Flat, detailed list

Right now, it's one word per item, so all the items sound generic:

Bottle

Books

Phone

Headphones

Pens

Rubbish

Writelike

What happens if we add more detail to each item?

Grimy water bottle gifted at a conference

Copy of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Uncased iPhone, model unknown

Old cabled Apple EarPods because I'm allergic to the latex on my AirPods

Three black Staedtler Artline felt tip pens

Empty bag of peanut M&Ms

Writelike

With more detail, the items in this list are more vivid.

Before, you could have imagined any bottle or book or headphones; now, the detail in the list items influences your imagination, and the items tell you more about the person who wrote the list.

Rewrite your list but add detail to each item.

We could keep on adding detail—we could write whole paragraphs about each item if wanted.

We could even abandon words entirely and make a list out of images of items:

Grid of beautiful 19th century paintings of minerals

The two lists you've written so far: are they true? Are those really the things in front of you?

Do you think the examples that I wrote are true? Were those the things in front of me?

How would you know? Could you tell if I was lying?