Messing with peoples heads
 

I love to do this. I'm just wierd I guess. I especially love doing it to my not so bright friends (although I'm not the sharpest slice in the loaf either) I ws wondering if anyone has good ways to confuse,scare, or in other ways screw with their friends heads. I'll submit one, since I can't use it anymore.
This one requires a setup:
Psychic info trick
First aquire somewhat mundane or otherwise nonserious infromation that you
would otherwise not have, in my case it was exactly what my friend had for lunch, and in what quantities.
Me:"Give me some of that cheese chex mix."
Joe:"I don't have any more"
C:"shut up you've got, two large bags of it, two cans of soad and a pastry now give it to me"
Joe:shocked) how do you know that? (hands over food)
C: I just do, I have sources. That's less than a handful you asshole, more. By the way You should be ashame of yourself
After this you allow them to tell you, first by making vague statments such as
C; It always involves a woman, man.
They'll usually respond to the vague statement, gauge their reaction, if they become nervous, get more specific
C: he was your best friend man, what the hell?
if they respond they may try to eexplain themselves. Giving you all the answers you need.
He was so freaked out I eventually told him, turns out he had a child with a friends girlfriend. now since he knows how I did it, and since he does'nt care quite so much about it, I can't use that trick anymore I should also add, that I was'nt trying to do this, it started with him palcing his lunch close to me and me being a craven little snoop I just peeked. Then when he said he did'nt have any left I just got annoyed and rattled off the facts, the rest I played by ear.

"There" feeble minds? Oh the irony!

But yeah, silence is a great way to get people to admit stuff. Try it with a salesman the next time you get one attached to you. Just don't say a word and have a pissed off look on your face. That'll do the haggling for you.

What you have there is a bad salesman - one of the older tricks in the book is make your pitch and then shut up. A salesman should always win the silence competition, if you talk first, you lose the sale. Also works good with slight smile and nod technique. Tell em why they have your product, then shut up, smile slightly and nod - works about 80% of the time.

Anyway, a nice way to mess with people is to repeatedly tell them how nothing out of the ordinary is going on. Yep. Everything's just fine, no reason to be suspicious at all. Just keep acting normal cause everything normal anyway. I'll just be over here not doing anything wrong, so no worries today. Etc. Of course, don't be doing anything out of the ordinary, just keep saying that and they'll eventually crack and try to figure out what the hell you're trying to get away with.

I blatently lie to my friends. They have no idea I'm lying, but since they didin't know the truth in the first place, they won't know any different. This gets them all confused and then I tell them the truth. They get mad, then laugh.

I do this with board game rules too.

How do you lie to a board game? Don't they kind of automatically go along with anything you say since they're..y'know...not sentient?

He means he lies about the rules of the board game.

As for me, one of the things I like to do involves my writing, especially at work. I'm ambidextrous, so I switch hands often when writing things, which is subtle and a lot of people won't notice it at first, which will then degrade into them thinking something is a little suspicious about me.
"Weren't you right-handed yesterday?"
"Maybe."

Train yourself not to blink or flinch when looking into someone's eyes. It's the oldest trick in the book, but if you can talk to someone, totally casually, for a prolonged period of time, and never break eye contact or even blink, they will freak and wonder if you're human. For added effect, if they're doing most of the talking, breathe extremely slowly and shallowly, so it's harder to notice that you're still breathing.

I freaked out my best friend in high school that way. He actually waved his hand in front of my face to see if he could feel my breath or get me to break my unflinching stare.

Oh you people, this is all childs play stuff.

To really mess with somebody it takes observation and time. Observing their little quirks, their favorite foods, where they like to eat, where they hangout, etc. It takes getting into their head and using it to your advantage. Take it from me, a life long lurker. The more you know the more you can mess!

First watch the person and don't hide it. Grin a little like you know somethin and if they ask why you just shake your head and walk away.

This is when it gets fun!

People are creatures of habit. Exploit this. Take school for example, people have their own 'shortcuts' and all it takes is remembering where they are most apt to turn. Be around those spots a few times at first. Alternate between spots every few days, but don't be at the spots every day 'cause that makes it obvious. Just linger/talk to somebody else/walk past the spots at those key moments.

Ramp this up a little after a week or so by looking over and possibly being seen in return. After another week or two of this toss in the grin and head shake. After a while get somebody else in on it.

They'll really start to get insecure. And then when they ask again just laugh ('cause it really is funny since the joke is on them).

Note: it is best to do this with somebody you are on okay terms with and/or loosely know. Doing it to a complete stranger will probably get you in more trouble than it is worth.

This is a fun one to pull on nosy co-workers.

Change the name of your significant other on a regular basis. But keep it between two names that you alternate. Always pick one name a day. As soon as someone calls you on it, say, "What are you talking about?" Then insist that they are the name you are using that day. Wait a couple of days, then switch again. You'll have'em twitching in no time.

The Wandering God