![]() ![]() It is an illusion brought to you by the mixed up chemicals in your head, and it’s something that you have to be very very careful not to fall into. The simple and blunt truth of the matter is that this perception is a function of a serious brain disorder. ![]() YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Schizophrenia Symptoms: Delusions Once you’ve accepted that strange possibility, it’s pretty easy to arrive at the conclusion that people can read your mind. It may seem strange that anybody can arrive at the conclusion that they are telepathic or that the world is telepathic, but a function of mental illness are the careening, paranoid thoughts and delusions that everything has a purpose: even the most innocuous coincidence means something so, inevitably, you start to string together the things you think and feel and the things that happen to you into some semi coherent (to you) web of connections, and some of the connections can’t hold up unless someone knows your deepest secrets and the innermost workings of your mind. ![]() What may not be evident is how terrifying the notion is that people are rifling through your brain, that they can read your thoughts and that there’s nothing you can do to stop them. Either way, this set of symptoms is particularly insidious in the moment. This may manifest itself in the notion that the FBI or the government has planted a chip in your head, or that you somehow have gained magical powers because you’re a prophet or a magician. It means that you can communicate through thought alone, and that you’re deepest most innermost thoughts and insecurities are on display because others can read your mind. Telepathy in the classical sense means that you can read other people’s minds. These are symptoms, though, and a major one that many report experiencing is the sense that they are telepathic. This all seems completely ridiculous, but that’s kind of the set of circumstances that you go through in the midst of a psychotic episode. Most of the thoughts were about how weird I was and how I had to be careful, lest my status as a prophet would be compromised. I could see what people were thinking just by looking at them, and I could feel their thoughts as I stared in their direction. I was buzzing and I could see and hear things so acutely it was like I had superpowers. I can remember walking through a grocery store shortly before my first major psychotic episode of schizophrenia. ![]()
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