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So my friends and I watched that seance that sleepy-eyed Derren Brown performed live on Channel Four yesterday. It was interesting in that he revealed so many tricks of seances; the mind manipulation, auto-suggestion, etc.

He also suggested that people get together in small groups and attempt a oujia board. So, little letters and a wine glass later, we waited with our fingers expectantly on the glass as he called out on TV, "if there is a spirit here, please let yourself be known."

Then OMG WTF the wine glass started to move. It was the oddest sensation-- you were barely touching it-- certainly, nobody seemed to be putting any pressure on the glass, and yet by the end of the 'seance', it was almost swinging wildly from letter to letter.

No, before you start with the 'dude, you're silly' replies-- I don't believe a spirit was pushing that glass. What intrigued me is his explanation that the human mind can cause us to push the glass yet not really see that we are, hence the hysteria and the reason why people in Victorian times were genuinely convinced a spirit was trying to communicate with them. I have no idea how the mind does it, but it rocks.

kristoferllama then 'phoned and said he had been feeling sorry for the (fake) dead woman they 'contacted' in it. Heehee! But that's the thing-- it seems a few people did genuinely believe in it, perhaps wanted to. Hell, I suppose even I wanted to, because, if nothing else, it'd be interesting. I suppose we're just as gullible as our stiffly-dressed ancestors.

For what it's worth, if we did have a ghost, it was dyslexic. H,Y,V,N,I,V,H. Eh.

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i watched that last night, and i chose Jane and I knew he was playing mind tricks with the way the camera lingered on her photo after mixing up the cards, plus the instructions on gliding your eyes other the other pics. However, the other bits in the programme, like the flying tamborine, made me laugh out loud. But, i dont believe in messing with ouija boards he proved last night how people's minds are vulnerable. i like to hear you guys do it without the back-up of the TV programme. LOL! very entertaining. I loved every minute of it.

Hee! It's funny, actually, because I was brought up being told to stay the hell away from those things, or receive a slap. (Catholics, hee...) and I would never, ever, ever do it in my family home-- do you hear me,

kristoferllama? I felt more comfortable doing it in a modern house and having a giggle. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night in that creaky house in K_____y otherwise! LMAO! :-D

It was good, tohugh, wasn't it? I admit I was scared when that ball rose up into the air!

ah H,Y,V,N,I,V,H. -that will be the name of my first child...

Anyway I loved it, I love Derren, I really wished I'd taped it so I could look at it again and try and figure some of it out. I did pick Jane but I was also kinda suspicious that anyone had actually died there but meh.

Thought was very funny at the start when he said "and all but one of these students will be dead by the end of the night".

It confirmed one thing only to me: the worst sound ever is hearing a grown man scream in terror.

t confirmed one thing only to me: the worst sound ever is hearing a grown man scream in terror.

Amen to that! I was killing myself laughing at the panicked expression on their faces...

We had a great time watching it; being big fans of Derren and also hooked on Most Haunted on cable, it was fun to see all these possibilities. I figured that we were meant to pick Keith as the starter image by the way he hesitated on the name, and placed that picture in the middle, so I was sitting there annoying Mum by whispering "Jane.... JANE!!!" through half of it (I don't think she got the reference). We almost died laughing during the seance/screaming - are we just cruel people?

I never knew until he explained it that they'd worked out an actual explanation for why Ouija boards work, but I still don't intend to mess about with them. Afterall, I've heard of enough things which don't have explanations attached to them (there's a family collection of weird stories). But the bit where he showed how those people reacted in the seance cabinet without knowing what they'd done... scary stuff, when you think of the potential.

Am writing a blog in your comments page, so will stop. ;-)

That's okay. Am interested to know what you thought. Again, I agree on the oujia thing-- I doubt it'll become a regular occurence. My mum would chop off my legs if I did it around her. ;-)

Also! Another Most Haunted fan? Huzzah! I adore that show!

*sees comment title and dies laughing*

Oh, that one's become a staple in our house. Cat knocking ornaments over? Random object falling off shelf? "Did you see that? Did any of you see that?!"

I think you'll like this...

*Clicks*

OMG! OMG! DID YOU SEE THAT?!

Thanks! :-D

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