Your Mind is a Terrible Thing

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This happened to Heroes' Matt Parkman when his ability first manifested. Most of the people whose minds he touched were thinking about what a loser he was, and how he didn't know his wife was cheating on him. In the opening of one comic, her inner monologue concerns the unpleasantness of hearing people's thoughts. One guy politely gives her directions while thinking, "Please walk up and down my naked chest in stiletto heels."

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The protagonist Eragon brings this trope up in the second book, claiming to be "uncomfortable with the idea of prying into people's secrets ... secrets that they have every right to keep to themselves". He shortly thereafter learns to use this power for good.

In The King's Justice, Kelson questions Gorony and Loris telepathically after they're captured. Gorony was an enthusiastic inquisitor, and Kelson likens reading Gorony's mind to "taking a swim in the castle middens in the summertime." When it's Loris' turn, Kelson finds "[r]eading Loris was even more loathsome than reading Gorony had been"; Loris gave explicit instructions to Istelyn's executioners and reveled in their grisly work, and he engaged in inquisitions and burnings in many outlying areas of the kingdom prompted by his "long-standing and unreasoning hatred of the Deryni." Overjoyed to see Paste has included A Light Most Hateful in its “Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2023.” From the article: Our life is a reflection of our thoughts, we are driven by thoughts, and thoughts are driven by our mind, and that’s how ultimately It’s our mind which decides or controls everything.

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The dark does not die in the light; it only waits,”… My Final Thoughts on Your Mind Is A Terrible Thing A Softer World 281 ; "I thought a psychic girlfriend would see the real me. And she did. I just didn't think she'd call the police". This is pretty much what did in the Martians in The Martian Chronicles. While they were perfectly fine being telepathic by themselves, the sheer novelty of thoughts emanating from the first handfuls of human explorers were enough to drive them completely insane, resulting in the rapid downfall of their civilization and the destruction of the entire species.

Down to Agincourt: It features a new psychic who can't control her mindreading and doesn't know how to turn it off. No individual mind is too terrible, but she can "hear" anyone who's in her range, all the time, and gets migraines—though she has not, as yet, had a Psychic Nosebleed. Stargirl (2020): After Dr. Henry King became a Professor Guinea Pig thanks to his mind-expansion experiments, he started hearing other people's thoughts, accompanied by headaches. Many of those thoughts were base and vile, so eventually he concluded that people are monsters. This led to him becoming the supervillain Brainwave. After his son Henry Jr. starts manifesting these abilities, many of the thoughts he hears are the same. Courtney tries to convince him that those are just surface thoughts of people who are scared, and if he looks deeper, he will find love and kindness. Henry expresses doubt. Sgt. Frog: One chapter has Dororo interrupt his team-mates' scheming to protest a particularly underhanded plot, only to be met with stunned silence. He promptly whips out a mind-reading ninja art and uses it on the other members to see what they think about him. The answer sends him right into his Corner of Woe.Night Head Genesis: Naoya's mindreading powers give him a lot of grief, and it doesn't help that 90% of people in the anime are either evil or traumatized beyond repair. Particularly horrific visions cause him to hallucinate for hours, even days, on end. When he experiences his visions, they are also capable of rebounding off to the people surrounding him, leaving more room for judgement and ridicule. Even touching objects can trigger unfortunate visions. His older brother spends a lot of time looking after him. If you are going to go after God with all your heart and mind, then you must release certain things from your life. I can’t tell you what those things are, because they may be different for you than they are for me. But the Holy Spirit can (and I have a suspicion he already has) put his finger on certain things in your life. Molly gets the worst of it. As her magical power grows, so does her sensitivity to the thoughts and emotions of beings around her — humans, various evil supernaturals, and Eldritch Abominations. It gets so bad that, by Cold Days, she can barely stand to be in a crowded room.

Xander's internal monologue: Four times five is thirty. Five times six is thirty-two... Naked girls... Naked women... Naked Buffy! Somebody stop me! It gets worse when she discovers that she has a hard time telling the difference between what she hears and what she reads, causing her to mix the two up and respond to information she's not even supposed to know.

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Hailey Piper certainly takes us on a journey here! My Favorite Passages from Your Mind Is A Terrible Thing At the Edge of Lasg’len: Thranduil is a powerful telepath who is something of a captive audience to the thoughts of humans around him...whether he likes it or not. The more exposure he has to humans, the more he wishes the ability came with an 'off' switch. In School Rumble, Yakumo's ability to see the thoughts of people who are infatuated/in love with her (As text floating in the air) generally only makes her miserable. She gets asked out/confessed to/propositioned by boys all the time, but is put off by what they REALLY want. (Except for Hanai, who actually thinks what he says, but he puts her off in other ways.) Even worse, she can't read the guy she's actually interested in, because he's one of the few guys she knows that is NOT infatuated with her. Features the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir singing the song "Kalimankou Denkou" off of the 1975 compilation album Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares.