How do mentalists read minds

After that, they touch envelop and tell you the exact number, figure, or a word you had written there. This is not magic but again a trick. So how do mentalist read numbers? Actually, if you put straight cards inside envelops, you cannot see their shadows. Therefore, the trickster bends the cards a bit just slightly to remain unnoticeable. Secondly, the marker they gave you will be pointy enough to make an easy impression on the envelop wall so that the mentalist can read it.

By doing so, they read from the shadow on the card and guess your number. My wife probably understands what I do as well as me which neutralizes any influence I might have over her in fact she can read my mind better than I can read hers!

I live in Hampshire in Southern England with my family and 12 pets! So now you know about me. Let's talk about YOU! So you want to learn how to read minds or a least have an interest in mind-reading, mentalism or magic. Other wise you would not have found this article, that's just logic, but it also tells me some things about you at least in general terms. So even though you may be hundreds or even thousands of miles away from me right now let me get inside your head. Are you ready? Remember having your mind read can be both a thrilling and disconcerting experience in equal parts!

You are very passionate and enthusiastic about life. You know what you want and have an active mind. At times you are very imaginative and inventive. You like to be challenged by things.

You are very stubborn, but you can use that to your advantage. You are very capable and generally optimistic, but can be impatient or headstrong sometimes.

You are occasionally daring or impulsive. It is very hard for you to show and express your feelings with words and actions. Some of your aspirations can tend to be pretty unrealistic. At times, you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary and reserved.

You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. You pride yourself on being an independent thinker and do not accept others' opinions without satisfactory proof. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety, and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.

At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.

You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a strong need for other people to like you and for them to admire you. So how did I do? Okay I might not have got everything perfectly correct but I bet I did pretty well. Believe me I would have been spot on had you actually been in front of me! I could have even told you personal information that only you know! The subtleties of mentalism teach you to know people, how they think and how they behave. If you really want to learn how to read minds then you must study mentalism.

So right now the burning question in your mind is How do I start? These books will give you a good foundation in a whole array of skills. And even though basic rainbow ruses are easier to see through, the better you get at cold reading , the more complex you can make them. You can even use the details they reveal in the rainbow ruse to make more educated guesses. This video shows Derren Brown again, performing a series of Rainbow Ruses all around the country:. This is one of the most basic mind reading tricks It's basic, but it can have powerful results.

Cold-reading simply means observing small details, and coming to the most obvious conclusion about them. For example So start to notice and observe little things in the environment, and you can become powerfully good at coming to the right conclusions about them. Just use human micro expressions , or a momentary loss of control over emotions. And you've seen them before, right? It's the momentary flicker of disgust on a girl's face as she gets hit on by a creepy guy Some mentalism tricks rely on reading others, or subtly suggesting choices for them Here's how it works and it's incredibly easy :.

Pull a friend aside and ask them to play along. Tell them that you're going to 'psychically guess' a number they have in mind, but explain that when you place your hands on their temples, they should clench their teeth the same number of times as the secret number. In front of a group, have someone whisper a number between 1 and 20 to your friend, and claim you can 'read' it.

Gently put your hands on their temples, and count the number of times you feel the muscles in their temples tighten which happens naturally ass you clench your teeth. Your friend in this trick is called a 'plant', and mentalists have used plants for years as a way to seem psychic. They allow you to seem psychic by making incredibly accurate statements about a person But if you guess 'you or someone close to you has an elderly relative who died', you're very likely to be correct, right?

And people almost always assume that you have a mental gift, instead of assuming that your statements are flawed. These mind reading and mentalism tricks are guaranteed to be fun for you and the people who witness you do them. Share Pin