Questions tagged [telepathy]
Refers to the transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. Also known as mind reading.
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Story about telepathic twins missing the connection between the brain halves
I am looking for a YA novel, which I read in German, around 2012.
I might be mixing different books here, but the story roughly goes like this:
Gifted children are kept in some kind of research ...
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Short story about aliens who use terrifying dreams/visions to conquer other species
I read this story many years ago so I've forgotten most of the details. I think it was told from the point of view of a narrator going through the experience.
People all over the world began having ...
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Movie or TV show where a man telepathically saves child from coma
I am trying to identify a program I saw on American television sometime in the late 90's or early 00's. I am unsure if it was a movie being shown on TV or just an episode of a TV series, but it was a ...
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In which book does a man start whistling a tune, only to discover moments later it is playing on the radio? (passive telepathy is implied)
In which book does a man start whistling a tune, only to discover moments later it is playing on the radio? (and thereby showing passive telepathy)
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It could be very well be a book by Philip K....
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Book or series about a group of teens in a space colony who discover telepathic creatures
I have been trying to find this series that I read in grade school. Some of the info I remember is:
They have hover technology, hover bikes that the kids hack to remove safety restraints, and hover ...
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1980s sci-fi anime where a guy with longish brown hair (and possibly wearing a cape) is fatally injured by a robot which looks similar to a Dalek
The only thing I remember about this anime I watched on a VHS player during the 1980s (unfortunately can't remember the exact year), is a scene which involves a robot which looked similar to a Dalek (...
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Book about interplanetary travel, perfume mixing, and telepathy
Read this book in the early 90s. The protagonist goes to another planet and there is a lot to do with perfume. Correctly mixing perfumes to some important end. The population is telepathic, and I ...
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Book: boy with telekinesis, joins an organization, learns to control his powers while watching a football game
I've been searching for a while and I can't seem to find anything online about it.
The boy gets telekinetic powers and joins some sort of small organisation with a girl in it who helps him. He goes ...
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Looking for an ebook about a telepathic woman and telepathic twin brothers
I am looking for an e-book which I read about a high level telepathic woman who works as a mediator in government service. Her work is basically to mediate negotiations between parties as she can ...
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Youth Christian sci-fi book trilogy featuring a telepathic man and woman, who're separated but find their way back to one another
I can't find these books for the life of me, and thought I'd give this a shot.
Looking for a sci-fi book trilogy I think I read in the early-to-mid-'90s. I think the main character was named "...
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Story about female telepaths looking for compatible male telepath
A man runs into some women who can read minds. After he gets to know two of them, they ask if he would take part in a gene experiment that would allow him to control his own genes. He does and then ...
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Can a Vulcan mind-meld with a changeling?
We have seen Spock mind meld or have telepathic contact with several aliens, including at least one extremely physiologically different (Horta).
The answer to Are there any species a Vulcan can't ...
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Can a Vulcan mind-meld with, or read the mind of, a Ferengi?
We have seen Spock mind meld or have telepathic contact with several aliens, including at least one extremely physiologically different (Horta).
What humanoid species are immune to the Vulcan nerve ...
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Name for trope where a POV character has someone hanging out in their mind?
I've seen this trope in a lot of different media, where a telepathic being (not necessarily capable of telepathy with anyone, this can be limited to the one character) is just sort of hanging out in ...
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Fiction Romance. Heroine uses her psychic ability such as telepathy and psychometry to help find a man who's been kidnapped
This was an ebook I downloaded before, and read around the late 90s but it could be around the late 80s, and I think it's a standalone too. It's about a woman around her early or possibly late 20s ...
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sci-fi book where a meteorite gives 3 different kinds of telepathic powers to people who then vie for control
3 groups of telepaths each with different powers. They received their powers from a meteorite. One group is the strongest and are kind of in control. Another group wants to gain control. One group,...
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Book where man communicates telepathically with a being
I am looking for the name and/or author of a story that goes something like this:
A writer(?) is visited by a being and they communicate telepathically. The being eventually asks if the man has ...
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Searching for a book with a telepathic female
I read a novel in the 1980s in which the main character was a telepathic female. I believe the title included the word "Prime". I remember that it was part of a series. After she was done with an ...
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Who is the first-person narrator in Dan Simmons's "The Hollow Man"?
The scenes in Simmons's The Hollow Man alternate between third person omniscient and first person, with the first person narrator apparently having a fairly omniscient view of Jeremy Bremen's life, ...
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Looking for a book about a group of psychics, one locked in a completely dark cell
It's about this group of psychics. Mostly what I remember is the main male character (or one of them) is locked in a cell. Aforementioned cell is completely dark, and the young man is locked in there ...
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Possibly dystopian novel about telepathic 'lepping', set in the future
I've been looking for this book for a while now but can't seem to find it anywhere.
Involved a bunch of teenagers that could talk to each other telepathically (pretty sure they called it 'lepping'). ...
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Can Professor X / other psychics detect physical abnormalities/defects that directly cause mental ones?
There are cases when physical defects, injuries, etc. can cause different mental conditions. For example, I knew of a guy in real life who was super nice to everyone, but all of a sudden would ...
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Looking for a book about two kids who find a Roman (I think) coin and gain superpowers
It's been years since I read it - a brother and sister find a an old coin and then develop powers, the centre of which is their ability to communicate with each other telepathically. When they are ...
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Earliest Telepathic bonding story?
I was wondering about the earliest use of telepathic bonding in both fantasy as well as science fiction. I guess I should narrow it down by excluding simple telepathic 'speaking'. So, I define it as ...
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Can Dr. Antekirtt give hypnotic commands to Carpena from afar?
In Jules Verne, Mathias Sandorf part 4, chapter 1, Dr. Antekirtt (Antékirtt) finds that the prisoner Carpena is very susceptible to hypnosis. Dr. Antekritt hypnotizes him with a silent glance, and ...
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