Yeah as Sussch said, its different. You can think of it as producing different vibration. Its not very easy to detect the difference btw, you can also tell if someone else is introducing thoughts to you. Does anyone know how to train to detect this difference easier btw?
Oh yeah would it be right to define this feeling as a 'mental emotion' or an emotional of the mental body?
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Vini, the synchronicity with your friend may be telepathic. However, conscious telepathy like every other mind power happens astrally. You experience whatever you are trying to communicate within your mind's eye as though it is really happening with present urgency, & it congeals from astral substance(mind stuff, citta, etc.), into physical matter reality.
The more vivid the experience your mind's eye hallucination; the more powerful the telepathic connection or any other type of psi manifestation which interests you will be.
More specific to telepathy though; one of the ways you can tell that a connection is made, is that your chakras connect with the other person or persons involved. This is something you can feel as a physical sensation. In the beginning, it's often in the 3rd chakra, & can often feel like a warmth or tugging sensation.
One of the ways you can develop rudimentary but reliable telepathy, is by making tactile contact with others astrally. You don't have to leave your body; just experience the other person/persons vividly in the mind's eye. The person/persons you are psychically touching will feel it consciously or unconsciously relative to your concentration skill. Though, in either case you will notice body language in response to the stimulus. This can also be electronically measured via galvanic skin response, though the persons body language will show you enough to develop your confidence & skill. Over time & constant practice, you become more & more skilled and sensitive as well. Along with reading thoughts you develop all manner of sub telepathic powers like putting people to sleep; jumping into the bodies of others, influencing multiple people, charming/enthralling people, telepathic warfare techniques, seeing what someone ate for breakfast, lol:)
Some psions, have a natural aptitude, for sending; receiving, or any of the sub skills I mentioned, but most people start with sending or receiving.
Hey I can actually sense the chakra connections. I have strong connections with my family and I think this is the reason why some events in my life seem to follow in their lives soon after....I keep taking them off every now and then but they keep attaching back to me unconsciously....hmmm imagine all the connections made by fans to celebrities, must be like an emotional weight for them, constantly under phychic pressure
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How can you tell if you and a friend are actually thinking alike compared to using real telepathy?
That's easy to explain! :) just thinking alike is an result of thinking the same way like someone. No more, no less!
Using telepathy for it means that you receive more informations in the form of signals. That is, you are able to do more than ending a sentences of someone. You can imagine the same thing during that, you feel the same thing during that.
If you would compare this situation of telepathy with a guitar...when you sing then you will vibrate the guitar's strings if you strike the right tones. At the moment when this happens your frequencies resonate. That's the point! :)
I think when you say something at the same time as someone else this is a form of telepathy. I am sure it can happen just randomly but it is rare enough that when it happens to me I take notice. I remember once when a friend and I said a really long sentence at exacatly the same time. I also notice that when I am about to say something and someone says the same thing before I get a chance to I always seem to be zoned out and not really thinking about anything right before it happens. I think this makes it easier for them to subconsciously pick up on whatever you are sending out even if they don't mean to.