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Derren Brown's Trick or Treat: The Negative Trap and Relationships

Derren Brown demonstrates the power of negative suggestion by taking 19-year-old Lauren on an emotional rollercoaster."

I was completely mesmerised as I watched this episode! In this programme Darren Brown shows in just 23 minutes, in a most visible and extraordinary way, the power of negative suggestion.

A student, Lauren, was recruited by Derren Brown - in his own unique way of course – to take part in a very simple task.

Derren had put a very small and adorable kitten (even non cat lovers would agree) in a glass container. Derren introduced Lauren to the kitten and then showed her how the glass container was wired up to a box with a large red button on it which he had placed on a nearby table.  If the red button was pushed a bolt of electricity would be transmitted to the glass container and the kitten would die.

Lauren’s task couldn’t have been easier and the reward for getting the task right was pretty compelling too.  Derren explained that the task for Lauren was simply not to kill the cat.  The reward she would get for not killing the cat was £500.00.  Now really, that could not have been a more simple task could it?

The Pseudo-Intimacy Game - Sex Sells But Can't Buy You Real Intimacy

I normally don’t watch a lot of television.  I have so many exciting things going on in my life that watching television for hours on end just seems like such a waste of time to me.   I do, however, like to have some background noise on when I ‘m working on my laptop.  So there I was at 11:00pm,  sitting on my sofa last Thursday (24th April) evening with my laptop (I know, get a life!), tweaking some bits on my new website when the television caught my ear – Channel Five was about to broadcast A Girls Guide to 21st Century Sex. 

                       Have you heard of ‘mummifying’ or the ‘X’ position?

Well, what can I say – I was compelled to watch this.  So I quickly shut off my laptop, put it away and I spent the next 45 minutes learning about group sex, sex toys, the ‘X’ position, mummifying and some awful skin disorder that affects the genital area – I can’t even remember what it was called – not nice!