6 Questions to Tell if they’re LyingHow to Tell a Lie And how to Tell Your Lie in case You Needed to…
by Darryl Howrie
Some time ago I began learning simple ways to read and pick on peoples unconscious signals, at the time it was for mental health reasons meaning therapy and hypnosis. During this learning I noticed their non-verbal’s whether people “got it” so to speak or not which was critical to my credibility and prowess as a practitioner. How can I really help people fix their thinking if I wasn’t able to do something they couldn’t do themselves? Put simply it came down to effectively noticing a person and specifically noticing them when they would “be real,” ‘be true’, ‘congruent’, ‘purely and freely self honest’ etc
After a while I began noticing this other side of the equation, to notice when a person was not congruent, honest, being true to themselves etc...basically lying.
Now don’t get excited this isn’t a 'how to lie in every context and never be lied to again', article we have a simple conversational beginners tool here. We aim to beware of how the nervous system is wired in certain ways to behave and how if we are aware we can use this non verbal information when asking questions relevant to our investigation.
Context Around Use of this Reading or Body Language Technique
This is primarily useful when asking someone while they are "off guard", you might have seen police switch subjects quickly while interrogating, in an attempt to create the "off guard" state and trying to extract the 'truth' on TV. You will need this kind of “off guard” state from your colleague so that when they are asked these questions (relevant to your investigation) through the “off guard” state you will see a clean read and your friends eyes move up and right (if we were them it would be up and left) See Fig 1A Below.
We will be watching for 1 behavior when the opposite will occur. When one is asked about where they were at X time but their answer elicits a “visual imagine” that behavior would be classified incongruent almost always. So their answer is using the ‘thinking’ imagining ‘part of the brain’ visual cortex, when ‘accurate-remembered’ behavior was required, demonstrating discord or a mismatch.
In real attempts please remember to ask very indexing time and place questions and observe. See the basic pattern below and how truthful answers look.
Eye Accessing Cues – practice tactic
See the image below while using the 6 questions.
1. Get someone’s permission to ask a few questions for 5 minutes or so.
2. As you ask the questions observe their eyes when they respond to the question (look at the chart below)
3. Compare their responses to the chart 1A below
N.B. – this exercise is made for a right handed person if your colleague is left hand dominant flip your cue model below.
Fig 1A The 2 Visual cues

My top #6 eye cues questions for elicitation:
VR: Visual Remembered - recalling an image or images.
- See the colors of your favorite sports team when you were young.
- Visually count the glass windows in your house counting from room to room.
- Picture your best friend and then now visualize you best friend’s handwriting
VI: Visual Imagine – manipulating images.
- Imagine your car as if covered in green with gold dots.
- Envision yourself with blue hair.
- Picture rainbow colors swirling round and around like a kaleidoscope.
Limits of this technique
- Remember you are dealing with a human being so do not expect perfect similarity between subjects for a while.
- Limited as to how good or skilled the practitioner is and how expressive the friend or colleague being read.
- Remember lies are subjective experiences, did you ever “get yourself” to believe in the lie awhile you were young (or witnessed a kid fully turn their simple lie into their absolute conviction?) This will not work well if people have remembered their lie or if they have sold their soul and they now fully believe their lie (unless they needed to lie) so remember the depth of this pattern is basic.
Summary:
A whole communication equals both verbal and non verbal
Thus we can not, not communicate = everything we do equates to some meaning inside them and what we don’t do can have also implications etc
We can predict, with this technique, a certain class of movements, by noticing what behaviour is being used to access certain questioned information. In effect elicitation.