Do you think astrologists, palm readers and the like can really tell everything about you? That your personality can be read from your birth date, your hand or from sensing vibrations? Very possible. As ever, the volunteers here have no idea of what we're about to do. I'm going to ask each of you to take a sheet of paper and to draw around your hand on the paper, that's what the pens are for, and when you've done that, to write on the paper your birth date, and if you know it, your time of birth as well would be very useful, and thirdly, to...
take some personal object that you have on you please don't choose anything that is immediately recognizable as being yours you're going to put them into one of the numbered envelopes it does not matter which one does that kind of make sense to you all all right I will look the other way if you can do that for me now that would be great any bit of paper obviously any pen any envelope You put your birth date on the paper, into any envelope you like, along with some personal item, please. All done? Yes. Can I get somebody just to mix up all the envelopes and hang on to them so that person has all five envelopes as well? Remember your numbers please because that's the only way you're going to be able to identify the correct envelope later on.
And I will come round now and talk to you. Excellent. Thank you. Okay, so, each envelope has a drawing of a hand, and a birth date, and a little object.
I will take these envelopes away, and I will try and write a description. of the personalities of the owners of those things. Okay.
With what he sees in the works, he will describe his personality. While I go and do this, we've got a place for you to sit down. We've got some refreshments there, some tea and coffee. Paella.
And I will come back in and we'll see how it goes. It'll probably take me about an hour to do this. And I will try and be accurate. I'm not going to be general. I'm going to try and be very specific about things.
So bear with me and I'll see you in a bit. Okay? All right. Cheers.
Hello, I'm finished. So if you can each take your envelope, if you can remember your numbers. You're gonna go away and read this now.
I don't want you being able to read each other's though. It's very important you kind of only focus on your own one. Really try and spread yourselves out around the room so you're not able to see each other's.
And then we're gonna ask you individually what you make of it. So, um, go do that. See you in a bit.
Thank you. I was very overwhelmed when I read the analysis. Darren mentioned that, of course, I'm very self-critical, so reading this sort of thing was very difficult for me anyway.
It's unbelievable. I can't believe how accurate it is. I kept reading through the paper and all, saying, I can't believe he's analysed me so accurately.
It does feel actually so personal, it's actually quite hard for me to share. Help yourselves. I feel like it pretty much summed up who I am.
The part about self-examination, I think, like, which was in the first sentence on the page, I feel like, oh yeah, that's me. It's kind of astounding. I've always believed in something like it. This just kind of confirms it, but it also shocks me because I didn't know what it was.
I didn't think it would work so well. It's true. Like, all this stuff is true. I don't get stuff done because I don't like the idea of mediocrity, and that's so true.
That's it right here. What the heck? It's so weird. It was shockingly accurate. It's very likely this will lead you to having considered writing a novel, but the fear that you won't be able to achieve what you want stops you from getting it done.
And I actually started writing a novel when I was 17 and had written several chapters but didn't finish it because, I don't know. She's seen things that I hadn't even seen myself. I had never done something like this before and I thought it would be a little more general, a little more vague, a little more horoscope-like and such. And really... I would give it 75%, but 25% doesn't matter because 75% is not enough.
80% has been so exact and so personal. 80% because there are things that are perfect. 90% maybe.
Okay, I'm going to try something else. First of all, if you can all take your readings out of your envelopes and just hold on to them, but fold it up, please. Just the readings, not the hands and so on. Thank you very much. This may sound a bit frightening for some of you, but don't worry about it.
Can you just mix them up and pass them around so you don't know who's you've ended up with? What I'm going to ask you to do in a moment is to have a look through the reading that you now have in your hand and see if you can identify the person that it belongs to. Can you open this up now and just have a look? If you've got the same one again, just mix them up again and take somebody else's.
No problem. Everyone got their own. Start again. Oh! Shut up!
Yeah, in fact you have all got exactly the same reading. Oh my god! That's just insane!
Yeah, they are all exactly the same. The person who has the most muscles is the one who is the best. Oh, no. Oh.
Where are the Morgan hands? They are all exactly the same. Oh, that's stupid. Please don't feel stupid. This is a skill, it's something called cold reading.
It's a technique used by people who claim to be psychic, people who claim to talk to the dead. It's as old as the hills. And if you think... I think for a moment actually of how even more effective it would be if I was a psychic working one-on-one with you.
He wrote this several months ago. And we've given these to people in America and we've given them to people in England and it's always the same. Thank you so much for coming along and doing this and being honest with it and I hope this has given you something to think about.
Thank you. I believed in this because the reading showed my personality. And five minutes later, he threw it all on the floor.
It's incredible. I feel like, I don't know, like they've used me in any way. You know? It's incredible the strength that the average has.
If we had not gone to the second part, I would have walked away from here thinking that you had psychic abilities.