I've been watching derren brown on YouTube do 'psychic readings'. He said to one woman he had a young man there, she said it's her ex boyfriend. He said he's giving him the name Charles or Charlie and Thomas or Tom, it wasn't his name but the name of someone else, she said that's her ex husband. Derren said the man he had with him had dimples when he smiled, she said he did.
Another one he said a woman was coming through, gave a vague description and a woman in the audience said it was her grandmother I think, anyway, he said she's been trying to give you a message it's come to you in the form of an escalator or elevator and she said she'd dreamt about her dead relative and her in an elevator. He also said she collected hats or had a lot of hats and the woman said yes her grandmother did..
I know he's using techniques to do it, he doesn't claim to be actually psychic, but....how! I watched a thing on this morning which took place after some drama about Sally Morgan. A psychic and a magician were on there. The magician said he used to give psychic readings, he used barnum statements and cold reading etc. He said barnum statements apply to everyone but none of the 5 he read related to me and none of it was specific, obviously. So how do derren and other 'specific' psychics do it?
I get the beginning bit 'I've got a man here, he died before his time and he has dark hair' and someone says yep that's my ex boyfriend. I see how that's vague and in a large group, likely to apply to someone. But knowing the names? Dimples? Elevator dreams? Hat collection? How does he know those specifics? Is there anything more in depth someone can point me to to get more details about how to do cold reading?