Mentalism tricks to blow the mind and give the appearance of a sixth sense or psychic ability
If you’re learning mentalism and looking for inspiration from a mentalism tricks tutorial, here’s a few that will blow the mind of your audience.
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Mentalism performed well will leave your audience in wonder. They will either be completely flummoxed as to how you did it, or convinced you’re telepathic, clairvoyant or have some form of psychokinesis or extrasensory perception. Or they’ll think you can somehow control and read minds. But non of these will be true. Instead you will be able to perform pre-prepared mind reading techniques, number predictions, read nonverbal communication body language and use prediction magic tricks.
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Mentalism tricks tutorials #1 – How to read someones mind with Derren Brown
In this short three minute video, Derren Brown shows how with a bit of prior preparation you can seemingly read a person’s mind.
He asks the person to think of a tune and to play it in his head. He guides him to a well-known tune. This was backed up by what had already happened to this guy earlier in the day.
This shows how susceptible our minds are at picking things up that we hear. It also demonstrates how easy it is to influence our thoughts and responses to situations.
Earlier that day the person who’s asked to think of a song, was subjected to hearing the same song a number of times. This ‘brain-washing‘ led him to choose the correct song that Derren Brown is seen having it played behind his back.
If you weren’t shown how he’d done this mentalism trick, you would be baffled. Perfecting these kinds of mind reading tricks are important to your mastering mentalism.
Mentalism tricks tutorial #2 – How to perform the number prediction trick
This clever number prediction trick works really well at impressing audiences into thinking you can predict numbers. The trick is very easy to perform.
But note how the performer split the audience participators between those that wrote the numbers and the person that did the adding up.
This way, there’s no chance that the people who wrote the numbers can see the switch. To protect yourself further, you could even have each audience member return to their seat after they’ve written their number down. Or even ask them all to return to their seat when the pad is given to the person adding them up.
However, there’s usually no need for this. In most cases the audience don’t suspect. They are simply amazed at the prediction. They are not even thinking about your switch of the numbers listed.
This is made authentic by the person who’s adding up three different numbers.
This person knew he’d asked the audience to think of a number between 1 and 1,000. So this validates the list she’s given.
This trick gives an impression of psychic ability of the presenter. When in fact a simple slight of hand trick is involved.
The secret with this mentalism trick is confidence and practice, plus having good showmanship.
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Mentalism tricks tutorials #3 – Derren Brown – Reading nonverbal communication body language
In the above trick, where Richard performs the coin trick on Derren Brown. He springs the trick on him and pretends to hide a coin in one of his hands.
The trick relies on the mentalist reading the person when they answer ‘yes’ to whether the coin is in both hands. Derren Brown explains in his mentalism book ‘Tricks of the Mind‘ (Click this link to find the latest price of Derren Browns book Tricks of the Mind on Amazon click) how it’s easier to pick up on when someone is telling the truth. Whereas it’s more difficult to tell if the person is lying.
I’m not sure which nonverbal clues he is picking up with Richard, but I’m guessing he is reading that in both cases he is lying. Whereas Derren Brown was looking for the clue when he was telling the truth.
Richard throws Derren Brown for a moment. Derren is expecting the coin to be in one of his hands, when in fact it’s in neither.
He gets it right in the end due to his clever powers of deduction. In other words, as Derren Brown couldn’t spot the ‘truth,’ it meant that Richard was lying each time. Hence the coin wasn’t present in either hand.
A very clever trick to master and perform.
Mentalism tricks tutorial #4 – Mentalism prediction magic trick
In this mentalism trick Insane Cardman demonstrates a neat trick to fool people about how you’re able to predict a word.
This mentalism trick relies on a bit of up front preparation, plus some practice of some slight of hand. The part that’ll take the most practice, is the card or paper sliding out of and back into the envelope.
The rest of the trick is fairly straight forward. However, the part where you’re writing the last word, whilst also focusing on the last but one, will take a bit of focus and concentration too.
Mentalism tricks tutorial #5 – How to use irrational logic to develop your mentalism performances
The above mentalism video was found in the most unlikely of places; TEDx. I was very pleased to discover this one though, as Daniel Harel demonstrate some very powerful mentalism.
You see him disclose the first two numbers of an audience member’s PIN number. He then reveals the name of another audience member’s first boyfriend. But how does he do this?
Daniel Harel has developed a unique method called ‘Deductive Mind-Reading.‘ Deductive Mind Reading is a technique which is based on his keen ability to draw incredible conclusions from the subtlest of hints given by his subjects.
This TEDx video shows how you can also get creative in your mentalism shows. Daniel Harel encourages the use of irrational logic. In his irrational logic solution he asks three questions:
- Q: “What are the solutions used by everyone else?”
- Q2: “What is the most absurd solution no one else is using?”
- Q3: “What is the craziest and most absurd way you can get that solution to work?”
The above questions will make sense if you have watched the video. I urge you to ask these questions of yourself. Look at ways in which you can also create bigger and better mentalism tricks and performances.
Mentalism tricks used in advertising
And finally, a bit of everyday mentalism, and how we’re tricked by marketers into buying things.
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