How Observant Did You Say You Were?

dgridley · 03-02-2009, 11:41 PM

Think you'd notice if in the middle of a conversation, they swapped people on you?

First half is from "Mind Control," S01E02. Second half is from "Trick of the Mind," S03E04.

YouTube - Derren Brown - Person Swap

**keith** · 03-07-2009, 07:35 AM

There's an example of an awareness level that isn't there.

Regards,
Keith

pk · 03-07-2009, 08:26 AM

lol sorry I watched this and can't believe most of it. I can see if a man comes up and then another changes with him that looks a lot like the first one. But a guy with hair to a bald guy, a man to a woman etc? Not likely with me. If a stranger comes up to me I think I would notice if a guy turned out to be a woman! lol

dgridley · 03-07-2009, 09:12 AM

They say according to studies, we are not truly concious 90% or more of the time.

Blue Baboon · 03-07-2009, 10:46 AM

That reminds me of the things they pull off on that site called Improv Everywhere.

dgridley · 03-07-2009, 10:57 AM

This might happen to me.. I havbe mild face blindness anyway. I've been known not to recognize or notice people I live with out of context, lol!

Latina · 03-07-2009, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by pk

lol sorry I watched this and can't believe most of it. I can see if a man comes up and then another changes with him that looks a lot like the first one. But a guy with hair to a bald guy, a man to a woman etc? Not likely with me. If a stranger comes up to me I think I would notice if a guy turned out to be a woman! lol

I agree, i'd notice if they changed race, sex, hair color etc... some looked confused & like they just didn't say anything, even though they noticed... i would have questioned him/her lol