My first social mind-read was strange. I had recently had that strange event in which a specific thought seemed to connect the rest of the thoughts in my head in one massive overload, perhaps some kind of mini-stroke, but no evidence was found. I was with some friends, we’ll just call them Dylan and Jake, and a third I don’t recall, who was sober. We other 3 were drinking, and I was talking about my shift in confidence after that event. I remember it so clearly, I looked to Dylan and said: “…I’m feeling so confident, I bet I can read your mind.” I don’t know why I said that, specifically. Dylan squinted and tilted back and to the side and replied, “Oh yeah… Try it.” He closed his eyes, I closed mine, and I actually saw something, like a flash. I said, “You’re thinking of an arc, like an arc of electricity.” He confirmed in disbelief, and we tried again. Then it was a boombox, then a shoe, and I lost him. I gotta say it was a hard event to deal with. I didn’t know if they were messing with me or if I actually did what I thought I did with such ease. I had no real reason to think it was something I can do. Attempting it was the crazy thing, but it prompted a journey to understand what was going on. Like I previously stated, I have spent a lot of time focused inward, and I feel my intelligence lies in a greater clarity of inward focus, and I’ll be bringing up several examples to support that, and with that talent in mind, I felt that if anyone could figure out what was going on, it was me. If I could find my adrenaline glands and move my pinky toe by itself, I should be able to feel out why I could see pictures that other people were thinking of. I’ll never know if I dove into finding the solution because I thought it was the right thing to do, or if it was an old resurfaced habit wherein I treated my time like it was worthless, so why do anything for myself, the world needed to know and sharing it was going to destroy me. It truly is a challenge to keep your mind in the right place when it gets shaken up so, but I suspect it will be easier for anybody who isn’t the first.
The Vocanic Weird 