(Can you link me back to that answer? With over 7k posts to dig thru and my own inadequate tagging in the beginning I can’t find it :P)

[X is Joe Anderson]

Some mortals have a naturally impenetrable psychic wall, good for them! But for the rest of us, here are some options re: mortals vs. a vampire w/ the Mind Gift:

• Try to envision a wall, 
• or throw up confusing images,
• or think of your fave Ace of Base song. Anything BUT what you don’t want them peeking at!
• If said vampire has been captured For Science, and you’re trying to keep them incapacitated, I’d put headphones/earbuds on them and blast something loud and confusing. A mix of industrial machinery and 80′s synth, or Disney songs, anything really catchy.
• Try to distract them w/ your scintillating conversation?

In all fairness, it’s taxing for them to use their gifts, and they generally do not bother reading minds unless they are checking you out to see if you’re being honest w/ them, or they don’t want to wait on your oral responses. 

Plus, most vampires seem to prefer oral communication since it is closer to being mortal, which most of them tend to imitate. They don’t seem to read minds literally, like text in a book, it’s more like gathering images and sounds, and trying to piece them together like a puzzle, when it would be simpler to just ask you about whatever information they’re seeking.

The real question is: What are you afraid they’d discover in yer mind?