David Blaine Started Hallucinating During His "Frozen in Time" Stunt

the jurgen experience so you you first get on television you first do these things and then your magic evolves and your magic goes from being just magic to some of the more insane things you've done like standing in a block of ice for how long did you do it for seven days like 63 hours i'm always late so i showed up late so i missed like what i the length of time i was supposed to do so that's all but i'm always late i made it here on time though didn't i you were early yeah yeah perfect but i rode the motorcycle here and was flying because i had to make i wanted to be on time so i flew you were on time yeah um the the ice thing why what made you decide to stand in a block of ice okay 60 plus hours well so i'll tell you that so you were saying how do you go from the magic tricks to these extreme physical endurance and so studying houdini and all that stuff and then there's a poster of houdini that i loved where he was it was he was buried alive but he never did the stunt he died before he got to do but he was going to get buried alive underground in a coffin so i i stare at i love that poster since i was a kid it's like in the magic books you see that poster yeah in any way so bill again the guy told you about bill kalouch comes up to me and he's like what about this and he shows me an image of a indian fakira that was buried alive for a month he's like what if you pretend to be buried alive in central park we'll sneak you out and you'll come back a month later and i was like i always wanted to do like houdini-like things but i never want to copy but that one he never did so i was kind of like well that's interesting but what if instead of doing it the way he did it what if i did it and everybody could see that i was buried alive so what if i was really just buried alive like it can't be that hard he's like yeah you can't do that and i was staying at his place so we got a coffin from queens where actually houdini was buried i bought a coffin we brought it back to his house and then i would just practice sleeping in the cough and then suddenly yeah i know but then suddenly i realize you don't eat food and then if you have a little thing to go to the bathroom i did four days like nothing so i'm like okay i can do a week and that was it and then then i pushed the idea of doing the bird alive and and convinced people to let me do it publicly and what's funny is like firemen and stuff like would come to the stunt in the middle of the night and they would shine like holograms at me and their lights and stuff and they oh that's the ice but and then they would assume that i wasn't actually in there okay so here so back to this one well but let's go but but let's let's not jump around so the buried alive thing yeah where did you do it physically where um that was in new york city on the west side uh trump had like this uh bunch of properties that he was developing and i was like uh i want to be buried alive on one of your properties is that possible he's like sure he just sent me his driver and i went around and that's where i did my first stunt and it was how could they see you though and then jimmy who i do who like oh there it is yeah so it was see-through but right now and then we put six tons of water on top of it so that's basically it and then so is there and how are you getting that see those two big holes so the oxygen was being see the holes above my head right there so the air was being blown in and out but it's pretty straightforward like that one's not to me not that impressive like if i said to you you just laid there for a week yeah that you know what the harder the hard part i mean sure you body and you lose weight but the hard part of it is um and you wouldn't you would never anticipate this being the hard part but if you're not used to like peeing while standing in front of lots of people staring at you it's actually really hard so so i'd be buried alive and i had the trucker's tube on and all that stuff which is like a con with a catheter or whatever and um and people are there the whole time like it suddenly became like an event and so there was never like and i was they were like oh we'll cover it so no one can see them like no then people are going to think i'm sneaking in and out so i had to learn so i would close my eyes like when you were a kid sleeping and you would have those dreams i'd have bachelors and it would take me hours and i'd finally be able to pee right but then and by the way i didn't eat for a few weeks before so i had no foods that was the other wasn't an issue but um what happened by midway through the stunt people i'd be waving and smiling and like pee and it was like nothing you know but these are things that you don't consider when you're practicing in your coffin in your house so you you didn't eat for how long two weeks before yeah yeah but i was always into fasting i read sid artha as a kid and i had done like uh a week with just water and you know knew all that knew the body is really good with that so you were comfortable with the fact that you were able to fast and that wouldn't be an issue yeah and you were comfortable with the fact that you were getting air and where are you drinking water from how you getting water oh i had like a little bit of water in there that i could suck to a thing like that and that was fine it was like it was enough how much water you think you drank over the week that you were in there uh i don't know they always say it was like just a little bit but it was a good amount it was like uh i don't know probably probably three liters a day or something oh okay yeah that's real yeah they say he did tablespoons of it but no it was it was it was like a normal amount so and then by the way i did 44 days with nothing but water and i did nothing but pure h2o so it's not even like it had minerals in it and body was full recovery and my starvation expert who's like one of the top guys in the world in london my doctor at the end thought that i was cheating so they put me on and i distilled water it was a company called h2o and they're things it's just pure yeah just exactly distilled right so right which which is irrelevant by the way but so i had nothing but pure h2o for 44 days lost 60 pounds bmi bone mass index dropped 33 percent yeah people were interested that's what i was getting yeah no no it was bad no it wasn't yeah it wasn't good but doctor thought i was cheating because he's a magician by the way my friends that were with me that are you know magicians and the guy building they're like you need to take these vitamins and they hand me a handful of sugary vitamins and i'm like no it's just because i if i'm going to do it i want to like actually do it right right and um if i would have taken those vitamins i feel like my metabolism wouldn't have gone into starvation and i might have had irreversible damage from it so the fact that i actually did it i went into starvation mode and the body protects itself but what i was saying is the starvation expert that now i have a paper published in the new england journal medicine with him which i'm pretty proud about but um he he didn't believe me so he put me on an iv and right away the phosphate levels reacted and i almost went into shock so i almost actually did die when they refit fed me so his paper is called the refeeding syndrome they say like after world war ii when they rescued the from the from the camps the the jews and everybody was starving the camps and they a lot of soldiers gave them like candy bars and stuff and all of a sudden their systems went into shock and they died from not being refed the right way so what is the correct way to re-feed someone if they haven't eaten you have to slowly bring them back so that you don't have what happened to me which is phosphate levels go all crazy so very small amounts of food yeah but then two days later i somebody sent me a trunk from harrods full of food in london like a friend and uh and i was giving it to all the nurses and doctors because i knew i shouldn't eat it and i was trying to do it right then like in the middle of the night i woke up and had like a bag of potato chips right and then um a bagel a creature and i was wrecked it was like the most pain i also didn't go to the bathroom for a month and a half what think about that so how long does it take you to recover from one of these things that one i feel like i never fully recovered from but like so i don't know i wouldn't recommend anybody does that like goes like super super long with no food but but by the way so there's nothing you don't think you ever recover yeah my body always goes like this now it's always confused when i like train i go up down really quick really easy and it was since that sorry because your body yeah i feel like that yeah you know but there's no way to prove that but um that's a common thing though with people who cut weight for fights really yeah they they get to a certain point when they have kidney failure and yeah yeah and then that's why exactly that's what happened to me and i keep having problems with my kidneys yes yeah yeah and i have a spot on my kidney right now yeah yeah yeah that's uh that's a real common one with guys uh daniel cormier actually had to drop out of the olympics because of that i didn't know that his kidneys failed yeah kidney failure is a big one with uh fighters kidney stones too for a lot of guys with cut weight so your that was probably in your opinion the one that damaged you the most or left the most residual so the most difficult one was the ice by far the the ice was a monster and the reason why was because and now there's also something great about it so it was a warm november so the air coming through was like you know it happened to be a 68 degree three-day spread which led to the ice keep dripping the cold on me and it's radiating this way but i'm also standing up in one spot completely still and you can't sleep because if you fall asleep when you're present to ice you get frostbite you have to cut your skin off right so i'm staying completely awake the entire time and it's a difficult situation on hour 55 exactly if i look back at all of it my friends knew my eyes just go out and i'm now hallucinating like you could never ever there no hallucinogenic drug will ever give you those kind of hallucinations like what was it first of all it's amazing but it's also when it goes into that nightmare part it's scary but there's also that amazing part of it and if you have people after that stunt now whenever i hallucinate on stunts i have friends there that i say i'm gonna start hallucinating just talk me through it but so here's when i started realizing that i was hallucinating because you don't know when you are right um and by the way the one stunt i never did was sleep deprivation if you remind me i'll explain that whole thing but i'll forget but so um so what happens is when i start realizing it is i need to know uh like what time it is because i'm done at 10 pm because it was live on abc so i'm like i need to know how much longer i got to go through this right because it's getting tough so and it's there the by the way and my doorman would come in like news or whatever fox news said david blaine um is not really the i they did a special on it a an hour-long special on fox saying that i was never in the ice and i had a double of me that was in the ice i'm switching up and down with them eating burgers and reading no fox fox the tv station oh yeah yeah so they did but they did a one-hour special that i was never in there so my doorman how do they get away with doing that i don't know i don't care but listen so my doormat my doorman who comes to this is the funny part though so my doorman that comes to see me he he's um he knows me so well he's buried alive and he's so nice right so he comes to visit me in new york and uh he he walks up to the ice and he sees me and he's looking at me all weird i wasn't hallucinating it looked at me all weird then he leaves and then when i go back i was like what's up he's like that are you sure that that was you and ice could that have been you i was like what do you mean eddie he's like okay well it's you know so he we go on that special heirs now he's convinced that it wasn't me and i especially is why you're still no no that's after but he already thinks because he doesn't believe it my friends my best friends when i was buried alive they didn't think i was really doing it they thought it was a trick right so so he he asked me he's like there's was that really you because they said that you were a double of yourself and you were switching and i was like eddie but you looked at me like how could if i have a twin brother like where is that identical twin brother and why why would i switch up so anyway but so back to the um back to the when i get to 55 hours so i'm looking around and i need the time so i go like this like what time is it and the guy goes 402 yeah so he shows me 402. so i'm like okay that means we have like another six hours or whatever it is right and by the way my time estimations are so i'm like okay wait it might have been too way way way i wait and i'm in door it's hard i'm like things are moving everything's weird spiders are walking up people are like sitting in the ice i'm waiting waiting voices are talking to me that i'm talking back to right but i'm waiting i'm waiting and i wait for like a few hours before i ask anybody the time again and i see somebody and i'm like and the guy and the guy goes four oh three oh no and that's when it all crashed out it was like when that when i that connection and then the hallucinations were just rampant and my eyes were all crazy when the drill was when the chainsaw was coming through i tried to grab it yeah so yeah see look at that oh you're gone but okay but so but now that i've learned that sleep deprivation is one of the most amazing ways if it's controlled to go to another place it's like that but but i want to get to that before we get to that like while you're in there what are you doing to occupy your mind like how did you have were you using meditation were you just thinking were you just winging it like so okay so for some of them what i do a big first of all yeah a lot of things you get to you have free time to think like there's no phones no distractions so aside from the physical but but the one thing that i use with everything is kind of like a breakdown of numbers i'm like okay this much i have to get to this point then when i get to this point even when i run on a treadmill i'm like okay i have to get to this point which means let me get to the halfway point and i'll consider that when i'm holding my breath i do the same thing like okay i need to get to 15 minutes so let me get to seven and i'll start at seven then at seven i'm like okay i'm at seven left i have to get to another three and a half then three and a half and then what i always do is whenever i'm training i always go past it so it's the same thing so like when i'm running a treadmill i'm like if i have to do let's say like you know 3.1 whatever it is i set that as my target but then i always go like another half a mile past it because i won't you can't quit before because then you'll be in the mindset that okay i can stop before so like anything that i do i use numbers to get there i get halfway and then i push the goal further every single time no matter what which is so it's a mathematical system ironically so you're you're you don't necessarily have any sort of meditative techniques you're just concentrating on the numbers meditation for breath holding all the time right every time i do a breath now the ice was kind of like there was like a breathing thing and i didn't really know much about it back then but i was like more like fighting it like what is it like on your ankles or your knees and your back everything swells up like edema really bad and all that stuff and the pain is excruciating and unbearable but yeah it's i mean you're waiting and you didn't have any residual effects of that just my ankles and legs were really swollen just for a few days or so longer than that but yeah yeah now has anybody ever tried to break that uh i don't know i hope not and then not because i want i don't care about how i just don't want anybody hurt themselves but i would imagine like someone does something so high profile like you did that that people be like i'm gonna try that i mean i think it's too weird so people aren't really like oh i want to do that but there's billions of people i would imagine that someone would step in and try to emulate that obviously it was i i pray not and that's why i pray my daughter never becomes a magician even though she's so amazing at it because if she started doing these things i like if she's gonna bump her knee up like i have a heart attack you know well that's the problem with being a parent right yeah the things that make you amazing are your ability to overcome adversity and then you shelter your children from adversity you know it's all my favorite people are all they all came from a very tumultuous childhood they all came from like turmoil and no one wants that for their child you want to protect your children yeah weird [Applause]

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