The Web’s Best Video Clips: Videos With A Brain

Based on a concept by the late Andy Kauffman and Bob Zmuda…this “event” is completely staged by Improv Everywhere. There is no real hypnotist, no real hypnotism…only the real reactions of bystanders who believe that people have been hypnotized and then abandoned. Pretty interesting.
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In NYC, Derren attempts to buy things using his own money…blank pieces of paper. Unlike many of his videos which are very intense, this is a bit on the lighter side.
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From the “Trick of the Mind” TV series in the UK. As usual…his work is just flat amazing.
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Derren showcases a subject-to-subject transferrence of numbers, and causes a portion of the audience to forget what they’ve seen during the show.
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An undertaker sorts through a stack of photos of people, and sorts them intuitively. To say more would ruin the effect. Just watch it.
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Derren demonstrates a technique of persuasion where he simply asks for what he wants…and get it. Including wallet, house keys, etc. And then does it again…to the same guy! Quite amazing.
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Derren uses NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) to convince a man that he wants one gift when he had previously chosen another. And then, he takes us back through his patter and shows how it was done. Sometimes referred to as “covert hypnosis”, this technique shows in the same way as more standard hypnosis, just how malleable [...]

Video game designed to put someone into a trance. After he zonks out, he is transported to a life-size replica of the game environment. Part of this is very intense…so if you’re looking for a good laugh…or if intense things freak you out, don’t watch.
WARNING: PROFANITY
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Very cool segment on how the mind can be manipulated into believing that someone who is clearly visible is, in fact, quite invisible.
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Forgetting numbers, changing first names, stuttering, speak a foreign language, lose their belly buttons and getting dragged all over by a large, invisible dog. More about him at TommyVee.com
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