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Telepathy is when one person's mind transfers a thought to another person's mind. Words sometimes fail us. Thoughts may not! Many different times people can have the same ideas
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This website Mental Telepathy is Real explains how they can electrically stimulate neural activity in the brain through intact scalps using strong magnetic fields. This shows how people use telepathy in the mind.

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Mental telepathy, the process of transferring thoughts from one mind to another, has traditionally occupied the realms of either science fiction or the paranormal, both of which are outside of mainstream science.

Research in 2014 has changed all that, with a scientifically validated demonstration of mind-to-mind communication.

Neuroscientist Carlos Grau of the University of Barcelona and colleagues set up a clever experiment in which signals picked up by an Electroencephalagraph EEG from subjects in India were transmitted over the Internet as email messages to other subjects in France whose scalps had been fitted with Trans Cranial Magnetic (TMS) stimulators. TMS devices, which have been used to treat anxiety and depression, electrically stimulate neural activity in the brain through intact scalps using strong magnetic fields. In this experiment, TMS stimulators were placed over the occipital (visual) cortex at the back of the brain, creating a perceived flash of light, called a phosphene, through neural activations in the visual cortex.

The subjects in India were trained to generate an EEG signal representing either a one or a zero using a biofeedback monitor. A one was generated when subjects imagined moving a hand, while a zero was produced when subjects imagined moving a foot. These ones and zeros were then emailed from India to France, and routed to one of two TMS devices mounted on subjects' scalps. Ones were routed to a TMS electrode that caused a phosphene to be perceived , while Zeros were routed to a different TMS device whose activity produced no phosphenes.

This figure illustrates how the mind to mind communication path worked.

Think of this a kind of neurological Morse code. The researchers encoded a series ones and zeros into words such as "hola" and "ciao," showing that simple linguistic communication was possible.

The bottom line is that the experiment more or less worked. Error rates of transmission of ones and zeros varied between 1 and 11%, well below what would be expected by random noise.

Why should we care?

Well, one way of viewing this demonstration is that it is as historic as Alexander Graham Bell saying, "Watson, come here, I want to see you:" the first ever voice communication over telephone.

In Grau et al's experiments, we may be seeing the birth of a revolutionary means of communication that will transform our world in the way the telegraph, telephone, or television did. Someday, instead of texting, speaking or looking into a camera to communicate, we may simply "think" our message, saving all the bother of typing or speaking, or even getting out of the shower.

Finally, if mind to mind communication proves practical, it's possible that we will learn to communicate subtle ideas and nuances that text, speech and facial expressions cannot, forever changing the way humans relate to each other by amplifying and enriching the depth of communication.

Words sometimes fail us. Thoughts may not!
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0105225

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Mental telepathy, the process of transferring thoughts from one mind to another, has traditionally occupied the realms of either science fiction or the paranormal, both of which are outside of mainstream science. Research in 2014 has changed all that, with a scientifically validated demonstration of mind-to-mind communication.

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Dream telepathy is the purported ability to communicate telepathically with another person while one is dreaming.
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Scientists have done many sleep tests, when rapid eye movement activity occurred activities in the brain sent out signals. Sometimes when someone is dreaming about another person the other person may wake up and can't sleep because they are getting a telepathic message. Some people may not understand they are getting a message but just because they can't sleep it can be a reason

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Scientists Have Discovered That Dream Telepathy Is Real

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If you are a twin, you may have felt that your twin sibling is in danger, sad, happy, or physically hurt without even being in the same city as them
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In this website explains how twins have telepathy powers.  In some cases twins will know what is happening to one another before they are told. They have feelings that go off in their minds they tell them something is wrong. Sometimes when one twins learns something a few months later the other twin may know how to do it as well.

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Telepathy may not only be a thing for X-Men comic book heroes. If you are a twin, you may have felt that your twin sibling is in danger, sad, happy, or physically hurt without even being in the same city as them.

There have been many stories of such twin telepathy, and perhaps these instances could be the basis of further research. Actually, some researchers have been running experiments with twins that could yield interesting examinations on the capacity of the human brain and the potential for telepathic connection.

See what you make of these ideas after reading anecdotal accounts of twin telepathy and what researchers have to say about them.

The Houghton Twins

This story of the telepathic Houghton twins made news in March 2009. One day, 15-year-old Gemma Houghton was suddenly struck with the strong feeling that her twin sister Leanne was in trouble. Gemma hurried to the bathroom, where she knew Leanne was taking a bath and found her sister submerged, unconscious and turning blue. Leanna is an epileptic and had suffered a seizure in the tub. Gemma pulled her sister from the tub, administered CPR and revived her, saving her life. "I got this sudden feeling to check on her. It was like a voice telling me 'your sister needs you'," Gemma later told reporters. "She was under the water. At first, I thought she was washing her hair or playing a trick, but when I lifted her head out I saw she had turned blue.

I knew she'd had a fit." Had Gemma not been compelled by that feeling to check on her sister, Leanne almost certainly would have drowned.

The Houghton twins' story is one more anecdotal account of the psychic connection that is said to exist between many twins, especially identical twins. The Houghton sisters happen to be fraternal twins, but their mother says they are "inseparable and share an uncanny bond." A survey conducted by Dr. Lynne Cherkas, a genetic analyst at the department for twin research at King's College London, showed that one in five identical twins said they had experienced some form of telepathy, and one in ten fraternal twins reported the phenomenon.

Although a telepathic connection between twins is not universal, as Dr. Cherkas' survey reveals, it is common enough to serve as some of the best evidence for the reality of telepathy among humans and has provided researchers with a good way to study the phenomenon.

Guy Lyon Playfair has done extensive research in the field of twin telepathy and has much of his work can be found in his book Twin Telepathy: The Psychic Connection. In an article for Paranormalia, Playfair comments that the Houghton event is certainly not the first time that twin telepathy may have saved a life. "I know of at least three other examples, one of which I investigated at first-hand," he says. "This would suggest that the scientific community should take rather more interest in it than it yet has."

Telepathic Connection

In some cases, one twin will know about something that happened to the other twin when such knowledge was clearly impossible. This story comes from Twin Connections, a website that celebrates "the mysterious bond between twins" and collects stories from twins. Aiya, mother of identical twin boys, shares that when she and Ethan were going to pick up Gabriel from her grandmother's place, Ethan casually told his mother to tell Gabriel to put his clothes on.

Confused but curious, Aiya called her mother to see if she was having a hard time getting Gabriel dressed, to which her mother responded yes, Gabriel didn't want to get dressed because it was too cold and he wanted to stay in his pajamas. At the time, Ethan and Gabriel were 4-years-old.

Physical Reactions

Much of the information we have about twin telepathy comes from the spontaneous experiences reported by the twins themselves. Some reports reveal that a twin can physically respond to a change or trauma that occurred their twin. An article by Buzzle about twin telepathy provides a few such anecdotes.

Two male twins had different areas of interest: one played soccer and the other took guitar lessons. After a few months, however, the soccer-playing twin could play the guitar nearly as well as his brother without ever having taken a lesson.

A study of the boys also said that they had had "limited interaction" with each other during the time they were pursuing these interests.

Another story is that a man in Texas was forced to sit down due to a stabbing pain in his chest. He later learned that his twin brother in New York was having a heart attack at the same time. Similarly, a young girl had an accident with her bicycle and broke her ankle. Her twin sister developed swelling in the same uninjured ankle.

Coincidence Argument

Are these cases of two people who share very similar genetics simply making similar choices? Or is there truly a psychic connection that transcends distance?

Most scientists are naturally skeptical of such anecdotes as evidence of telepathic communication. "We do hear of things like this happening between identical twins more often than fraternal, but it isn't telepathy," says Dr. Nancy Segal, professor of psychology and director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University in an article for Lawrence Journal-World. "They're merely coincidences that occur when two people are so much alike in the first place. It's nature and nurture - same heredity, same environment. [Identical twins] come from the same egg, and they tend to have the same general thought patterns, intelligence levels, likes, and dislikes."

Experiments

Guy Lyon Playfair, in addition to his book research, has conducted informal experiments of his own to test the psychic connection between twins. These are some of the results.

For a television show in 2003, Playfair set up a test for twins Richard and Damien Powles. Richard was placed in a sound-proof booth with a bucket of ice water while Damien was some distance away in another studio hooked up to a polygraph machine (a "lie detector" machine that measures respiration, muscle and skin response. When Richard plunged his hand into the ice water and let out a gasp, there was an obvious blip on Damien's polygraph that measured his respiration, as if he too had let out a gasp.

In a similar experiment before a live TV audience in 1997, twin teenagers Elaine and Evelyn Dove were likewise separated. Elaine was in the sound-proof booth with a pyramid-shaped box while Evelyn was sequestered in another room with the polygraph. When Elaine was sitting relaxed, suddenly the box exploded in a harmless but shocking pop of sparks, flashes, and colored smoke. Evelyn's polygraph recorded her psychic reaction at the same moment, with one of the needles running right off the edge of the paper.

Playfair is quick to admit that these were not experiments conducted with the strictest scientific protocols, yet it is difficult to explain their outcomes.

And there was a reason that Playfair used cold water and the element of surprise in his experiments rather than having the twins try to communicate the number and suit of a specific playing card or another such thing. The physical and emotional response could be the key to making it work. "Telepathy tends to work best when it is needed," he says, "and when sender and receiver are strongly bonded, as with mothers and babies, dogs and their owners, and those with the strongest bond of all - twins."

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Telepathy may not only be a thing for X-Men comic book heroes. If you are a twin, you may have felt that your twin sibling is in danger, sad, happy, or physically hurt without even being in the same city as them.

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Description:  Telepathy is the transfer of thoughts, feelings, or images directly from the mind of one person to another without using physical means. Use TELEPATHY for mind-to-mind communication of thoughts, ideas, feelings, sensations, and mental images. Telepathy tests are found to prove if you have mental telepathy.
Connection: This video is made to help people justify their telepathy senses based on their results. The results can be different with everyone but are real according to your own mind set.

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A 1 minute Telepathy test to check your Psychic power

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Description : Extrasensory perception or ESP tests describes what it is and how it is conducted, also called sixth sense, includes claimed reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.
Connection: In this test, you have to guess 25 cards, each of which is selected by the computer prior to your guess. The actual card will be shown after you click on your chosen symbol.

To show evidence of ESP, you need to score at least 10 correct guesses (hits). The chances of obtaining 10 or more hits by luck is less than 1 in 20. This test is created to give individuals a chance to see if they are telepathic.

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Clairvoyance abilities test (extra sensory perception test)

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The test will provide you with a number of practical exercises and theoretical questions. Read the task attentively and reply at once. Remember that logic thinking is the man enemy of your intuitive capacities. This is not an IQ test and it is not always necessary to think before you answer.

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If you are quite psychic, you can meet strangers and immediately know a lot of what is going on in their head. This is not a fun experience since many people have negative thoughts or wish to do harm to others.

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Some of the Signs to tell if your telepathic are..
1. You can sense if it is a positive or negative reaction.

2. You can pick up on lies due to the person's thoughts giving it away.

3. You may pick up their thoughts of accomplishment. As an extremely sensitive person I often detect extreme thoughts of superiority and pleasure after a person thinks their lie has gone undetected.

4. You may pick up on a direct thought during a conversation. You will develop the ability to read stronger thoughts at first but listen out to see if you can develop this.

5. You are away from your close friend, but you suddenly sense that they are in danger.

6. You may try to send other people telepathic (or mind-to-mind) messages when you are with them.

7. You become aware of other's negative intentions very quickly.

8. You can feel a psychic attack when it occurs. You could feel a strong and unwelcome energy all around.

9. You can practice sharing psychic intimacy with a partner if the two of you are very psychic. You can feel what each is thinking from a distance.

10. You can read the minds of those who have passed over.

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Description: Telepathic connection between lovers is real. It is a two-sided communication that consists of sending and receiving messages. ... Many lovers don't know that they are communicating telepathically. Important messages are sent and received on both ends without taking consent from the lovers.
Connection: This picture shows that couples who are in love also can connect through their telepathy creating a much deeper connection.

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1. What did you learn about the topic that most surprised you?

I went into this assignment with a vague understanding of what Telepathy was, but during my research, I became more familiar with the topic and how telepathy just might exist. I was more surprised of the tests that I read an article on done on these twins. There were a couple of different tests to see if there was proof that twins can communicate telepathically and it was surprising to see the end results.Are twins really able to have a telepathic link? And do they actually have that bond to know when something is wrong with each other? Although there may be reasoning behind such parallel outcomes such as coincidences and similar upbringing, it was still amazing to see how connected twins can be.

2. Provide a real-life example of how this topic is relevant or interesting for you.

Some real-life examples of telepathy in our lives are ones we experience with siblings or even close friends. We find that the people we share most of our time with seem to have a better understanding of us and we do not necessarily need to use words to express ourselves. An example of this is finishing each other’s sentences or knowing what the other person is thinking before a word has been said. As mentioned before, it could be a mere coincidence or we just adopted a similar thought process as the other person and maybe that’s why we suddenly share the same thoughts or reaction to certain situations, but it's an interesting thought that it may also be a telepathic wave length we share with that person. It doesn’t matter who the person is be it a close friend, someone you see as a brother or sister and siblings themselves.

3. Which research did you find most interesting? Why?

I found the research about the man who was able to have telepathic connections with someone whom he has never been in contact with was most interesting. It was amazing to think that someone can possess a supernatural-like power and use it as a secret weapon. It was also very fascinating to see him in action and trying to use his telepathy to locate someone he has never encountered. A lot of people say that they can do these things and not have any proof or training, kind of like a sense or do it on instinct. Most of the other psychics mentioned in articles can’t do what this man has done and they said they’ve been training for years to be able to do it. Their was another psychic mentioned in the course that said she was a fraud that tried to locate missing children and she only got lucky with the last time she helped the police.

4. What are you most likely to remember from this research?

I will most likely remember the stories of twins that were able to feel the pain of their siblings. It is amazing how closely connected these kids were to one another. In addition, it was something that I was very skeptical about, but at the same time very intrigued to learn more. Its surprising the types of bonds that people can have with one another, it makes you think about how strong we actually are when we’re together.

5. Having completed all course content, which pseudoscience belief do you think is most harmful. Which is least harmful

The pseudoscience belief which is most harmful is emotional connection, reason being is because some people would get emotionally involved in things for example if someone believed in the paranormal and their are objects that are misplaced or not in the places that they should be, they would think that there was something going on or someone trying to communicate from the other side when they were the one to not put the object back in the normal place. The pseudoscience that is least harmful is antigenicity which is putting patterns and intention with meaning, kind of like solving a mystery, following clues until you find the culprit by putting two and two together.

6. If you could pass on your knowledge to a family member or friend, what do you think is the most important thing to pass on?

I think the most important thing to pass onto a family member or friend is everything isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. The reasoning behind this is because almost every assignment that we did on this course had people that believed in it and also had skeptics, for example if people believed in ghosts. Most people don’t believe in ghosts or never had experiences in the paranormal and that there's always an explanation for what’s going on, then there's those who believe in it and think that there's a higher power at work. Everything has an explanation it’s just up to the person to find out what it is and act on it.

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Description: Telepathy is the universal language and the way that all animals speak to each other. We've all seen two animals communicate on a non-verbal level, resulting in play or a disagreement. They were speaking to each other telepathically. Animal telepathy is mind-to-mind communication.
Connection: This picture displays two animals looking at each other and conducting a form of communication through the senses.

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How do you know your receiving a problem telepathically?
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From the video I have learned that there are 5 different ways to see if you are receiving a telepathic message which is, clairvoyance, clear audience, clear cognition, clear sentience and clear taste, smell and sound. The reason why these things are all important is because at the end it shows the energy of the person sending the message by sensing their presence/ energy in a room with them or where ever they are. It depends on the person that you would try to have contact with as well, sometimes the sense of the energy is stronger with someone that’s more of believer or a close friend/ family member.

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According to the video when she had explained to a non believer how telepathy works she proved her point by writing down a sequence of numbers away from everyone and supposedly telepathically told her friend to tell her what she had written on the paper. The sequence of numbers turned out to be her phone number, the second test was to pick four random numbers, wrote them down and again was communicated to via telepathy, which she guessed right again.

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Telepathic conversations - how to tell if someone is getting your messages