A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers!

An Insightful Series of Life Lessons That My Life Provided As I Lived Understanding Its Psychology and Philosophy Improving My Mental Health in The Process.

Jul 05, 2026

LIFE LESSON STORIES SERIES

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: We Can Read Others’ Minds through Mirroring Their Eyes

In 1980, I once went to my friend Somesh’s hometown at a distance of three hours of drive from Delhi. I had another friend of mine along with me. On our way back from there, Somesh’s family arranged a vehicle heading to Delhi carrying two females along who we were not familiar with.

We introduced ourselves to them and started chatting about casual issues. After some time, there was nothing left to chat about in a casual manner.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: Let’s Play A Game

It was then that I spontaneously came up with an idea of playing a game among the four of us. I had never played this game in my life nor had its design in my mind before.

I proposed everyone to look at other three people’s faces for as long as they wanted. The target was to guess as closely as possible what kind of thoughts they were having in their minds. There were no winners and no losers to be there in the game. It just aimed at having some interesting fun together.

Once a round was over, everyone was free to shake off their thought of the earlier round. Then they could implant a new thought for the next round and the game would continue like before. There were no time limits in the game to stick to.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: Trying to Read Minds

Everyone tried to read everyone else’s mind to the best of their creative ability turn by turn. But most of them were wild guesses not matching others’ thoughts satisfactorily. Even if they came a bit close to them by fluke, it was very remotely so when they did.

I employed another technique when my turn came. I looked at the expressions in the eyes of the person I was trying to read the mind of. Then I tried to copy the same expressions into my eyes as closely as possible. Doing so kind of transposed my mind to a totally different feeling that started telling its own story to me.

I hadn’t yet made my readings public but when I did, all three of them were taken aback. They thought like I had done some magic to read their minds so close to what they were really thinking. They asked me how I did it, but I just smiled and didn’t divulge my secret out.

We played many rounds in three hours that our vehicle kept running on its way to Delhi. Every time similar results kept repeating themselves. The game kept turning more and more exciting with my guesses coming closer and closer every time. No one else could come even remotely close to what I every time came up with.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: They Think I Am A Magician

They thought I was a magician who had learned this secret from someone before. They kept changing their thoughts and challenging me with new ones time and again. Even I was surprised at how I had hit the jackpot by mirroring their eye-expressions into mine. The technique had made my way into their minds not only to their contents alone but also to their feelings. It made me empathize with them at the same time I was reading their minds. In fact, I wasn’t reading their minds, I was rather feeling their minds from within themselves.

Time flew on wings, and we didn’t even realize how fast three hours had passed. We took leave of one another and went our ways.

But the next day, I saw the same two girls looking for me near the grounds of National School of Drama. One of them said she wanted to speak to me in private. We sat down in a remote corner of ground, and I asked her what she wanted to say.

A Simple Life Lessons Story of Mind Reading Powers: There Comes A Proposal

What she came up with was sufficient enough to take me aback. In fact, she proposed to me for starting an affair between the two of us. I couldn’t find words to say no to her thinking she would get hurt if I plainly refused her. But I had to since I was already in the midst of an affair with my present wife.

As I hesitantly told her about my current affair going on, I saw tears rolling down her eyes. I spontaneously mirrored her eye-expressions and found my eyes had gone wet as well. I had started feeling her from within herself again.

We both kept shedding tears without uttering a single word after that for more than an hour. But surprisingly time again flew on wings, and we didn’t even realize how fast a full hour had passed.

It was empathy that drove me as I kept shedding tears with her for one full hour. Her friend came in looking for her after having waited for her return for long. The two left with an expression of gratefulness in their eyes.

I learned that day how powerful the eye-expressions were and what all miracles they could perform. And not only could they perform miracles, but they could also change us into extremely sensitive persons.

I learned eyes were the real windows to the mind, that day!

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