Moving to Mentalism..First Successful and Unsuccessful Performance Today

For the last month, I have been increasingly interested into magic.  First, I started with card magics and got introduced to the Bicycle brand decks, as they are the mostly used brand my the magician and poker players.  I also bought some "trick decks" as are used in magic like Svengali Deck, Stripper Deck, Invisible Deck.  The sheer genius behind these decks have been constantly fascinating me.  I also constantly started uploading videos in youtube.

On day ( I think it was last week) , I accidentally ran into a website and ran into basic mentalism techniques.  For example, if you ask someone to guess a two digit number between 1-50 whose digits are different and odd, most will select 37.  I got a success rate of 3 to 1 (my dad guessed 35), but still in the case of successes, the reaction were better than the best card tricks.  Thus I leaned towards mentalism.

Yesterday night I was watching videos and reading classic mentalism books until 4 o' clock.  And today, I successfully performed a Liar Detection act on my grandmother (dadan) and mom.  It was amazing to discover how simple clues of body language can detect liars.  It was almost like a science.

But when I performed another mind reading trick on my girlfriend, I was not successful.  Partly because poor internet connection (that's why it was heard to read the body language).  And secondly, I got the routine in a wrong sequence.  I am planning to try it again to my parents or somebody else.  The scientist within me is dying to discover whether really there is a science in human thinking.

Needless to say, I will read a lot of books and see a lot of videos in the coming week.  Though there are many mentalism tricks that use gimmicks, I really don't like them.  I want to do something that is related to science, direction of thinking, eye reading etc.  I will keep you updated.