Ill send you a request but i wont be able to play for a couple hours . Cooking supper . <| sep |> No , because you think anyone who doesn ' t want what you want must be sketchy nightmares . Grow up . <| sep |> He ' s referring to the fact that people confuse Brown ' s ' patter ' with how he achieves his effects . The ' pseudoexplanation ' is part of the performance . Mentalism has nothing to do with mindreading or contacting the other side nor neurolinguistic programming . Brown ' s insight was to present the tricks in a way that is palatable to a modern audience . He doesn ' t rely on ' psychological manipulation '. For example , this classic magic trickk 1 Sy 3 TUsx 8 I utilizes 0 % psychologygame theorysuggestion and works 100 % time with 100 % of the people . The way mentalism works is that there ' s always an ' out '. The person participating can ' t choose ' wrong '. Here ' s 1 JH 6 ujgLkg him explaining how he predicted the lottery live of TV . I hope you realise that his explanation about wisdom of the crowd , deep math and automatic writing is pure gobbledegook . He actually SHOWS you the manipulation involved . He offers an entertaining pseudoexplanationrecap of what happened a common trope in magic . I am often dishonest in my techniques , but always honest about my dishonesty . As I say in each show , ' I mix magic , suggestion , psychology , misdirection and showmanship '. I happily admit cheating , as it ' s all part of the game . I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what ' s real and what isn ' t . I am an entertainer first and foremost , and I am careful not to cross any moral line that would take me into manipulating people ' s reallife decisions or belief systems . Derren BrownManipulation and misdirection is at play , no ' science of psychology ' or ' body language '.