Did you get stuck to your chair?

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1. Didn’t work for me sadly. However I did feel dizzy while I stared at the video and my hands went stiff. But I managed to get up without any difficulty.
2. i watched this after doing a load of ketamine and really had trouble moving.
3. Wasnt stuck as such but my limbs did feel very heavy
4. I was stuck with my legs and left arm, and when the “how to get up again” text were showing I was on the phone. So I ended up sitting there not knowing how to get, up, tried harder and harder and eventually I changed the tv to 4 +1 and saw the whole show again, this time I almst feel asleep during the movie but did eventually get up, after reading the “stay calm and smile” text… Very cool and I am still tired, so maybe Derren helped me with my sleep problem… goodnight
5. there were 3 of us flat mates me and my flat mate got stuck and the other one didnt!

   realy cool!

   for me it was more i had no effort to get up i could move my arms but i felt my bum was furmly glued!! and i just had no engergy even when i try to relax and i tried again

   then i began to forget about it and gradualy i could sit up only lasted 2 min or so

   thank u great fun!

   x
6. That was the most bizarre feeling I’ve ever experienced! I was totally stuck!
   My hands would only lift about a centimetre from my lap, my elbows felt as though they were glued to my sides, my feet were stuck to the floor and my back felt like it had been welded to the sofa! I was trying soooo hard to get up but it just felt impossible! Also, I could not stop laughing the whole time, it was very weird! Afterwards, it took me a little while to stand up and my hands and legs felt like they belonged to someone else. I watched it again on Channel 4+1 and had exactly the same experience.
   I absolutely LOVE Derren and cant wait to see him live again next year at the Sunderland Empire! The man is a remarkable, talented, devilishly wicked sprite and I adore him!
7. it worked for me, watched chan4+1 and ive only just been able to stand up but my left leg still feels funny, having to drag it around.it only affected my legs wife was pulling on them to try to sraighten them but they just felt numb and heavy.amazed that it took me so long to be able to move them.very strange feeling, one which i dont wish to experience again in a hurry
8. i didnt get stuck 🙁 disapointed i wanted to get stuck, i think i wouldve been freaked out though if i did
9. It didnt work.
   But probably due to the fact I’d just split up with my boyfriend and was in tears, but the video really relaxed me and made me feel better.
   So thank you for that.
10. Help help, my girlfriend is still stuck to the sofa downstairs!!!!!!
11. HEYAAA DERREN YAY IT WORKED LOL MY NEIGHBOURS MUST HAVE THOUGHT I WAS LOONY I WAS SCREAMING IM STUCK TO ME SOFA LOL. I REALLY WANNA DO THIS IN COLLEGE BUT DIDN’T YOU SAY IT DOESN’T WORK THROUGH THE COMPUTER?, Can’t wait for next weeks tramp one, !! Best wishes you’re very clever and entertaining!! I’m an art student and bought your book love it, I’m doing portrait work so this is great research for me! xxo
12. Just tried it a couple more times and very nearly stuck! 😀 It felt like I was moving through water, is probably the best way to describe it.
    Now have the worst backache I’ve ever had though!
    You are good at what you do…
13. thank you Derren!
14. It didn’t work for me the first time, when I watched it one Channel 4. But that could be something to do with the fact that my mate and I were still slightly laughing at the guy whose arms raised up during the test.
    I then watched again on 4 +1 and my arms felt so heavy I couldn’t even lift them off my legs. And weirdly my chest felt really heavy too.
    Bad times.
    🙂
15. When Derren was talking before the break I got very scared, just by the way he was talking about it
    During the film, i felt like my head was about to flop over
    and i felt dizzy and i tried to talk during the film which distracted me
    when i tried to get up i couldnt move my bottom jaw or talk (?) and i was very shakey…

    I’m thinking that if i hadn’t spoken, maybe it’d have worked 🙂

    I’ll have to borrow a friends HDTV and watch on replay 🙂
16. Went into it quite aware of what was being done and how it was being done (through the ‘patter’ before and after rather than the film itself), so was quite amused and pleased to find myself ‘stuck’. I felt as though I could have stood up if I wanted to, I just really really didn’t want to. As someone who’s into D/s, it felt somewhat like being in a submissive headspace. Not that I want to think of Derren that way!

    I stood up before the clearing tone was played, mostly just to prove that if I wanted to, I could break it. I was a consenting adult. 🙂
17. that was amazing i was glued, my dad wasnt tho.
    I hope to be just like you someday 🙂
    You Rock!
18. I did also see a black and white ‘flash’ of some sort appear on the screen before and after the weird test thing… anyone care to comment on what it might be?

    Tom
19. Absolutely amazing!! I got stuck twice — channel 4 and channel 4 +1!! I couldnt get off my chair until the blue screen came on and you told me to get up… thanks for sticking me Derren!! XD
20. I believed it would work and told myself it would so after the film I honestly felt I was stuck to my chair, well, for a minute or two. I could barely lift my arms and my back felt really heavy so much so it still hurts. Hmm. Twas a funny experience, I laughed at myself. I could easily get up however when I stopped thinking it was even possible to get stuck to a chair.
    Derren’s super human. 🙂 x
21. Hmmm!. Interesting.?! I don’t think watching the video had anything to do with making people stay in their seats, it just gave more time for what Derren had been saying, just before the video started, for us to think and repeat “being stuck”, “feeling heavy”. He made us aware that it wasn’t just “bums on seats” but the whole of our backs to our feet which were involved in being “stuck”. Putting a “safety” zone around our heads also convinced us not to move. I didn’t get the feeling I was “stuck” but just didn’t want to stand up until saying to my daughter, who was watching with me “After 3 we’ll STAND UP..1,2,3” and we both stood up..disappointing! but kept sitting down in the same position for a while, which was strange. *Derren- Love how your knowledge becomes our entertainment! xXXx*
22. we worked it out, it was because of the picture of a man tied to the chair who flashed up before the break and just before the film. the trick then only worked on the people who saw the man. but only on people who clocked it subconciously and didn’t really remember it properly.
23. No! It was rubbish! Oh, Derren, how I wish you would control me with your wiley ways, but it seems like your powers cannot control me. I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of hypnotism/ subliminal messages/ whatever it is you do with yourself but maybe I have impenetrable skin or something. Next time do a show about the people who were sad your little tricks didn’t work!
24. No, I didn’t get stuck and didn’t expect to, but I was laughing as I hadn’t luaghed for years at something I was reading just before the break.
25. That was the weirdest thing. I was literally stuck to the couch. My back and my hands were fine, but my legs were so heavy! When I tried to get up, it felt like something was pushing down on them.
    Now, I’m able to move and get up, but my legs feel so weird, like before I get pins and needles.
    Wow… 🙂
26. i really wanted this to work but unfortunatly it didnt tried it twice on C4 then C4+1
27. Fear + Suggestion = ???????
28. I so wanted to get stuck, if for no other reason than to see what it felt like but I didn’t stick. If I watch it again is it more likely to work the on me the second time?
29. Didn’t work the first time but on +1, my cousin and I were completely stuck to a small two-seater settee. Absolutely helpless with laughter at the look on each other’s faces and unable to stop my auntie filming the chaos while her dog used the moment of distraction to drink everyone’s cups of tea!
    My legs stuck to the floor while my cousin’s were stuck in the air. A fascinating experiment – thank you, Mr Brown! 🙂
30. It didn’t work on me, but perhaps that’s because I noticed the subliminal cartoon picture of a guy tied to a chair that was flashed at least 3 times before and after the video that was supposed to stick us to our chair. I think Derren Brown is fantastic, but I don’t believe people were stuck because of the video – EVERYTHING that Derren does is because of various suggestions.subliminal messages he makes during his shows/tricks. I don’t buy the whole “ultra violet “pick me” on the back of white cards” argument. And the green chair was picked because of all the green lighting and the green table-top. And the girl picked number 19 because Derren mentioned that number so many times before she was asked to do the selection. It’s all the power of suggestion. And it’s VERY clever!
31. …I ran out of space, but did anyone else notice that the iPhone advert in the break showed a scrabble app with the word “stuck” appearing on the screen in the advert break before the “video” was shown…? That and the subliminal cartoon and simply Derren Brown’s genius is what stuck some of you. I’m convinced that the only reason it didn’t work on me is because I was trying to work out what he was doing!!!
32. I was watching it with my friend (18) and a child I was babysitting (9). My friend stuck totally and said she lost feeling in the back of her legs, I didn’t get stuck and then stood up and promptly realised that I was wrong when I fell flat on my face.

    Thanks so much for that.

    The child didn’t get stuck at all. Killjoy!
33. Sadly it didn’t work on me or my sister 🙁 We had been very excited about idea of being stuck, and had even moved the sofa closer to the tv especially 🙁

    Oh well. We had lots of fun coming up with alternative meanings for the ‘reassuring messages’ – ‘you are very receptive’ became ‘you are very gullible’, ‘lean forward’ became ‘please do not drown on your saliva’, and ‘breathe deeply’ became ‘please do not pass out and sue channel4 for injury’.

    I loved the toy shop stunt 🙂 This was one of my favourite Derren shows in a while.
34. Hey …. just a minute … it’s just atarted to work!

    Help! ~ I demand compensation! !5k will unstick me possibly! And a giraffe thrown in.
35. yepp workked on me! was stuck for about 2 minutes just felt really really heavy and just couldnt physically get up, and a friend of mine was stuck for a very long time she couldnt move her feet or arms aswell, freaked her out majorly!
36. “I ran out of space, but did anyone else notice that the iPhone advert in the break showed a scrabble app with the word “stuck” well done for noticing Liz,did you not also see the black band over the girl’s stomach? (as in the guy and the girl bouncing down on the sofa just prior to the show starting?)
37. The whole of my right arm went completely numb and heavy.

    It didn’t work at all on my housemate- he got up to get more beer halfway through.

    Casey x
38. My friend just came round, said he was really freaked out by it. He was totally stuck and started getting a bit irritated by it. His mum lifted his legs up and they just slam backed down on the ground. Personally I didn’t get stuck in my seat until after a few minutes but could still force myself up, I just felt really heavy and I could only raise my hands by about an inch but no further. Pretty cool stuff but could have been better given a bit more time focusing on the hypnosis bit (yes, it was hypnosis – or suggestion. Whatever you want to call it).
39. NOPE.
    absolutely gutted.
40. I’m a little concerned that Derren is interested in exercising ‘mass control’ but at least I’ll be able to resist his powers when he tries to take over the world!! 😛
41. I also saw the flashed diagrams of a man bound to a chair, and I think this is why it didn’t work on me too well (my arms were very heavy, that’s all). The same happened with the show that was aired just after the prediction of the lottery: I noticed what I thought said FORCE flash across the screen and I remembered from my recent Derren Brown binge that he made a subliminal film to make filmgoers forget the film, so I managed to remember the whole thing.

    Also these smiley faces are a nice touch. 🙂
42. Also, as my arms were feeling heavy, I should explain that my peripheral vision blurred completely and when I managed to lift my arm after a bit of effort, I felt a big swooping feeling in my head, like a weight was being taken off it. It was as if I suddenly stopped believing in the force pushing down on my arms.
43. Watched sitting in bed on my laptop and didn’t work, decided to turn the lights off watch again and have the laptop close to me on my lap, didn’t work, got straight up and went to the toilet. OMG! Got stuck on the toilet. Weirdest thing ever. Could not move my legs and felt like i had no energy to get up. Nearly called my flat-mate to bring me the laptop so i can watch the end clip but after a couple of minutes i got up. Was very very strange. Thanks for the experience Derren.
44. NOOOO!
    Alas, I DID NOT get stuck.

    Nice try though. I think those who got stuck are gullible and overly receptive haha.
45. not even close…gutted
46. I couldn’t stand up as quickly as normal, my girlfriend felt very heavy on her top half…(there’s a joke there some where) All in all it definitely had some sort of effect on us both.
47. I was stuck for a while: my boyfriend was incredulous. This morning I got stuck to the bed: self suggestion? I shared a house at uni with a guy who regularly would get stuck: unable to even move a finger: I’m sure that was a self-hypnosis sort of thing.
48. i did’nt get stuck to my chair but my feet felt like lead weights for a while . Derren you are truely amazing
49. didnt work only because i didnt want it to. I imagine it wouldnt work if i did want it to. Possibly the people it did work on are somewhere in the middle of wanting and not wanting.
    great show. Makes you think about awareness.
50. I was heavily stuck the first time, then watched it again on C4+1, and I was even more stuck!!!
    My partner tried it, and although he said he felt heavy, and didn’t want to get up, he was able to get to his feet.
    Also, it was a lovely feeling afterwards…all light and airy.