Throughout the day you see people's expressions and body language. These are like the context clues to how a person is thinking.
But is that good enough?...
Would you not want to be able to just dig in, open up their thoughts and ACTUALLY see what they are really thinking?
Okay, imagine yourself sitting down at a job interview. You obviously want to kill it and land the job. However you see your interviewer taking so many notes and that's when you start to wonder... "What is she writing? How does she feel? Oh, I shouldn't have tried to make that joke."
What if you could actually know what she was thinking? You could easily land the job that way right?
Or would that build more pressure?
Having the "power" to know what people are thinking could also be a vise.
For instance, knowing how your SO really feels about you. Would you even want to know that they may be hiding certain intentions, or saying things they really do not mean?
Sure on one end it may save you from wasting your time and a traumatic heartbreak.
At the same time, would it not hurt more knowing they are LYING to your face about their emotions?
Then how would you go about telling them you know how they truly feel about you? (That's a whole other aspect.)
Just like ,going back to the interview situation, what if mid way through the interviewer does not like you? You could feel like your wasting your tim. Why continue? So you give up on yourself, cut yourself short. When really if you did not know you could keep persevering. However with that idea if you could read minds and you KNEW the interviewer was not feeling your vibe you could preserver through and MAKE them like you..
So many different ways to view this.
Personally I think it would be way too much to think about and my brain would just OVERLOAD and bust. I think I'm okay with having people's opinions stay in their head. I surely wouldn't want people knowing how I am thinking or judging...
So, would you want to read people's minds?
Would you tell people you can read minds, or just keep it to yourself?
Tell me what you think!!!