Mind Reader...

I'd love to be able to read minds...but I'd also like the ability to turn it off and on. I really wouldn't want to read the minds of my family (with a few exeptions) or closest friends, but would love that ability when faced with a salesman, or other similar situations. Now, anyone with teenagers would certainly benefit from being able to read minds...especially theirs!

Well, if you could control it and just hear someone's thoughts when you wanted to, it might not be so bad but if as in that movie where Mel suddenly acquires the "gift" and can hear EVERY woman's thoughts on the street or in a cafe... well, one might go bonkers very quickly.

I sometimes think that being a mind reader would be a very good idea, but I reckon if people knew what I was thinking I'd get locked in a loony bin fairly quickly.;)

I do have a 'gift' if you can call it that, well, I have a couple, the one I'll talk about here is 'empathy', I am an empath, which means I sometimes feel exactly what another person is feeling, this can cause more problems than it solves sometimes, it's quite annoying for instance when I get really sad feeling and I don't know who it's connected to, especially if I get the feeling late at night, so I can't ring anyone. On the other hand, it is useful, I know when some people are upset before they tell me, I also seem able to know if someone's pregnant before they tell me too, which is ok for me, but it tends to spoil the surprise for the pregnant person.

So, I would say, no to mind reading and yes to the gifts I have.

Good morning Twoey, i can see the pros & cons of having this ability. I guess i'm glad i don't altho it would come in handy sometimes.

In a way, it would be fun to be able to read minds but only if I could telepath back to them without them knowing it was me doing it. lol Don't think I would want to be able to do that all the time though cause it would eventually drive me looneytuney. Bad enough I have voices in my head agruing when I'm trying to sleep.

While it might be fun at first, mind reading would, as you said, become more of a curse than anything else and people would certainly avoid you like the plague if they knew you could read their minds!

It would b good if you caould turn it off and on at will. There are some id sure like to read.

I'd be called a weirdo if that ever happens and might go out of my mind if i start reading other people's thoughts. but i kept thinking about it If i can do these for Heroic and Patriotic reasons like busting out corrupt officials, most specially corrupted Cops.It would make a difference to my country and probably exposed their secret and illegal activities..

naw never wanted to read mind but wiould like to do something like in Medium and help people!

I think it would be a bad idea too. If you could
cut it on and off, it might be o.k. I might could
deal with it that way. I would not want the Gov.
to step in, but they would. I would try to hide
it myself.
Have a great day.