Derren Brown: Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head
דרן בראון: מנטליזם, קריאת מחשבות והאמנות של להיכנס לתוך הראשים שלכם
With beguiling feats of mind reading and suggestion, Derren Brown explores psychological manipulation and its implications for the human experience. Full bio
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about the world are limited
in this infinite data source.
במקור המידה האינסופי הזה.
that we could think about,
what to pay attention to.
with our own skewed compasses,
עם המצפנים המוטים שלנו,
are utterly convincing.
that we live by aren't even our own.
אפילו לא שלנו.
at a young age from our parents,
בגיל צעיר מהורינו,
their own skewed beliefs,
their own unlived lives.
we take all that onboard,
be successful to be loved;
מצליחים כדי להיות נאהבים;
other people's needs first;
את צרכי אחרים לפני צרכינו;
we couldn't possible tell people.
שאסור לנו לספר לאנשים.
about what other people think of us
לגבי מה אחרים חושבים עלינו
for how we edit reality and form a story
לאיך אנו עורכים את המציאות ויוצרים סיפור
experiments on TV,
גדולים בטלוויזיה,
coming up, called "Secret."
והוא נקרא "סוד".
with mentalism, mentalism,
of getting inside your head.
for this kind of stage mind-reading,
נקודת שיא,
an act known as the Oracle Act.
members of the audience,
you might ask a psychic,
they would write their initials
ראשי התיבות של שמם
where they sat in the audience.
would take an envelope one at a time,
היה לוקח מעטפה אחת בכל פעם,
what question was sealed inside.
איזו שאלה יש בפנים.
he would try and answer the question
הוא היה מנסה לענות על השאלה
to the seductive appeal
offering you easy, simple answers
שמציעות פתרונות קלים ופשוטים
that wrote questions.
I know somebody's guarding them.
ושומר עליהן.
Thank you all of you that did this.
a couple of things before I start.
כמה דברים לפני שאתחיל.
through these envelopes.
המעטפות האלה.
They are thick black envelopes.
I can't see through them.
אני לא יכול ראות דרכם.
I don't know any of you
any special psychological gifts,
כישורים פסיכולוגיים כלשהם,
There's a couple here.
because the writing undulates.
normally means
the answer to the question themselves,
about the future, right?
from this minimal handwriting,
maybe 40s, but let's find out.
אולי ה40, בואו נגלה.
about the future --
in this big central section here.
if you wrote one,
to see in the center.
Jessica: Jessica.
ג'סיקה: ג'סיקה
Little murmur of approval, thank you?
מלמול קטן לאישור, תודה לך?
I won't ask your age,
essentially about the future?
DB: Yes?
דרן: כן?
DB: Yes. OK.
דרן: כן, טוב.
What did Jessica ask about the future?
מה ג'סיקה שאלה על העתיד?
depending how old we are.
תלוי בגיל שלנו.
Jessica: Yes, I am.
ג'סיקה: כן.
who wants to leave Virginia.
שרוצה לעזוב את וירג'יניה.
are going to come together to get out.
to sell your farm and get out of Virginia?
למכור את החווה ולצאת מוירג'יניה?
It's a great question!
זו שאלה מעולה!
What did you put?
the farm in Virginia?"
if you are pretending to be psychic,
אם אתם מתחזים למדיומים,
a yes or no on this.
על זה כן או לא.
You have no way of verifying it.
it'll just stick in the back of your mind,
זה יתקע באחורי הראש שלך,
decisions you make.
will get what you want.
בדרך הכי נחמדה שאפשר.
you tend to focus on them
את נוטה להתרכז בהם
should be focusing on more,
Jessica: Yes.
ג'סיקה: כן.
Jessica: No.
ג'סיקה: לא.
A bit of a guess, but ...
זה יהיה ניחוש, אבל...
Stop doing this!
to India recently as well.
going on there. Yes? No?
לומר שזה כתוב בכוכבים
to say it like it's written in the stars
לקחת אחריות על כך.
to take responsibility for it.
בואו נעשה עוד אחד.
Thank you. Let's do another one.
maybe late 40s, I would say from this.
אולי באיזור סוף ה- 40, הייתי אומר.
if you think this is you.
on camera would be amazing.
Don't move. Don't move.
you did as you got up.
put something on here --
but you did it as you stood up --
או רגל שמאל או כף רגל שמאל, כן או לא?
or your left foot, yes or no?
סימן יפה וברור כשהוא קם.
a nice clear signal as he stood up.
לצד שמאל ותגיד "כן".
left-hand side and say "yes."
תעביר את המשקל לצד השני,
put your weight on the other side,
ותגיד "כן" שוב.
and say "yes" again.
Good one! Take a seat. Take a seat.
אתה יכול לשבת. אתה יכול לשבת.
I'm going to change microphone for this.
אני הולך להחליף מיקרופון בשביל זה.
That would be great there.
have the clues as you stand up.
יהיו לי את הרמזים כשאתם קמים.
to what I'm saying.
next to you are doing either.
זה תמיד מאוד עוזר.
that's always very helpful.
is only that it just kind of gets
היא זה רק נותן סוג של
wording in your head.
a question in your head,
just send it to me,
without anything written down.
but send me your name as well.
תשלחו לי גם את השם שלכם.
or whatever the question was.
או מה שהייתה השאלה שלו.
I'm guessing you're quite near the front,
in the center at the front.
the front, vaguely central, I think.
something like that.
so that I know where you are,
כדי שאדע איפה אתה,
Allan: Yes.
אלן: כן.
hear the reserve in his voice?
רק תגיד "כן" שוב בשבילי?
Just say "yes" again for me?
or access to something.
with a password in your head?
לסיסמה או גישה בראש?
that sort of thing?
to finish on this one. Let me ---
and millions of people potentially.
ואולי גם מיליוני אנשים אחרים.
Allan: Of course.
אלן: בטח.
I imagine it's a word, right --
written in front of you,
of a letter somewhere in the middle,
על אות איפשהו באמצע,
that's in the middle.
Allan: Yeah.
אלן: כן.
Allan: Correct.
אלן: נכון.
Allan: Yes.
אלן: כן.
He changed his mind.
הוא שינה את דעתו.
to yourself in your head.
get that out of your head,
תוציא את זה מהראש,
to get you to pay attention
לגרום לכם לשים לב
to find important,
that I want you to ignore,
שאני רוצה שלא תשימו לב,
about what I'm doing,
we are story-forming creatures,
and subtle world
like you and me, Allan,
כמוך וכמוני, אלן,
to these neat characters
we're telling ourselves,
"He's arrogant," "They can't be trusted."
"הוא שחצן"," אי אפשר לסמוך עליהם".
that I can somehow read your mind.
שאני יכול לקרוא את המחשבות שלכם.
as well, aren't you, at the moment.
ברגע זה, נכון?
למה אני אוהב לעשות את זה
why I love doing this
to try and be more alive and alert
and the subtlety of what's real,
שקורים בלי שאנו יודעים עליהם,
going on that we don't know about,
ולהיות יותר נחמדים לאנשים
we can be kinder to people
שתמיד יש פחד מאחורי הלחץ שלהם,
there's always fear behind their stress,
to meet it as defensively,
את הסיפורים כמו שהם
for what they are
isn't all about us.
Where are you? Where is he?
איפה אתה? איפה הוא?
Your password is "ariboy."
Allan: That's correct.
אלן: זה נכון.
Thank you very much indeed.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Derren Brown - Psychological illusionist, authorWith beguiling feats of mind reading and suggestion, Derren Brown explores psychological manipulation and its implications for the human experience.
Why you should listen
Derren Brown redefines magic through must-see TV and stage events, exhilarating audiences for 20 years in the UK and now worldwide with his brand of psychological illusion. He has gained a reputation as a performer consistently prepared to break down boundaries.
Amid a varied and notorious TV career, Brown has played Russian Roulette live, convinced middle managers to commit armed robbery, led the nation in a séance, stuck viewers at home to their sofas, motivated a shy man to land a packed passenger plane at 30,000 feet, hypnotized another to assassinate Stephen Fry, persuaded a racist to change his ways and lay down his life for an illegal immigrant, and created a zombie apocalypse for an unwitting participant after dramatically ending the world.
Brown's most recent special, Sacrifice, is currently streaming on Netflix, and his show Secret will be playing on Broadway at the Cort Theatre from September 6, 2019 through January 4, 2020. He is the author of Meet the People with Love, Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine and Confessions of a Conjuror.
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