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The ability to communicate through psychic means — projecting speech, images or ideas into the mind of another person without speaking physically. Telepathy also describes the ability to read minds — which may or may not be shown alongside communicating telepathically.

This tag can describe a character demonstrating telepathy (even in the context of a character saying they are telepathic, and reacting to what they see or hear), a character seeing imagery from the mind of another character (usually drawn inside of a thought bubble style frame) and reacting or commenting on it.

Ways Telepathic Dialogue Can Be Depicted

• No matter the "container" for the dialogue, distinct colouring, translucence, or a glowing aura around the bubble/box are common shorthand for telepathic dialogue
• tailless speech bubbles, usually near the "speaking" character's head, or indicated to be the character projecting speech at another or the viewer
• Distinctly drawn bubbles/boxes containing the dialogue, sometimes with tails emerging from the "speaking" character's head
• traditional thought bubbles
• the telepathic character reacting to another character's thoughts
• a telepathic character "speaking" in thought bubbles, sometimes with a response by the other character in a speech bubble
• conversations between two characters entirely within thought bubbles

See Also

• mind control
• telekinesis