squonk wrote:
yellowtamarin wrote:
I'm a medium. My size fluctuates a bit but still medium in general.
No, I'm very cynical. I'd believe Derren Brown before any "psychic". Would love to be proved wrong though, how exciting that would be!
Not really watched Derren Brown, is he more like an illusionist than a psychic?
Derren Brown is brilliant. He is neither an illusionist or a psychic. Instead he is highly skilled at cold reading people and using various subtle tricks to get people to say or do what he wants them to do. He also has a knack of using these tricks to hypnotise people to do the strangest things without them realising they were being hypnotised. I've seen a number of his TV programs and was amazed at some of the things he did. I'm sure that if he claimed to have supernatural powers there would be many people who would believe that - based on what he can do. However, he claims no such powers and reveals the cunning techniques he uses to manipulate people in the ways he does. A fascinating man.
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