Derren Brown: Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head
ダレン・ブラウン: メンタリズム、読心術、人の頭の中を覗く技
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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捕らわれの身です
about the world are limited
どう理解するかも
作り話をしているんです
in this infinite data source.
that we could think about,
いくらでもあるのに
削除したりして
what to pay attention to.
選んでいます
with our own skewed compasses,
頼りに進もうとしますし
are utterly convincing.
すごく説得力があります
that we live by aren't even our own.
自分のものでさえない
at a young age from our parents,
親から受け継ぎます
their own skewed beliefs,
歪んだ信念や
their own unlived lives.
あるわけです
we take all that onboard,
それをそのまま引き受け
be successful to be loved;
other people's needs first;
と考えたりします
we couldn't possible tell people.
悩んだりもするでしょう
about what other people think of us
人はあなたを気にしていません
for how we edit reality and form a story
現実に手を加え 話を作り上げ
とてもよく表しています
experiments on TV,
coming up, called "Secret."
『Secret』がもうすぐ始まります
見ろとは言っていません
with mentalism, mentalism,
新しいことをしようと思っています
of getting inside your head.
人の頭の中に入り込む怪しげな技です
for this kind of stage mind-reading,
その頃をイメージしました
an act known as the Oracle Act.
ショーがありました
members of the audience,
you might ask a psychic,
they would write their initials
where they sat in the audience.
書いてもらいます
would take an envelope one at a time,
1通ずつ封筒を手に取ります
what question was sealed inside.
言い当てるんです
he would try and answer the question
その質問にも答えます
瞬く間に広まりました
to the seductive appeal
魅了されるんですね
offering you easy, simple answers
分かりやすく端的に答えてくれます
that wrote questions.
質問を書いていただきました
I know somebody's guarding them.
厳重に保管されているはずです
Thank you all of you that did this.
皆さんのご協力に感謝します
a couple of things before I start.
お話ししておきたいことがあります
through these envelopes.
見ることはできません
They are thick black envelopes.
分厚い黒色の封筒です
I can't see through them.
透かすことはできません
I don't know any of you
私は皆さんを知らないし
any special psychological gifts,
特別な才能はありません
There's a couple here.
いくつか分かりました
because the writing undulates.
書かれています
normally means
大抵の場合
the answer to the question themselves,
分かっていません
about the future, right?
from this minimal handwriting,
文字が少ないから悩むけど
maybe 40s, but let's find out.
about the future --
将来についての質問です
in this big central section here.
if you wrote one,
to see in the center.
Jessica: Jessica.
(ジェシカ)ジェシカです
Little murmur of approval, thank you?
称賛のざわめきをどうも
I won't ask your age,
年齢は聞きませんが
essentially about the future?
将来のことですか?
DB: Yes?
(ダレン)「はい」?
DB: Yes. OK.
(ダレン)なるほど
What did Jessica ask about the future?
質問したのでしょう
depending how old we are.
「そういうことで」と
Jessica: Yes, I am.
(ジェシカ)そうです
who wants to leave Virginia.
バージニア州を離れたがっています
are going to come together to get out.
考えています
爪が見たい
to sell your farm and get out of Virginia?
バージニア州を出たい?
It's a great question!
とてもいい質問だ!
What did you put?
the farm in Virginia?"
「バージニア州の農場を売るかどうか」
if you are pretending to be psychic,
うってつけの質問です
a yes or no on this.
答えられます
You have no way of verifying it.
ありませんしね
it'll just stick in the back of your mind,
それが相手の頭に残り
decisions you make.
影響を与えてしまうという点です
全く良い意味で
will get what you want.
自分の望みを叶えるタイプだから
you tend to focus on them
そこに焦点を合わせるでしょう
他のことを犠牲にしても
should be focusing on more,
そうだな
Jessica: Yes.
(ジェシカ)はい
Jessica: No.
(ジェシカ)いいえ
A bit of a guess, but ...
バークレー校かな?
Stop doing this!
もうやめて!
to India recently as well.
going on there. Yes? No?
はい?いいえ?
インドから戻ったばかりです
to say it like it's written in the stars
運命などと言うつもりはありません
to take responsibility for it.
どうぞ ご自身の責任でご決断を
Thank you. Let's do another one.
お座りください
A・Hさん
maybe late 40s, I would say from this.
if you think this is you.
お立ちください
on camera would be amazing.
カメラもよろしく
Don't move. Don't move.
そのまま動かないで
背は低くないんですが
you did as you got up.
何かしました
put something on here --
答えてください
but you did it as you stood up --
立ち上がったときの話ですよ
or your left foot, yes or no?
はい?いいえ?
a nice clear signal as he stood up.
一目瞭然でした
left-hand side and say "yes."
「はい」と言ってください
反対側に体重をかけて
put your weight on the other side,
もう一度「はい」と
and say "yes" again.
脱臼されたようですね
Good one! Take a seat. Take a seat.
大当たりだ お座りください
I'm going to change microphone for this.
That would be great there.
ありがとうございます
理由があります
have the clues as you stand up.
一切見えません
to what I'm saying.
見えません
next to you are doing either.
見えません
that's always very helpful.
かなり有効なんですけどね
私は自由になります
思っている方
is only that it just kind of gets
ただ一つ
wording in your head.
a question in your head,
just send it to me,
念じて送ってください
without anything written down.
私が言い当てます
but send me your name as well.
名前も送ってくださいね
or whatever the question was.
質問を送ってください
I'm guessing you're quite near the front,
前の席です
in the center at the front.
the front, vaguely central, I think.
真ん中ぐらいでしょう
something like that.
so that I know where you are,
「ストップ」と言ってください
Allan: Yes.
(アラン)はい
hear the reserve in his voice?
Just say "yes" again for me?
or access to something.
パスワードでしょうか
with a password in your head?
パスワードですか?
that sort of thing?
to finish on this one. Let me ---
and millions of people potentially.
Allan: Of course.
(アラン)もちろん
I imagine it's a word, right --
単語だと思います
written in front of you,
そのパスワードを思い浮かべて
ブロック体の大文字で
of a letter somewhere in the middle,
文字のことを考えてください
that's in the middle.
思い浮かべて
Allan: Yeah.
(アラン)はい
Allan: Correct.
(アラン)そうです
Allan: Yes.
(アラン)はい
He changed his mind.
to yourself in your head.
繰り返し言ってください
get that out of your head,
ドラムのことは考えないで
物語を売ることです
to get you to pay attention
皆さんの注意を
to find important,
あることに向けさせ
that I want you to ignore,
無視するよう仕向けます
about what I'm doing,
ご自身で紡いでもらいます
we are story-forming creatures,
人間が物語好きだからです
and subtle world
複雑で捉えがたい世界です
like you and me, Allan,
複雑で捉えがたい人ばかり
to these neat characters
分かりやすい人物像にして
we're telling ourselves,
はまるようにしています
"He's arrogant," "They can't be trusted."
「信用できない人だ」と言いますよね
that I can somehow read your mind.
私を「心が読める人」と思い込むのと一緒です
as well, aren't you, at the moment.
売ろうと思っていますね?
大好きなんですが
why I love doing this
to try and be more alive and alert
より敏感になり 注意を払うよう
and the subtlety of what's real,
going on that we don't know about,
自分の知らないことが起こっています
we can be kinder to people
人に優しくできます
there's always fear behind their stress,
恐れがあると分かるからです
to meet it as defensively,
for what they are
受け入れ始めることができ
isn't all about us.
分かるようになります
Where are you? Where is he?
アランさんはどこ?
Your password is "ariboy."
パスワードは「ariboy」だ
Allan: That's correct.
(アラン)正解です
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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