by Jai Li

Created on: January 08, 2009

There is no way, that mind reading between people is real. The only person that can read a persons thoughts, is God. We cannot read each others thoughts in any way, well maybe there is one sure way. The idea that a mother always knows what her child thinks and how people know things just out of the blue is because they are good at reading certain types of body language.

Most of us can look at someone and tell if they are nervous, shy or even scarred just by paying attention to their body language. Looking at certain facial expressions, skin tone, listening to vocal patterns, and watching body posture can give away a lot. Remember that it is always said that "Great minds think alike", it does not say they read each others thoughts.

If a guy has a crush on a girl or a girl likes a guy, and a friend notices that they are gawking and bushing, usually the first thing that comes out of the friends mouth is "You like them or you think he or she is hot don't you?" They did not read your mind but they read your body language.

If you have to go to a meeting and you really do not want to be their, your body language can sure show that you do not, unless your good at pretending, Yes, I know actors do this a lot.

If a student is in class and the teacher is teaching and the student is looking upside the wall or outside the window. The teacher will instinctively know from his bodily actions that his mind is on another subject. She did not read his mind but his body language.

Another reason why mind reading is fake between people is because we probably process a huge amount of thoughts continuously. In todays fast paced society and stunningly visual world, we get all kinds of thoughts in as little as a matter of seconds. If a person can read your mind, that fast would their brain be able to process your thoughts and theirs at the same and still know what is going on in time to give you a speedy response?

Indeed, we read the body and not the mind. I am not sure if anyone else has ever tried this but ask a mind reader to read your mind and think a thought within a thought. They should be able to tell you that you had more than one thought but where also testing their thoughts to see if they were telling the truth and could actually read your mind.

Then there are sometimes where people imagine things and say what is on their mind and someone says "Hey I was thinking that." Just a simple case of "Great minds think alike". The great part all kind of depends on what your thoughts were though, because it could be something silly or stupid, if you know what I mean?

So there is no possible way we as human beings can read each others thoughts, except body language. If a McDonald commercial comes on TV and the caption says "We know what you are thinking. Looks good doesn't." This is a whole gag to allure your mind into thinking what they want you to think thus, leading you to scarf down Big Mac's voraciously. Ha! Ha!...

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