Is magic real? | Derren Brown | Big Questions

[@zaplong]

What a class act. Derren's atheism is (unnecessarily) well documented, yet he is never disparaging about people of faith and is always very careful to be respectful of others' beliefs when asked about religion. Never mind the fact that he is an unbelievably talented magician, hypnotist, performer/entertainer, painter, impressionist, comic... the list is almost endless. At least he sucks at sport, although he'd probably be an incredible athlete too if he so chose.

[@kyrryk4427]

Derren should be Person of the Year!!!

[@CallousCoder]

I always say: “if you haven’t had hardship yet, then live a little longer!” And indeed, hardship, pain however you want to call it, makes you appreciate things far more. After my little brother died, I am actively visiting and talking to my parents more and really loving every moment we have together. Knowing that we spend as much time as we could when one of us eventually dies. Unlike with my brother we were like: we are young we’ve for time, so it’s normal and you don’t cherish it as much. But we should and hardship will give that as a gift in return.

[@uncoiledfish2561]

You wouldn’t enjoy summer without winter.

[@CallousCoder]

@@uncoiledfish2561 although I do really really really live summer 🤪I don’t think I could get enough of it. But you are right, when you have had 7 months of grey and gloomy skies, then its an extra treat!

[@danrussell6760]

So honest and such a good entertainer and showman. 😊❤️

[@endoflevelboss]

@Monya Gal Another manic comment that sounds like you've been chomping at the disco biscuits again.

[@CallousCoder]

Honest… and mentalist/magician isn’t that a misnomer

[@mahmad8956]

The small voice of calm is obviously your inner voice or consciousness,and that’s a true confidence in yourself.Believe in yourself.

[@sirfer6969]

This series should be called dumb questions with smart answers. This one shows the level of intelligence Derren is on...super smart guy

[@samskyler3426]

Dumb questions? How so? They are profound questions !

[@col.231]

I am so interested in what Darren Brown does and how he does it. His explanations here is what he thinks the audience expects. What does he feel. I would love to meet him no matter what he is be it Real or fake. He is ok in my mind. Good luck Darren and post more please.

[@willienelsongonzalez4609]

Absolutely fascinating chap!

[@nicksully6663]

Derren Brown is a genius

[@Xanomodu]

@Polymath Entertainment as all artists have to be

[@Xanomodu]

@Polymath Entertainment ok

[@MrSwagnificentSpeaks]

Darren Brown is very entertaining. His demeanor is lovely.

[@Siegbert85]

His answer to the magic question sounds like a cop out. Nobody is thinking of the "magical experience" when asking that questions. We want to know whether we can concentrate our inner Ki and shoot Kamehamehas at people.

[@asdfoifhvjbkaos]

he expects us to have common sense and already know the answer to that question

[@1Hol1Tiger]

I'm thinking of Magical Experience..

[@rammingspeed4941]

..and hopefully make their brains explode from the inside out

[@Programm4r]

Magic is illusion. Good magic will convince the naive that you’re super natural. So yes. Magic is real.

[@entertainmentfortnite2654]

@@Programm4rblack magic is real pal

[@flasheart3817]

He paints a great picture of 'stuff'. Class

[@MrHEC381991]

If you don't want to be hypnotised but volunteered to be, partially listen to the hypnotist's instructions but sing a song in your head at the same time (especially one in a foreign language).

[@Lady-Seashell-Bikini]

You can also just change your mind. A good hypnotist won't make you stay (though I did see one hypnotist who coerced someone into staying, which is the mark of a dickish hypnotist). Also, if you don't want to be hypnotized, then you won't be.

[@andylatham8255]

One of only a few people who realises the futility of self publicity, even tho he practices it brilliantly

[@joeppg]

Agree with most but not all of it. I like people who can think out of the box . 😎

[@gbennett58]

@Monya Gal Must be a cat.

[@thatdudeinasuit5422]

I'd say magic exists in the sense that human intelligence is finite so as science learns more about the universe there will eventually come a time when there are things that happen that science simply cannot explain because humanity cannot comprehend it. That for all intents and purposes is the essence of magic. So while there may be a reasonable physical explanation that explanation would simply have to be so complex that the human brain is simply not capable of understanding it.

[@endoflevelboss]

Penguin with their jazz drum solo interludes. How classy, how avant-garde.

[@endoflevelboss]

@Monya Gal It was sarcasm dispshit. Anyway your comment is the perfect example of why you taking your brain medicine is so important. Steers you towards cogency and away from hysterical monologues noone except you can decipher.

[@endoflevelboss]

@Monya Gal Not sure what your fascination with excretion and bodily functions is but it makes perfect sense that you would have one. Such a weirdo.

[@endoflevelboss]

@Monya Gal I knew you'd spent a lot of time in hospital although I would have guessed as a patient.

[@Xanomodu]

@Monya Gal i want whatever you're taking

[@Xanomodu]

@Monya Galthat level of incoherent ambling doesn't come naturally, you must've had some drug-related head trauma

[@bryansmith1404]

Malinowski science magic and religion is a great sociological book.

[@bexualhealing]

I love this man

[@Lightmaker5]

I found it. Some interfered to stop me. I was stronger. The thing they didn't know about me, I trained to defeat god for many years. I was becoming the god of war. I wasn't quite that day, but still stronger than them. They kinda managed to make me forget a few things about me. I lost my memory for few weeks. I was in very bad shape, dying almost. Not the best experience. And with each passing day I remembered who I am. They had no chance against me anymore. Today I'm both, the god of war and the king of hell. I was able to push away higher beings and aliens. They were nothing. Magic is very real. Just know some out there don't want you to know that. Fortunately for you, they're so scared of me, they're no longer here to stay in your way. I wrote a book which by the way is completely free. Should you understand it, it will open you the doors to magic and more. Not instantly, but over some years you will begin to change. Don't forget to share! And one more thing, I'm on no one's side. I see myself as a pirate. I have my own way. I'm not evil and not good.

[@clintcarter]

This guy… ❤️💪

[@wendajones9040]

“After glow”. Isn’t that a wonderful concept?

[@yolandagrabowski6043]

Spiritualist come to me like mother Mary speaking to me that it's ok to die if we lived a Spiritual life. Whether I did or not, I don't want to die.

[@911TruthFighter]

By the way, the way you faked the number '45' with the dice was just a camera trick, which is clear if you look at the frame before you cut. Which means you use stooges since the 'famous' guy had to be in on it. And you had the rice up your sleeve.

[@OneTheBlue]

I find it fascinating that someone would pose questions about big issues like life after death to a magician. I suppose next, you could ask a clown about the meaning of existence.

[@Lightmane]

How can I get Penguin to read my book?

[@nickberryman4923]

Yes great video Derren, I found it very enlightening and I share most of your views except about God, I'm not religious but nature is God, a great force throughout the entire universe we do not understand how it all works and never have. But you are world famous now & you deserve it, you are a genius Derren & we all love your shows. Best wishes from the Isle of Wight. Nick x

[@Programm4r]

Nature is God’s creation. Do not honor it as your creator. Big mistake.

[@theoratorjs]

Hey Darren, I’m your biggest fan. Love from Sierra Leone. JPS

[@Morenob1]

I'm waiting for the day he comes out as an alien hybrid.

[@user-yo6nk7st3s]

Oh shit. That may actually be the only comment I agree with here. He's a Von Neumann machine, come back for those who seek to accept! :O

[@sowhatitsjustme]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@kidswidcrayons]

Big answers. Some guy

[@robinsings]

He is speaking to several different groups of people at once.. lol

[@christopherstephen2085]

Derren,are you the next Messiah?!you answered every question eloquently,even though some of them were impossible to know the answer to!for a mere mortal like me anyway...I am humbled .your a fantastic showman aswell ,the best after Paul Daniels!omo

[@PeakFilmClipz]

Hypnosis is a placebo effect

[@scotishjohn]

Lookin ruff

[@matilda4406]

the still small voice of calm... from who?

[@andylatham8255]

Does it matter if it works?

[@theonewhonamemustnotbespok7579]

Magic.. can be a .. person a.. place ..a thing... Magic can be whatever.. like laughing at a friend's joke.. the greatest times of out life. Finding the cold side of the pillow. XD.... Sometimes magic is right in front of us but we can never see it. It's the experience that's the real magic..

[@scottward6974]

Maybe we live in multiple overlapping dimensions of reality where opposing opinions can all still be true. God exists if you want god to exist and he/it doesn't if you want something else like reincarnation, Allah or oblivion because you live in your own universe that's mingled in with everybody else's universes.

[@carlk7733]

So magic is real when it's portrayed as an imagined piece of real responses? That's quite a wordy use of the phrase "No", am I right?

[@raidwipe]

It would be incredibly boring and quick if he just gave the obvious answer with no elaboration

[@HeavenliManna]

God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

[@user-yo6nk7st3s]

How far above earth is Heaven? Do the clouds have a weight limit? Better tell USA to stay off the Twinkies if so....

[@hildaenjoyer8862]

Damn he’s starting to look older. :-(

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Invest in a make-up artist & sack the lighting guy! 😜

[@john12152]

Derren Brown! Did I just hear you say the ten thousand lovers we leave behind? You really get around don't you! Regular man trollop 😉 haha

[@allannakhle8555]

Magic is just sus It is therefor sus Thats what sus implies Babuuaubuabuabaa

[@dalepittaway725]

I am in complete control, I have an abundance of puppets. Consciousness copied and pasted.

[@channelcornell]

Big Question - what were the borderwrenn numbers?

[@skyjuke2006]

Darren Brown you are under a great illusion. God Almighty is the Greatest Magician & Mentalist. You must study Bhagavad Gita, Hindu scriptures. Mahamaya is even more amazing.

[@jawsjaws4018]

The biggest illusion ever is the idea of God. I say illusion, it's more mass indoctrination.

[@user-yo6nk7st3s]

@@Kagemusha7 Can consciousness be transferred? It must be able to be - , if it's data... else unless there IS a god...as you state, or nothing - which seems unlikely looking at our own chemical and biological makeup. Michio Kaku has a lot to say on this, especially with the emergence of QC and AI. Probably there is something, but it is almost certainly not the segmented and divisive religious war camp sects which we have already created.

[@orangewarm1]

Whatever you can imagine is real. Picasso.

[@germandelariva3754]

No lol it’s not real

[@germandelariva3754]

@@backwatersage it doesn’t matter obviously magic or magick isn’t real common sense even 5 year olds know that

[@germandelariva3754]

@@backwatersage honestly there’s already plenty of people that have proved it James Randi Paul lenon derren brown the list goes on they have proved those people need to get help if they think that

[@germandelariva3754]

@@backwatersage oh I was talking about all of that kind of stuff in general

[@detlevdiegel6465]

Picture yrself on a boat on a river.... And that explains my triangle headed landlady. And Re the msg abt the new Messiah... Surely the antithesis?

[@gbennett58]

I received a scientific education to the doctoral level. I was a complete materialist, science was the only way to discover the nature of the world. I would have rejected any suggestion of supernatural events or magic. One day, however, as I walked through the kitchen door while my wife was washing eggs, something happened. She had arranged the eggs on a dish towel next to the sink, about 30 eggs. As I walked through the door, one of those eggs decided it was time to move across the towel, over the rim of the sink, and fall to its death at the bottom of the sink. It moved as if an invisible hand had given it a swipe. None of the other eggs moved. There was no wind. There had been no earthquake. The countertop was level. I paused a moment, trying to process what I had seen. I asked her if she had seen it, and she had. I had seen Newton's First Law of Motion violated. It was impossible. But it happened, and I had a witness. What I realized is that there is no available hypothesis to explain it. The event can never be replicated. Science can't touch it. It seems there are things happening here or there at times that are beyond the realm of science, that we may never explain. But, they happen. If there is real magic, this is what it is like. It isn't at our command. We can't make it happen, it just does.

[@darkstar223]

Wish you did not edit this so hard….more here the better

[@giannapple]

No.

[@tom7471]

It is obvious we are very short of original thinkers in this world today. I'm sorry, but why are we asking him any questions?

[@thewiseturtle]

Pro tip: God = the laws of physics God is the creative force that generates the universe The laws of physics (whatever they happen to be) are the creative forces that generate the universe Same category, just different terms and stories being used to describe it. God is more poetic, while the laws of physics is more political. Neither really know the whole story, and just really love thinking about how reality comes into being.

[@endoflevelboss]

Thanks, it's great to have definitive answers from an authority.

[@thewiseturtle]

@@backwatersage And the laws of physics created the poetry that is God.

[@matthewgee6499]

God is not real

[@thewiseturtle]

@@matthewgee6499 The laws of physics aren't real?

[@doctor1alex]

To say the laws of physics are God is a silly as saying the natural universe is God. God is the Creator, not the created. The laws of physics do not create, though they are the means God has ordained for the natural world. These answers were disappointing. Either one religion is absolutely true and the rest are all wrong, or all are wrong. So I urge you to consider the Person of Jesus of Nazareth and how perfectly He fulfils the revelation of the Scriptures known as the Old Testament, what He has done, and what He has said.

[@prakashsolanki2485]

People can get impressive even with me and I can see through Dr eyes is my best re than magical because this magic casts a spell by which no one can hurt me no more from inside, no matter what. That is what world really deserves it. Good night

[@pantheonCaspian]

Is magic real? muggles will never understand

[@Sharon_McCluskey]

If magic is real then god is real too. But god isn't real so does magic.

[@detlevdiegel6465]

Krishna Murti 2. 0

[@matthewking5612]

No,

[@Greenla5]

My brother used to not believe in witchcraft until my sister-in law Saina (his wife) turned out to be a witch. Now he struggles inside Sania’s bra, gets shoved by Saina’s womanhood. He sleeps inside a doll house

[@lookmagazine2667]

Gonna have to define God before you discuss its existence.

[@leemichel8199]

perseptional mental cognitive behaviour

[@jacquelinehopkins9319]

You lost me at there is no life after death..there most definitely is!! Hope you Wake up soon!

[@aaronversiontwo4995]

Hypnosis is totally fake and he just doesn't want to admit it.

[@jameswatson5807]

Were did you get the idea it is fake, he did a show if you watch it is quit clear that it is real. The way he set everything in that show, it could easily silence the most die hard skeptic that hypnosis is real.

[@aaronversiontwo4995]

​@@jameswatson5807 Don't be stupid. Derren Brown started his celebrity career as a Mentalist. Hypnosis, Suggestion and etc are all part of his act as a distraction from the actual methods used. I am absolutely astounded you believe what you see on television too... a true skeptic would never believe something like that on a tv show. And how do I know it's fake? Because I have studied it, done it and spent about 5 years using it the way magicians do. I mean you argue that a die hard skeptic would be silenced when I could easily say Penn & Teller did a whole episode of Bullshit on the subject showing how fake it actually is and they are both magicians AND skeptics. So you really have no argument. The ONLY kind of hypnosis that is real if you even want to call it that. Is a trance state of mind, such as when you are driving a car, or reading a book or etc and your mind goes into "auto pilot" but that is in NO WAY the kind of hypnosis romanticized as being influenced or made to cluck like a chicken. It is simply a form of sleep.

[@jameswatson5807]

@@aaronversiontwo4995 I will watch that pen and teller show because I am curious of their opinion. You did not even watch the Derren brown show that I suggested before saying I have no argument. The show is on 4 demand it is the one about assassination, after waiting that there would be no doubt in your mind the assassination guy was under hypnosis. Derren set something up to show the guy was really under hypnosis, I will not spoil it for you. And you are wrong like many others, thinking that hypnosis is not an influence or to be made to cluck like a chicken. In south America people have used hypnosis to rape and rob tourists, and even influence others to kill. I have been into hypnosis from when I was in school back in 1997, but started using hypnosis on my self in 2001. I thought the chicken thing was bullshit, until I started to learn the occult side of hypnosis.

[@aaronversiontwo4995]

@@jameswatson5807 I have watched that show dude. It is all an act. And the same goes for the flashing in the video game that is meant to "hypnotize" people. It also is fake. Trust me I have Derren Brown's books of his tricks I also have the video for magicians he released. i have studied his career because I felt he was one of the more interesting magicians that wasn;t doing lame stuff that Chris Angel or David Blaine were doing. Plus he had an interesting persona something a magician like Dynamo completely lacks. So I am not beating him down when I say that. I am telling you that he really feels hypnosis is not how society percieves it but since it is an important part of his persona as a mentalist and some of the routines in his act rely on the illusion of hypnosis he wont fully come out and admit it is pretty much a scam and why would he? he has many more shows to do.

[@jameswatson5807]

@@aaronversiontwo4995kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ7TYmebiMmIe6s I don't think it's fake. The professor wouldn't want to risk his career and research by getting hiself involved in a fake video