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== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There]]'', a group of passengers on a train keep speaking in chorus and commenting that X is worth a thousand pounds a Y, but no one's really listening. The passengers hear Alice's thoughts, and she hears theirs, too.

'''Passengers, in chorus:'''<ref>The narrator doesn't know how people think in chorus, either.</ref> (Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!) }}

* In the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] story "Murders in the Rue Morgue" starring C. Auguste Dupin, he's walking silently with his friend who is also silent, and then says something appropos to what the friend is thinking. Dupin explains that he followed his friend's thoughts based on body and eye cues, and jumped in at an appropriate time.

** Marshall and Lily have "telepathic" conversations many times, Ted and Barney do at least once (which is rather hilarious, in that all Barney's thinking is the Beach Boy's "Kokomo"), and in one notable instance, Marshall, Lily, Robin and Barney all have one around Ted, where they coordinate a verbal attack to trick Ted into dyeing his hair blond.

* This happens several times on [[Spaced]]. It is also subverted in Spaced when they're forced to come up with a lie:

'''Daisy (thinking):''' Damn! }}

* In [[iCarly|iParty with]] [[Victorious]], Carly, Sam and Freddie use this to figure out how to get revenge on a cheating boyfriend. Tori lampshades this by asking to be included.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* An interesting example from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', where both Principal Skinner & Homer think at Bart; it's not clear that Bart can hear them but it is implied that Homer can hear Skinner.

'''Homer:''' (I know you can read ''my'' thoughts, boy. ''sings the "Meow Mix" song in his head'') }}

* Happens on the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Big Pink Loser", where Patrick is imitating everything Spongebob says and does. Spongebob thinks (At least I'm safe inside my mind), then hears Patrick thinking the same thing!