How Good Is Your Subcommunication Intuition?

subcommunication (n): information conveyed below the overt level, e.g. through subtext or implication. common examples include body language, eye contact, voice tone, facial expressions, how we touch, how we pause when we speak, who we’re with, the subtexts in what we say, and much, much more.

Can you tell someone is lying by the way they move? How about the tone in there voice? Can you tell when someone is being genuine by which way their eyes look? Can you tell when someone like you or hates you without being told or the obvious subcoms(kissing, punching)? I bet the women are waaaaaaaay better at this than the men.

 

I over analyze just about everything...

 

Me too now.

 

I am generally pretty intuitive when observing interaction between others but when it comes to the way people react to myself I am usually pretty lost and very paranoid.

 

on a scale of 1-10, i rate 0.000000001

 

yeah, i'm actually the same. or at least i tell myself i know what's going on between others and i don't bother to sit around and find out if i was right or not.


also, your sig has confused the hell out of me tonight...

 

Mine is perfect thanks for asking

 

made of fail and old broken radar antennae

 

I do alright.

 

I can usually read between the lines, sometimes to a freakish extent.

 

Im actually very good at it and it sometimes bothers me, because people say something with words but their body tells me different. I know what they are really saying, but sometimes they prefer to believe what's coming out of their mouths and I let them.

 

i'm so good at this that i'm often confused in conversation, because i hear what people mean, rather than what they say. and then i look like an ass.

 

When it comes to business interactions, I am always right about peoples intentions and motivations.

When it comes to women. I do not have a clue.

 

I know what you mean. It gets me confused too, but I mostly keep it to myself or react in a confused, I dont know what you're telling me kinda way.

 

hey Ili I got a question for you

 

see, i'm not smart enough to realize that's what's going on, lol! it's so blurred to me that i actually 'hear' them say it in my head. so i think they've said it.

 

yes?

 

I know we only hung out a couple times, a while ago, but if you remember my mannerisms at all did you think my body language is inconsistent with what I actually say a lot of the time? like for example I'll say something mean but without any aggression, or I'll try to say something nice but it just comes out sarcastic instead? I feel like I do that constantly without meaning to, but then I'm super conscious of myself physically.

 

I think that is very easy to tell that when you're saying mean things you are just doing it because seeing how people react to it seems to be your idea of fun. At least for me it always seemed that way

I dont think I remember you ever saying something nice haha, Im just joking, some of the things you said that were nice, did come across as being sarcastic because of how you worded things and just the way you said it, but I think this is just linked to what I said in the paragraph above.

 

haha, I see what you mean.
that's my trouble, half of me wants to play games all the time and half of me wants to be totally serious and I end up confused.