15th May How Derren Brown Programmed Me To Kill

Spent an evening, along with about 2000 other people, in the company of the well known Man of Mystery and Mind Games at the Caird Hall. Apart from walking on broken glass, most parts of the show involved using subliminal signals to illicit the required responses from members of the audience chosen at random. In order for this to work it meant that the whole audience was subject to the same signals. The trick is that people make a choice based on what "feels right" but then have no idea why they would made that choice. One woman claimed that her first crush had been on somebody with the surname Green but how did Mr Brown know she was going to say that? The word had to have been planted in her mind by suggestion. The Grand Finale involved someone selecting by "free choice" page 14 in the Daily Mail, without page 14 the trick would have failed miserably.
Immediately after leaving the Caird Hall and feeling to all intents "normal enough", I went to fill up at a self-service petrol station. When confronted with a choice of three types of fuel at the pump, without thinking I picked up the green nozzle for unleaded petrol and started filling up the Daihatsu, which has a diesel engine. Whilst watching the display showing the cost of the fuel something happened when the numbers reached £14.00. It was like fingers being snapped and immediately I "came to" wondering why I was putting petrol in a diesel car. I said to Isabelle, "I've just put £14.00 of petrol in the car".
It was only later, after the deed had been done so to speak, that the possibility that it wasn't a free choice occured. The answer was ( or could be ) that Derren Brown had inadvertently programmed me by post hypnotic suggestion to kill my car.
So much for Free Will.....