how to take someone off autopilot?

[Julian gabriel]

When I talk to people they usually just answer my questions without thinking or feeling at all, they're just acting and thinking from the safety of the defense mechanisms that they have built against actually being authentic enough to scare themself by saying something honest. 

People are so beautiful to me when they are able to be authentic, but so ugly and boring to me when they're just on autopilot.

How do you speak to someone in a way that takes them off of autopilot? 

[itachi uchiha]

they have to discover the need to think themself. u cannot force it to their throat

[Roy]

Slap them while saying, "Wake up! Wake up!"

Tends to work for me.

[SeaMonster]

You have to put them at ease, they have to trust you not to judge them, and this is something that can take quite awhile.  In short, the answer is, you have to build a real relationship with them.

[Seth]

What if they're authentically in autopilot?