Met Derren in a coffee shop years ago, we chatted about his show in my town that evening and he asked if I had tickets, no I said, he rang his agent and had two waiting for me at the front desk that night! Top bloke 👍🏻

Dude hypnotized Rogan into not interrupting him for the entire clip.

Was on stage with him in Belfast on the Svengali Tour for a part of the show, met him after and he thanked me for my participation and signed a book for me, absolute gent and what a wonderful portfolio of work

Joe “every time I have a bald guest on the show I wear a hat” Rogan

I met Derren Brown when I was working in the west end. He bought all of the front of house staff pizza at the end of the first show. Super nice and humble guy.

Did derren hypnotise Joe, he listened to every word and didn't interrupt once, amazing

He hypnotised me watching this... I have been stuck to my toilet seat for 30 mins

The most impressive Derren Brown feat is not drinking his own bath water. As he says at the end, it's very easy due to statistical fluke for people like him to start believing they have some real power. It takes a very honest individual like Derren to keep reminding himself that there's something much more mundane at work.

Props to Derren for his open, honest and fascinating thoughts about what he does and how it works.

Was privileged to catch Derren's Showman show last year and it was genuinely mind blowing. Nothing like being in a room with him live watching him perform, I'm naturally sceptical to magic/hypnosis effects etc. yet found that I had been done myself by one of his many great tricks in the show's finale, blew me away as I'm naturally sceptical towards magic/hypnosis effects. An incredible performer, roll on the next stage show

Derren brown introduced me and no doubt millions of others the sheer enormity of subliminal thought. Brilliant entertainer that always leaves you with many niggling, puzzling thoughts and questions but just at that point he just disappears in a puff of smoke. Derren is a wonderful wizard.

Wouldn't it be interesting if Derren Brown was hypnotising Joe Rogan throughout this interview for a future documentary/special?

I feel like if I use "the wall outside of my house is 4 feet high" I'll still get jumped

This is why I’m incredibly interested in states of consciousness, because if we could understand how these states effect us and how to put ourselves in these states, we could sort of take more control our stories, or at least understand more about who we are and how we work

This is the most I've heard Joe Rogan not interrupt and actually listen

Freaked me out when that bottle just floated through the air

I tried using that line when an aggressive guy approached me. Unfortunately he was a builder, who had just built me a wall outside the front of my house, only to 3.5ft and not the 4ft I'd requested.

I've seen this man live, I already considered him to be extremely intelligent but after witnessing his talents live I can honestly say he might be the most gifted human being in existence

I find it fascinating. When my 5yr old hurts his knee, I can kiss it and make it better, or rub it, or put a useless plaster on it, tell him that it’s all better now and the tears instantly dry up. I think that suggestibility starts when we’re children, and never goes away, for some of us at least. Having said that, I’m hugely sceptical about any of that stuff and I think I’d be a nightmare to essentially ’trick’ that way. But I definitely use that kind of distraction technique to convince my boy that he feels better lol

Look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, don’t look around the eyes 3,2,1, and you’re under

The same way Joe hypnotised his audience into thinking he's over 5'5

Wow thanks for having Derren on now I’m stuck in my chair

You ever been hypnotized on DMT?

Love Derren Brown. I do so agree that the stories we tell ourselves are so often the things that delay our healing. I had a foot injury in 2018 that was looking like it might stop my running but I caught myself telling my dad all about it on the phone one day and realised that I was quite attached to the “poor me with the injured foot unable to do his favourite sport of running story” and in that moment shook myself so as to say “what the heck are you doing - you don’t want that story”. That instant shift meant the foot was fully functional again in 2-3 days.

used to watch every one one of his shows, so good

I absolutely loved Derren's live show in NYC last week - he is so intelligent and funny, it's a pleasure to watch him :) Maybe he hypnotized me, but I felt fantastic for days after the show :)

"One night I was walking on Highgate Hill when a drunk accosted me and kept asking, 'How beautiful is the moon' I replied, 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...' He said that was a good answer, and lurched off. Shakespeare works quite well with drunks, I've found." ~ Sting

He trains you to wait on his last word, which he pauses before saying. He kinda talks like he's breathless but it's so at ease at the same time.

Derren Brown. The UK's finest mentalism performer. He's a bit hard to pin down exactly into a category though. From his TV shows and specials. Russian roulette, seance , the heist etc.. always something different and surprising. And always entertaining. Andy Nyman, who he works with is known for a few films and the stage play "ghost stories" recently made into a great movie.

Most people in Darren’s space come off as smug and shady. I was wondering if this podcast would expose Darren, but he is actually a humble and authentic guy. Definitely gained a fan.

Wow, the tonality changes, moving from commanding, to slowing down, emphasising continuing words like ‘so’ and ‘and’, the pauses, the speed of communication, bringing up different states with his stories - Derren Brown is amazing at hypnosis. Just rapid fire runs through pattern interrupts and controls the centre of attention.

At one of Derren’s shows in Sunderland (England) there was a part where everyone stood up and he did a group suggestibility/ hypnosis bit where we closed our eyes and couldn’t move etc. But the lady next to me didn’t snap out of it when Derren told us to and was just sat there completely entranced with her eyes shut. It went to the shows interval and after 10 minutes or so Derren came up to the Upper Circle of the theatre where we were and came right next to me and was whispering to the lady telling her to slowly start drifting back and waking up. She eventually did and she looked so confused and embarrassed 😂. I think she must have just been in a very small minority of people who are very suggestive

“The wall outside my house is 4 feet high”. Great, now give me your wallet and phone.

"These are not the droids you're looking for..."

Two of my favorite people! How did KZfaq never recommend this until now!!?? How did I miss this!?

The fascinating thing about Derren Brown is how he normalises and understates everything that he does. It somehow increases his mystique because there's obviously something psychologically profound going on in his work.

I think this is a very interesting area because I was experiencing almost constant physical pain for a year and discovered through reading and watching my experience that pain is a complex issue and not just defined by the physical experience, as a consequence I was able to develop techniques for feeling far less pain.

This and the Banachek podcasts were some of my favourite.

Darren really has lots of hair He just makes us believe he doesn't

The admin panel comment from Joe Rogan really made me a bit inspired. Thinking about all the things the brain can do. All the data it holds. The crazy things we see in dreams. The brain's ability to speed up and slow down time. It can actually speed it up quite rapidly!! It can actually shut off the processing of moments altogether and skip over time periods entirely!! But these siystems are automated, or results of us doing or feeling other things. Imagine having ful lcontrol over it.... humanity would be even more of a mess xDDD

Derren: calmly and patiently explains for a solid 8 minutes about how we can never really know what people who are hypnotised are experiencing. Joe Rogan after explanation: So does onion taste like an apple to hypnotised people?

He put his headphones on skewiff to discombobulate our neural pathways. Be careful.

If anybody hasn't got the head shape for headphones its Derren Brown.

I hold Derren Brown in awe. He is intelligent, interesting, humble, caring and a wonderful human being. When people ask me who I would love to spend an evening with, it's Derren Brown

The same thing happened to me when I was younger, a group of guys surrounded me trying to bully me... I looked up at a street light and said there they are they have just come and the confusion on there face was priceless. They started to walk off and left me alone.

Seen him live in Liverpool. Really impressive stuff. Great entertainer as well.

'The Mentalist' show, is heavily based on DB. So much dialogue is based on his insights etc. There are mentalists/psychological illusionists, then there's DB.

"The wall outside my hous.... " Gets attacked by knife, Ipswich UK. I can sort of seeing it working, distraction.

I met Derren years ago when I was drunk. He started telling me something about some 4ft wall in his garden!

Hypnosis cured my insomnia. I have not taken a sleeping pill for more than ten years now. I fall asleep every night in a most peaceful state of mind with effortless baby-like breathing. Plenty of sleep specialists to choose from on U-Tube.

This is why when you read technical journals it says that hypnotism doesn't really work, it's only suggestion. It shows how susceptible we are as a species to suggestion and that what we think and believe, that internal story we all tell ourselves, dictates our suggestibility in certain situations and topics. The keys seem to be these interruptions in the internal dialogue either accelerating or decelerating Adrenalin. Just like we can't say hypnotism doesn't really work, we can also say the law of attraction, isn't a law... but yet seems to work. Our perception is everything.

all hypnosis is self hypnosis .thats why it works.hypnotist just guides them into into hypnosis.

Joe was trying to really understand and was genuinely astonished 😮

I really enjoyed this clip. I'm a Derren Brown fan and it was interesting to hear him speak so candidly with Joe, regarding hypnosis and his thoughts on it.

The onion eating bit was historically done using a Vidalia onion. Its naturally sweet.

I want to listen to every audiobook just read with the voice of Derren Brown from now on.

Great clip. I really love his explanation. Having done some hypnosis myself this makes perfect sense.

Loved Darren’s shows showing human biology and psychology

I’ve been hypnotised by Derren!!! It was at the Bristol Hippodrome, he made everyone stand up & raise their left hand & to hold it there. He then tested the whole audience, in order to see who was capable of under the power of suggestion. I was one of 46 left in the theatre who couldn’t lower their hands. When he came to me with the microphone, he asked me how I felt…. I said “Shaky!”😹

Derren is the GOAT. As a young man, I used to do that kind of a card trick at bar to ladies. I would do the trick, and pick first the "wrong" card. After that, I hided the right one in the cigarett pack of the lady in question. It's priceless to see the look, when they took their next smoke.

Derren pretending he doesn’t have super powers, bloody typical as usual!

Was a big fan of Darren's 15 years ago. Admittedly, there have been performances that to me seemed to rely on a stooge (or on someone pressured into playing along). But I'd say the vast majority of his work is a composition of brilliant showmanship, great patter, skilled application of various mentalist's methods and indeed quite a lot of suggestion. Every magician offers a (false) explanation for his magic. Telekinesis was Uri Geller's for bending spoons. Darren's explanation is usually that it's all down to psychology. Sometimes it is indeed, other times there's a wonderful trick underlying it. Stop trying to be a smartass by calling this man a fraud. He's an incredibly talented and skilled magician who's created his own niche of magic presented as a psychology. And look up his card trick performed for Stephen Fry, great presentation!

Referencing Milton H. Erikson, then Richard Bandler or Grinder lends credibility to this guy. My dad turned me onto Erikson with a book about medical and dental hypnosis then another, which Ive forgotten the name of, in the mid 70s. Bandler and Grinder came out with a series of books on NLP years later that made me understand exactly how Erikson did what he did, which he himself didnt truly understand. Erikson is the father of NLP...Bandler is its first technician.

After just having just read Michael Pollan's book, essentially what I am hearing here sounds like Derren has a variety of techniques for short circuiting someones default mode network. Very interesting.

Derren leads the conversation towards some really fascinating deep stuff, alas Joe drags it back to more typical lines. I'd love to hear more of Derren talking philosophy.

"My uncle was a hypnotist"... "who has never inappropriately touched me!!"

I watched this video when it was uploaded on 9 Nov 2018. and now my clock says its 27 June 2020. Last thing I remember was Darren clicking hes fingers.

I’ve always assumed most people are playing along on stage. But one time at a Ren Fest, me and my friend were 2 of the people that volunteered, cause neither of us believed in it . And nothing happened to me. I didn’t respond to “sleep” or anything. And a few of us didn’t. And he sent us back to the crowd. But my friend actually responded and fell asleep, and then he made him do a few random embarrassing things with the other people. And after the show, I asked my friend if he was playing along. And he was really confused. And acted weird for like 30 minutes after . And when I explained to him what happened. He was even more confused. And didn’t believe that he had gotten hypnotized- he thought he was only up there a couple of seconds and then sent back to his seat. He is a really close friend of mine. And not someone who likes attention or makes shit up, I barely got him to go on stage with me. And to this day, he still doesn’t believe me when I tell him that he got “hypnotized”… and to this day he says “I don’t think I’m someone who could be hypnotized” So I have no idea what the hell it’s all about.

there are four lights!😤

Derren Brown is a Jedi. The handshake induction is awesome!!

I think I’ve seen virtually all of Derren’s tv shows and some of the recordings of his stage shows plus I’ve listened to him in audio book form a couple of times but how he explained things here gave me a more nuanced insight into what he does and hypnosis in general. I was happy when Sam Harris announced he would have Derren as a guest years ago but disappointed that Harris completely failed to probe and ask deeper questions about hypnosis. They were just a couple of mates having a polite chat but Rogan actually asked questions, sometimes his questions seemed borderline naive but they still elicited an interesting response so credit to him.

It saddens me that Joe Rogan has no idea what a legend Derren Brown is. Even among the top of the mentalists in the world, No one comes close. Based on book and interviews he is pretty honest guy too, admitting showmanship and misdirection is a huge part of his TV series, but the real stuff he is able to pull off, especially in live shows, mind boggling.

There’s gonna be a lot of people trying “the wall outside my house is 4ft high thing” this weekend who are gonna end up in hospital...

I had a friend who avoided a mugging in a park one night on the way home from work. He said to them ‘I’ve got a bucket of live squid’. Which was genuinely true - he worked in a fish restaurant - but was enough to flummox them that they left him alone

I had a similar situation. a couple were having an explosive row, I was in a position that it would be wrong to ignore. First thing I asked, even though she was visibly terrified. Was if HE was ok? Then checked her after. I managed to help calm them both and he allowed her to go home whilst I remained with him. But In the aftermath the fella said he was about to rip my head off for interfering, but when I asked him if he was ok and not her. He said his whole demeanor towards me changed and he felt obligated to be calm and engaging. There is definitely something to be said for reverse phycology.

There are excellent studies done by psychologists showing that false memories can be implanted (the “lost in the mall” experiment in which an adult person was told by a trusted relative that they had once been lost in a mall for a few minutes and that a kindly elderly woman had brought them to a security person and safety - many of the subjects started producing spontaneous “memories” about the experience that had never actually happened) and that memories can be changed almost in real time if a person changes adjectives/verbs when asking questions - so, they witness a car bumping lightly into another car. If they are asked if the windshield shattered (it did not) when the car “bumped” into the other car or “hit” the other car vs when the car “smashed” into the other car or “rammed” into the other car - it makes their memories change dramatically and they will even elaborate about seeing glass on the road etc

I think it would be pretty funny if a guy pretended to be under hypnosis on stage and just started picking up chairs and smashing everything like frankenstein while the guy is desperately trying to convince him to wake up.

That's pattern interruption. Geoff Thompson used to discuss this all the time in his self defence seminars

I still think this man is the most skilful artist with his stage show. I'm not into magic shows but Darren Brown is on another level. Extremely intelligent and interesting. He is lucky that we are not friends because I would bore the shit out of him with questions. For the people that see him, I think he makes life a little better.

Darren brown,,a legend. You just got to love this guy. Seen all his shows and TV documentaries exposing all. Brilliant.

Before this, I had my suspicions that Brown was a fraud, that he'd just concocted situations for his TV and used camera magic. Now he has more credibility in my mind... I've been in similar situations with someone being aggressive toward me and me interrupting the pattern. I guess he really knows his stuff

he's my Celebrity crush. I'm a straight guy mostly, but I do Identify as Bisexual. My "turn of the head" is Henry Cavill and Derren Brown. Just, god, the hours you can spend talking to the guy and have fun talking. He's that interesting personality. He's talented, charming and full of insight. - If I was to date a guy again? Derren. He's a sociopath like me, but that kinda reformed. Where he can zero in on things and use them, but doesn't.

Derren's stage shows & TV series 'The Experiments' are brilliant. Some of the most unique & memorable TV I can remember.

Derren's dad, Bob, was my swimming teacher at school. One day I walked past the swimming pool building and someone had written in the steam covered windows, 'Bob's House.' Fact.

Someone commented on his lack of eye contact. But I find myself speaking this exact same way when a conversation requires hefty amounts of my mental energy. It disrupts my focus to see people's expressions. It's like my brain can't handle the task of processing their expression while I also process my thoughts. When my objective is to deliver efficient yet substantive streams of words, my clarity feels optimal when I slightly look away. However! The two exceptions to this are when I either want to fuck or "fight"--typically, the argumentative kind of fight. In both instances I feel compelled to give full eye contact.

It was Erickson who started the whole handshake thing. You grab the wrist or run a finger up the wrist or down the wrist. Anything to break the flow.

Derren Brown has been a hero of mine since I was a kid. Didn't even know he was on a Rogan podcast.

I feel like Derrent was realy onto something when he started talking about the differences between how suggestible you can be made to be depending on certain situations.

This man is absolutely amazing! The implications of his work, as well as his techniques, are absolutely horrifying. Especially when you realize they're being used right now on a large scale.

I met Derren Brown in a coffe shop last week, he looked at me and we made eye contact, so i randomly told him "the monopoly man does have a monicle" and he burst out crying... After this i told him hes a statue and walked off. Now i get to see him every day in the same spot. 😂

Odd to give a name to the process in which... Sam asks Bob to obey his commands. Bob agrees to obey Sam's commands. Sam gives Bob a command. Bob obeys the command. I don't see anything mysterious here although the scenario itself seems a little weird and quite unusual (outside of employment or military circumstances I mean). For most of my life I was generally of the opinion that hypnosis was entirely bollocks. Until, in desperation, I made yet another attempt to quit smoking and paid for a hypnosis course. No, I didn't quit smoking but... 1. I noticed that for about an hour after each session I was feeling exceedingly calm and while driving home afterwards enjoyed absolute and total immunity from any negative emotional response rush hour traffic so often evokes. 2. After the course I was given a recording of one of the sessions (which were each half an hour long). At the time I had a regular, fun, well paying, mentally challenging day job but also enjoyed a vigorous social life that too often cut deeply into sleep time. I always showed up for work on time but the lack of sleep (and sometimes the alcohol) made me feel dreadful. Then I discovered: If I lay down under my desk during first coffee break, put the headphones on, closed my eyes and listened to the hypnosis recording it afterwards felt as though I had just enjoyed two hours of really, really good sleep. And I felt good, really good and energized and interested and smart again. So, there is something to hypnosis even if it didn't work for quitting smoking! (I vape now, feel much better (and smell better (and there's no longer a thick yellow layer of muck building up on all the surfaces inside my computer system))). I'll bet hypnosis and meditation (which I have yet to try) share something deep.

They should make a Social Network type film about this dudes life

Derren clicked his fingers and his hair follicles went to sleep.

Hypno Toad has the best technique.

How awesome to hear this from someone who is not promoting it. Joe Rogan has the most interesting guests.

I once had a chiropractor crack my back only one time and tell me you’ll never get that again in your life now. Literally it was gone and I’ve never had it again, if personally think that could have been a bit of hypnosis.

Yes, this is exactly what a Zen koan is about. Introducing a Zen koan is like throwing a monkey wrench into the middle of a conversation. It shorts the electrical system in the mind.

Derren Brown is awesome. If you haven't seen his shows...look him up!

My older Brother had a terrible twenty year addiction to cigarette smoking. He tried many years to quit, yada yada... Then he got a tip from friends that there was a 'smoking cessation expert' in his area, that held a class. To this day, my Brother swears he was put under some type of mild hypnosis, during his attendance of the class. He said it was something "undetectable" during his time in the class, but clearly something had happened. FWIW, he never smoked a cigarette again. I think most of it is clearly BS, but there is something to it for sure.

The stuff Derren Brown does is brilliant.