped -up (1:52) BMX (they BeaM eXcitement) 1:57 (a nice car like a BM or an Xbox) 2:19 Extreme 2:08 At the end he says "you can have anything you like" and notice Bike rhyms with Like, that part could just be a coincidence but the rest is 100 percent not.

There is so many little things he does to convince people. Notice he often does tiny little nods. Barely noticable but they are there and they often open people up to suggestion because nodding is a very positive gesture. Its the universal gesture for yes in many countries and languages. And yes is often a relaxing term because it suggests good things while no is a refusal. Then you'll notice he always connects physically with people, often by touching their arm or their shoulder. Humans enjoy contact especially if its limited and subtle. Not too much to be intimate, but a friendly touch to indicate friendship and thus, trust. its a relaxing technique design to put his "target" at ease which opens them up further to suggestion. It also acts as a trigger, if he wants to recreate that feeling of trust, he performs the same touch to force their brain to recall that feeling.

Was there a reason he took Simon's hand then put it down fast like that?

Nah bc I been actually talking about wanting a bmx and learning tricks and stuff

I always wonder if the explanation for how he does the “trick” is actually just misdirection, & has absolutely nothing to do with how it’s really done. If all of the BMX wordplay is just a ruse.

I swear down I was hypnotised myself

The trick might be that they somehow found out he wrote BMX, and the envelope was somehow switched. Then the script was written for the BMX.

😯 I was thinking bike too. 👀

love how Darren implants the bike into his mind unconsciously, tapping his arm while saying "handle " and "X" and slipping the word bike in there if you listen Carefully! so simple but yet so affective

cool simon pegg

WHAT IS THE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND???

I love Derren Brown :)

Mental-Magicians call this method "dual reality": Unfortunately he just somehow switched the paper inside the envelope, and had to fake the handwriting, thats basically it! ...but well performed, so it looks like true mentalism!

the moment he said saddle, i knew he was trying to make him think of a bike

I think the explanation is fake. There are two tricks here. One where he tricked Simon into either believing he wanted a bike, or, probably more correctly, believing he had written something else. And the other trick is where he fools the audience with the phony explanation to throw them off the scent of the first trick.

All the bike puns 😂

I literally thought BMX bike.

What a fucking wizard...

1:35 re-cycle, the tape in the background, very subtle... :)

At what point did Simon ask himself what on earth he wanted a childs bmx for? Assuming he is not still wandering around under the belief that is exactly what he wanted. So powerful.

I LOVE how Derren is SO freakin' sneaky, that he manages to deceive the audience while deceiving Simon. I mean, a LOT of what we see is just for show (I expect). A LOT of what we hear is also for show. I expect that what's happening here has VERY little to do with either what we're seeing Derren do or what we hear him say. I'm convinced that he says and does these things in a very overt manner, so that we don't notice how he ACTUALLY does it. You know, the same way any other magician would employ misdirection. It's just that when Derren does it, he's fooling you into thinking that you're seeing behind the curtain, when you're really just seeing more smoke and mirrors. My guess would be that ALL of this was utterly unnecessary and that everything he needed to do to (apparently) reprogram Simon Pegg, was done before either of them showed up here.

Brilliant psychology

"Oh piss off" best quote of Shawn of the dead 😉

Does this work?

I tell you what would have been _really_ spooky: If they would have asked Simon _before_ the talk about what he had written down on the paper. And I tell you why they didn't do it: because he would have said: _"BMX bike"_ It would have been even more impressive to film Pegg while he's writing on the paper. But they couldn't, because he wrote "BMX bike". And he had to do it 2 days in advance so they had time to swap the paper, buy the bike and prepare all the surrounding rubbish. To think that Derren Brown can mess up your mind from "something I would like for my birthday" to "I've got no need for it" (5:35) is ridiculous. And why would you think that no one on Earth can do the same trick although Brown explains how he did it? Because it's not possible. It's simple as that. This is Uri Geller-level piss take. They just changed the paper, like hundreds of magicians did before.

14 year old me would think, pfft. I couldn't be influenced, I believe in science, blah blah blah. 12 years later and I feel like I need a tinfoil hat and a cabin in Iceland out of fear of Derren hijacking my dreams or something.

Song at 0:20 and 3:00 and 4:35?

Crazy how easily people can be manipulated to think they want something they don't need...

loved the pattern interruption at 5:52

Amazed

Here's a theory... Simon wrote down BMX. Derren and his team then over the week located and pilfered the note Simon wrote (they probably provided the envelope to make it easy to switch, as it looks very specific), and replaced it with a forged one saying "Leather Jacket" (forging handwriting isn't hard). Then went through the whole song and dance of the hypnotism routine with all the "subliminal imagery" in the background. Then Simon opens the letter and sees "Leather Jacket" and is amazed as can't remember writing it, he remembers writing BMX. Hehe, you know it would be the easiest way to do it. :)

I'm amazed...

Would be funny to find out that Simon really did write BMX bike on his slip of paper. That Derren snuck that out of his wallet at some point, and reproduced his hand-writing to make a new packet that said "Leather Jacket". Then, they simply gave him what he wanted, the BMX, and told him that he hadn't originally asked for that. This would then be a trick ON US. Simon got what he wanted, but we are made to think he only wanted it due to suggestion. It would look like hypnosis to us, and to Simon, but would just be Derren having read his card in advance. But to be honest, I do believe Simon caved to suggestion.

was this in 2004?