How do you feel about the idea of telepathy existing and...?

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Do you think you could handle having to be social and other people knowing your thoughts?

Last edited by Technic1 on 02 Apr 2021, 6:04 am, edited 3 times in total.

My thoughts make no sense to me so I can't imagine them making any sense to someone with telepathy abilities. I think I'd be safe.

Do you think you could deal with being able to read other people’s thoughts and therefore not ever being alone?

Other people get a lot of your emotions and intentions usually but may either like or dislike or approach or not care you despite of this.

If I had the power to read other people’s thoughts I don't think I'd use it. I don't have much interest in knowing what other people are thinking. Reading another persons thoughts against their will seems to me to be a violation and a terrible thing to do to another person. It would like having a knife or a gun in my pocket that I could never see myself using against a living person. Even if they never knew they were being read, I would know.

If the ability was forced upon me against my choice, then I guess I could deal with that. I imagine it would be very distracting though. I'd guess I'd just have to get used to it. I imagine it would be like a radio or TV broadcast that would play in the background whilst I get on with life. I'm never alone as it is, my mind chatters away non stop, so I guess I'd get used to the extra chatter.

It does break privacy laws doesn’t it???

Reading someone else mail is a breech of privacy laws. Reading someones mind is worse so I'm sure it breaks some kind of laws. There is no precedent of course, but assuming mindreading would get you into legal trouble, it the person you violated didn't try to murder you first.

How would anyone else feel about it?

There is no valid empirical evidence to irrefutably prove the existence of telepathy. Therefore, how one "feels" about telepathy is irrelevant.

No, I NEED my personal space and quiet time.

The question, therefore, is what do they think about it?

I have always wondered! I have usually felt different/separated from the rest of the human race, even as a 3 year old child, so figuring out their world used to be of great interest to me to the point that I wanted to study psychology or psychiatry etc so I could learn and help people with mental health issues.

Alas, the penny has never dropped and in recent years I have lost my faith in the field of psychology, for many reasons I won't go into here, so it seems that that part of my journey in life is well and truely over (more over than I would have liked it to be). As much compassion as I can have for the other members of mankind, I will never honestly understand them.

I have lived a life that is constantly confused by other people. I AM constantly confused by other people.



Maybe if humans ever develop this ability a permissions form should be signed beforehand?



Distracting is not the word, torture is. And the chance of quiet time to relax the mind is long gone...

Humanity can lack compassion, not to mention understanding

No, I'd need to be able to turn it on and off or insanity would take over...

Yes and no.

I have a lot of stray thoughts that I don't neccessarily act upon or choose to believe in...they kinda float through my head and I then decided whether to ya or nay them.

The human brain can generate many thoughts that are really just b*llo**ks (to put it blunty), all you can do is learn to be able to filter them...

However, if someone else could hear every thought you had, would they be able to filter them in the same way that you do?

Many of my thoughts are compassionate and loving, but many are blinking insulting and rude...I get to pick and choose.

Unfortunately my autism means that I can often think (or sometimes say) something as an observation that others think is insulting. It was worse when I was younger...

Ie at age 9 or 10 I remember seeing my mother respond to a jokle and saying 'you remind me of a donkey when you laugh'...

Ouch! She became upset, I became upset, she was hurt, I hadn't mean't to hurt her, she didn't understand and yelled at me...

I hate being yelled at and I hate hurting other living things.

However, in my later years I have learned to filter things more effectively.

I don't take all of my thoughts too seriously...especially when I am upset or angry.

We live in a very egoistic over sensitive world.


On saying that, it does not help that I simply do not understand how others peoples minds work.

On saying all of that, some of my thoughts are just bloddy strange or funny.

My brain never ceases to amuse me and annoy everyone else in the process!