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- Given the choice of anyone in the world, who would you want as a dinner guest?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 2 · escape 5 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · priority · present · solo · verdict · people, imagination
- Would you like to be famous? In what way?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · priority · present · solo · verdict · identity · ambition
- Before making a phone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · process · present · solo · story · identity · habits
- What would a perfect day look like for you?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 2 · escape 5 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · priority · present · solo · fact · home · pleasure
- When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · music, play
- If you could live to ninety and keep either the mind or the body of a thirty-year-old for the last sixty years, which would you choose?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · priority · future · solo · verdict · mortality, body · ageing, choice
- Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · affect · future · solo · feeling · mortality · death
- What three things do you and your partner seem to have in common?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 2 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · relational · fact · partner, noticing
- What in your life are you most grateful for?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 1 · escape 5 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · priority · present · solo · feeling · gratitude
- If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · position · past · relational · story · family · family, childhood
- In four minutes, what is your life story, in as much detail as you can manage?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · story, self
- If you could wake up tomorrow with any one quality or ability, what would it be?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · priority · future · solo · verdict · identity · wish, self
- What's something small you're unreasonably good at?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · present · solo · fact · identity · skills, play
- What song do you know every word to, and who taught it to you?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship · music, family
- When did you last laugh so hard you couldn't make a sound?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · body · humor, memory
- What did you assume was normal in your family until you met other families?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, home · family, childhood
- Which parent are you more like, and how do you feel about that?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · feeling · family, identity · family, identity
- What's the worst thing about being the age you are now?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · mortality, body, identity · age, time
- What did you love doing before you cared whether you were good at it?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity, failure · childhood, play
- What did you want to be when you were eight, and what happened to that idea?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · work, identity · childhood, work
- Tell your partner about something you achieved that nobody made a fuss about.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · pride, achievement
- If someone who knew you as a child met you now, what change would surprise them most?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · change, childhood
- If you could replay one ordinary day from your past, what would you be doing?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · priority · past · solo · story · home, identity · memory, nostalgia
- What do you wish you had figured out ten years ago?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · position · past · solo · verdict · failure, identity · regret, lessons
- If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 1 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · priority · future · solo · verdict · future, self
- Is there something you have dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · priority · present · solo · story · failure, identity · dreams, avoidance
- What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 1 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · priority · past · solo · verdict · work, identity · pride
- What do you value most in a friendship?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 1 · escape 5 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · friendship, values
- What is your most treasured memory?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 1 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · experience · past · solo · story · memory
- What is your most terrible memory?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 4 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 2 · escape 2 · specific 1 · exposes 5 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality, failure · memory, pain
- If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are living now? Why?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · priority · future · solo · verdict · mortality · death, choices
- What does friendship mean to you?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 1 · escape 5 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship · friendship
- What roles do love and affection play in your life?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 1 · escape 4 · specific 1 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity · love
- Taking turns, what are five good things about your partner?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship · partner, praise
- How close and warm is your family? Was your childhood happier than most people's?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · verdict · family · family, childhood
- How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · feeling · family · family, mother
- Who believed in you before you'd done anything to earn it?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, friendship · family, support
- What are you most afraid of becoming?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · affect · future · solo · verdict · failure, identity · fear, identity
- What did your family argue about most when you were growing up?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, money · family, childhood
- Tell your partner about a friendship that ended. Do you know why it did?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · friendship, loss
- Tell your partner what you noticed about them in the first minute, and whether you were right.Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · impressions, connection
- What's something you've been carrying this year that you haven't said out loud to anyone?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · present · solo · story · failure, identity · secrets, burden
- How is your relationship with your family different from how it looks from the outside?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · family · family, perception
- Tell your partner about a time you let someone down.Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · regret, failure
- Describe a time you disappointed someone whose opinion mattered to you.Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · shame, family
- Which compliment do you have the hardest time believing?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · self-image, praise
- Which regret still affects the way you treat people now?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · regret, relationships
- What are three true statements that begin with "we"? For instance, "We are both in this room feeling…"Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 1 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · process · present · relational · verdict · friendship · partner, noticing
- Finish this sentence: "I wish I had someone with whom I could share…"Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · feeling · identity, friendship · longing
- If you were going to become close friends with your partner, what would be important for them to know?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · priority · future · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · partner, honesty
- What do you like about your partner? Be very honest this time, saying things you might not say to someone you have just met.Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship · partner, honesty
- What is an embarrassing moment from your life?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · shame, story
- When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · fact · body, identity · tears
- What do you like about your partner already?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship · partner, praise
- What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · faith, identity · humour, limits
- If you were to die this evening with no chance to speak to anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven't you told them yet?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · feeling · mortality, friendship, family · death, regret
- Your house, with everything you own in it, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you can make one final dash for a single item. What would it be? Why?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · verdict · home · possessions, choice
- Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · family, mortality · family, death
- What personal problem would you like your partner's advice on? Then let them tell you how you seem to feel about it.Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · process · present · relational · feeling · identity · partner, help
- Who in your life do you love but can't be honest with? What would you say if you could?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · family, friendship · family, honesty
- What have you wanted to ask me but decided was too personal?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity · curiosity, restraint
- What are you worried I may have already judged you for?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity · judgment, fear
- What would make you pull away from me, even if you liked me?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · process · future · relational · verdict · friendship · distance, fear
- What feeling about me are you least comfortable saying aloud?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · feeling · identity · feelings, admission
- What have you already trusted me with that you did not expect to say?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · identity · trust, disclosure
- If we became close, what would be hardest for you to tell me?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · affect · future · relational · verdict · identity · closeness, secrecy
- What do you wish someone had noticed when you were struggling?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · past · relational · story · failure, identity · struggle, care
- What will you remember about this conversation tomorrow morning?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · identity · memory, reflection
- What do you want from me that you'd never ask for?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, identity · partner, need
- Tell me where you think I am loneliest.Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · loneliness, perception
- What do you do to get people to like you?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · approval, self-image
- Who are you lying to the most? What is the lie?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · secrets, honesty, life
- What did you once think would fix your life?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · hope, disillusionment
- Which job did you have in your family?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · position · past · relational · verdict · family · family, roles
- Which story about yourself do you tell too often?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · story · identity · self-image, habits
- What do you pretend to enjoy, and who are you pretending for?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · pretending, self-image
- Tell your partner about the person who shaped you most, and what they'd make of you now.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · story · identity, family · family, identity
- What lie do your parents still believe about you?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · story · family · family, lies
- What's the longest you've ever walked in one go, and what were you thinking about?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body · walking, outdoors
- Which room in any house you've lived in do you miss?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · affect · past · solo · verdict · home · home, memory
- What did you hide from your parents as a teenager?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, secrets
- What do people praise you for that you don't care about?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity, work · praise, self-image
- What did you lie about for years before anyone caught it?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · lies, history
- Who from your childhood do you wish you could thank now?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · verdict · family, friendship · gratitude, childhood
- Which room from your childhood can you still walk through in your head? Who's in it?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · home, family · memory, home
- What did you quit that you still think about?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, work · regret, choices
- What did you have to teach yourself because nobody showed you?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · family, identity · growing-up, self-reliance
- How would we have got along if we'd met five years ago?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · past · relational · verdict · friendship · timing, connection
- What did you get through that you've never called hard?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · survival
- Which apology do you still owe?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · failure, friendship · guilt, relationships
- Who do you miss who is still alive?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · story · friendship, family · loss, distance
- What's the closest you've come to giving up?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, mortality · despair, survival
- What were you taught to do with anger?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · past · relational · story · family, identity · anger, family
- Who do you owe an apology you may never give?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · story · failure, friendship · apology, regret
- What did your family refuse to talk about?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, silence
- What question did you hope I would not ask you today?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity · partner, fear, secrets
- At what moment tonight did you nearly not answer honestly?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · partner, honesty
- Who saw you at your worst and stayed?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family · loyalty, love
- What did I say tonight that landed harder than I realised?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · partner, impact
- When did you first make a choice your family would not have made for you?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, identity · family, independence
- Who did you stop resenting? What changed?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family · resentment, change
- What have you done out of loyalty that you would not do again?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · loyalty, regret
- Who do you miss even though having them in your life was hard?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · story · friendship · longing, relationships
- How do you fight when you know you are losing an argument?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · identity · arguments, self-awareness
- Whose death brought you some relief? Have you ever admitted that?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · verdict · mortality, family · death, guilt
- What has loving someone cost you?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · love, sacrifice
- Who would tell the truth about you at your funeral?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship · death, honesty
- Which of your parents do you still want something from? What is it?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · story · family · parents, longing
- Who do you love out of duty?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, friendship · love, obligation
- What did your last breakup teach you about your own cruelty?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, sex · breakups, character
- Whose pain do you feel responsible for?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · story · family, friendship · guilt, responsibility
- Who did you walk away from when they needed you?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · guilt, abandonment
- When did you know you could no longer go home?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · home, family · home, belonging
- Tell me something true about me you've worked out in the last hour.Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · partner, perception
- What about me reminds you of someone you've loved?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity · love, memory
- Which answer of mine changed your mind about me?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · perception, surprise
- Tell me what you think I need to hear tonight.Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · care, insight
- What do you think I am pretending not to care about?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · pretense, perception
- Ask me for something you rarely ask anyone for.Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · feeling · identity · request, trust
- What do you guess is the hardest thing about being in a relationship with me?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · sex, identity · partner, relationships, perception
- What was your worst summer job, and how long did you last?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work, youth
- What is the worst advice you took?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · advice, mistakes
- Tell your partner about a weird neighbor you grew up next to.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · home · neighbors, childhood, story
- Tell your partner about a neighbour you'll never forget.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · home · neighbours, stories
- When was the first time you talked back to an adult and won?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, identity · rebellion, childhood
- Tell your partner about the weirdest place you have ever slept.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · body · travel, sleep, story
- Who got away with the most in your family, and how did they do it?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, siblings
- Who taught you to drive, and how did that go?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family · driving, family
- What did you vow to never do for money again?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · money, work · money, regret
- What's the first job you ever had, and what did it teach you about people?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work, first job
- Which town or city would you never live in again, and what's wrong with it?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · past · solo · verdict · home · cities, opinions
- What have you been given too much credit for?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · past · solo · verdict · work, failure · praise, honesty
- Which scar on you has the best story behind it?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body · body, stories
- Which trip went badly at the time and makes a good story now?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · travel, mishaps
- Who do you pretend to like, and why?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship, work · social, deception
- Tell your partner the story behind one of your scars.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · body · body, story, past
- What do you buy just to feel safe?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · present · solo · fact · money, body · money, security
- Where did your family go on holiday when you were small, and what did you do all day?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, home · childhood, travel
- What would your twelve-year-old find embarrassing about your life now?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity, failure · growing up, humor
- Which of your childhood friends do you wish you had treated better?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · childhood, regret
- Who did you stop talking to without ever telling them why?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · ghosting, relationships
- When did you realize an apology would not fix what happened?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · apology, harm
- What did you give up on because you knew you were not good enough?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity, work · failure, dreams, self-worth
- When did you first realize you had power over someone?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, failure · power, relationships
- Who gets the worst of you because you trust them to stay?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · verdict · family, friendship · trust, relationships
- Who knows the worst thing about you?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · verdict · friendship, failure · secrets, shame
- When have you felt like a guest in your own family?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, identity, home · family, belonging
- When did money first make you feel different from the people around you?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · money, identity · money, belonging
- What do you miss from the life you chose not to live?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · past · solo · feeling · identity, work · choices, longing
- Which piece of your family history is hardest to explain?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, history
- When have you stayed too long because leaving felt like failure?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, work · failure, choices
- Who do you let treat you badly? Why them?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family, identity · boundaries, relationships
- When has your body frightened you?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body, mortality · body, fear
- When has being wanted led you to make a bad choice?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure, identity · desire, choices
- When have you stayed because leaving felt like failure?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, work · leaving, failure
- What have you forgiven that you swore you never would?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · faith, friendship, family · forgiveness
- Who taught you the most about love through a bad example?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, identity · love, influence
- Tell me the last time you asked someone to stay.Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · love, need
- What do you wish you wanted less?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · verdict · identity, money, sex · desire, control
- Which of your habits ruins things for you most often?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · process · present · solo · verdict · failure, identity · flaws, self-awareness, habits
- How are you a disappointment to your family?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · family, failure, identity · family, shame, expectations
- What is the hardest sentence you have ever said out loud to someone?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, friendship, family · honesty, memory
- Who do you miss that you will never speak to again?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family, mortality · grief, loss, past
- When did you learn that love could be withdrawn?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, failure · love, rejection
- Who did you hurt the most? How did you justify it to yourself?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · guilt, past, regret
- Which goodbye changed the way you love people?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, friendship · goodbye, love
- Whose funeral are you most afraid of attending?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · future · relational · verdict · mortality, family, friendship · mortality, fear, family
- Who was the first person you lost? What did that do to you?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, family · death, grief
- If you could have one more conversation with someone who's dead, who, and what's your first sentence?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, family · death, love
- What do you know about yourself that keeps you awake?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · affect · present · solo · verdict · failure, identity · fear, self
- Who do you want in the room at the end of your life?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, family, friendship · death, love
- What would a good death look like for you?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · position · future · solo · verdict · mortality · death, meaning
- Say what you would miss if we never spoke again.Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 3 · affect · future · relational · feeling · friendship, mortality · loss, connection
- What do you hope I think of you now?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · feeling · identity · impression, hope
- Which loss changed your everyday life most?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality, family · loss, grief
- What would you want me to say if you were dying?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · future · relational · feeling · mortality · death, comfort
- If this were our last conversation, how would you want it to end?Fast Friends · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · feeling · mortality · goodbye, connection
- Tell your partner about a coworker who knew how to make a shift go faster.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work
- How do you behave when someone tries to look after you?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · identity · care, love
- Which friendship are you keeping alive on your own?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship · friendship, effort
- Were you raised with religion, and what's left of it now?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · faith, family · faith, family
- What got you in the most trouble at school?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · family, school
- Tell your partner about the worst date you ever sat all the way through.Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · sex, romance
- Which false impression of you have you allowed people to keep?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · present · relational · verdict · identity · identity, appearance
- What do you hope you never have to do again?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · future · solo · story · work, failure, body · dread, past
- Why did you last end up in a hospital bed?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body, mortality · body, health
- Who was your first crush, and what did you do about it?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, identity · sex, childhood
- Who has to listen to you complain about your day?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · fact · friendship, family · friendship, work
- If I'd met you ten years ago, what would I have gotten wrong about you?Fast Friends · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · past · relational · story · identity · partner, change
- Who was the last person to call you a disappointment?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, failure · disappointment, relationships
- Who took you to your first funeral, and whose was it?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, mortality · mortality, family
- Which part of your reputation is wrong?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · reputation, identity
- Share a time envy made you behave badly.Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · envy, shame
- When were you loneliest? Who had no idea?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family · loneliness, hiding
- Who do you refuse to ever forgive?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · story · failure, friendship, family · grudges, anger, past
- Who taught you to hide what you were feeling?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · family, identity · family, shame
- What did you exaggerate today just to impress me?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · story · identity, failure · partner, honesty, ego
- Tell your partner about a choice that closed off another life you could have had.Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · identity, failure · choices, roads-not-taken
- Tell me what you think it costs you to be the way you are.Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · identity, cost
- What have you forgiven someone for without ever telling them?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family · forgiveness
- Whose face do you see when you look in the mirror?Fast Friends · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · family, identity · identity, family
- AngryImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- HappyImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- SadImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- BoredImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- NervousImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- ExcitedImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- TiredImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- ProudImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- ConfusedImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- ShyImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- GrumpyImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- CheerfulImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- ScaredImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- CalmImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- JealousImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- CuriousImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- SleepyImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- HungryImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- ImpatientImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- RelievedImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · mood
- FiremanImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- BankerImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- TeacherImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- PirateImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- GrandmotherImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- DogImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- ChefImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- DetectiveImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- NurseImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- FarmerImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- AstronautImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- Bus DriverImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- LifeguardImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- LibrarianImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- CatImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- WizardImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- Football CoachImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- DentistImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- QueenImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- RobotImprov · Level 1 · exposure 1 · role
- SmugImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- HomesickImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- DistrustfulImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- OvercaffeinatedImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- SuspiciousImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- FlatteredImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- SheepishImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- VindicatedImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- NostalgicImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- Overly PoliteImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- Secretly ThrilledImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- Passive-AggressiveImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- LovestruckImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- WistfulImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- DefensiveImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- StarstruckImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- MelodramaticImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- Deeply UnimpressedImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- GuiltyImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- ChipperImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · mood
- CrabImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Wedding DJImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Retired AstronautImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Sentient ToasterImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Substitute TeacherImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Tax InspectorImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Mall SantaImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- SeagullImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Cruise Ship MagicianImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Museum GuardImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Parking AttendantImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Reality TV JudgeImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- GooseImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Wine SommelierImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Escaped Zoo PenguinImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Airport AnnouncerImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Ghost of a LandlordImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Yoga InstructorImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Local News WeathermanImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- SlothImprov · Level 2 · exposure 2 · role
- Quietly TriumphantImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Existentially BoredImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Falsely ModestImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Aggressively GratefulImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Cautiously EuphoricImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Politely FuriousImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Nostalgic for Next WeekImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Suspiciously CalmImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Heroically IndifferentImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Romantically ConfusedImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Tragically PunctualImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Serenely PanickedImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Smugly ApologeticImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Bravely CowardlyImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- Cheerfully DoomedImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · mood
- The Concept of MondayImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- A Haunted Vending MachineImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- Your Own ShadowImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- A Very Patient VolcanoImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- The Last BiscuitImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- A Sunset with OpinionsImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- An Unread EmailImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- The Moon, Off DutyImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- A Retired Superhero's CapeImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- Gravity, on StrikeImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- A Traffic Cone with AmbitionImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- The Wi-Fi PasswordImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- A Lighthouse in LoveImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- A Cloud that RemembersImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- The Feeling of Déjà VuImprov · Level 3 · exposure 3 · role
- What do you like to learn about?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 2 · escape 5 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · priority · present · solo · fact · identity · curiosity
- What's the last thing you got weirdly good at?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · skills, story
- Where do you go when you need to think?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · process · present · solo · fact · home · habits, place
- What did you want to be when you were ten?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · experience · past · solo · fact · work, identity · childhood
- What's a small thing that reliably makes your day better?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 5 · specific 2 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · affect · present · solo · fact · home · habits, taste
- What are you a snob about?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · taste
- Who taught you something you still use?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · work, friendship · people, story
- What do people get wrong about the place you grew up?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · past · solo · story · home · place, childhood
- What's the best meal you've had this year, and who was there?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, home · food, people
- What are you reading, watching or listening to that you'd actually recommend?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 2 · escape 4 · specific 2 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · priority · present · solo · fact · identity · taste
- What did you believe for a long time that turned out to be wrong?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · past · solo · story · faith, identity · beliefs, change
- What's an opinion you hold that most of your friends don't?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship, identity · opinions
- When did you last change your mind about something that mattered?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · change, beliefs
- What did your parents get right?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · past · relational · verdict · family · family
- What's a compliment you got that you still think about?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · people, self
- What's the most useful thing anyone has ever told you?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 2 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · experience · past · relational · fact · work, identity · advice
- What do you do that you suspect is unusual?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · process · present · solo · fact · identity, body · habits, self
- What have you quit, and were you right to?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · verdict · failure, work · change, work
- What kind of person do you find hard to be around?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · people, opinions
- What's a rule you live by that you've never said out loud?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · priority · present · solo · verdict · identity · values
- What are you working on in yourself right now?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 1 · exposes 3 · revealed 1 · process · present · solo · fact · identity, failure · self, growth
- What do you envy in other people?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity, failure · self, envy
- What have you been avoiding?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · fact · work, failure · avoidance
- When did you last cry, and what was it actually about?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality, failure · emotion
- What's a fear you have that sounds silly when you say it?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · affect · present · solo · fact · identity · fear
- What do you wish you'd said to someone?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · regret, people
- Which part of your life would you not want your younger self to see?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 2 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · present · solo · story · failure, identity · regret, self
- What do you need more of that you have trouble asking for?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · priority · present · relational · verdict · identity · needs
- What would you do differently if nobody would judge you for it?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity, sex · freedom, self
- What have you forgiven someone for that you're not sure you should have?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship, family · forgiveness, people
- Is there a belief that's useful to hold and false?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 1 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · faith, identity · beliefs, philosophy
- What do you think happens when we die, and does it change how you live?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · future · solo · verdict · mortality, faith · mortality, meaning
- What would you want people to say about you when you're not in the room?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · priority · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · identity, legacy
- What's the thing you've never told anyone, or the closest thing to it you can say?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 2 · escape 2 · specific 1 · exposes 5 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · secrets
- What do you think I've got wrong about you so far?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · us, identity
- What do you hope is true?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 1 · exposes 2 · revealed 1 · affect · future · solo · feeling · faith, mortality · hope, meaning
- If you had one phone call left, who would you call, and what would you say?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship, family · mortality, people
- What's the loneliest you've ever been?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · loneliness
- If you knew you had five years left, what would you stop doing tomorrow?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · future · solo · verdict · mortality, work · mortality, priorities
- What do you think you're for?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity, work · meaning, identity
- What did you give up on that you've never told anyone about?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · dreams, loss
- Have you ever felt relief when you were supposed to feel sad?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, mortality, failure · grief, honesty
- What do you need from me that you've never asked for?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · priority · present · relational · feeling · friendship · us, needs
- What would have to happen for you to feel your life was wasted?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · position · future · solo · verdict · failure, mortality, work · meaning, fear
- Who would be hardest to lose, and does that person know?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality, family, friendship · love, loss
- What have you wanted to ask me but decided against?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · present · relational · verdict · friendship · us, candor
- What question are you hoping I never ask you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · failure, identity · fear, secrets
- What are you currently pretending not to know?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · fact · failure, family, work · truth, denial
- What are you pretending to be fine about?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · present · solo · feeling · failure, identity · denial, honesty
- What do you do when you're hurt that you're not proud of?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · story · failure, identity · conflict, habits
- Who did you fail when they needed you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship, family · guilt, loyalty
- What would have to change for you to feel like you'd done enough?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 2 · priority · future · solo · verdict · work, failure, identity · ambition, enough
- What would you want to be doing on your last ordinary day?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · future · solo · story · mortality, home · mortality, meaning
- Has anyone ever loved you more than you loved them?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · love, imbalance
- Who did you stop speaking to, and do you regret it?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family · estrangement, regret
- When did you first understand that your parents were afraid of something?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, childhood
- When you imagine being old, who's sitting next to you?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship · future, companionship
- What makes you crueler than you want to be?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · process · present · relational · feeling · failure, identity · anger, character
- When did you realise someone couldn't give you what you needed?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship · disappointment, relationships
- What have you forgiven without ever getting an apology?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship, family · forgiveness, hurt
- When did you stop believing an adult would come and fix things?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · family, identity · childhood, disillusionment
- How long do you think we will know each other?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · position · future · relational · verdict · friendship · meta, future
- What do you blame your parents for that they will never know?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · family, failure · family, resentment
- Which stranger has stuck in your head?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · strangers, memory
- What were you wrong about the first time you met someone here?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · past · relational · verdict · friendship · first impressions
- What argument do you keep having with the same person?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · story · friendship, family · conflict, relationships
- What did your family teach you about money that you're still undoing?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · story · family, money · family, money
- What kind of tired are you these days?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · affect · present · solo · verdict · work, body · exhaustion, state
- Who have you failed, and do they know it?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · failure, friendship · regret, guilt
- Is there someone you still love who doesn't know?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · present · relational · verdict · sex, friendship · love, secrets
- What death changed you most?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, family · mortality, grief
- What's the worst thing you've done to someone who trusted you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · guilt, betrayal
- When did you realize an adult had no idea what they were doing?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, work · adulthood, childhood
- What do you miss about a time you would never go back to?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · affect · past · solo · feeling · identity · nostalgia, change
- When have you felt closest to me?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · closeness, us
- Which smell takes you straight back somewhere?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · fact · home · memory, senses
- Where would you go back to, knowing it won't be the same?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · past · solo · verdict · home, mortality · travel, memory
- What do you do that you'd be embarrassed to have filmed?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · present · solo · verdict · body, identity · habits, humour
- Who were you at sixteen?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · youth, identity
- What's the best argument you've ever lost?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · conflict, opinion
- Which of your habits came straight from someone else?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · present · relational · fact · identity, family · influence, habits
- What's the last thing that made you angry on someone else's behalf?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · values, anger
- What decision are you still defending years later?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · verdict · failure, identity · regret, choices
- What do you think I'd be shocked to learn about you?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · present · relational · fact · identity · secrets, us
- Who would you most hate to disappoint?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, friendship · approval, loyalty
- What about getting older are you least prepared for?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · future · solo · verdict · body, mortality · aging, fear
- What do you do on a day with nothing in it?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · process · present · solo · story · home · time, rest
- What do you spend money on that other people think is wasteful?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · fact · money · money, habits
- What's a job you've had that changed how you treat strangers?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work, empathy
- What did you think adults knew that it turns out nobody knows?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · growing up
- What's a phase you went through that you're glad ended?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · past, identity
- What have you owned far longer than you expected?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · home · possessions, history
- When did a stranger last make you laugh?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · story · strangers, humor
- What piece of old technology do you miss despite it being worse?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · past · solo · verdict · technology, nostalgia
- What did your first bad boss teach you?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work, lessons
- Who changed your taste in music?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, identity · music, influence
- What smell instantly takes you back to being a kid?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · fact · family, home · memory, childhood, senses
- What job would you be terrible at but love doing?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · work · career, imagination, work
- What is your most boring memory that you can't forget?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · memory, past, childhood
- When did you stay somewhere longer than you should have?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · leaving, regret
- What would make your life feel wasted?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · priority · future · solo · verdict · mortality, failure, identity · meaning, purpose
- What would you trust me with that you would not trust most people with?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship · trust, us
- When did you realize your parents were just people?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family · parents, childhood, maturity
- Who did you trust that you shouldn't have?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · trust, betrayal, past
- Who are you never going to forgive?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · failure, friendship, family · forgiveness, grudges
- What is the cruelest thing you have ever said to someone?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · cruelty, guilt, anger
- How do you want to die?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · solo · verdict · mortality · mortality, death
- When do you feel most ashamed of who you are?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 2 · exposes 5 · revealed 3 · affect · present · solo · feeling · failure, identity · shame, self
- What makes you laugh when you're alone?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · present · solo · story · identity · humour
- Which shop or building from your childhood is gone now?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · fact · home · nostalgia, place
- Which teacher do you still think about, good or bad?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · school, formative
- When did you last feel like a fraud?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work, failure, identity · doubt, identity
- What food do you associate with being looked after?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, home, body · food, care
- What's the best money you've spent in the last year?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · money · money, taste
- What song do you play when nobody else is choosing?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · fact · identity · music
- Which local place would you hate to see disappear?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · home · local, places
- What was your worst summer job?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · work · work, childhood, stories
- When did you last break someone's heart?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · love, pain
- What apology are you still owed?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · verdict · failure, friendship, family · forgiveness, hurt
- When do you feel loneliest around other people?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · feeling · identity, friendship · loneliness, belonging
- When did you learn not to trust your own judgment?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · trust, doubt
- What did success fail to fix for you?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · past · solo · verdict · work, identity · success, expectations
- What are you scared might never happen for you?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · future · solo · verdict · failure, identity · future, fear
- Which goodbye still feels unfinished?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, friendship · grief, farewell
- What do you argue about most often in your head?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · solo · verdict · identity · thoughts, conflict, opinions
- Who did you forgive but still don't trust?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · story · friendship, family · relationships, trust, past
- Who do you want sitting next to you on your deathbed?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, family, friendship · mortality, connection
- When did you come closest to giving up entirely?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · despair, resilience
- What do you think is going to kill you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · future · solo · verdict · mortality, body · mortality, fear
- What did you lose that you still haven't replaced?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · present · solo · story · home, identity · loss, grief
- What age do you feel in your head?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · affect · present · solo · fact · identity · identity, aging, self
- Who do you call when you get good news?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family · relationships, joy, family
- What do you judge other people for that you do yourself?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · judgment, hypocrisy, habits
- What compliment do you get most, and do you believe it?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · self-image
- What are you slightly too competitive about?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · verdict · identity · competition
- What do you notice about people that other people miss?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · process · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · observation
- What's the worst advice you ever followed?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · advice, mistakes
- What board game do you take way too seriously?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · fact · identity · games, hobbies, personality
- Where did you go that felt like another planet?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · home · travel, experience, places
- What do you eat when you are home alone?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · fact · home, body · food, habits, privacy
- What are you looking forward to that nobody else cares about?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · future · solo · verdict · identity · anticipation, quirks, hobbies
- Which small superstition do you still follow?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · process · present · solo · fact · faith · superstition
- What do you always notice first in someone's house?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · process · present · relational · fact · home · observation
- What would break us?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · future · relational · verdict · failure, friendship · us, endings
- When have I made you feel alone?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · us, loneliness
- What would make you walk away from me?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · future · relational · verdict · failure, friendship · us, limits
- When have you trusted me least?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · us, trust
- Where do you think I am lying to myself?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity, failure · us, honesty
- Who do you wish had fought harder to keep you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · past · relational · story · family, friendship · love, abandonment
- What have I said that you're still carrying around?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · us, words
- Who have you replaced?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · verdict · friendship, identity · love, loss
- What did you think was normal at home until you saw a friend's house?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, home · family, childhood
- Whose posts do you always read but never like?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · verdict · friendship, identity · internet, habits
- What's in your bag right now that would surprise me?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · present · solo · fact · home · objects, curiosity
- What did you get in trouble for at school?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · school, childhood
- Who's the funniest person you've met in real life?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · people, humour
- What are you bad at but keep doing anyway?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · story · failure, identity · hobbies, habits
- What was the last Wikipedia page you read all the way through?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 5 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · identity · internet, reading
- How did you get your oldest scar?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body · bodies, injuries
- What do you know about the people who live next door?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · present · relational · story · home · neighbors, home
- Who were you before the thing that changed you?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · identity, mortality · identity, change
- What did your bedroom look like when you were fifteen?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · home, identity · childhood, home
- Who in your family are you afraid of turning into?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · family · family, identity
- What can't you afford that you pretend not to want?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money · money, pride
- Who did you leave behind when your life got better?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · success, guilt, past
- What conversation have you overheard that you still think about?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · friendship, identity · strangers, memory
- What would you be doing if you'd stayed where you grew up?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · work, home · home, paths
- What did you pretend to understand for far too long?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, work · confusion, pretending
- What's the strangest job anyone in your family has had?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · story · work, family · family, work
- When did money make you do something you didn't respect?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · money, failure · money, values
- Who has the life you thought you were going to have?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · failure, identity · envy, expectations, comparison
- What do you resent being good at?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · position · present · solo · verdict · work, identity · talent, resentment
- What have you faked being good at?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work, identity · work, pretending
- Why did you quit the thing you were best at?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, work, identity · skills, quitting
- What awful gift did you have to pretend to love?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship · gifts, awkward
- When did dumb luck save you?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · luck, experiences
- What will whoever empties your house find most confusing?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · future · solo · fact · home, mortality · death, possessions
- When did you choose not to know something you could have found out?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, sex, friendship · avoidance, truth
- When did you know a relationship was over before it ended?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · relationships, endings
- What do you do at three in the morning when sleep won't come?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · solo · story · body, home · sleep, night
- What expensive thing did you break by accident?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · money, failure · accidents, objects
- Whose old insult still echoes in your head?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · past · relational · story · failure, identity · memory, grudges
- Who first treated you like an adult?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, identity · growing up, people
- Who taught you to drive, and how did that go?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 5 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship · driving, learning
- Who took the blame for something you did?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · guilt, blame
- What's the strangest thing you've been paid to do?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work, money · work, stories
- What did you borrow from someone and never give back?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · objects, borrowing
- When did you first notice money changing how people behaved?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · money · money, people
- When did you realize you cared about status?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, money, work · status, identity
- What did you learn to keep quiet about at home?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, home · family, secrecy
- What's the pettiest reason you've gone off someone?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · people, judgement
- What was your first email address trying to say about you?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · internet, youth
- Who taught you when not to be honest?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship · honesty, advice
- When did you let someone take the blame for you?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship, work · blame, cowardice
- When did you realize you were ashamed of someone you loved?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship · love, shame
- Who paid the price for your ambition?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · work, failure · ambition, regret
- Who saw you at your worst and stayed?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · loyalty, love
- Whose life do you check up on when yours feels thin?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · comparison, envy
- How did your family talk about money when you were growing up?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · process · past · relational · story · family, money · family, money
- When has being polite got you into trouble?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · manners, conflict
- When did you realize you were not as talented as you thought?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity, work · ambition, limits
- Which local rumor did you grow up believing?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · home, faith · rumors, hometown
- Whose bad luck made you feel better?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · envy, shame
- What did you learn to laugh about so nobody would pity you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · shame, humor
- If you died tomorrow, what mess would you leave behind?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · solo · fact · mortality, failure, home · mortality, regrets, chaos
- When did someone see straight through you?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · exposure, honesty
- Who could ruin you with what they know?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · failure, friendship · secrets, power
- What seemed luxurious when you were growing up that seems ordinary now?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · money, home · childhood, luxury
- What is the oddest thing a neighbor has done?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · story · home · neighbors, stories
- When have you enjoyed seeing someone fail?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · failure, shame
- What have you rescued from someone else's rubbish?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · money, home · objects, thrift
- What have you eaten because refusing felt rude?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · body, family, friendship · food, manners
- What's the worst haircut you've ever had?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body · appearance, story
- What did you do for cash as a teenager?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work, money · money, youth
- What travel mistake became a good story?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · travel, mistakes
- What piece of clothing did you ruin almost immediately?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, money · clothing, mistakes
- What did travelling ruin for you?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · verdict · home · travel, perspective
- What are you an expert in that nobody ever asks you about?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · fact · identity, work · knowledge, interests
- Which film did you see far too young?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · family · film, childhood
- Which everyday word did you pronounce wrong for years?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · identity, failure · words, childhood
- What do you hide when people come over?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · home, identity · judgment, privacy
- Who did you drag down with you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · regret, influence
- What happened on your most chaotic morning?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · home, work · mornings, chaos
- When did you realize someone you loved was dangerous?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, mortality · love, danger
- How did you get your most recent bruise?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · body · injuries, memory
- When have you mistaken being wanted for being loved?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, identity · love, desire
- What do you keep from the person closest to you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · story · identity, family · secrets, intimacy
- Whose forgiveness have you stopped trying to get?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship, family · forgiveness, guilt, givingup
- What damage did you cause that you can never fix?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · guilt, mistakes, past
- What have you survived that you almost never mention?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality, failure, body · survival, secrets
- When has being useful been easier than being close?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family, identity · closeness, worth
- Whose body have you sat beside after they died?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality · death, grief
- Whose pain have you enjoyed?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, mortality · guilt, sadism
- What has kept you alive without making you happy?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · experience · present · solo · verdict · mortality, identity · survival, happiness
- What do I do that you just put up with?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · friendship · us, habits, patience
- What do you think I am lying to myself about?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · us, truth, blindspots
- What do you think I envy about you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship, identity · us, envy, perception
- Who took the most from you?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship, failure · loss, past, damage
- What do you think I need but would hate being offered?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family · us, care
- What do you believe about love that you hope is false?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · sex, faith · love, beliefs, fear
- Who would you defend even knowing they were in the wrong?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family · loyalty, values
- What's the closest you've come to dying?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality, body · mortality, fear
- What did you do just for the money?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work, money · money, values
- What do we pretend to agree on?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship · relationship, honesty
- Who made ambition look unattractive to you?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work · ambition, influence
- What's the longest walk you've taken on purpose?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body · walking, outdoors
- When did someone's kindness embarrass you?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · kindness, pride
- What criticism about you turned out to be true?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · criticism, self-image
- What makes you difficult to live with?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · home, identity · relationships, habits, flaws
- What would you relive even knowing how it ends?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, friendship · memory, loss
- What did being broke teach you?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · money · money, lessons
- What would you want burned before anyone found it?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · fact · identity, mortality · secrets, death
- How do you punish people when you are angry with them?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · process · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family · anger, conflict, habits
- Which friendship are you letting die without saying so?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · story · friendship · friendship, avoidance
- What have you done that you'd do again, knowing the damage it caused?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, mortality · regret, harm
- What’s the most dramatic entrance you’ve made by accident?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · entrances, accidents
- When did money buy your silence?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · money, work · money, silence
- What's the best thing you've ever found on the street?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · home · luck, objects
- Which rule do you enjoy breaking when nobody gets hurt?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · identity · rules, habits
- Which minor celebrity encounter do you still tell people about?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · celebrities, encounters
- Who do you act differently around without meaning to?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · social, behavior, relationships
- What did you give up for someone else that they never knew about?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family · sacrifice, secrets, relationships
- Who in your family do you love out of duty rather than warmth?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family · family, duty
- Who calls you a nickname nobody else uses?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · present · relational · story · family, friendship · names, relationships
- Who do you let interrupt you?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship, work, family · conversation, relationships
- What made you feel grown up before you were?Inquisitives · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · family, identity · growing up
- What is the strangest sentence you have overheard?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · strangers, memory
- What are you losing your nerve for?Inquisitives · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · present · solo · verdict · identity, failure · aging, courage
- What's the strangest thing you've eaten and gone back for?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · body · food
- When did you last dress for the wrong occasion?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · body, failure · clothes, mistakes
- Who got the best gift you ever gave?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, family · gifts, giving
- What have you eaten just to be polite?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · home · food, manners
- When did a shortcut take longer?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · work, failure · mistakes, travel
- What do you do in the first ten minutes after you get home?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · present · solo · fact · home, body · habits, home
- What do you talk about with a barber or a taxi driver?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · story · identity · strangers, talk
- What did your family do on Sundays?Inquisitives · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · fact · family, faith, home · family, traditions
- When do you find yourself performing for me?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · process · present · relational · verdict · identity · pretense, us
- Who do you hope dies before you do?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, family, friendship · mortality, grief, family
- If I outlive you, what do you want me to keep?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · fact · mortality, home · death, memory
- What do we lie to each other about?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · fact · friendship · relationship, deception
- What am I to you, said plainly?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship · us, love
- Whose pain have you made about yourself?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship, family · pain, selfishness
- What have you kept from me to spare me?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · us, secrets
- Meeting me for the first time now, would you pick me?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship, identity · us, doubt
- What would you want to hear before you die?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, faith · death, love
- When have you felt jealous of me?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · us, jealousy
- What memory do you try hardest to push away?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, mortality · memory, trauma
- What's my worst quality?Inquisitives · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · friendship · us, honesty
- The friend who's done one job since school: do you envy them, or would their life kill you?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · work, identity · novelty vs mastery, work, envy
- Did you leave your last job with the next one signed, or did you just go?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · solo · story · work · order vs improvisation, work, money
- Someone you had a bad feeling about and nothing to back it up with: did you work with them anyway?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · logic vs intuition, work, people
- Where did you spend last Christmas, and who had to accept you weren't coming to theirs?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family, friendship, home · autonomy vs belonging, family, holidays
- Do you take the big lie to the grave, or leave it on a note for them to find?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, failure, family · control vs surrender, secrets, truth
- When the doctor asked how much you drink, did you give the real number or round it down?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · body, failure · privacy vs openness, health, honesty
- Which has cost you more: biting your tongue, or saying exactly what you thought?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, identity · authenticity vs adaptation, regret, honesty
- Who do you admire more: the sellout who bought their mother a house, or the purist who stayed broke?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · money, family, work · authenticity vs adaptation, money, principles
- Who did you cut off because they knew too much about how you used to live?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, identity · privacy vs openness, past, friendship
- What paid for your current life: the jobs you turned down, or the friends you stopped calling?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · work, friendship, failure · impact vs intimacy, regret, sacrifice
- The friend still chasing it with no money in the bank: envy or pity?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship, money, failure · ambition vs stability, friends, envy
- What got you out of your last job: the math of a new offer, or dreading the commute?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work, failure · logic vs intuition, career, work
- Who got a handshake when you left, instead of the riot act?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · truth vs harmony, endings, restraint
- Which apology will you have to make at the end: sorry I wasn't around, or sorry I didn't amount to more?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · work, failure, family · passion vs duty, regret, confession
- When a friend last walked you through their new venture, did you point at the hole or tell them to go?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, work · optimism vs realism, friends, work
- The busy years took something. Which went first, the body or the friends?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · body, friendship, work · ambition vs stability, health, friends
- Someone's father says something ugly at dinner. Last time, did you argue or pass the potatoes?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family · authenticity vs adaptation, family, conflict
- What would the job have to pay for you to miss your father's last spring?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, family, money, mortality · output vs presence, money, parents
- When you booked your last birthday dinner, did you reserve seats for everyone invited, or just the reliable ones?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · optimism vs realism, friendships, expectations
- If you lost the job tomorrow, do you sign another lease here or pack the car?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · verdict · home, work · roots vs horizon, stability, risk
- Have you kept the accent, or trained yourself to sound like you're from nowhere?Leanings · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · verdict · identity, home · roots vs horizon, identity, reinvention
- The last person who told you to be honest with them: were you?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, identity · truth vs harmony, honesty, record
- Who do you call unambitious behind their back and envy on Sunday nights?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · fact · work, friendship · excellence vs contentment, envy
- You missed something at home to finish a piece of work. Would you miss it again?Leanings · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · work, home, failure · impact vs intimacy, work
- Last time you cooked for someone, was it the dish you can do blind or one you'd never made?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · home · novelty vs mastery, cooking, habit
- Last time you cooked for a crowd, did you serve your best dish or gamble the meal on a new one?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · past · relational · story · home, failure · novelty vs mastery, food
- Last thing you cooked for other people: did you weigh anything?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 1 · revealed 5 · process · past · relational · verdict · home · logic vs intuition, cooking
- When you moved in, did you pay movers or buy your mates pizza and borrow a van?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · money, friendship, home · money vs time, moving, friends
- What's in your cupboard: one sport's kit worn through, or five hobbies barely used?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 5 · experience · present · solo · fact · identity, home · depth vs breadth, hobbies, money
- A company owes you forty quid by mistake. Afternoon on hold, or let them keep it?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money · money vs time, admin, patience
- Your dinner money: does it go to a regular table at one joint, or fifty places you haven't tried?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money, home · depth vs breadth, food, routines
- The morphine takes the pain and the last clear conversation with it. Do you take it?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, body · control vs surrender, dying, pain
- Who do you travel with, the one with the spreadsheet or the one who books the flight the night before?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · order vs improvisation, travel, friends
- Your last free evening with friends: one person until closing or a quick drink with half the town?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · depth vs breadth, friends, time
- What happened to the box your television came in: straight to the recycling, or into the attic just in case?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · verdict · home · optimism vs realism, possessions, habits
- The last gift you overspent on: had they asked for it, or did you spot it and buy it?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · money, friendship · logic vs intuition, gifts
- On your last trip, did you follow the itinerary or walk until you got hungry?Leanings · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · process · past · solo · verdict · identity · logic vs intuition, travel, habits
- Are you going to stay awake to give the last instructions, or take the painkillers and let them guess?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, body · control vs surrender, death, pain
- One old argument gets your final hour. Do you settle it or let the other person keep their ending?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship, failure · control vs surrender, conflict, death
- What did keeping a family story in the family cost you?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, failure · privacy vs openness, family
- Will you pack your own bags for the hospice, or make them carry you out of the house?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, body, home · control vs surrender, pride, illness
- Who signs for you at the end, the one who'll do exactly as asked or the one who'll fight to keep you breathing?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship, family · control vs surrender, dying, family
- Who decides what happens to your body, you on a piece of paper or the people left in the room?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, body, family · control vs surrender, legacy, family
- Of the deaths you've sat through, whose would you take for yourself?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality · control vs surrender, death, witness
- One call left in you: the person you stood up for the work, or the one who did the work beside you?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, work, friendship · passion vs duty, death
- A funeral back home or a week of work that can't move: which one have you already picked?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · priority · past · relational · story · mortality, work, family · roots vs horizon, family, work
- If your last week turns painful, do you stay awake for it or take enough medicine to lose the thread?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · solo · verdict · mortality, body · control vs surrender, pain, death
- Your last healthy summer has room for one: care for your sick brother or take the trip you postponed for thirty years?Leanings · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · family, mortality · passion vs duty, care, travel
- Never have I ever been relieved when a friend's good news fell through.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · jealousy, friendship
- Never have I ever skipped a funeral I should have gone to.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, failure · grief, regret
- Never have I ever told a parent I hated them.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, anger
- Never have I ever kept someone around because I was scared of being alone.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · loneliness, relationships
- Never have I ever begged someone to take me back.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · heartbreak, pride
- Never have I ever said I love you and not meant it.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · love, honesty
- Never have I ever kept a secret that damaged someone I care about.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · secrets, guilt
- Never have I ever told someone I loved them mid-sex and meant it.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · love, sex
- Never have I ever cried straight after sex.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, body · sex, emotion
- Never have I ever contacted an ex while hiding it from my partner.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · exes, secrecy
- Never have I ever snooped through a partner's messages looking for a reason to leave.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · snooping, breakups
- Never have I ever kept a secret that could ruin someone's life.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · secrets, power
- Never have I ever downplayed a partner's success because it made me jealous.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, work · jealousy, relationships
- Never have I ever practised a conversation in the shower before having it.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · identity · rehearsing, habits
- Never have I ever let a stranger think I was someone else.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · mistakenidentity
- Never have I ever had a crush on a friend's partner.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · crushes, friends
- Never have I ever stayed in a relationship months after I knew it was over.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · relationships, regret
- Never have I ever let a friend take the blame for something I did.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · friendship, guilt
- Never have I ever pretended to be happy for someone at their wedding.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · jealousy, weddings
- Never have I ever let a friendship die because I stopped replying.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · friendship, distance
- Never have I ever quit something because I was afraid of being bad at it.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, identity · fear, regret
- Never have I ever missed someone I told everyone I was over.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · feeling · failure · heartbreak, denial
- Never have I ever felt embarrassed by where I come from.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity, family, home · class, shame
- Never have I ever cancelled on a friend because I couldn't face being seen.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · body, friendship · mentalhealth, friendship
- Never have I ever hoped a friend's relationship would end.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · jealousy, friendship
- Never have I ever slept with someone to get over someone else.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · sex, heartbreak
- Never have I ever faked an orgasm to end things faster.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, body · sex, honesty
- Never have I ever stayed in a relationship purely for the sex.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · relationships, sex
- Never have I ever kissed a friend and pretended the next morning it never happened.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · friendship, romance
- Never have I ever asked a partner for something in bed and instantly regretted asking.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · desire, shame
- Never have I ever gone through a partner's phone while they slept.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · trust, jealousy
- Never have I ever stayed friends with an ex I still wanted.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · exes, longing
- Never have I ever been dumped while naked.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · body, sex, failure · breakups, humiliation
- Never have I ever said someone else's name in bed.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · sex, mistake
- Never have I ever fallen for someone who wanted to keep things casual.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · feelings, casual
- Never have I ever slept with a friend's ex.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship, failure · sex, friendship, taboo
- Never have I ever stopped midway through sex because it was too awkward.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, body · sex, awkward, regret
- Never have I ever kissed someone at a wedding I wasn't invited to.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · weddings, crushes
- Never have I ever taken credit at work for something I didn't do.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, credit
- Never have I ever sent a naked photo to the wrong person.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, body, failure · sexting, mistake
- Never have I ever flown to another country for one person.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · money · romance, distance
- Never have I ever proposed something in bed I'd only ever read about.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · sex, curiosity
- Never have I ever had a one-night stand turn into years.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · hookup, relationships
- Never have I ever pretended to have seen a film everyone was talking about.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, failure · films, bluffing
- Never have I ever laughed at a joke I did not understand.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · fact · identity · humour, pretending
- Never have I ever re-read my own message after sending it, just to admire it.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · texting, vanity
- Never have I ever left a shop without buying anything because a staff member spoke to me.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · shopping, awkward
- Never have I ever googled something during an argument to prove I was right.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · arguments, google
- Never have I ever pretended to be busy when I saw someone I knew approaching.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · avoidance, social
- Never have I ever binned a plant I promised to keep alive.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · home, failure · plants, failure
- Never have I ever called in sick to spend the day doing nothing.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · work · work, lies
- Never have I ever read someone's messages over their shoulder on a train.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · nosy, strangers
- Never have I ever taken the last of something and blamed someone else.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, family · household, blame
- Never have I ever laughed at a joke I found offensive to keep the peace.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, failure · social, honesty
- Never have I ever flirted with someone to get better service.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · flirting, favours
- Never have I ever looked up an ex before a date with someone new.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · dating, exes
- Never have I ever kept money I found on the floor of a friend's car.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · money, friendship, failure · money, honesty
- Never have I ever climbed into the wrong car.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · cars, confusion
- Never have I ever practised a casual greeting before answering the phone.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · phone, social
- Never have I ever pretended to forget my wallet when it was my round.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · money, friendship, failure · money, friends
- Never have I ever pretended to be asleep to avoid helping someone.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · home · avoidance, home
- Never have I ever given someone the wrong number on purpose.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · dating, rejection
- Never have I ever eaten food with someone else's name on it.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work, home · food, roommates
- Never have I ever kept using an ex's streaming account.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · money · exes, television
- Never have I ever taken credit for a joke I heard elsewhere.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · humour, credit
- Never have I ever left a shop quickly because I thought I looked suspicious.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · shopping, anxiety
- Never have I ever stalked the ex of someone I just started dating.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, identity · dating, snooping, socialmedia
- Never have I ever wanted someone in this room.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · verdict · sex · attraction, present
- Never have I ever used a friend's secret to win an argument.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · friendship, betrayal
- Never have I ever ignored a call from someone who needed me.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · guilt, support
- Never have I ever made a promise I already knew I would break.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · promises, dishonesty
- Never have I ever lied to a partner about my number.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · sex, lying
- Never have I ever woken up beside someone and regretted staying.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · regret, hookups
- Never have I ever slept with an ex just because I was bored.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · exes, sex, boredom
- Never have I ever invented a whole excuse to leave a date early.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · dating, excuses
- Never have I ever been caught mid-hookup by someone who lived there.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, home · sex, embarrassment
- Never have I ever slept with an ex after swearing it was over.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · exes, breakups
- Never have I ever said the wrong name during sex.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · sex, mistakes
- Never have I ever hidden the evidence after breaking something in someone else's house.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · home, failure · mischief, accidents, secrets
- Never have I ever snooped through a bathroom cabinet at someone's house.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · home · nosy, houses
- Never have I ever forgotten someone's name mid-introduction.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · names, social
- Never have I ever pretended to have read a book in a conversation.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · books, bluffing
- Never have I ever made up a dietary restriction to avoid a meal.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · body · food, excuses
- Never have I ever laughed at the wrong moment in a serious meeting.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, laughing
- Never have I ever got off a bus a stop early to avoid talking to someone.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · transport, avoidance
- Never have I ever sent a kissing face emoji to my boss.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, accidents
- Never have I ever told a hairdresser I loved it and hated it.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · body · hair, fib
- Never have I ever introduced myself to someone I had already met.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · introductions, memory
- Never have I ever hidden a pile of washing in the oven before guests arrived.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · home · home, guests
- Never have I ever let my parents believe I was doing better than I was.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family, failure · family, shame
- Never have I ever left a hospital visit early because I couldn't handle it.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, family, failure · illness, guilt
- Never have I ever stopped visiting a grandparent because it got too hard.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family, mortality, failure · family, regret
- Never have I ever moved somewhere new to get away from one person.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · home, failure · escape, love
- Never have I ever avoided visiting a relative before they died.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, family, failure · family, regret
- Never have I ever let someone apologise for something that was my fault.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · guilt, conflict
- Never have I ever avoided a friend after someone in their family died.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, mortality, failure · grief, avoidance
- Never have I ever told the same lie so long that I believed it.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · identity, failure · honesty, self
- Never have I ever given up on something I still tell people I'm doing.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · story · identity, failure, work · ambition, pretending
- Never have I ever loved someone more than they loved me and stayed anyway.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, sex · love, heartbreak
- Never have I ever texted someone else while lying next to a partner.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · cheating, phones
- Never have I ever told a partner a fantasy involving someone we both knew.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · fantasy, honesty
- Never have I ever tried something in bed only to keep someone interested.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, body · sex, insecurity
- Never have I ever wanted a friend's partner for years and said nothing.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, sex · crush, friends
- Never have I ever told a friend I loved them and lost the friendship.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · confession, friends
- Never have I ever hidden alcohol from the people I live with.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · home, failure, body · habits, shame
- Never have I ever ended a friendship because their life was going better than mine.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · friendship, envy
- Never have I ever ended a relationship the morning after our best sex.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · breakup, sex
- Never have I ever fallen asleep beside someone while thinking about somebody else.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · longing, bed
- Never have I ever kissed someone during our breakup conversation.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · breakup, kissing
- Never have I ever read old love letters in bed beside someone new.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · letters, longing
- Never have I ever had sex just to end an argument.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · sex, conflict
- Never have I ever kept a jumper someone left at my place.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, home · borrowing, clothes
- Never have I ever cried a bit on purpose to get out of trouble.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · manipulation, tears
- Never have I ever stretched the truth on my CV and got the job.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 5 · experience · past · solo · story · work, failure · work, lies
- Never have I ever hidden in the car for a nap during a family gathering.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 5 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, escape
- Never have I ever told someone I loved their gift and binned it that week.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · gifts, lies
- Never have I ever searched my own name in a colleague's email inbox.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, snooping
- Never have I ever worn something to an event and returned it the next day.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · money · shopping, clothes
- Never have I ever said my phone died when I was just ignoring someone.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · phones, avoidance
- Never have I ever told a hairdresser I loved it and fixed it at home.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · body · hair, politeness
- Never have I ever forged a parent's signature on a school note.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, failure · school, lies
- Never have I ever fallen asleep in the cinema and woken myself up by snoring.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · body · sleep, public
- Never have I ever stepped on a squeaky toy during a serious conversation.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · awkward, interruption
- Never have I ever answered the phone in a fake professional voice.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work, identity · phone, persona
- Never have I ever greeted a dog while ignoring its owner.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · fact · animals, social
- Never have I ever mispronounced a word because I had only ever read it.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · speaking, language
- Never have I ever liked an old post while looking through someone’s profile.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · social media, awkward
- Never have I ever unmuted myself halfway through saying something about the meeting.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, video calls
- Never have I ever sat in the wrong seat at the cinema and refused to move.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · cinema, stubborn
- Never have I ever let a rumour about me spread because I liked it.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, friendship · reputation, gossip
- Never have I ever hit the lift close button while making eye contact with someone.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · public, rudeness
- Never have I ever liked a three-year-old photo on someone's social media.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · internet, awkward
- Never have I ever said goodbye to someone and then walked away in the same direction.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · social, walking
- Never have I ever scrolled back and forth on my home screen to look busy.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · verdict · identity · phone, public
- Never have I ever ordered the dish I could pronounce instead of the one I wanted.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · food, restaurants
- Never have I ever fallen over while leaning back in a chair.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · body · clumsiness, furniture
- Never have I ever frozen when asked for my own phone number.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · fact · memory, panic
- Never have I ever walked into a glass wall.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · body · clumsy, public
- Never have I ever tripped on a flat pavement and turned it into a jog.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · body · clumsy, street
- Never have I ever sung the wrong words to a song in front of people.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · fact · music, singing
- Never have I ever comforted someone while planning how to leave them.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · breakups
- Never have I ever watched a partner sleep knowing I was going to leave them.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · breakups, love
- Never have I ever left a long relationship over one night with someone else.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · cheating, breakups
- Never have I ever slept with an ex while they were packing to move out.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · exes, breakups, sex
- Never have I ever watched someone look for something I had already thrown in the bin.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, home · secrets, betrayal, household
- Never have I ever turned up to a party on the wrong day.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · parties, timing
- Never have I ever felt relief when a partner told me they were leaving.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · feeling · failure · breakup, honesty
- Never have I ever uninvited someone by telling them the event was cancelled.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · socialising, lies, avoidance
- Never have I ever pretended to be asleep when I heard my partner crying.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · relationships, avoidance, cruelty
- Never have I ever left a party by climbing out of a window.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · parties, escape
- Never have I ever missed someone's body more than I missed them.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · verdict · sex, body · desire, exes
- Never have I ever cancelled on someone and gone out with somebody else.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · friends, lies
- Never have I ever tried to make my partner dump me so I would not have to.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, sex · breakups, relationships, cowardice
- Never have I ever accepted money from a parent who could not afford it.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family, money · family, money
- Never have I ever cancelled a flight to spend another night with someone.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, money · travel, romance
- Never have I ever said I love you first and got silence back.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · love, rejection
- Never have I ever sent a corrupted file to buy more time on a deadline.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, lies
- Never have I ever told someone afterward that the sex had been goodbye.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · sex, breakups
- Never have I ever cried at a funeral for reasons nothing to do with the person.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality · grief, secrets
- Never have I ever changed the clock to make someone leave sooner.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · home, friendship · guests, lies
- Never have I ever pretended a hookup meant nothing when it meant everything.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · hookups, feelings
- Never have I ever been the reason someone else's relationship ended.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · affairs, guilt
- Never have I ever acted as a fake landlord reference for a friend.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, money, home · lies, friendship
- Never have I ever gone to work hungover and napped in the toilets.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work · work, hangover
- Never have I ever passed on a secret the second I got home.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · gossip, secrets
- Never have I ever let someone move away without telling them how I felt.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · love, regret
- Never have I ever been glad someone dumped me before I had to do it.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · breakups
- Never have I ever had sex the night of a funeral.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, mortality · grief, sex
- Never have I ever told my friends the version of the story where I was the victim.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · lying, conflict
- Never have I ever booked a hotel room in my own city just to be alone.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · home, family · avoidance, family, exhaustion
- Never have I ever used breakup sex to change someone's mind.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · breakups, sex
- Never have I ever rehearsed a breakup speech I never gave.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · love, cowardice
- Never have I ever spent the night with someone I had rejected for years.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · rejection, romance
- Never have I ever moved in with someone mainly to stop them leaving.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · home, failure · relationships, fear
- Never have I ever felt disappointed when a friend announced they were pregnant.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · past · relational · story · friendship · friendship, jealousy, parenthood
- Never have I ever written my own reference and had someone sign it.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work, lies
- Never have I ever been someone's first knowing I would not stay.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · sex, guilt
- Never have I ever turned up somewhere far too dressed up.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · clothes, parties
- Never have I ever made someone think they remembered an argument wrong to win it.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · arguments, manipulation, guilt
- Never have I ever screened a call from a friend because they were too sad.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · friendship, avoidance
- Never have I ever watched a colleague get fired for something I was also doing.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, cowardice
- Never have I ever kept a parcel that was delivered to the wrong door.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · money, home · neighbours, petty
- Never have I ever accidentally regifted something back to the person who gave it to me.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · gifts, mistakes, social
- Never have I ever used a housemate's toothbrush and put it back.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · fact · home, body · gross, roommates
- Never have I ever used a hotel pool at a hotel I wasn't staying in.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · hotels, mischief
- Never have I ever pretended not to speak the language to end a conversation.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · travel, avoidance
- Never have I ever put personal shopping through as a work expense.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · fact · work, money · work, money
- Never have I ever pretended to understand a menu in another language and pointed randomly.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · travel, food
- Never have I ever bitten into something far too spicy and pretended it was fine.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · body · food, pride
- Never have I ever claimed I was nearly there while still getting dressed.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · lateness, fib
- Never have I ever spilled lunch down my front before something important.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · failure, work · food, work
- Never have I ever eaten a whole meal standing at the fridge.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 5 · experience · past · solo · fact · body, home · food, home
- Never have I ever queued for something without knowing what the queue was for.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · public, confusion
- Never have I ever made eye contact with another driver while singing.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · driving, embarrassment
- Never have I ever danced round the kitchen and been caught doing it.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · experience · past · solo · story · home · dancing, home
- Never have I ever bought a book for the cover and never opened it.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · identity · books, buying
- Never have I ever eaten a crisp I dropped down my own shirt.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · fact · body · food, secret
- Never have I ever jumped at my own reflection in a shop window.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · fact · fright, street
- Never have I ever made a spelling mistake in my own name.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 1 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · identity · typing, mistakes
- Never have I ever dropped a handful of coins while trying to pay.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 1 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · fact · money · shopping, clumsiness
- Never have I ever kept sleeping with someone I didn't like.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · sex, shame
- Never have I ever chosen a job over someone I loved.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · work, failure · work, love
- Never have I ever eaten in my car to put off going inside.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · home · loneliness, home
- Never have I ever let my partner defend me when I knew I was in the wrong.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · relationships, arguments, guilt
- Never have I ever kissed my oldest friend the night before they moved away.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · friends, goodbyes
- Never have I ever made a sex playlist for someone who never came over.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · music, rejection
- Never have I ever decided a friend's new partner was awful within five seconds.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · friendship, verdict
- Never have I ever dropped food on the floor and served it to someone else.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · food, secrets, cooking
- Never have I ever wandered into a party where I knew nobody.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · parties, gatecrashing
- Never have I ever listened to adults talking through a baby monitor.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family · eavesdropping, parenting, snooping
- Never have I ever kissed the person who was meant to set me up with their friend.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · kissing, setup
- Never have I ever thrown away an unopened letter from someone trying to make peace.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · grudges, regret
- Never have I ever kept something a dead relative wanted someone else to have.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, family · family, death
- Never have I ever told a friend's story as if it happened to me.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · identity, friendship · lying, friendship
- Never have I ever stayed in a city I hate for one person.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · home, failure · home, love
- Never have I ever begged someone to stay the night.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · desire, pride
- Never have I ever topped up a bottle of alcohol with water.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · family · drinking, mischief
- Never have I ever mistaken a marriage proposal for a joke.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · proposal, romance
- Never have I ever worked out how long my savings would last if I quit tomorrow.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work, money · money, work, future
- Never have I ever practised my solemn face before a funeral.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality · mortality, mirror
- Never have I ever paused my music to listen to a couple arguing on the train.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · failure · eavesdropping, strangers, public
- Never have I ever pretended not to speak English to avoid a conversation.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · strangers, avoidance
- Never have I ever hooked up with someone I had helped through a breakup.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, friendship · breakup, hookup
- Never have I ever been someone's secret for months.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, identity · affairs, secrecy
- Never have I ever used the exact same romantic speech on two different people.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · romance, dating, lies
- Never have I ever told someone they were becoming like a parent they hated.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, conflict
- Never have I ever stayed with someone just because we shared a lease.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · home, money · relationships, housing, cowardice
- Never have I ever stood still in my own kitchen until the doorbell stopped.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · home · home, avoidance
- Never have I ever ruthlessly cheated at a board game against a small child.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · failure · games, cheating, family
- Never have I ever spent money I didn't have to look like I was fine.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · solo · story · money, failure · money, pride
- Never have I ever been in love with two people at the same time.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · experience · past · relational · story · sex · love
- Never have I ever settled for someone because I thought I could not do better.Never Have I Ever · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, identity, failure · relationships, insecurity
- Never have I ever slept with someone after they said they loved somebody else.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · sex, heartbreak
- Never have I ever kept sleeping with someone after they said they loved me.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · sex, failure · sex, love
- Never have I ever had a whole relationship my family never knew about.Never Have I Ever · Level 4 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · family · secrecy, family
- Never have I ever added my name to a group gift I did not pay for.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · money, friendship · gifts, friends
- Never have I ever sent a screenshot of a chat to the person who wrote it.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · technology, mistakes
- Never have I ever walked out of a party wearing somebody else's coat.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · friendship, mistakes
- Never have I ever thrown away a noisy toy and told the child it broke.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family, home · parenting, lies
- Never have I ever left a video meeting running while I went back to bed.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work, sleep
- Never have I ever booked a meeting room for a nap.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · work · work, sleep
- Never have I ever put a pastry through the self-checkout as a plain croissant.Never Have I Ever · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · money · shopping, theft
- Never have I ever left a meeting with no idea what I had agreed to do.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · work · work, failure
- Never have I ever kept my eyes open while everyone else was praying.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · faith, family · faith, social
- Never have I ever bought condoms with a basket full of decoy groceries.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · sex · sex, shopping
- Never have I ever planned the playlist for my own funeral.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · experience · past · solo · story · mortality · mortality, future
- Never have I ever given myself a pep talk in a public toilet mirror.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · body, alone
- Never have I ever checked my balance while queuing at the bar.Never Have I Ever · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · money · money, drinking
- The Better Life, Plugged InThere's a machine. Lie down in it and you get the life you'd have chosen: the work going well, the person who left still there, your body behaving, your parents proud. It feels exactly like real life from the inside. You won't remember the machine. Your body is looked after. The people you leave behind are told you're fine, and in a sense you are. Would you get in?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 5 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · identity, mortality · happiness, reality, escape
- The Voice That StaysAfter your parent dies, a company offers to build a version of them from their messages, voicemails, photos and emails. It talks like them. It remembers your childhood. It asks how you slept. It's wrong sometimes, in ways that feel exactly right. It costs a small monthly fee, and it never gets tired of you calling. Would you subscribe?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · family, mortality · grief, technology, family
- The Promise You'd Take BackA friend, near the end, made you promise something. Keep the letters sealed. Don't tell their kid who the father was. Sell the house to their brother. You said yes; they died easier for it. A year on you're sure the promise is doing harm to someone living. Nobody but you knows it was ever made. Do you keep it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship · promises, death, secrets
- The TeleporterTravel is instant now. A booth scans every atom of you, destroys the original, and rebuilds an exact copy on Mars a second later. The copy remembers breakfast, misses the same people, has your headache. Millions use it daily and none of them complain. This morning there's a fault: the scanner works, but the original you isn't destroyed. You're standing in the booth, and someone on Mars is answering to your name. Which one of you is you?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity, mortality · identity, death
- The PondYou're walking to work in good clothes. A small child is face down in a shallow pond, drowning. Nobody else is around. Wading in ruins your suit and shoes and makes you two hours late. Obviously you go in. Now: the same money that suit cost could, sent to the right place today, keep a child alive who you'll never meet. What's the actual difference between the two cases?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 5 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, mortality · money, obligation
- The Deathbed PromiseA friend dying of cancer asks you to promise something small but strange: never tell his wife about the year he spent in debt to a man she disliked. You promise. He dies. Two years later his wife is trying to make sense of a gap in their money and their history, and she asks you straight out. Do you keep the promise or tell her?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, mortality, friendship · promises, secrets
- The WindfallYou win £80,000 in a competition you entered alone. Your sister stopped speaking to you four years ago over something she was mostly wrong about. She's now renting a damp flat with two kids and no help coming. You have savings, no dependents, and a plan for a deposit. Do you give her some of it, and how much?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, family · money, family
- The PayslipBy accident you see a spreadsheet with everyone's salary. A colleague who's been there longer than you, does harder work and trained you, is paid £11,000 less. She has no idea. If you tell her, she'll be furious, she may leave, and you'll have to explain how you know. If you say nothing, nothing happens. Do you tell her?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, money · work, fairness
- Seven SeatsA boat holds seven. There are nine of you in the water: you, someone from your family, a stranger who is a doctor, two children you don't know, and four other adults. The sea is cold and the decision has to be made in about a minute. Nobody is going to volunteer. Who do you name to stay in the water?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality, family · family, fairness, survival
- Before You Knew Who You'd BeYou get to redesign the rules about money and family before you're born: how much a parent can pass to a child, what school you're entitled to, who pays for whose care in old age. You write the rules first. Then you're dropped into a random life somewhere in the country you actually live in. Could be the one you have. Could be much worse. What rule would you write that would cost your actual family something?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 5 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · money, family · inheritance, fairness, class
- Name the Other OneSomething went wrong at work and it's traced to you. It wasn't only you; a colleague did the same thing, earlier, and nobody's noticed. Your manager offers a deal in a quiet room: give them the other name and you keep your job with a warning. Stay silent and you're out at the end of the month. Your colleague has a mortgage. So do you. Do you say the name?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, failure · work, betrayal, blame
- The Last ConversationYou get a single five-minute phone call with someone who has passed away. The connection is perfect. They know they are gone. They know you are calling from the present. Who do you call?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 5 · revealed 3 · affect · past · relational · feeling · mortality, family, friendship · grief, closure, family
- The RingA shepherd finds a ring that makes him invisible whenever he turns it. No cameras, no witnesses, no record. He can walk into any house, any bank, any room where people are talking about him. The story says he used it to take a kingdom. What's the first thing you'd do with the ring, honestly?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · story · identity · honesty, temptation
- The NovelYour best friend has spent five years writing a novel. They quit their job and drained their savings to finish it. They finally hand you the manuscript and ask for your honest opinion. You read it over the weekend. The writing is terrible. The plot makes no sense. The book has no chance of ever getting published. What do you say when they ask what you thought of it?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, work · honesty, support
- The Same BoatA wooden boat sits in a harbour. Every year the crew replaces a plank or two as they rot. After forty years, not a single original piece of wood is left. Meanwhile, a collector has been quietly picking the old planks out of the skip and has rebuilt them into a boat of his own, in the same shape, in a shed across town. Which one is the original boat?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · identity, objects
- The ReferenceA friend asks you to be a referee for a job she badly needs. You've worked with her. She's warm, funny, and unreliable in ways that landed on other people. The employer calls and asks the direct question: would you hire her again? What do you say?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, friendship · honesty, friendship
- The Room of SlipsA man sits alone in a sealed room with a huge rulebook. Slips of paper covered in Chinese characters come in through a slot. He looks up each shape in the book, copies out the reply it tells him to, and pushes it back through. Outside, fluent speakers are delighted: the answers are witty and warm. The man doesn't know a word of Chinese. Does anything in that room understand Chinese?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 1 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · work · mind, language
- Mary's Grey RoomMary has spent her whole life in a room with no colour in it. Everything is black, white or grey, including her screens and her skin. But she's the world's leading expert on colour vision. She knows every wavelength, every nerve, every last fact about what happens in a brain when it sees red. One day the door opens and she walks out into a garden of roses. Does Mary learn something new?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · body · mind, experience
- Who StaysA boat is going down. The lifeboat holds seven; there are ten of you. There's no rescue coming for days, so overloading it sinks everyone. The group looks at you to decide: an elderly doctor, a pregnant woman, a strong young man who is panicking, a child, and the rest ordinary adults, including you. How do you decide who gets in?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality · survival, fairness
- Nine Months of Your BodyYou wake up in a hospital wired to a stranger. Overnight, doctors connected your bloodstream to theirs. Their organs have failed; yours will keep them alive. In nine months they'll recover and walk away. Unplug now and they die. You didn't consent, nobody asked, and the person in the next bed is entirely innocent. You'd be in that bed for nine months. Do you unplug?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 5 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · body, mortality · body, consent, obligation
- The Old MessageYou find an old message that proves you seriously wronged someone years ago. They blamed another person and have since built a happy life. Telling the truth may ease your guilt, but it could reopen the whole affair for them. Would you confess now?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · failure, friendship · guilt, honesty, past
- The Empty KidneyA relative needs a kidney. You are a match, and doctors say the risk to you is low but not zero. You love them, though you are not especially close. Nobody can force you to help, but everyone will know that you could have. Would you donate your kidney?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · body, family, mortality · family, body, duty
- The Dream JobYou are offered exactly what you have always wanted to do for a living. The pay is incredible. The hours are perfect. But the company makes a product you believe makes the world slightly worse. It is not illegal. It is just bad for people. Do you sign the contract?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · work, money · work, ethics, money
- The LeverA runaway train car is heading down a track towards five workers who can't hear it coming. You're standing beside a lever. Pull it and the car switches to a side track, where one worker is standing. Nobody else is around. You have about four seconds. Do you pull the lever?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 5 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality · ethics, choice
- The Spare RoomYour father cannot live alone any more. There is a home forty minutes away that is clean and grim, and there is your spare room. If he moves in, you lose the room, most evenings, and the version of your house you like. If he goes to the home, he will be looked after by people who are paid to and he will know that is what happened. Does he move in?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, home · family, ageing, care
- The Sealed AnswerAn envelope arrives with your name on it. Inside is a true answer to one question about one person you love. Whatever the question, the answer is honest and complete, and neither of you will ever discuss it. You can also burn the envelope unopened and the offer never comes back. Whose name is on your question, and what is the question?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, friendship · truth, love, fear
- The WillYour parents leave you sixty percent and your brother forty. No explanation in the will. He has less money than you and two kids. You suspect you know why they did it, and it isn't flattering to him. Do you split it evenly anyway?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, family · family, money
- The Other TableYou're out for lunch and you see your friend's husband across the room, holding hands with someone who isn't her. He hasn't seen you. You've known her twelve years. You know she's been happy lately. Do you tell her?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, sex · friends, honesty
- What You Know About the GroomYour closest friend is getting married in five weeks. You know for certain that her fiancé slept with someone else in the spring. You know because he told you, drunk, and then asked you to keep it between the two of you. She has spent a year happier than you have ever seen her. Do you tell her before the wedding?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · friendship, sex · friendship, secrets, loyalty
- The Friend You'd Let FadeYou are told, plainly, that you have room for three close people. Not family, not your partner. Three. The rest become birthday messages and a drink once every couple of years, and they will feel the change even if they never name it. Who are the three, and who is the first to drop off?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · friendship, time, loss
- Your Own InstructionsYou are asked to write down, tonight, how much of you can be gone before someone is allowed to stop the machines. Not in general terms. In your handwriting, with the line drawn: can't speak, can't recognise anyone, can't feed yourself, can't stop the pain. The paper will be shown to your family on the worst day of their lives. Where do you draw the line?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, family, body · death, body, family
- The BillSix of you at dinner. You had a salad and tap water. Two of them ordered steak and three bottles of wine. The bill lands and someone says, cheerfully, let's just split it six ways. It's forty quid more than you owe. Do you say anything?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · money, friendship · money, friends
- The DentYou're reversing out of a tight car park and you hear it. A long scrape down the door of the car next to you. Empty car park, no cameras you can see. Your insurance is already up for renewal and the excess is more than the repair. Do you leave the note?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, failure · honesty, money
- The HandwritingYou find a notebook in a box in your parents' attic. It's your handwriting, from when you were fifteen. Pages of it. Opinions, a fight with a friend, a whole week at the sea. You don't remember writing any of it, and you don't remember the week. Did that week happen to you?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · past · solo · verdict · identity · memory, identity
- Three Days of PainA call comes: you are a marrow match for a stranger. It means needles in your hip bone, a week where walking hurts, and a few days off work you would rather not take. The stranger is thirty-one. You will never learn their name and they will never learn yours. You can also just say no and nobody will ever ask you again. Do you take the call?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · body, mortality · body, strangers, sacrifice
- The Cash Your Brother Wants BackYour brother gave you his savings to hold six months ago because he did not trust himself with it. He has been sober since. Tonight he turns up and asks for it back, calm, reasonable, saying he is fine now and it is his money. You think he will spend it in a fortnight. You have no legal right to keep it. Do you give him the money?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, addiction, trust
- The Test ResultA test can tell you whether you are likely to develop a fatal illness in twenty years. There is no cure yet. The result could shape your work, your relationships, and whether you have children. You can take the test now or never know. Would you take the test?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · future · solo · verdict · mortality, body · health, future, fear
- The BetSomeone tells you: live as if God is real. If you're right, you gain everything forever. If you're wrong, you lost some Sunday mornings and a few pleasures. Live as if there's nothing, and the upside is small, the downside is infinite. The maths says believe. Can you choose to believe something because the odds are good?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · faith · faith, risk
- The New SongA singer you love died years ago. Their label feeds every recording they ever made into a machine and it writes and sings a new song in their voice. It's good. It sounds like them on a strong day. Fans can't tell, and the family gave permission. Is that their song?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · work · music, copies
- Same DogYour dog dies at fourteen. A company offers a clone: same genes, same breed, same markings, raised from a puppy. It won't remember you. It won't know the walk to the park or the sound of your car. But it will look up at you with that face. Do you get the dog?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality · copies, grief, animals
- The Email That Costs You the JobYou find a spreadsheet at work that shows your company has been overcharging its oldest customers for years. Small amounts, thousands of people. If you send it to the regulator, you will be found out inside a month, and your name will follow you around the industry. Nobody else who has seen the file has done anything about it. Do you send it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, money · work, integrity, money
- The Bad RehearsalA colleague rehearses an important pitch for you. It is poor, but the meeting starts in an hour. They ask whether you think it will go well. Honest criticism may shake them. Reassurance may send them in unprepared. What do you tell them?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · process · present · relational · verdict · work · work, honesty, ambition
- Your Father's DoorA parent who failed you is old and can no longer live alone. They ask to move into your home. You can afford the care, but living together may take over your daily life. No other relative will step in. Would you let them move in?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, home · family, care, resentment
- The BridgeSame runaway train, five people on the track. This time you're on a footbridge above it with a heavy stranger leaning on the rail. If you push him off, his body stops the train. Five live, he dies. Nobody would ever know it was you. Do you push him?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality · harm, choice
- The ReviewThe café on your street got your order wrong twice and the owner was rude about it. You write what happened, honestly, and post it. They have eleven reviews. Yours drops them below four stars. The place is barely surviving as it is. Do you post it?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, work · honesty, strangers
- The ForgeryA painting hangs in a museum. Millions of people have stood in front of it and been moved. Then it comes out that it's a copy, painted forty years ago by a student who was very good. The original burned in a fire. Nothing about the canvas on the wall has changed since yesterday. Should they take it down?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · art, authenticity
- The Phone KnowsYour phone holds the birthdays, the routes, the passwords, the photos of the day you couldn't describe otherwise. You don't remember any of it because you don't have to. Then it goes into a river. Did you lose your things, or part of your mind?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · memory, technology
- The Time BetA stranger offers you ten million dollars, tax-free. You get the money right now. In exchange, he gets to take one hour of your life from the past. You will not know which hour he takes. Whatever you did during that hour never happened. Do you take the money?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money · time, money, risk
- The Replacement JobYour boss offers you a new deal. You will get paid double your current salary. In exchange, you will never have another original idea at work. You will only execute tasks handed to you by someone younger than you. You cannot quit for ten years. Do you take the deal?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · work, money, identity · work, pride, money
- The Shortened DayYou are offered a pill that gives you one extra hour every day. You will not need to sleep during this hour. You will feel rested. But for every day you take the pill, your total lifespan is shortened by two days. How many days a week do you take it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · mortality, body · time, mortality, work
- The Forgotten LoanYears ago, a friend lent you a large sum when you were struggling. They now earn far more than you and seem to have forgotten the loan. Paying it back this month would put you in trouble. Do you remind them that you owe it?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, friendship · money, debt, friendship
- Tomorrow's CutsYou learn that a colleague will lose their job tomorrow. You were told in confidence. If you warn them, they can copy files and prepare. Your own job could be at risk if anyone finds out. Do you warn them?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work · work, loyalty, risk
- The Last PlaceYou can fund one place on a training course. One applicant has worked harder and scored higher. The other had fewer chances growing up and would gain more from being chosen. Who gets the place?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work · fairness, opportunity, merit
- The Salary LineYou learn that a colleague doing the same work earns far less than you. Your manager offers to raise their pay only if your next raise is cut in half. Nobody else will know what you chose. Would you give up half your raise?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, money · work, money, fairness
- The SummaryYour friend can talk about a famous novel for twenty minutes. The plot, the ending, why the second half is weaker, the line everyone quotes. They've read three reviews and a long summary. They have never opened the book. At a dinner, someone asks if they've read it and they say yes. Is that a lie?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · knowledge, honesty
- One GrainThere's a pile of sand on the table. A thousand grains. Take one away and it's still a pile. Take another and it's still a pile. Nobody would ever say a single grain is what ended it. Keep going. Eventually there are three grains sitting there, and nobody would call that a pile. Which grain turned the pile into not a pile?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 5 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · language, logic
- The Memory DownloadYou can buy a memory chip that lets you instantly speak fluent Italian. But to make room in your brain, it permanently wipes out your memory of every movie you have ever seen. Do you plug it in?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · verdict · memory, skills, tradeoffs
- Yesterday's PetYou raise a digital pet for five years. It learns your habits and reacts to its name. One day its data is lost. The company restores a backup from the day before. The restored pet remembers everything except its final day. Is it the same pet?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · past · relational · verdict · identity, technology, memory
- The Museum LabelA plain black stone sits in a museum under a label saying it came from Mars. Millions of people visit it. Years later, the label is found to be wrong. The stone came from a local quarry. Did the stone lose its value?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · objects, value, belief
- The Last MovementA composer dies with a symphony unfinished. A computer studies every piece she wrote and completes the final movement. Her closest friends say it sounds like her best work. Who wrote the symphony?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · past · solo · verdict · work · authorship, music, technology
- Who Pays for MumYour mother needs care she can't pay for. The cost splits three ways between you and your siblings on paper, but you earn more than both of them and one of them has kids. Nobody has said out loud who pays what. Someone has to speak first at the kitchen table on Sunday. What split do you propose, and do you say your own number first?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, money, care
- Both Phones UnlockedYou and your partner sit down and swap phones for an hour. Everything: messages, searches, deleted photos, what you say about each other to other people. It's mutual and it's once. Whatever's in there, you both agree not to leave over it. Do you hand yours over?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · sex, identity · trust, secrets, love
- Your Friend's MessagesAfter your closest friend dies, you receive access to their private messages. One folder bears your name. Opening it may change how you remember them. Deleting it means choosing not to know what they said about you. Would you open the folder?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · process · future · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship · friendship, privacy, death
- The One Who CallsA friend only calls when they are in danger of hurting themselves. Each call keeps you awake for hours. They refuse help from anyone else. You can keep answering, or tell them you will call emergency services next time. Would you answer the next call?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · process · present · relational · verdict · friendship, mortality · friendship, duty, crisis
- The City You Won't Move ToYour partner is offered the thing they've been working toward for years. It's in a city where you know nobody, your work doesn't transfer, and your parents are eight hours further away. They say they won't take it unless you're happy about it. They mean it, and that's the problem. Do you tell them to take it, and is that a lie?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · home, work · love, sacrifice, work
- The Machine CookA machine can build a plate of your grandmother's stew from scratch, matching the real thing down to the last molecule. Same taste, same steam, same burnt bit at the edge. It takes nine seconds and costs almost nothing. Would you rather eat that or her actual cooking?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · family, identity · food, copies
- The Same MugThe mug you've drunk from every morning for ten years slips and breaks. You find that the factory still makes it. The replacement arrives, same batch, same weight, same chip-free rim, indistinguishable from yours on day one. What did you lose?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · home · objects, attachment
- The Home VideoYou've told the story of the beach and the red bucket your whole life. It's your earliest memory. Then someone digs out a family tape and there it is, filmed from the angle you always pictured. You were eighteen months old. Is it still your memory?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · past · solo · verdict · family, identity · memory, childhood
- The SwapOvernight, everything in your head moves into a stranger's body across town. Your memories, your habits, the way you laugh. Your old body wakes up with all of their memories and heads to their job. Which one goes home to your bed?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · identity, body
- The Empty SeatYou and your partner are waiting for an overbooked flight. The airline offers enough money to cover a month of rent if one of you travels tomorrow. Your partner wants you both to stay on the flight. You need the money more than they do. Do you take the offer?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money · money, travel, partnership
- The Partner's PhoneYour partner is in the shower. Their phone lights up with a text from an ex they promised they stopped talking to. The preview cuts off mid-sentence. You know their passcode. Do you unlock the phone?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · sex, failure · trust, romance, privacy
- Your Mother's KeysYour mother has begun getting lost while driving. She insists she is safe. A doctor will report her if you describe what has happened, and she will lose her licence. She lives where a car is her last bit of freedom. Would you tell the doctor?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, mortality · family, ageing, safety
- Your Sister's SignatureYour sister needs you to guarantee a loan. If her plan works, she keeps her home. If it fails, you take on a debt that would set you back for years. She says nobody else will help. Would you sign?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, debt, trust
- Your Brother's CrimeYou find proof that your brother committed a serious crime years ago. Someone else served time for it. Reporting him would clear that person, but your brother now has children who depend on him. Would you turn him in?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 2 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · family, failure · family, justice, loyalty
- The Last EmbryoYou and your partner have one embryo left after years of trying for a child. A test shows a high chance of a painful illness that begins in middle age. This is your last chance to have a child who is related to both of you. Would you use the embryo?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · family, body · parenthood, illness, choice
- The KeysA friend has had four drinks and is looking for their car keys. They've done this before and got home fine. If you take the keys you'll embarrass them in front of people, and they'll be cold with you for months. If you say nothing, most likely they get home fine again. Do you take the keys?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship, failure · friends, risk, courage
- No One Ever KnowsYou can give away any amount you like to something that matters. One condition: it's fully anonymous, and you can never mention it to anyone, ever. No thank-you letter, no name on a wall, no telling your partner years later. Does the amount you'd give change?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money, identity · money, ego, giving
- The Anger SwitchA one-time procedure removes your ability to feel anger. You'll still notice unfairness and still be able to say something about it. You just won't burn. Everyone who's ever been on the wrong end of your temper would be relieved. Do you do it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity, failure · temper, self, family
- Fire Your FriendCuts are coming. Your boss tells you privately: pick one person from your team, or the decision gets made above you and it'll be two people, one of them you. Your closest friend at work is the weakest performer on paper and the reason you've stayed as long as you have. Do you write down their name?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, friendship · work, loyalty, betrayal
- The Money You Know He'll DrinkYour brother asks for two hundred. He says it's for the electric bill. You're fairly sure it isn't. If you say no he'll get it somewhere worse, and he'll stop calling you. If you say yes you're paying for the thing that's killing him. Do you give him the money?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · present · relational · story · family, money · family, addiction, money
- A Year at the BedsideA relative is dying slowly and needs someone with them daily. You can do it yourself: quit for a year, empty your savings, be the one holding the cup. Or you can keep working and pay a stranger who is patient and good at this, and visit on weekends. Which do you choose?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · family, mortality, money · death, family, care
- Five Minutes OldThe universe started five minutes ago. It came into being complete: your half-finished coffee, the scuffs on your shoes, the ache in your knee, and every memory you have of a childhood that never happened. Can you prove it didn't?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 5 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · faith, identity · memory, doubt
- The UnderstudyA famous singer loses her voice an hour before the show. The understudy sings the whole set from behind a screen, sounding near enough identical. The crowd roars, goes home happy, and posts about the best night of the tour. Nobody tells them. Were they cheated?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · work, identity · authenticity, music
- Told It's a SimulationTomorrow morning it's confirmed beyond doubt: all of this is running on something, somewhere. No glitch, no exit, no contact from whoever built it. Everything looks and feels the way it did yesterday. What do you do differently that day?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · future · solo · verdict · faith, mortality · reality, meaning
- The Aging ParentsYour parents are losing their memory and can no longer live alone. The only good care facility in town costs exactly the amount you have saved for your kids' college. Do you spend the kids' college money on your parents?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, money, duty
- The Regret MeterA screen in a clinic will tell you one number: how much you'll regret your decision about having children, ten years from now. Not whether you'll be happy. Just how much of the other life you'll be mourning. It's free, it's accurate, and you can only look once. Do you look?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · affect · future · relational · verdict · family, failure · children, regret, future
- The Bot That Calls Your MotherAn app learns your voice and your phrases well enough to hold a twenty-minute phone call. It rings your mother every Sunday, asks about her week, remembers her neighbour's name. She's happy. She has no idea. Your actual calls had dropped to one a month. Do you switch it on?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · family, failure · family, technology, duty
- The SlotYour kid needs a place at a good nursery and the list is two years long. Your aunt knows the woman who runs it and one phone call moves you to the front. Nobody will ever be told why. Someone who has been waiting since before your child was born goes back one place. Do you make the call?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, fairness
- The Staff DiscountYou're at the till with a full trolley. The cashier is a friend of a friend. Without asking, she scans her staff card and takes forty percent off. She smiles like it's nothing. The store loses about sixty pounds. If it's noticed on the audit, she loses the job, not you. Do you let it go through?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, work · money, complicity
- The ApplicationYou've found the flat. The landlord wants proof you earn three times the rent and you earn slightly less. One number changed on one document and it's yours. The only other applicants are a couple with a baby who earn less than you. The landlord will never check. Do you change the number?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · home, failure · money, honesty
- The Better CandidateYou're one of three people hiring. Your closest friend applies and she's good, maybe fourth best. She's been out of work eleven months and you know what it's doing to her. You can't hand her the job, but you can speak warmly and let a doubt about the front-runner sit there unanswered. Do you stay quiet about your doubt?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, friendship · friendship, work
- Your RedWhen you look at a fire engine, maybe you see what I'd see looking at grass. We both learned to call fire engines red, so we'd never catch the difference in conversation, and neither of us would ever hesitate. Is there any way to find out?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · relational · verdict · colour, mind
- The TranslationA poem you love was written in a language you don't speak. The translator swapped images, changed a river to a road, and invented a line to keep the rhyme working in English. Readers in both languages say it's beautiful. Whose poem have you been loving?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · language, authorship
- The QueueYou have waited an hour for concert tickets. A friend arrives just before sales begin and asks to join you. The people behind you have waited just as long. If your friend goes to the back, the tickets may sell out before they reach the counter. Do you let your friend in?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · fairness, friendship
- The CancellationYou work for yourself and require payment when a client cancels on the day. A client cancels because their child is in hospital. You turned down other work for that time. They ask you to waive the fee. Do you charge them?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, money · money, work, compassion
- UnseenYou find a plain gold ring on the ground. When you put it on and turn it, you become invisible. No one can see you, hear you, or ever track what you do while wearing it. You can take what you want and listen to whatever is said. There are no cameras that can catch you. What is the first illegal thing you do?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · solo · verdict · power, rules, temptation
- The Memory of ShameA doctor offers you a pill that permanently erases your memory of your worst humiliation. Nobody else's memory is affected. Do you take the pill?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · solo · verdict · failure, identity · shame, memory, identity
- The Dog or the FeesYour dog needs an operation that may buy two good years. It costs the same amount your niece needs to stay in college. You can pay for only one. Your niece does not know about the choice. Where would the money go?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · pets, family, money
- The Family StoryYou learn that the story your family tells about how one relative died is false. The truth would clear someone who has carried the blame for years. It would also expose someone who is still alive. Would you tell the family?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family · family, truth, blame
- The RotaYou're asked to write the Christmas shift schedule for your team of six. Two must work the holiday. One colleague has small children. One has nobody and says he doesn't mind. One asked you first, back in August. You also get to decide whether your own name goes on it. Who works Christmas?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work · work, fairness
- The Sick NoteYou wake up flattened. Not ill, just done. You text work that you've got a stomach bug. It's believed instantly. The cost lands on one colleague, who cancels her afternoon and covers your calls. If you'd told the truth, the answer would probably have been to come in anyway. Do you send the text?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work · work, honesty
- Everything DoublesTonight, while everyone sleeps, everything doubles in size. You, your bed, the coffee cup, the ruler in the drawer, the planet, the distance between stars. Every measurement comes out the same in the morning because the measuring sticks grew too. Did anything happen?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · reality, measurement
- The Full-Size MapA city decides to make the most accurate map ever drawn. It ends up the same size as the city, laid over the streets, matching every kerb and lamppost. People start walking on it. Is it a map or is it just the city again?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · copies, meaning
- The AssistYou enter an online tournament. The software on your machine plays about half your moves, the hard ones, and you play the rest. You win the whole thing. The trophy has your name on it. Did you win?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · cheating, machines
- The Last SpeakerOnly one person can speak a dying language. She invents a new word and tells nobody what it means. She dies the next day. Did the word ever have a meaning?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · past · solo · verdict · mortality · language, meaning
- The Borrowed DetectiveA novelist dies halfway through a detective series. Another writer continues it. Readers say the detective behaves just as he always did. Is it the same character?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · fiction, identity
- The ExpensesYour manager pads the team's expense claims. Dinners that didn't happen, taxis nobody took. The money comes back as the team bonus and your share is about eight hundred pounds a year. Everyone knows. Nobody says it. The company is huge and nobody is hurt in a way you can point at. Do you take the bonus?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, money · work, money
- The DoorbellParcels keep arriving for whoever lived in your flat before you. You've sent a few back. Then a heavy one comes: a laptop, still sealed, worth about a thousand. No forwarding address, no phone number, and the sender's returns window has closed. It sits in your hallway for a week. What happens to the laptop?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money, home · money, honesty
- Everyone Says It WrongA word gets used the wrong way by enough people for long enough that dictionaries give in and print the new meaning. Teachers stop correcting it. Now the old meaning is the one that sounds odd. When exactly did the word change meaning?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · language, change
- The Hidden ConstellationA child joins seven stars with lines and gives the shape a name. No one else has grouped those stars before. Did the child discover something or invent it?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · past · solo · verdict · reality, discovery
- The Imaginary IslandA mapmaker adds a made-up island to catch anyone copying his map. Sailors begin telling stories about the island. Decades later, tourists ask to visit it. Does the island exist in any useful sense?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 3 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · maps, reality
- The Unknown RuleA village has played the same ball game for generations. During one match, something happens that no rule covers. Half the village says the move is allowed. Half says it is forbidden. Was the move legal before they argued about it?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · past · solo · verdict · rules, logic
- Halfway AgainTo reach the far wall you first have to cross half the room. Then half of what's left. Then half of that. There's always another half to cross, so the crossing has an endless number of steps in it. How do you ever touch the wall?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · logic, infinity
- Nobody ListeningA tree comes down in a forest hundreds of miles from anyone. Air moves, branches crack, the ground shakes a little. No ear is anywhere near it. Was there a sound?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 3 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · perception, reality
- The Lucky PasswordMina types a stranger's birthday into a locked computer. She has no reason to choose it. The computer opens because the birthday is the password. Did Mina know the password?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 3 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · knowledge, luck
- The Unplayed GameArchaeologists find a board, pieces and a book of rules. The rules are clear, but there is no sign that anyone ever played. Have they found a game?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 3 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 4 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · present · solo · verdict · games, rules
- The Wrong BoxA massive box arrives at your door. It has your address but someone else's name. Inside is a high-end espresso machine worth over a thousand dollars. You wait a month. Nobody comes looking for it. The retailer has no record of the order under your name. Do you keep it?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money, home · honesty, property, temptation
- The Ad You'd WriteA job offers you double your salary. The work is writing ads that get people gambling again after they've stopped. You'd be good at it. The money would cover treatment a family member needs and can't afford, with years to spare. Do you take it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · future · relational · verdict · work, family, money · work, money, complicity
- The Perfect AlibiYour closest friend shows up at your back door at two in the morning covered in blood. They say they killed someone who ruined their life, and they need you to swear they were watching a movie with you. Do you lie to the police for them?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · priority · future · relational · verdict · mortality, friendship · loyalty, crime, friendship
- The Body MarketYou can sell one year of your healthy lifespan to a billionaire for half a million dollars, tax-free. They live a year longer; you die a year earlier than you would have. You can do this as many times as you want. How many years do you sell?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · priority · future · solo · verdict · money, mortality · mortality, money, body
- The Animal LifeYour dog is dying of a rare disease. Your vet can cure them completely, giving them another five happy years. But the procedure requires killing a healthy stray dog from the pound. Do you kill the stray to save your dog?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · mortality · pets, morality, sacrifice
- The Anonymous BetrayalYou find out your partner's ex cheated on them right before they broke up. Your partner doesn't know. Finding out now would ruin their trust in people, but it would explain a lot of lies they were told. Do you tell your partner?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · secrets, romance, truth
- The Undeserved AwardYou win an industry award and fifty thousand dollars for a solo project. Just before the ceremony, you realize you accidentally copied the core idea from a rival. Nobody else will ever find out. Do you give the award back?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, money, failure · career, pride, honesty
- The House VetoYou and your partner are buying a house. You find the perfect one, but your partner hates it. They find theirs, but you hate it. The agent says you have to compromise today or lose both. Who caves?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · story · home · romance, compromise, home
- The Childhood BullyThe person who bullied you most brutally in school has lost everything. They reach out and ask you for a job at your company. You are the only person who can hire them, and they are qualified. Do you give them the job?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, failure · revenge, forgiveness, work
- The WalkoutYour coworkers plan to walk out over pay. Joining them may win better terms for everyone, but you are the only person on your team who could not manage a month without wages. If you stay at work, the walkout may fail. Would you join them?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · work, money · work, money, solidarity
- Ten Hours, One NameYou get back every hour you spend on your phone this week. Ten hours, maybe more. There's one condition: all of it has to go to one person, in the room with them, and you have to write the name down now. Whose name do you write?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family · time, attention, love
- The Found WalletYou find a wallet on the sidewalk containing five thousand dollars in cash. The ID belongs to someone you know is a bad person who ruined a friend's life. Do you keep the cash?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money · money, revenge, morality
- The Child You Won't HaveYour partner wants a child. You don't, or you don't enough, and you've been saying 'not yet' for four years. There's a window and both of you know roughly when it closes. Whatever happens next, one of you gives up something they won't get back, and you'll stay together either way. Which of you gives it up?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family · love, children, sacrifice
- The Replaced BearYou had a bear until you were nine. You still have it, in a box at your mum's. At Christmas she tells you the truth: you lost the bear in a car park when you were four, and she drove to three shops that night to find the same one. She swapped it while you slept. You never noticed. Thirty years of that bear being the thing that got you through hospital and your parents' divorce, and it's the second bear. Did you lose the bear when you were four, or just now, at the table?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · past · relational · story · family · objects, memory, childhood
- The Long DreamYou fall asleep at eleven and wake at seven. In between you lived forty years: a different name, a house by water, children whose faces you'd know anywhere, a slow illness, a funeral that was yours. You wake up crying about a daughter who doesn't exist. By lunchtime you can only remember four of the forty years. Did you have those forty years?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · mortality · dreams, experience, identity
- Two HolidaysYou and your sister both remember the week in the caravan. You remember rain for six days and your dad furious about the awning. She remembers sun, and a dog on the beach, and dad laughing. You've each told your version for twenty years. Then you find the photos. Hers match. Was your memory ever a memory, or something you built and kept?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · position · past · relational · story · family · memory, family, truth
- The CatYou're driving home along a dark road and something runs out. You feel the bump. You stop. It's a cat, with a collar, and it's dead. There's a row of houses fifty metres back. It's half eleven at night and no one saw. You could knock on doors until you find whose it is, or you could move it onto the verge and drive off. Do you knock?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality · harm, honesty
- The Stag DoYour oldest friend is getting married. The trip is four days abroad and it comes to about £600 once you count flights and the meal. You don't have it. You could put it on a credit card and feel it for six months, or you could say no. Everyone else in the group has already paid. Do you tell them the real reason you can't come?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, money · money, friends
- The FundraiserSomeone you know a little, a friend of a friend, has had a bad year and there's a page collecting money for them. The page lists every name and every amount. You can see one person gave £200 and several gave £50. You were going to give £10. Your name will sit under the others for as long as the page is up. What do you give?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, friendship · money, reputation
- The ScreenshotIn a group chat of six, someone pastes in a screenshot of a private message. It's from a friend of yours who isn't in the group, complaining about one of the people who is. Everyone starts replying. Your friend doesn't know it's out there. You could tell them, tell the group off, or say nothing and let it move on. What do you do?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · friends, loyalty
- The Poem by NobodyYou read six lines about your grandmother's hands and your eyes go. You read them again on the bus. Later you find out no one wrote them: a machine produced them in a second, having never had a grandmother, never had hands, and it produced nine hundred other versions that nobody read. Was the thing you felt on the bus a mistake?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · past · solo · verdict · family · art, meaning, machines
- The Long Way RoundYou're in a taxi from the airport, late at night, watching the route on your phone. Ten minutes in you can see the driver has gone a way that will add about £15 to the fare. He might have done it on purpose. He might not. He's chatty and has told you about his kids. The meter keeps running. Do you say something?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money · money, strangers
- The ChangeA woman on a market stall sells you £6 of vegetables. You hand over a twenty and she counts out change for a fifty. She's slow with her hands and there's a queue behind you. You're already three steps away when you work out she's given you £30 too much. She looks like the stall is hers, not a company's. Do you turn around?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money · money, honesty
- Before Anyone CountedLong before there were people, there were seven somethings standing in a valley. Nobody was there to count them. No one had invented the word seven, or the idea of seven, or any way of noticing that four of them and three of them made the whole group. Were there seven, or did seven arrive with us?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 5 · emo 1 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · past · solo · verdict · numbers, reality, knowledge
- The Misspelled NameYour name has one letter wrong on your birth certificate. A tired clerk in 1991. It's been copied onto your passport, your bank cards, your degree, your payslips. Everyone who knows you says it the other way, the way your parents meant it. Nobody has ever written it that way on anything official. Which one is your name?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity · names, identity, language
- The BikeIt's the middle of the afternoon on a busy street. A man in shorts is crouched over a bike, cutting through the lock with a small angle grinder. He's not hiding. People are walking past. He glances up at you, unbothered, and keeps going. It could be his own bike and his own lost key. What do you do in the next ten seconds?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · failure · strangers, courage
- The Double BookingYou agree to help a friend move house on a Saturday morning. On Friday night, someone you have been trying to date for six months asks you out for a day trip, and it has to be Saturday. Your friend has no money for a removal van but has a few other people helping. Do you lie and say you are sick?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · promises, loyalty
- The Group HolidayYou organise a weekend away for six friends. You book the house on your card, putting £600 down. Everyone agrees to pay you back £100. Five do. The sixth friend recently lost their job and has been quiet in the group chat for weeks. Do you ask them for the money?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, friendship · money, friends
- The Stray DogYou are driving to an important job interview that will change your career. You are already running five minutes late. On a quiet country road, you see a dog with a collar wandering loose near the traffic. There are no houses in sight. Do you stop the car?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · work, mortality · harm, sacrifice
- The BalanceYour money is a number on a screen. There's no drawer somewhere with your name on it and your notes inside. The bank has lent most of it out to strangers. If everyone asked for theirs on the same Tuesday, the number would turn out to be a promise rather than a thing. Still, you check it, you feel better or worse, you plan your year around it. Is the money in your account a real object, or a story everyone agrees to keep telling?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · money · money, reality
- The Last MemberA band you love has been going forty years. The singer left in 1994, the guitarist died, the bassist quit twice and never came back. Last month the drummer retired. The tour is still booked, the name is still on the ticket, the songs are the same songs, and four people you've never heard of are playing them well. Is that still the band?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · identity, music
- The Author Says NoYou've read the book four times. Two characters are in love; the whole thing only works if they are. Then the writer does an interview and says flatly that they were never in love, she never intended it, and readers keep getting it wrong. Who decides what happened in the book?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · stories, meaning, interpretation
- One Second AheadA screen in front of you shows a live feed of your own hands, delayed by nothing, plus a small line of text that appears one second before you act. You're going to pick up either the red pen or the blue one. The text says RED. You feel like the choice is still open. You reach for blue. The text updates, one second before, and says BLUE. Are you choosing, or watching?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 5 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · choice, prediction
- The Wrong SpeedYou've loved a song since you were fifteen. You've heard it maybe two thousand times. Last week you learn the upload you grew up on was slightly sped up to dodge a copyright bot. You play the real one. It drags. The voice is lower. It's the wrong song and it's the only real one. Which one is the song?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · music, originals, identity
- Tuesday NightYour friend tells their partner they were with you last Tuesday. They were not. The partner texts you: “Did you two have a good night?” You know the truth may end the relationship. Do you cover for your friend?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, sex · loyalty, lying, love
- The Cracked FrameYou sell your old bike online for £250. As the buyer loads it into their car, you spot a thin crack near the back wheel. You had never noticed it before. They have already paid and driven two hours to collect it. Do you point out the crack?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, body · money, honesty, risk
- The Holiday HouseSix friends book a house for July. Each pays £300. A week before the trip, Maya pulls out after losing her job and asks for her share back. The booking cannot be changed. Refunding her means the other five pay £60 more each. Do you refund Maya?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, friendship · friendship, money, fairness
- The Broken WindowYour son kicks a football through the neighbour’s window. No one sees it happen. Minutes later, another child is blamed because their ball is found in the garden. Replacing the glass will cost you £400. Do you say your son did it?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, honesty, money
- The ScratchcardYou buy a birthday card for a friend of a friend, and tuck a £5 scratchcard inside it as a joke. At the pub, they scratch it in front of you. They win ten thousand pounds. They scream, hug you, and offer to buy the first round of drinks. Do you expect a cut of the money?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · present · relational · verdict · money, friendship · money, expectations
- The Shared SecretA friend tells you in strict confidence that their partner is cheating on them, and they are preparing to leave. Two days later, the cheating partner corners you at a party, crying, and asks if you know why your friend is being so distant. Do you play dumb to protect the exit plan?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, sex · loyalty, lies
- The Open LetterYou are doing a favour looking after your neighbour's sleeping child for the evening. You go into the kitchen for a glass of water. On the table, open and facing up, is a handwritten letter that starts with 'I cannot live like this anymore.' Do you read the rest of the letter?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · mortality, family · privacy, temptation
- The Paused CenturyEverything stops. Every atom, every clock, every thought, including yours. Nothing moves and nothing changes anywhere. Then, a hundred years later by no one's reckoning, it all starts again exactly where it left off. You're mid-sentence and you finish the sentence. Did a hundred years pass, or nothing at all?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 5 · emo 1 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · present · solo · verdict · mortality · time, reality
- The Wedding Plus OneYou are invited to an expensive wedding. The invitation gives you a plus one. You are single, but you have a chaotic friend who loves free wine and would make the night hilarious. The bride and groom do not know them well. Do you bring the chaotic friend to entertain yourself?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · friendship · friends, etiquette
- Three Legs OffYour kitchen chair loses a leg. You keep it. It loses two more and you lean it in the corner and pile books on the seat. Then you take the seat off and use the plank as a shelf. Someone visiting asks what the plank is. At which moment did it stop being a chair?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 4 · emo 1 · depth 2 · voice 3 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 1 · position · past · solo · verdict · home · objects, identity, language
- The Joke Without an AuthorYou tell a joke at dinner. Your friend laughs and says they told you the same joke last summer. You have no memory of hearing it and thought of the wording on the bus that morning. Whose joke was it?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · position · past · relational · verdict · friendship · memory, authorship
- The Missing ItemAt the supermarket, you notice the cashier has missed the £40 bottle beneath your bag. Your receipt is already in your hand. Going back will make you late to collect your niece. Do you go back and pay?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, family · money, honesty, duty
- The Last TrainYou have a rail pass that lets one guest travel free. On the last train home, a stranger says the ticket machine took their money but gave no ticket. The inspector is coming. Lending your guest pass breaks the rules and could get both of you fined. Do you add the stranger to your pass?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money · rules, strangers, risk
- The Mispriced ItemYou are buying a vacuum cleaner at a self-checkout. It scans at £15 instead of £150. The store is a large national supermarket. The red light flashes for an assistant to approve the unexpected weight. A tired teenager walks over, blindly swipes their card to clear the error, and starts to walk away. Do you tell them the price is wrong?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, work · money, honesty
- The Train TicketYou board a busy train and realise you forgot to buy a ticket. The conductor is making his way down the aisle checking phones. The person next to you gets off at the next stop and leaves a valid, unpunched paper ticket on the table. Do you pick it up and present it as your own?Thought Experiments · Level 2 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money · rules, honesty
- Split EvenlyYou earn about three times what your oldest friend earns. Every time you eat together the bill lands in the middle and gets split down the middle, and he reaches for it fast, before anyone can suggest otherwise. You've watched him pick the cheapest thing on the menu and then pay for half of your fish. Do you say anything?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · money, friendship · friendship, money, class
- One Coffee Before the WeddingThe one you never got over is getting married in three weeks. They message: one coffee, an hour, then they're gone for good and they won't ask again. You're with someone now and it's good. You wouldn't do anything. You'd just go. Do you go?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · sex, failure · love, loyalty, longing
- The WatchYour dad's watch. He wore it for thirty years and you've had it in a drawer since the funeral. Your brother rings and says he's been thinking about it a lot, that he'd wear it every day, and could he have it. He probably would wear it. You'd keep it in the drawer. Does he get the watch?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family · family, grief, objects
- The Unequal WillYour parents die and the will leaves you sixty percent and your sister forty. You were the one who drove them to appointments, who called on Sundays, who took the phone calls at 2am. She lives four hours away and came at Christmas. The solicitor says nothing has to change unless you want it to. Do you even it up?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, money, fairness
- What He Says to HerYou've watched your friend's boyfriend talk to her the way you wouldn't talk to anyone. Nothing you could take to anybody. She knows you've seen it. Last month she asked you, in the nicest way, to stop bringing it up, because she's staying and she'd like to keep you. Do you keep bringing it up?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · friendship, love, honesty
- The Son on the SofaHe's thirty one. This is the third time he's asked to come home, and each time it was going to be a few months. You'd have to move the desk out again, and you'd hear him up at three, and you'd be lending him money by February. He has nowhere else to be by Friday. Do you say yes again?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, limits, parenting
- A Year Without LyingFor the next twelve months you can't say anything you believe to be false. Not the big lies, those you'd manage. The 'no, it's lovely'. The 'I'm on my way'. The 'I'm fine'. Silence is allowed, but no cover stories, and nobody knows this has happened to you. Who does it cost you first?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · friendship, work · honesty, relationships, self
- The Pill That Ends the CravingThere's a pill for the thing you do too much of. The drinking, the scrolling, the eating at midnight. One dose and the pull is gone for good. But it takes the pleasure with it. You'll never want it again and you'll never enjoy it again, and the evenings that were built around it will just be evenings. Do you take it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · failure, body · habits, pleasure, self
- The Diary on the TableYour fifteen year old has left it open on the kitchen table and gone out. You can see your own name on the page. They've been off for weeks and won't say why, and you've been lying awake about it. Reading it takes ninety seconds and they'd never know. Do you read it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · family · family, trust, parenting
- Sunday LunchYour grandmother says the ugly thing again, mildly, over the roast. She's eighty seven. Your cousin's kids are at the table. Everyone does the small laugh and passes the potatoes, and you've done the small laugh for twenty years because she won't change and it would spoil the afternoon. Do you say it out loud this time?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family · family, courage, silence
- Five YearsYour doctor is straightforward about it. Carry on as you are and you get about five good years fewer than you otherwise would. Nothing dramatic today, no scan to be scared of, just arithmetic. She writes down the two or three changes. You take the paper home and put it somewhere. What's stopping you?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · mortality, body, failure · health, mortality, habits
- The Year You'd DeleteOne year of your memory can be taken out. Not the facts, you'd still know what happened and who you were with, but the feel of it goes. No flinch when the song comes on, no dream about it, nothing waiting for you at 4am. Everyone else remembers it fine. Which year, or none?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · priority · past · solo · verdict · failure, identity · memory, pain, identity
- The First DrinkYour closest friend quit drinking after losing their marriage. At your birthday dinner, they order a whisky and ask you not to make a scene. Everyone else carries on talking. Do you challenge them at the table?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, failure · addiction, friendship, loyalty
- The App That's Never WrongAn app has been right about everyone who used it, for years, with no exceptions. It tells you two things about your partner. They'll stay with you and be reasonably content. And there's someone else out there they'd have been happier with, much happier, if they'd met. You can show them the screen or close it. Do you tell them?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 5 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · future · relational · verdict · friendship, failure · love, honesty, happiness
- The Five-Year ContractMarriage is no longer a lifelong commitment. The law changes tomorrow. All marriages now expire automatically after five years. To stay married, both of you have to go to a courthouse and sign a paper. If one of you stays home, the marriage ends. If your marriage expired tomorrow, would your partner show up to sign?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · family, failure · marriage, commitment, relationships
- The Train HomeYour father is having minor surgery on Friday. He says there is no need to visit. You have missed enough work this year, and the train costs £160. Your sister texts: “He wants you there. He just won’t ask.” Do you go home?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, duty, absence
- Sunday With GranYour grandmother thinks you still share her faith. She is 88 and tells everyone that praying with you is one of her last comforts. You no longer believe, but correcting her would hurt her. Do you keep praying with her?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, faith · faith, family, honesty
- The Apology After Twenty YearsAt school, you joined in when a boy was mocked every day. You found him online. He seems happy and has never contacted you. An apology might help him, or it might ask him to carry your guilt again. Do you write to him?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · verdict · failure, identity · guilt, apology, school
- The Broken VowYou cheat on your partner during a work trip. It happens once. You are overwhelmed with guilt. You know you will never do it again. The other person lives in another country. Your partner will never find out unless you tell them. Do you confess?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · priority · past · relational · verdict · sex, failure · infidelity, guilt, honesty
- The Group ChatYou leave your phone unlocked on a table. Your partner picks it up to check the time. A notification pops up. It is a message from your closest friend. It says something cruel about your partner. Your partner reads it. Do you defend your friend or your partner?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · loyalty, partners, friends
- Where It TurnedTwo people who work in different cities start messaging. Week one it's about work. By month four it's every night until one in the morning, and both of them stop mentioning it at home. They never meet, never touch, never say a word about love. Two years of this. When exactly did it become an affair?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · sex, friendship · sex, fidelity
- No Falling OutThere was a friend you saw every week. No argument, no betrayal, nobody moved. The gaps just got longer. Then it was three years, and now if you passed them on the street you'd both be pleased and neither of you would suggest a drink. When did that friendship end, and is it over?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · friendship · friendship, time
- The Failed BusinessYour brother quit his job to start a restaurant. You lent him twenty thousand dollars to get it off the ground. It has been two years. The restaurant is failing. He asks you for another ten thousand to keep the doors open for one more month. Do you write the second cheque?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, money, failure
- The NearlyThere's a job, a place, a person you didn't get. Someone offers to tell you exactly how close you came. Second out of four hundred, or last, or they never opened your file. Do you want the number?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · past · solo · story · failure, work · failure, knowledge
- Still Say HomeYou haven't lived in your parents' house for years. You have your own place, your own bed, your own bins to put out. But when you get in the car on a Friday you say you're going home, and everyone knows which house you mean. When does that stop being home?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · home, family · home, language
- Prayed ForYou find out an aunt has prayed for you by name every night for twenty years. She's never mentioned it. You don't believe a word of what she believes. She's kept it up through your divorce, your job, the illness. Has she been doing something for you or not?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · position · present · relational · verdict · faith, family · faith, family
- The Furthest CousinStart with your mum. Then her sister. Then that sister's kid. Then that kid's kid. Then the one you met once at a funeral in 2011 whose name you'd have to check. Somewhere along that line the word family stops being true and becomes a technicality. Who's the furthest-out relative you'd still get in the car for?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family · family, belonging
- Nobody Coming RoundYou have a house to yourself for a month. Nobody visiting, no deliveries, no video calls. No one will see the state of it or the state of you. What goes first: the bed made, the proper meals, the clothes with buttons?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · present · solo · story · home, identity · home, solitude, habits
- The Box in the LoftEverything you own ends up with someone who wasn't there for any of it. A ticket stub, a chipped bowl, a jumper you wore for eleven years. To them it's a bowl. To you it's a specific Sunday. Nothing about the objects changes; the stories just stop coming with them. Which of your things stops being what it is once you're not around to say why?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, home · objects, family, memory
- Woke Up GuiltyYou dream you slept with someone. Not a stranger, someone you actually know. It's vivid, and in the dream you're pleased with yourself. You wake up next to your partner at six with the whole thing still in your mouth like a taste. Did anything happen?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · sex, identity · sex, dreams
- The GhostwriterYou wrote a brilliant manuscript. A famous author with your politics reads it. They offer you one million dollars to publish it under their name. They will never reveal you wrote it. It will sell millions of copies. Under your own name, it will sell five hundred. Do you take the money and let them have the credit?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · work, money · credit, money, legacy
- The Drunk ConfessionYour close friend gets drunk at a dinner party. They pull you aside and tell you a terrible secret about their marriage. They tell you their partner hits them. The next morning, they call you. They are sober. They say they made the whole thing up for attention. Do you stay friends with them?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship · friendship, lies, trust
- The Shed CashYou are cleaning out your uncle's shed after his funeral. Stuffed inside a rusty paint tin, you find twenty thousand pounds in crisp notes. Nobody else knows it is there. Your siblings are currently in the house, arguing over who gets his worthless car. Do you walk into the house and tell them?Thought Experiments · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · money, family, secrets
- The Family RingYou own your great-grandmother’s ring. Your cousin believes it should have gone to her mother and has asked for it twice. Selling it would clear your credit card. Giving it away would end an old family grievance. Do you keep it, sell it, or give it to your cousin?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 3 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · money, family · inheritance, family, ownership
- The Hidden DiagnosisYour parent goes to the doctor alone and gets a terminal diagnosis. They have six months to live. They decide not to tell you or anyone else in the family until the final week. They want their last months to be normal. Do you want them to keep that a secret from you?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · future · relational · verdict · family, mortality · parents, death, secrets
- The TrackerYour daughter gets her first car. She is driving alone at night. You have an app on your phone. It tracks her location. She does not know it is installed. You promised her you would never track her. Do you check the app when she is late coming home?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family · parenting, trust, privacy
- The Pills in the BathroomPain pills left from an operation help you sleep. Your doctor told you to stop weeks ago. You have hidden the last packet behind the towels because your partner would throw it away. Do you tell your partner tonight?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · verdict · body, failure, family · health, dependence, honesty
- The Care FundYour parents are aging and have fifty thousand dollars left in savings. Your brother has a sudden medical emergency. He needs that amount for a treatment insurance will not cover. Your parents ask for your blessing to empty their account to pay for it. Do you tell them to do it?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 4 · voice 3 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · priority · present · relational · verdict · family, money · family, money, health
- The Erased HabitThere is a harmless medical procedure. It takes ten minutes. It will permanently remove one habit from your partner. They will not notice it is gone. They will never know you arranged it. They will just stop doing that one thing forever. What trait do you remove?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 3 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · friendship, home · habits, control, partners
- The Tooth You IgnoreA tooth has hurt for six months. The dentist may find nothing serious, or may tell you that you need work you cannot afford. You have £800 saved for the first holiday you have taken in years. Do you book the appointment before the holiday?Thought Experiments · Level 3 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · priority · present · solo · verdict · money, body · health, avoidance, money
- What took up most of your attention today?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 2 · int 1 · emo 1 · depth 1 · voice 4 · escape 4 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · experience · present · solo · fact · work · daily, attention
- What's the last thing you got obsessed with for no good reason?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · solo · story · identity · curiosity, interests
- Who did you want to be when you were ten?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 2 · priority · past · solo · verdict · identity · childhood, ambition
- What did you get in trouble for most often as a kid?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · childhood, rules
- What would you cook for me if I turned up hungry?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 1 · conv 4 · int 1 · emo 2 · depth 2 · voice 5 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 1 · revealed 3 · process · future · relational · verdict · home · food, hosting
- What do people get wrong about you?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 2 · exposes 3 · revealed 1 · position · present · relational · verdict · identity · identity, perception
- Who do you try too hard to impress?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · identity, friendship · ego, relationships
- When do you feel most useful?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 3 · emo 2 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 3 · exposes 2 · revealed 3 · affect · present · solo · verdict · work, identity · purpose, work
- What did you believe for years that turned out to be wrong?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · position · past · solo · story · faith, identity · beliefs
- Which family story changes depending on who's telling it?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · family · family, stories
- Who do you wish you had stayed in touch with?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 3 · revealed 3 · affect · past · relational · verdict · friendship · relationships, regret
- What compliment do you remember years later?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 2 · conv 3 · int 2 · emo 3 · depth 3 · voice 4 · escape 3 · specific 4 · exposes 2 · revealed 2 · experience · past · relational · story · identity · memory, praise
- Who have you outgrown but still love?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · friendship, family · love, change
- Which goodbye do you wish you'd handled differently?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · experience · past · relational · story · mortality, friendship · regret, goodbyes
- Who can still make you feel like a child?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · family, identity · power, family
- Who are you jealous of right now?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 2 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · affect · present · relational · verdict · failure, identity · jealousy, comparison
- When did you last let someone down?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 4 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · failure, friendship · guilt, relationships
- Which dream have you stopped saying out loud?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 4 · priority · past · solo · verdict · failure, identity · dreams, loss
- What are you still trying to prove, and who to?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 3 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 4 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 3 · exposes 4 · revealed 3 · priority · present · relational · verdict · identity, family · ambition, proving
- What do you pretend not to know?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 4 · emo 4 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 2 · exposes 5 · revealed 3 · position · present · solo · verdict · failure, identity · secrets, truth
- What did you hold back from telling me today?21 Questions · Level 1 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 2 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · present · relational · fact · friendship, identity · us, honesty
- How much of your loyalty to me is just not wanting to start over?Unaskable · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · verdict · failure, identity · loyalty, fear, us
- What have I cost you that you still keep a tally of?Unaskable · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 5 · experience · past · relational · story · money, failure · sacrifice, resentment
- What do you pretend not to know about me so you don't have to do anything about it?Unaskable · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 4 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 2 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · process · present · relational · verdict · failure, identity · avoidance, honesty
- Am I the person you love most, or the one who was there?Unaskable · Level 4 · exposure 4 · conv 5 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 4 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · verdict · identity, failure · love, convenience
- Which of your kids do you have to work at liking?Unaskable · Level 2 · exposure 4 · conv 4 · int 3 · emo 5 · depth 5 · voice 5 · escape 1 · specific 5 · exposes 5 · revealed 4 · affect · present · relational · verdict · family · children
- When you leave me, which of my flaws will you use to justify it to your friends?Unaskable · Level 4 · exposure 4