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{{quote|''I would like you all to know that whatever thoughts of mine you're reading are totally made up. They aren't real.''|'''Marco''', ''[[Animorphs]]''}}
A character is thinking something either unflattering or romantic about another character. He's rambling on via internal monologue without a care in the world...until he remembers that the character he's thinking about [[Mind Reading|can read minds]]. Still speaking only in his head, he gasps, "
Usually reserved for psychic characters who either have temporary powers or are hanging out with somebody new who isn't used to their abilities yet.
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== Film ==
* For some reason, this keeps happening in ''[[What Women Want]]'', even though most of the female characters have no idea Mel Gibson's character has gained telepathy. One of the more painful examples has to be Helen Hunt's character thinking, "Oh, God, I just stared at his crotch!"
* In ''[[Minority Report]]'' main character Anderton kidnaps one of the three children used to predict future crimes and brings her to somebody to have her mind scanned, who wastes no time in wondering out loud if she's reading his mind right now and then blurts out this little gem: "Those thoughts about my cousin Elena, those were *just* - *thoughts*!"
== Literature ==
* The [[Animorphs]] morphed into an alien creature that can read minds, and so the four characters who were present at the time were all suddenly thrust into the position of being able to hear all of each other's
{{quote|"I would like you all to know that whatever thoughts of mine you're reading are totally made up. They aren't real."}}
* The [[Our Vampires Are Different|sparkly, occasionally psychic vampires]] in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' seem to experience a slight degree of
* Subverted in the ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' series: villain Opal Koboi has her none-too-bright henchmen convinced to the point of paranoia that she can read minds, simply by turning on them at random and shrieking "I heard that!"
** Right up until one of them decides to test her with the thought "Holly Short is prettier than you" and gets no real reaction.
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** Besides, he most often stays in [[Undying Loyalty|Gunner]] [[Bumbling Sidekick|Ferik]] [[Battle Butler|Jurgen]]'s [[Anti-Magic|area of effect]].
** He also needn't worry because although Amberley Vail is an Inquisitor, she knows enough about the universe that any self-serving cowardice that doesn't directly count as treason is perfectly justifiable. She also has a soft spot for him.
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In the [[The Bible|Book of Genesis]], Sarah hears one of the guests saying she will have a child in her very old age, and laughs in her heart. Then, that guest tells her husband (a softened up version of) what she
* There's a novel, which I unfortunately cannot recall the title of, where in order to protect himself from the mind reader he's confronting, one character will repeatedly picture himself performing gratuitous sex acts with said mind reader, repelling her.
** [[Forgotten Realms|Siege of Darkeness]], perhaps?
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* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] gets the "temporary powers" version and finds out what Xander's ''really'' thinking:
{{quote|'''Xander:''' "What am I gonna do? I think about sex all the time! Sex! Help! Four times five is 30. Five times six is 32. Naked girls. Naked women! And naked Buffy! Oh, stop me!"}}
** Wesley hangs a lampshade on it in the same scene, admonishing everyone that, unless they exercise mental discipline, they will very likely be thinking the things they ''really'' don't want Buffy to
** Cordelia, of course, was completely fine. Her thoughts ''exactly'' matched what she said!
*** Well, she thinks tact is just not saying true things.
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* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Greeks Bearing Gifts", when Toshiko gets hold of an alien device that enables her to read minds she's disgusted at the petty thoughts of her co-workers. However when she's unable to read Captain Jack's mind (unless he wants her to) she's seriously freaked out.
* [[Mutant X]] had an episode where Emma had to fully open her mind, so when Jesse was thinking... Well, this troper will be nice and say he was thinking about his attraction to her; it was never actually specified anyway, but she had also stripped off her shirt, leaving just the tank top underneath.
* Kelly from ''[[Misfits]]'' is an involuntary telepath, and ''always'' seems to hone in specifically on Nathan's thoughts just as he's thinking something that ''really'' would've been best kept private. His panicky attempts to "control" his thought processes usually only make things worse. His fear is certainly justified though. Often he's just fantasizing about sex, leading to mild embarrassment when he's overheard, but occasionally it's [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read|something even worse]] and
* Lwaxana Troi of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' loves pointing out embarrassing thoughts non-telepaths around her are thinking just to watch them squirm. On the other hand, she might just be making things up because she thinks it's funny and nobody has evidence to refute her.
* The Ultroonian race depicted in ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'' has mind-reading as an optional extra power. When George uses it, many of the unsettling thoughts he hears are Janet's father constantly imagining killing his wife, and Dr. Piers Crispin thinking about sex while draining a cyst. The worst, perhaps, hearing cousin Arnie declaring of Janet "Boy, is she hot."
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== Video Games ==
* Mint Blancmanche from ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'' is a mind-reader, which lets her manipulate people very easily; in the [[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]] gameverse and its manga retelling, though, her telepathy is more prone to putting her in these situations with crew members. The third game switches it
* Played straight, if externally, in ''[[Starcraft]]'', when Kerrigan cuts short her introduction to berate Jim Raynor on the thoughts he was having about her:
{{quote|'''Kerrigan:''' ...and... you pig!
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'''Raz''': Uhh... I can hear that, you know.
'''Lili''': (flirtatiously) I know... }}
* Satori from ''[[Touhou|Subterrenean Animism]]'' is a mindreader, to the point where nobody else will come near her. However, it's a bit of a surprise to the heroines when she's able to listen in on their
{{quote|'''Alice''': We still have a long way to go. Let's go the depths of the underworld. Hang in there!
'''Satori''': "Before that, let's search the house...." you think. I won't allow that! Please head to the courtyard immediately.
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