copycat games
Something that is crazy about people is that sometimes they do more than hide who they are from you. If someone’s hides who they are, they just don’t say anything. They just raise their eyebrows and look away. I do this sometimes with controversial people. I know about the arguments they want to have. When people do more than hide its because they are playing a game against you. I had a girlfriend that was playing a game with me for as long as we were together. She got really good at pretending to be me. I’d start in on a conversation with her and within a minute and a half she’d have my tone mirrored as well as intonation and facial expression. When you have a loyal pet, like a collie, the collie will do this. The collie will sense its owner’s mood and respond. When people do this it feels odd. Its like playing a bad game of checkers with someone. If you mirror the other person’s moves, move for move, it things usually end in stalemate. All the checkers get pushed to the middle and the game withers. This same thing happens when someone mirrors your personality. They start responding the same way to things as you would and all the sudden it feels odd to respond at all. Like trying to talk on a phone that has an echo effect or walking down a hall of mirrors, these things are engineered to give people an uneasy feeling. I don’t entirely know why it is that people decide to play games against other people. But people generally like to play games to win. My old girlfriend won I think. She copied me until neither of us could move anymore, but neither of us decided to play again. Now when she sees me she just raises her eyebrow and looks off to the middle distance.
