Phychology tricks I may or may not have used pt 2; 1: when you meet someone for the first time say "I think I had a dream about you" and go into a weird amount of detail.
2: If you're driving with some passengers in a really really depressing voice be like "Do you ever get sad?" and slowly start to veer off the road
3: Change up the normal autopilot convo. "hi" "hi" "how are you" "good" "really?" You'll be amazed by how quickly this just kinda stops somebody in their tracks and sometimes someone will actually tell you how they're doing