Fantastic mindgames (performance) | Harry Lucas | TEDxVienna

[Music] imagine you met a mind-reader and he told you you could ask him one question about your present the past or your future what would you ask what would your question be hi I'm Harry Lucas and today is your chance because you see when I look at you I like to think of your life stories of your dreams of your hopes of your ambitions the things that you love your passions ideas worth spreading and I know exactly why you came here because you want to connect and so do I so in a moment I'm going to put myself out there and connect with you but before we start everyone would you please stand up raise your right hand and speak after me hereby I swear publicly and solemnly that I've pre-arranged nothing with Harry Lucas that's me that I'm not an actor or stooge and that I'm not in cahoots with Harry Lucas even if I wanted to can't believe you said that let's thank you very much sit sit down again fantastic a great audience so if you have any questions anything that you want me to tell you about now is the time to think don't worry I'm not going to reveal your deepest darkest secrets unless it's really funny so don't worry I thought it would be fantastic to bring a camera here and to look in the audience and see who we've got today so can we just perhaps start in the middle could that be good yes very good and a little bit lower perhaps yes and to the left perhaps because you see there was something interesting going on right now a lot of you yes are catching themselves on the on the screen and they smile like this gentleman over there yes and they think oh it's all just fun it's all just fun can we just get a little bit lower yes excellent and okay some people prefer to look away yeah and they they think of it like a two-year-old if I close my eyes probably I'll turn invisible probably he will not pick me wonderful uh there is I don't know there's also Oh somebody waving wonderful yes we can see you great but I think yes I'm somehow I'm drawn to the lady with this wonderful headscarf yes is that okay if somehow I'm drawn to you is that okay would you mind standing up hi absolutely can you get microphone hi what's your name Sarah Sarah Sarah have you met before no no we haven't rearranged anything no no wonderful Sarah you strike me as someone that the way you stand here this you strike me as someone quite open and quite warm I think you were quite a warm and caring person as that makes sense I hear that often wonderful wonderful so you mean you don't need a mind reader to say that right may be wonderful I think you you're very caring very open you very curious I would say I think you would be the kind of person if I asked your friends they said Oh Sara is helping everybody right this is have to do I think this might come from your background family background this is a very caring family but would that be right in saying that oh okay perhaps some of the air or something else okay wonderful okay no it's not totally wrong it's not totally wrong okay so very good very good I don't know why but I you strike me as a Gemini Star Wars sign that's right really yes okay just a guess one in twelve true Gemini yes yes okay so you born towards you know warm months like summer does it make sense yes okay good with old Gemini so what I would say if you think of your birthday I think your birthday would be towards the middle of the month that's right that's right okay good good and yeah I guess it wouldn't be made because yeah it's tuned isn't it yeah mom and it would be some middle this is fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen ninety eighteen isn't it yes eighteen of tune yes okay wonderful I would also say that that kind of caring personality puts you out there he gets you out to help others doesn't make sense yeah yeah okay because I get the feeling from you I don't know why but I get to feeling of two colors the first one is like like an orange brown one and the other one is of a white or or bluish these kind of things these are the colors that I'm getting and I think that quite contrast each other and I think this is something to do probably that that blue has something to do with with water or something and the the yellow orange one has something to do with we would like with sand this is makes any sense to you in relation to what I don't know why because I think oh I mean is there what are you doing you just party like that I think this has something to do with caring with with are youing do you do charity with some kind of such things yes yes okay because somehow oh now it makes sense now this is this is Africa somehow this is Africa do you bring water - yes yes yeah I did it that's not what I mainly do but I did that you did that yes okay thank you very much indeed thank you that's wonderful send me your thoughts friendly locals Oh interesting can we get the camera perhaps up not down here but perhaps a little bit more up towards the balcony that would be fantastic I get the sense that if you think of your things that you want to achieve perhaps all the things that you like to do somehow I'm drawn towards the balcony and I think there's somebody up there think of your name please some kind of a is this Alex or something this is there Alex up there yes okay would you mind standing up please and can we get a microphone to that gentleman please very good don't worry it's just a light there but you look wonderful you look wonderful okay thank you okay Alex interesting the way you stand here yes also the kind of the way you just smiled tells me that you're also quite an outgoing person you have a lovely personality but I think the way I mentioned the caring bit here with Sarah I think you also responded to that yes yeah of course okay wonderful I also have the I get the impression that you have that you see several problems in the world but you're not the one complaining about it but you think you want I think you want to do something about mmm alright yeah more or less okay fantastic okay can you think of the of what it might be okay don't say that obviously okay thank you this is something to do with with with younger human beings with children yes yeah of course okay of course yes of course to you of course what else because children are the future again so I think this has something to do with school and with education am I right in saying this yeah of course yes of course and I also think that you responded to that caring bit with with you thinking about emotions about caring about emotional intelligence yes yeah that's right okay fantastic so I think you since you're thinking then along those lines I think you also will you're trying to make a career out of that I'm alright yeah yeah okay I think you will be wonderful they're going down that route thank you very much Alex fantastic send me your thoughts send me your thoughts oh yeah can we get our something over there strikes me can we get something over there there should be oh that's a female voice thank you can you think you've your name oh this starts like with an M more an n it is like Natalie Natalie would you mind standing up okay fantastic Natalie I think hi I think you are an explorer in a different kind of sense yes Alex wants to go out there and reform the educational system I think you have a different kind of way a way of exploring things yes when I look at you I think you're the kind of person who you also smile and and you have a fantastic radiation I think you have you are the kind of person likes to put you like to put yourself out there and go some places am I right in saying this yes yes okay can you think of where you would probably want to go to are great pictures ah fantastic I think this would be great to draw actually okay since you've just drawn so much I think this will be good I get the sense of again of blue and I get the sense of yellow but in a very different kind of way and also that I think there is green a lot of green there am i right in saying this you are yeah thank you but I get a different thoughts as well so you get that that those kind of pictures but I also get a different thought very different thought this is someplace else have you been have you been to Cambodia lately yes I have three weeks ago okay can you just get that that out of your mind and just concentrate on this one bit otherwise it's very confusing just very confusing okay [Applause] can you just focus on this one bit okay I get the sense of of a beach under sea somehow does it make sense and BOM palm trees okay but this can be anywhere in the world think of the specific location you want to go to oh thank you that always helps thank you okay so in a loud clear voice or into the microphone preferably would you say where you would like to go to it should tell you yes please tabali thank you very much Oh now I know some of you might think bunny why would you like to know any related I know I can sense that some of you find this kind of things that I do spooky and you're right but I also get the sense that some find it kind of attractive which is wonderful I appreciate that I also oh it's lovely I get telephone numbers thank you somehow I'm drawn towards this there is a girl named unthinkable named Andrea would you mind standing up yes would you mind standing up please Thank You Kenny can we get a microphone to her ah there it is fantastic Andrea can you think of your telephone number please yes okay thank you okay can you think of the prefix the first four letters plea first four numbers please yes are interesting so it's it's oh six six oh yes yes alright good ah let's do this let's do this in a very specific way and we're going to leave out a few numbers so you don't get any calls okay so all right so what what would you say I think of the next number please okay so this is say our next next next okay next two we leave out okay otherwise okay so we xx and the last one okay good so I think we have a zero six six zero yes you can talk now what is what is your telephone number six nine six nine yes okay I won't tell the whole number one nine six nine one nine so the next two we forget and what's the last digit so it's six nine one nine and then a nine at the very end yes exactly thank you very much I think I think we only have time for three more so if you would like to send not your numbers but if you have any more questions please okay we this is this is a man what do you think of your name Wolfgang please stand up and then there is a lady over there I think Diane please stand up and there is a lady I'm drawn towards a lady here Katrina would you please stand up okay and send me your thoughts yes yes yes Wolfgang I think you think of your garden and I think it will be most beautiful in 10 years Diane you planning a trip to Norway and I think you will see the Northern Lights Katharina if you like to you will be married in five years if that answers your question have a seat everybody sit down if that answer your question thank you very much you need you've been most fantastic I'm Mary Lucas I like

Channel: TEDx Talks

Views: 374,581

Rating: 3.8323739 out of 5

Keywords: TEDxTalks, English, Austria, Entertainment, Curiosity, Magic

Id: Exf125xEQKY

Length: 17min 35sec (1055 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 29 2016