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Originally Posted by Mato Kinze  It occured to me, reading your post, how entertaining it would be to be a "fly on the astral wall" in a room full of psychics playing poker.
For instance, you said that you would pick up on how confident I was in my hand. However, what if I could project my confidence in my ability to bamfoozle you??  |
As someone who can basically always know when someone is lying based on how what they're saying "feels" to me, I'd say that unless they deliberately honed their deception projection skills (like the term?
), I'd be able to feel that (A) they feel confident, but (B) something also doesn't feel right.
I can't read people and say, "you're lying," but I can sense when whatever they're saying isn't 100% honest and direct (i.e. sometimes people aren't lying, but they have resistance to what they're saying, or they aren't speaking the whole truth, etc). Truth feels different to lies, and the worse someone is lying and the more they seem to be *trying* to lie (perhaps they feel uncomfortable or resistant to the idea), the more I can sense the "something's not right" feeling.
If I get the "something's not right" feeling, I make it a habit to questioning what people say based on what I know about them and their body language, tonality, etc, rather than just saying, "I think you're lying," which never went down too well, heh, but was something I said until I learned more about my ability.
If you want to understand people with intuitive ability, think of it like this: these people have another layer of info available to them that most people think is hidden, so unless you're really good, trying to scribble out or cover up something you've (figuratively) "written" on that layer will just seem obvious, like trying to change the number on a test score, or something.