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3 unusual facts about mind reading


Cognitive distortion

Mind reading: Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and nonverbal communication; taking precautions against the worst reasonably suspected case or some other preliminary conclusion, without asking the person.

Mind reading

Thought identification, the use of neuroimaging techniques to read human minds

Telepathy, the transfer of information between individuals by means other than the five senses


Muscle reading

Muscle reading, also known as "Hellstromism", "Cumberlandism" or "contact mind reading", is a technique used by mentalists to determine the thoughts or knowledge of a subject, the effect of which tends to be perceived as a form of mind reading.

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

This happens against a backdrop of Vince's father Harold becoming a minor celebrity due to his psychic powers, essentially forms of mind reading and telekinesis.


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Guy Bavli

During this time, he developed a mind reading act and became a member of the Israeli Air Force Performing Group as an actor and singer.

Lucy Coats

Is a mixture of weather, counting and baby animals around the world, which Artemis Cooper in the Mail on Sunday called ‘the sort of book a child will hold up for you to read again and again, and one I wouldn’t mind reading a hundred times.’

The Clairvoyant

Rains plays Maximus ("King of the Mind Readers"), who with the help of his wife, Rene (Fay Wray), and their secret code, performs an English music hall mind-reading act.