There have been situations where someone is talking to me and for a moment I can tell exactly what they're going to say next. Or even more common than that is when someone is trying to think of a word or phrase and I can practically see the word appear in my head. Sometimes I'll help them out, but more often than not I keep my mouth shut because I want to see if we were thinking the same thing. How is it that we can tell what another person is thinking without them saying so? Sure some of it comes down to simply knowing the person to a degree that you know how they think rather than what they think. Still there are times where it feels as though it's more than having a hunch someone is about to say something. Maybe it's possible that our thoughts aren't simply in our heads. I'm sure to some that may sound like telepathy, but it's not that controlled. Our brain is this incredibly complex organic machine that's run by electricity. That would mean our thoughts are potentially electrical signals traveling at the speed of light throughout our mind. If you've ever lived close to an AM radio tower you know that the signal gets into everything, even if it's not meant to. When I was a kid you could pick up the phone and hear the radio in the background. Same goes for an open television channel. The channel itself isn't broadcasting anything so it behaves like an open microphone picking up whatever ambient broadcasts are nearby. It's possible that our own brains do that with other people's thoughts. Now obviously it's not always something we pick up on or even transmit out beyond our own mind, but occasionally we might be "tuned in".
Some people I know like to joke about how their brain and mouth have no filter. Instead they just sort of say most everything they think. That may feel somewhat liberating because they never really have to censor themselves. The truth is that everyone does check themselves to some degree. Even if you're brutally honest about everything, it's very rare that your thoughts get translated into words exactly. One might pick and choose the right phrase from any number of possibilities. The reason for that isn't always to be polite, but more because think about how you think. I might be in the minority on this one, but I don't always think in words. In a lot of cases it's images of half-formed ideas that defy explanation. It takes conscious effort to translate that flurry of thoughts into something someone else could possibly understand. And those are just the things we choose to share with other people for whatever reason. There is so much we think of that we keep to ourselves.
It's interesting the various pieces of information that we notice and store away for later reference, especially when it comes to other people. For instance, when you're first starting a relationship with someone there is so much information about a person coming at you. It's all new and if you like them, it all seems wonderful. It's only later that we start to realize that it's not all wonderful. That's usually after the infatuation phase has ended. All those little details we know about a person and choose to accept until the moment comes that we're not happy with them. Then those things that we once were able to accept get turned into verbal weapons. When Andy first started dating Trish he told her that he rode a bicycle and didn't drive. There was a moment where she may have thought it was a little odd for a grown man to only have a bicycle, but because she liked him, she was willing to accept that aspect of him. It wasn't until later when they were fighting that she threw it back in his face. So it's possible that she was willing to overlook it because it was a slightly weird nuance that made him who he was. She was willing to overlook it right up until the moment she decided to use it against him. I think we've all been in situations like that, where we pull out old pieces of information in an effort to hurt another person. Certain ideas about a person may be acceptable at one moment, but not in the next. My point is that those things may always up there, we just choose to not say them for whatever reason. Does that mean the negative thoughts are somewhere in there too, even if they're not quite formulated yet?
Going back to what I mentioned before about the possibility that our thoughts aren't always confined to just our own brain. In a sense we're broadcasting something out into the world. It might not be thoughts, but it could be feelings or unseen chemicals that carry information within. If that's true then those negative thoughts might be leaking out as well. There have been times when a person you know is in a bad mood or has some intense things on their mind. You can tell by looking at them. Sometimes it's subtle physical indicators that give it away, but sometimes it's something else. It's something you can't quite quantify or explain. You just know something isn't right. In those situations are we receiving information from some other source? That could mean that even if we don't say something out loud, we're still technically "saying" it in some other way. If any of that's true then we might want to think twice about thinking because the person you're standing next to might be unconsciously listening.
