what if I heard all the thoughts around me theme
We imagine what it would be like to continuously hear the thoughts of those nearby with little recourse to stop doing so apart from removing ourselves from the presence of others.
Examples
Tam Elbrun was nearly driven mad by not being able to block out other people's thoughts in tng3x20 "Tin Man".
16 total · 3 choice · 5 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng3x20 | choice | Tam Elbrun :: Tam was driven crazy by the hearing of other people's thoughts |
| tz1959e2x16 | choice | Poole suddenly found himself obliged to hear the thoughts of anyone nearby after the coin he tossed into a newspaper vendor's box landed on its edge. |
| voy6x02 | choice | ex-Borg drones had their minds filled with each others thoughts |
| bbf1x17 | major | Alisa Beldon experienced what it was like to have her mind flooded with other peoples thoughts. |
| futurama5x13141516 | major | Fry's mind got filled with other people's thoughts when he wasn't wearing his tinfoil hat. |
| movie: Chaos Walking (2021) | major | A main novelty of the film is that the New World males could hear each other's thoughts in streams of images, words, and sounds called "Noise". |
| movie: Scanners (1981) | major | Cameron needed to inject himself with ephemerol to stop nearby people's thoughts from flooding into his mind and drive him mad. |
| tz1985e2x09c | major | Keith was able to hear other people's thoughts through his pocket radio. |
| movie: The Brother from Another Planet (1984) | minor | Upon arrival in Ellis Island, the Brother heard the voices of the immigrants that came before him. |
| movie: Time Masters (1982) | minor | Yula and Jad could actually smell other peoples' thoughts. |