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I've recently been afraid of people reading my thoughts and judging me. Is this a problem? I don't want people seeing what I think about, since it's pretty weird.
That's a normal fear, especially as you get smarter
Learn psychology and body language and eye contact, I could link you to a psych 101 class on YouTube. The professor is great and it's a broad class
If you learn about the psychological implications of your behavior, body language, and about the mind and how to grow, develop, and adapt, you could facilitate behavior that is favorable to you, your own morality influencing the karmic balance of course.
I also look at it as being able to project positive energy into the universe, kinda like human-quasar energy comprised of thoughts/decisions/actions influencing things you interact with, learn from, desire, work for
So I use this kinda stuff to figure out how to talk to others in ways that don't betray me and is beneficial to the synergy of the moment
Maybe you could apply this in some way to your situation, you could put your own twist on it. Learning about personas is also pretty cool, they're like modes of operation you can shift between, like different sets of rules you apply to yourself for different situations. If you're at work you could apply a set of general rules for yourself you keep in the back of your head throughout your shift, the rules should help you avoid problems you foresee, like if someone asks you something private you already know if that happens you think of a covert response to move the conversation along
See, this is why psychology is amazing, because while yes individuality and the odds are two things that definitely exist, what psychology does is map the mind out on a broad enough scale that all humanity and even animals I daresay fit into its framework
Like yes you're your own person who probably can't be read in totality by no one you don't trust, but anyone who's studied psychology can see the framework of a mind, which lends more credence than a mere stranger's perspective. You can apply this knowledge of yourself with how you operate in the world around you to achieve the things you want.
If you want to be confident and confidential, build automatic responses, plan for extenuating circumstances, if you can maintain your composure and feel your heart rate is relaxed then you're on the right path
Your mind is pretty messed up, I stopped reading it a little while ago. Got tired of it.
It shows insecurity and guilt feelings. You need to talk to someone about it.
My spidey senses tell me that no one can read your mind, no one in the world is psychic.
I feel like what we both probably call empathy I also call reading someone's mind
No, I would see mind reading as more precise. Mind reading would be someone looking at me, and suddenly knowing that I intend to buy a green sweater for a dog I know.
So mind reading would have to be actually hearing your thoughts and not noticing the body language that you suddenly became interested in the sweater?
It's not as fool proof because some people can disguise their intentions, but I can sense that to some degree.
Like the other day someone thought I was being rude and said something very subtle about it and I'm like "that's not what I'm doing" and I could just read it on his face he didn't intend for me to figure out he was offended but rather slink away after being berated, like I really threw him for a loop there
No that’s not normal at all. It’s fucking stupid.
A person wouldn’t understand your thoughts, they’d have no frame of reference to go on with a lot of the imagery. It’d just be garbled nonsense.
No, often one can just picture the thing and know how it is spelled or said inherently, so there’d be no point.
People have an internal dialogue sure, but that’d just be useless garbage jumping from one point to another.
Because you think virtually instantaneously, but you have to listen and analyse when someone is speaking to you.
So imagine trying to make sense of the several immediate conversations one can easily hold or shift erratically between internally. And then having little to no frame of reference for interpreting them.
On top of that the one person conversation will shift back and forth from one coherent topic to descriptions of imaginary things, the immediate environment, feelings on things that may or may not be there, intrusive thoughts, musings using philosophy you have no reference for, ect, ect...