Subliminal Advertising

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2007-06-13 08:08pm

Illusionist Derren Brown

It really makes you wonder about how marketing affects your decisions without you realising it.

Vampiress_Miyu · Post by **Vampiress_Miyu** » 2007-06-13 10:09pm

Woah. o.o

It's really creepy how much our brains can be manipulated like that...

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-06-13 10:59pm

Why? That's how they work.

Vampiress_Miyu · Post by **Vampiress_Miyu** » 2007-06-13 11:56pm

I know... But... -shrug- It's still freaky to me.

Starglider · Post by **Starglider** » 2007-06-14 01:49am

Vampiress_Miyu wrote:I know... But... -shrug- It's still freaky to me.

Study cognitive science and you will discover that the brain, or to be precise the mismatch between the human reflective self-model (intuitive idea of what the self is and how our mind works) and how the brain actually works, is a near-bottomless well of freakiness.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-06-14 08:07am

And it's made ever more freaky when you get prodigies like Derren Brown who gives the impression he could become POTUS overnight if he really wanted to without a single bit of violence.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-06-14 01:12pm

Derren Brown also does hypnotic type stuff. You can see him here rob a man just by asking for the stuff. Someone did an explanation of how Brown did this, which I found rather interesting.[/url]

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-06-14 01:16pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bkleuxpvxY

More on the fly hypnotism. This one's interesting because it has a guy who is not affected by Brown's tricks.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2007-06-14 01:22pm

Man, I hope they open an Animal Heaven near me soon!

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2007-06-14 02:19pm

My favorite Derren Brown bit was when he played nine chess grand-masters simultaneously and won the majority.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2007-06-15 02:05am

CaptainChewbacca wrote:My favorite Derren Brown bit was when he played nine chess grand-masters simultaneously and won the majority.

That's easy, just make sure to play with more than one at a time

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