Did you get stuck to your chair?
Derren Brown: The Events ‘How to Control the Nation’
Post a comment below and let us know if you got stuck to your chair, how long you were stuck for, or if you found it harder than usual to stand up, or if it didn’t work at all and you think it was all a load of rubbish.
does anyone have any suggestions, my dog is still stuck to the kitchen floor and has not got up for 45 mins now and the budgie has fell off its perch …then granny pised herself of laughing, who should i help first
It worked for me,
and i realized why 😀
you have the zone you need to keep your head in.
most people when starting to stand up will move their arms down and head forward
those are two things he says not to do, and during the video if you are into it your mind says you shouldn’t use them..
when i tried to stand up i realized i wasn’t using the right muscle
you are forced not to move your head or try to push yourself up properly.
o you try moving from your waist. but most people don’t practice standing up from the waist only. so they feel heavy using the wrong muscles.
Very clever derren!
if this isnt how it works, its still effing amazing…
It didn’t work for me. My wife said she felt a bit heavy (no comment) but it didn’t stop her standing either,
it totally worked on me i stared to feel a bit weird when the ads were on but after the video i just couldnt move at all then after a minute i could move my back but my legs felt like they were glued to my chair till the end of the show was a strange but great feeling
As per my previous comment it didn’t work, but I’ve seen a few people mention that it made them laugh.
When the revolving lines first started to get closer together I found I laughed too – is there a known reason for this?
Despite wanting it to work and watching the programme twice, neither me nor my 2 daughters felt a thing. We did however, fast forward all the adverts during the programme so that may have kyboshed things especially as we noticed the advert for the iphone had the word ‘stuck’ in the scrabble game it was displaying.
I got the thing where you try to get up but you loose your balance and fall back down but felt as though i was being pushed back down also. the human mind and its actions are not controlled by ourselves all the time….
I didn’t get stuck, but I did end up laughing uncontrollably for about 3 minutes until those ‘relax’ messages came up… It was weird.
was stuck from my back down..my hands were stuck to to legs, when i tried to move my legs it felt as though my hands were to heavy for them to move, the same went for my legs and back. when i could move after the pages of text, when i stood up it felt like i had been sat for hours and my joints ached and felt creaky. Hubby and daughter didnt get stuck, however the cat hasnt moved from his bed for a while now…seriously..still feel a bit odd..not sure i like being suggestable! but i am an artist…so maybe that has something to do with it..that or i just really wanted it to work!
I didn’t get stuck at all, but did get a hysterical fit of the giggles followed by quite a strong anxious feeling.. still have a bit of a tight chest actually.
unfortunately not, although i wanted it too
I wasn’t completely stuck but the film made me feel a sense of fear and vision was a bit trippy thereafter, looked like Derren was shifting around the screen when he was talking afterward. Heart rate and breathing shot up uncontrollably and then I became more reluctant to move rather than unable to move. I was able to stand up when I decided I really wanted to, but the power of suggestion definitely had a slight effect on me.
Nope, nor my husband or my brother and his fiance watching at their house.
Didn’t work, purely cos I knew what I was looking for, except with the movie which was just a bit weird and made me dizzy. And the flashing images were sneaky…a man tied to a chair.
I got stuck!! I felt really heavy and struggled to move for at all for a good few minutes and then only slowly regained control of my body.
Fun times xx
I got stuck! It was really odd, i couldnt move my arms or legs at all but it wore off when Derren started talking to the people on the phone.
I really wanted it to work but nope, I didn’t get stuck at all.
got really quite stuck till you said try to stand up, it took me 30 seconds or though and then i could stand but sat down again straightaway, didnt feel comfortable to walk around. took me a few minutes to feel right afterwards. definitley almost affected me. i think it was what you said beforehand that got me.
My heart rate beated faster and i was laughing all the way through for some reason but i was able to stand up again normaly. I noticed that there were flashes while derren was taling before and after the advert break just before the film started. was that part of it?
Brilliant, I used to play a similar (Albeit on a much smaller scale) when I used to get people to have their hands “glued” together using a mixture of placed pictures, wording scattered about house, and then a bit of hypnotism. My dad was a hypnotherapist, but I studied a lot more around the subject out of pure interest. Slightly annoyed it didn’t work fully, but my heart rate sped up, and I certainly felt heavier. Well Done Sir!
Yes it worked for me, after the clip i couldent get up until you showed the blue screen, it was wierd glad it worked for me
Not at all, even though I wanted it to happen (but didn’t quite believe it would) and was very excited! Disappointed though not surprised :/
watching again to see if i get stuck again……
I didn’t get stuck but I felt really heavy and fell back into my chair when I stood up oh and my arms and hands went all tingley and weird which was odd :S but still cool though lol
I am disgusted to say that my arms felt firmly glued to my thighs (Note to self, I must shower thoroughly after ‘sticky bedroom fun games’…)
I felt a bit funny before the ad break, which is probably not what was meant to happen. The actual video was ruined for me by my dad who decided to wander into the room and be aimlessly distracting exactly halfway through the film.
I noticed those little image flashes as well. Was it some kind of etching? It looked like a man sitting down, though also oddly like someone on a unicycle. Were we meant to see those? Isn’t that subliminal messaging? Or were you just trying to mess with our heads and make us *think* you were using subliminal messaging when in actual fact it’s just a huge joke? Hmmmm?
My guess is it down to breathing patterns, and not just susceptibility. It worked on the people around the country breathing at the same rate, so Derren could take advantage of mirroring without even seeing who he was doing it to. But hey, I have been wrong before.
🙂 🙁 😛 :-D:-S
Couldn’t stop laughing for the first minute! Just couldn’t stop myself lol! Then second minute was fine… didn’t get stuck though but awesome show! <3 Derren
Dave
Ithink im like a derren brown stalker i love him haha. It didnt work on me but i think it was because i was too exited so didnt concentrate much,should do it on your enigma tour!!!!!!!!
I really didnt think it was going to work but it did! I burst out laughing at the video. Just as it stopped and derren was talking again I couldn’t move I had a moment of panic but then was amazed that I couldn’t get up. I could feel myself relaxing as he was talking about being stuck and feeling the parts of my body in contact with the chair…I think that’s the part that made me stuck…and I wanted it to! Bring on next weeks trick of the mind! Loving you Derren!!
I wasn’t stuck but i burst into hysterical, uncontrollable laughter and had a heavy chest if that means anything. Is that bad?
in backpackers’ hostel, one guy got stuck and another felt sick watching video
Got straight up but felt sleepy and heavy headed during the video, heart racing which is what happens just before I go to sleep. Derren’s language prior to the video shown was funny, speaking of talented, intelligent people being more prone to sticking! Cheeky git 😉 but I can understand how the use of language, the image of the man being strapped in a chair and the mere thought of someone controlling them from the tele would allow some people to believe they are stuck… really wanted it to work on me though 🙁
Didn’t ‘stick’ to my seat, however I felt a lot more relaxed and it took a little bit more effort than normal to get up… Great show as all of his are….
4 of us tried it one at a time with all of the others out of the room with the lights off, sat very closely up to the large HD tv. rewound the show many times to keep trying but didn’t work once. quite disappointed.
I decided 2 secretly observe an invalid who has been on benefit for 30yrs. He sprang up, got a lager from the fridge then at the blue all-clear sank back into the wheelchair saying his legs were all heavy again and couldn’t move. Derren is brilliant..
Hey there,
Four of us watched, two adults a 12 and 10 year old. The 12 year old got stuck, but me (one of them there adults watching) got tingly forearms, they felt quite heavy – but I could get up easily. Very interesting experiment!
I didnt get stuck but felt a little heavy. I did see the flashes though, one flash was a guy sitting in a chair, that was before the video started.
Yeah, i couldnt move my whole body expect my head, it was mental! My Dad thought i was joking at first but then flopped my arm and i couldnt move my arm back, and it was just so freaky!! It took me about five minutes to get back up.
How the hell did you do it, Derren?! It was totaly insane!!
Didn’t work,
Neither for my 5 friends in the room, or for EVERYONE posting up their results on facebook, yet to see one working.
Very disappointed, waited all week and left feeling cheated. I hope Derren makes a statement about it.
Hii,
I felt myself sinking throughout the film but after i was only really dizzy, shakey and felt very heavy but i could stand up.
BUT I wasn’t sitting properly (because I was too frightened!) and wasn’t paying attention properly to anything before the film, which makes me think I missed all the PWA throughout the show?
xx
I was stuck, transfixed to the screen. My hands on my legs were so heavy as was the base of my back, and my feet were glued to the carpet. Wow, i can’t believe it worked on me. Even more strange was when I could finally get up after the programme finished I went to the kitchen to do the washing up and i literally got stuck to the kitchen sink again whilst drying up. I couldn’t lift my feet, just slide and after a while, hop. Derren, I’m a believer, thanks for a fascinating program.
I’m STILL stuck! Please help!
It worked on me, but not during the film itself – I felt all heavy and dazed while Derren was speaking, and I lost all peripheral vision.
WEIRD.
Ahhh it totally worked, my legs were like lead.
No sorry Derren did not do it for me sweetie – but surely this was hypnosis on a BIG scale – you were suggesting we stick, sit, etc.etc. – i thought there were rules to prevent this on tv – what if i was stuck and smelt burning in my kitchen? – good show but i think it a bit risky if it was true x x x
didnt work will try again but doubt that it will work
PS: seemed like a lot of hypnotic stuff with the camera zooming in on your face as you spoke, and embedded commands in the language. Also the film seemed to disorient me
The screen blipped oddly, are you sure there wasn’t any subliminal stuff? 🙂 I blinked for the second blip
Problem may have been my critical mind was constantly thinking “what’s he doing there?”. I shall ,however, be glued to my screen again next show…
I even watched it on +1, still didn’t work. I did feel stuck for about 10 secs, but then I got up.
Didn’t get stuck to my seat but I did feel very sluggish, my arms felt very heavy. I also got a small fit of giggles during the clip and my eyes kept flickering.