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Originally Posted by Tobi
I always think I'm pretty useless at telepathy, because I have no talent for knowing what number someone is thinking of, or receive any words, etc. I cannot seem to do "words" at all.
But I do have an ability to pick up on the slightest nuances of emotional energy or thought-projection towards me. It almost seems like a primal skill....such as the sense of smell for example. I can "scent out" the smallest changes in my inner/mental/emotional environment, and also discriminate exactly where /who those changes are coming from....like scents on the wind. Is that a form of telepathy? I have no idea.
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I would label what you describe as something like 'instinctive intuition,' and you're right that it's primal. Infants and other animals rely on such instantaneous and unconscious perceptions, while adult humans have an additional amount of other processing that seems to stifle their subconscious awareness. I'm convinced a talent for retaining awareness of that perception is related to so-called 'extra sensory perception'.
Telepathy (and any form of cryptesthesa) almost never produces exact replication of another person's senses. That doesn't mean it
can't, just that the experience is only as precise as our unconscious perception. Have you ever read text in a dream, or remembered long sequences of numbers? Our dreams don't allow us precision and telepathy works in the same way. It's sensory data filtered through the distortion of our psyches' expectations, as based on memory. The end result is a load of impressions, abstractions and metaphors.
The trick to ESP is never thinking so literally that you miss the point.
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