I noticed something while meditating this morning.  I was in a state of mental silence, and started to enter an altered state when a thought came into my head.  This thought wasn't mine.  It was a young woman, blonde, slightly overweight.  She was thinking that she did not want to move from her current home, and wondered where she was going to live.  I momentarily became her. 

I regained my normal awareness and realized what I had just experienced didn't originate in my own personal mind.  I soon fell into another deep state, where I began experiencing another line of thoughts which were not mine.  This time they were some man's.  I cannot recall what the thoughts were, but I instantly knew they weren't mine, and experienced myself as being that man while I thought those thoughts.

I realized that this happens to me often, usually when I am drifting off to sleep, passing through various altered states, and also when I meditate.  I usually take it for granted that they are just fantasies of some sort, but my experiences today seem to hint at another possibility.  When I was thinking these thoughts, it seems that I temporarily adopted the mind of that individual; I was that person during those thoughts. 

Yesterday while meditating I also experienced this phenomenon.  It was the first time I really began to consider the possibility that maybe there was more to these thoughts than just fanatsy. 

There are a couple of possibilities that I am playing with.  One is that I am entering a state where my mind is connected with the minds of others in some sort of mental plane, and my consciousness is merging with these individuals. 

The other idea I have is that these thoughts are coming from members of my higher self/disk.  I am entering a state in which I am temporarily aware of our connection through our oversoul. 

Both of these possibilities raise the question: What is the significance of these thoughts?  Is there a reason why I am experiencing them?  Is there a reason why I am connecting with these specific individuals in particular?  Are they random people, or do we have a connection of some kind?  Is it important that I be aware of these individuals' thoughts?  Do they have some kind of significance in my own personal life?

I will have to explore this deeper to find the truth.

I had once experienced my husband's thoughts, word for word.  To me, I thought he had spoken out loud because I wasn't looking directly at him when I heard it.  Later we found out he was only thinking it and never spoke.  There was even a third person there as a witness to confirm what was and was not said. 

Now that I'm divorced, I can see how this kind of phenomenon probably contributed to many of our weird arguments, ha ha. 


Dude, can you remember back if you perhaps had set some intention to experience a new experience along this line?  Sometimes even subtle thoughts can work as intentions that bring new experiences to us.

There have been a few occasions where it seemed as if I experienced the life of another person for a short while. There have also been occasions where to a lesser extent I experienced the thoughts of other people.

There was one occasion when I was on a 9 hour airplane flight, I tried to meditate, and I experienced thoughts and imagery that seemed to have nothing to do with me. Perhaps I picked up on the mental activity of some of the passengers, or the people the plane flew over, or even elsewhere.

Vicky

I don't believe I set any intentions to have this type of experience.  It's been happening for as long as I can remember.  I just recently began to become more consciously aware of it, which has led me to discover it's not just me thinking someone else's thoughts, or someone else's thoughts being put into my head, but more like I am actually becoming these other individuals, like our consciousness is merging in a way that makes me believe I am them.  Often times I will become some else who is engaged in a conversation with another individual on another level, talking about things or being involved with events that have absolutely no relation to my current life.

Dude. I wasn't discounting your experience. I was really more asking about free will. Yes, I believe in that dream state we are open to all kinds of possibilties. I am taking a lot of narcotics right now for my bi polar disorder to keep from getting out of control so I can go down and see my son. I think on the higher level we invite others into our minds so that we can share the universal. Rock On.

Dude, I think you are on to something. I had my first possible experience with f27 today. I wonder if your experience is rather related to a person who has given permission to have their thoughts read and even be inhabited. Ruth Montgomery wrote about it a lot and more and more I'm thinking she is not so crazy.

Interesting, Dude. It would be interesting, also, to see if you can find out who they are, if it wouldn't be too invasive.