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he's a film student -- what's to make me think this isn't an act?
It's an hypnotist act, and is somewhat underwhelming when presented as a video.
Hypnosis belongs in the same category as paranormal activity and aliens, in that there's little evidence to support the practitioners' claims, yet many people believe in it nonetheless. Conventional explanation is that hypnosis "works" because some people are willing to play along. This is why using acting students is good -- they are good at pretending.
If you remember other clips of Darren Brown that made it to Video Sift, you'll see that he tends to "explain" his tricks through his knowledge of psychology. But that's standard magician practice -- to mislead the people into thinking their tricks are done through some hard to grasp/reproduce technique. For instance David Copperfield does it -- a friend of mine was called into David Copperfield number where she disappeared from the stage, and David Copperfield asked her to tell friends he did this trick with mirrors (or each friend will tell 2 friends, and years of work will be wasted, blabla)
I'm not the only one that thinks that Derren Brown's tricks have nothing to do with psychology
http://www.simonsingh.net/Derren_Brown_Article.html
As far as paranormal activity, supernatural events, and visits from aliens (the extra-terrestrial kind), well, they're bunk.
This has been proven to happen many times, but even worse when someone checks the chamber of a loaded weapon and misses the bullet still in the chamber.
Now in most cases when you check to see if there is a round in the chamber of a slide action fire arm, the firearm is ready to fire, the mechanism is armed. Therefore when you decock the mechanism, accidetal dishcharge is prominent. these things happen.
I cant find the case where this happened, but most gun saftey courses (military and civilian) will explain keep your mind clear of other thoughts and always on what you are doing here and in the now.
Most of the time when we cant find what we are looking for is because we are in a hurry or we have something else that is using the most prominent thoughts in our minds. Simple thing to do: Close your eyes, and open them again. "The eyes decieve do not trust them."