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Breaking down telepathy

Giza

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Alright been thinking of telepathy for quite some time, mostly due to my condition of hearing voices. I believe hearing voices is evidence of something more, like telepathic communication.

Basically telepathy is moreso believed to be an ability of reading minds, but it can also be a way of communicating. Now how would that work? Well when one is thinking they can be read. Think of your thought as the voice of your mind, when you control that voice the one 'reading' you can understand what you're saying which creates an open communication. When people pray silently, they are exercising that voice, which is a quite pecular ability. Why do we have the ability to talk silently?

When trying to talk telepathically all you do is think of a person, when you think of that person it opens a channel of communication. You can talk to multiple people at one time, but I do not believe you can listen to more than one at a time. Think of trying to listen to 2 people talk to you at the same time, it is hard to understand one while another is talking.

Another thing to factor in is vocabulary. It is rare for 2 different people to have the exact same vocabulary and way of using that vocabulary. So pretty much the one on the recieving end would put the words together differently but they would still get what the person is trying to say. Like "I don't feel good" = "I am not feeling well". Think of the languages, thank you in english is "thank you", but thank you in spanish is "gracias". Which would make it difficult for both parties to say/hear the exact words of the other. Which would make emotion/feeling shared as well.

Reading emotion is evidence of telepathic ability also. There are different levels of ups and downs, but usually you can tell if the person is up or down. When one is emotional they give off a vibe that can be picked up but is sometimes just ignored. This I believe is mainly due to the interest the person has of the other.

Now since there are different levels of ups and downs, it's hard to differentiate the level of their up or down. This is usually limited because each person has experienced different emotions, so due to the different emotions if 2 people have felt the same emotion such as depression they can relate to each other easier, but if you take 1 person who has experienced depression and 1 person that hasn't, they could not connect on the same level as 2 people who have experienced the same emotions.

A silent minded person in a non emotional state would not be able to be read. Telepathy could actually be the 'cure' to suffering or evil. In order for one to have ill intention they must think/feel the intention. As soon as they think/feel negatively one would be able to pick it up. It would be hard to prevent the ones who act spontaneously without thought of the action they are about to commit. But pedophiles and murderers who plan out what they want to do in their mind would be easily able to be stopped.

When one is starting to discover telepathy in themselves, it can be very testing. All your private thoughts become exposed, all your embarassing moments become exposed. Even going to the bathroom can be embarassing. But I believe it is all for the better, it helps you discipline your mind and your decision making.

Any questions / critiques are welcome, it helps me further develop the whole concept. I cannot think of anymore questions about it, so if you have some, they will be greatly appreciated.

A practice I made for developing skills:
Turn on the TV, pick a show or movie (depending how long you want to spend practicing)
** Also make sure you do not watch previews of it or read anything related to the show/movie, you can but it sort of handicaps your development.**
Make sure you can watch the show/movie over again, so record it, or make sure you have a way of seeing it again.

Now when you turn on the show/movie, put it on mute.
Watch the show/movie in silence and try to make out what the show/movie about
- try reading the body language, the emotion, the scene.
- take notes on what you believe is going on and what the people are actually saying.

Watch the show/movie over again this time with sound and see how well you did.
 
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I am not sure, sorry, I should have stated that this is just my theory of the limits and explanation of telepathy, and I was seeking opinion of it.
 
I should have stated that this is just my theory of the limits and explanation of telepathy, and I was seeking opinion of it.
My opinion is that you need to prove it exists before trying to tackle it's limits and explanations.

How are you going to show that it exists using verifiable, objective testing protocols?

Exactly what information are you able to send and/or receive using this telepathy?
 
@kleinjahr
I believe learning those 2 things can help develop your inner voice(thought), the goal with what I'm trying to do is communicate with my thoughts.

@Stray Cat
I am putting this out there to see if anyone's beliefs of telepathy are similar, thank you for your response. It exists to me, but I lack social skills heavily.

I will have to think of ways to test it, does thought operate on a frequency that can be recorded or amplified?

Information that I've been aware of is basically communication, emotion, and pictures.
 
I will have to think of ways to test it, does thought operate on a frequency that can be recorded or amplified?

No. There's no way of recording actual thoughts. It's possible to record activity in various parts of the brain to get clues as to the type of task your mind is focussed on, but as to detecting or recording actual thoughts, no.
 
@kleinjahr
I believe learning those 2 things can help develop your inner voice(thought), the goal with what I'm trying to do is communicate with my thoughts.

@Stray Cat
I am putting this out there to see if anyone's beliefs of telepathy are similar, thank you for your response. It exists to me, but I lack social skills heavily.

I will have to think of ways to test it, does thought operate on a frequency that can be recorded or amplified?

Information that I've been aware of is basically communication, emotion, and pictures.

First prove that telepathy exists. When tested it always seems not to be there.
 
Could you explain a little further? Do you mean it existed in the past but we lost it due to the variety of ways of communicating we have now?

No,he means that when tested so-called telepaths always fail.
 
...When one is starting to discover telepathy in themselves, it can be very testing. All your private thoughts become exposed, all your embarassing moments become exposed. Even going to the bathroom can be embarassing. But I believe it is all for the better, it helps you discipline your mind and your decision making.

It must be very distressing to feel that your thoughts are being broadcast to others around you, and I very much sympathise with what must have been an extremely embarrassing situation. It may (or may not) help to know that of all the cases of people in this position, there has never, ever been a case noted where others actually could hear those thoughts. The sensation of being overheard only existed in the mind of the sufferer.
 
I am putting this out there to see if anyone's beliefs of telepathy are similar, thank you for your response. It exists to me, but I lack social skills heavily.
OK, have you considered that what you are experiencing is not telepathy at all?
Any internal thought process which can not be objectively shown or demonstrated could potentially be a delusion or a simple misunderstanding of something quite normal.

I will have to think of ways to test it,
Well one simple way would be to find a person or some people who are willing to voluntarily send you thoughts. Get them to use a normal pack of playing cards (obviously so you can't see it, maybe they sit behind you so can't see them or the cards)) and then they look at a card and think 'red' or 'black', you write the answer down that you telepathically pick up onto a sheet. The person sending the telepathic message put the card down face down and then you both move on to the next card. At the end of the test, you match up how many you got right. Report back here with your results.

does thought operate on a frequency that can be recorded or amplified?
Not as far as we know at the moment.

Information that I've been aware of is basically communication, emotion, and pictures.
Then pictures would be good for the paying card test I described. Get the person who helps you to picture what playing card they are looking at and see how accurate you are.
 
A practice I made for developing skills:
Turn on the TV, pick a show or movie (depending how long you want to spend practicing)
** Also make sure you do not watch previews of it or read anything related to the show/movie, you can but it sort of handicaps your development.**
Make sure you can watch the show/movie over again, so record it, or make sure you have a way of seeing it again.

Now when you turn on the show/movie, put it on mute.
Watch the show/movie in silence and try to make out what the show/movie about
- try reading the body language, the emotion, the scene.
- take notes on what you believe is going on and what the people are actually saying.

Watch the show/movie over again this time with sound and see how well you did.
You'd probably do quite well. I took a contemporary circus course in folk college (wrote all about it in a thread I started, if you're interested -- look up Threads started by Safe-Keeper), and one of the traditions my group evolved was that our performances never had spoken lines. With the exception of our first show, which had a "ringmaster" who spoke throughout the performance, speech was just never a part of our shows. What it taught me is how much you can convey with just body language, facial expressions, music and props. This has nothing to do with telepathy, it's just good old perfromance arts.
 
It would be hard to prevent the ones who act spontaneously without thought of the action they are about to commit. But pedophiles and murderers who plan out what they want to do in their mind would be easily able to be stopped.
Have you been watching Minority Report lately? Because that most excellent movie warns us that pre-empting criminal behaviour is not a good idea.
 
Thank you all for the responses. I figured since I can hear my own thoughts, that there would be a possibility for anyone to hear them.

Another question if you all don't mind..
Animals/insects seem to pick up on my thoughts.
Is it common for animals/insects to pick up/respond to your thoughts?
 
I think it is a very good idea to first rule out other causes for hearing voices, as there are quite a few and they are much more common than telepathy.
 
Thank you all for the responses. I figured since I can hear my own thoughts, that there would be a possibility for anyone to hear them.

Another question if you all don't mind..
Animals/insects seem to pick up on my thoughts.
Is it common for animals/insects to pick up/respond to your thoughts?

<edit> I think the key is "seem to". They don't really.

Animals and insects can't hear your thoughts any more than humans can.

Some animals can pick up on subtle behaviours which betray your mood or intentions, but that's not the same thing.

Insects don't care what you think or do, so long as you don't come at them with a rolled-up newspaper, and even then, they're only concerned with what the newspaper does, not what you think about it.
 
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Have you been watching Minority Report lately? Because that most excellent movie warns us that pre-empting criminal behaviour is not a good idea.

Yes, great movie! punishing the thought without the action wouldn't be just, but then again allowing the action to happen when you had the thought to go off would create a conflict, IMO. But I am a firm believer in trying to avoid negative thoughts.
 
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