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* The ''Literature/CAugusteDupin'' story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is probably a TropeMaker. In the story Dupin is walking silently with his friend who is also silent, and then says something apropos 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.

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* In an ad for AT&T U-Verse (satillite TV service), a female customer thinks about the service and a male sales rep responds. At one point she thinks (Is this guy reading my mind?) and he responds, "No, ma'am."

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': It happens multiple times between Light and L. Happens once more in the GrandFinale between Light and Mikami in which ''both'' sides are somehow conversing in thought, with Mikami mentally asking Light how he could move freely while Light mentally replies back calling him an idiot and what he's done wrong.

* In Masaya Hokazono's ''Inugami'', all animals, including the Inugami (wolves with various powers commanded by an unknown voice to leave the forest and spy on humans), speak by some form of thought speech to each other unheard by humans. One of the wolves, 23 (because of the number tattooed to his ear) learns to speak English with assistance from his human companion, Fumiki. When 23 encounter Zero, another Inugami, the latter is enraged partly because of cruelty at the hands of humans, and what he thinks are crude noises coming from 23's mouth. Zero later learns English himself when captured by the head of an unscrupulous [[MegaCorp pharmaceutical corporation]], yet his hatred of humans remains until the very end of the series.

* The characters of ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' often start doing this in funny situations. At first it was just a one-off the two main characters did (described as telepathy), but after that everyone started joining in.

-->'''Akane''': Turn back to a boy while I buy you time!\\
'''Ranma''': And how'm I supposed to do that?

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* ''Fanfic/PathToMunchies'': Taylor does this to Lisa at one point as a way of showing off her power, sending texts to reply to Lisa's thoughts as Lisa thinks them.

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* ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'': In ''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.

* In Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheFallOfGondolin'': Tuor is being walked through the tunnel leading to the hidden city when he looks back and realizes that most of guards have disappeared. Elemmakil, one of his guides, guesses Tuor's thoughts and tells that guards are not needed beyond the First Gate.
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe story ''Literature/TheMurdersInTheRueMorgue'' starring C. Auguste Dupin is probably a TropeMaker. In the story Dupin is walking silently with his friend who is also silent, and then says something apropos 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.

* Poe's version is also referenced by Literature/SherlockHolmes to Dr. Watson on a couple of occasions, to prove to Watson he's as good as the fictional Dupin, even though Holmes thinks doing it is "showy and superficial." The idea is taken even further when Holmes meets [[ArchEnemy Professor Moriarty]] and their conversation starts with "You already know what I'm going say," "You know what I'm going to answer to that." (Then they have the conversation out loud anyway for the reader's benefit.)

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* Played with in an episode of ''Series/Charmed1998,'' where Piper, after leaving the room, responds to Phoebe's internal monologue, which had been implied to be more of a narration than an actual thought process. Particularly strange, seeing as the series deals with the supernatural, so mind-reading is entirely possible, but since [[MagicAIsMagicA Magic A Is (usually) Magic A]], Phoebe should have had more of a reaction than mild surprise.

* In the "His Story" episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Turk's internal monologue includes the fact that the hot girl who's seated at the main table at their wedding isn't really his cousin. Carla immediately tells him that the girl's being reseated. Turk then decides to experiment:
-->'''Turk''': (Make me a grilled cheese sandwich, woman!)\\
'''Carla''': Make it yourself!\\
'''Turk''': ''(screams)''
* This happens several times on ''Series/{{Spaced}}''. It is also subverted in Spaced when they're forced to come up with a lie:
-->'''Daisy (thinking):''' (It's times like this I wish I was telepathic. Don't you, Tim?)\\

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

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-->'''Jesse''': ''(voiceover)'' I've done enough nightshift loner jobs to know it makes us come off weird. Ahti the janitor is a friendly face in my book.\\
'''Ahti''': ''(aloud)'' Better than somebody with no face at all! Think about it, no face...

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* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'': The ending to "Reigny Day", where David complains about Dolph getting the Camp Counselor of the Year Award instead of him in his mind. Nikki responds with the observation on how [[AdolfHitlarious Dolph resembles a certain Führer]] in her own mind, causing David to step away in shock.

-->'''Kenstar:''' ''(internally)'' I sure hope we don't have to face another [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Bushido Blaster]]. I aaaaaaam tired.\\
'''Kotobaru-san-sama:''' ''(also internally)'' Me too.\\
'''Kenstar:''' ''(aloud)'' Wait...\\
'''Yusuke:''' ''(out LOUD)'' YOUR PRAYERS ARE NOT ANSWERED, BROTHER!

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* WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC used this in a competition between ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]]. As the characters' mouths never move, this is only noted by stating it occurring and a slight change in inflection.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens''
** Most of the episode "Quiet Please" becomes this when the Greens are warned by the ScaryLibrarian she will ban them for good if they make even one sound, even talking and whispering; to get around this, Tilly suggests they use sign language and charades whenever they need to talk. From this point, there is mostly no spoken dialogue, with most of it played out through their thoughts usually translating their sign language.
** This also shows up in "Bat Girl" whenever characters gesture in "baseball talk". A scene near the end of the episode has a long conversation in "baseball talk" when Nancy apologizes to the other Sue-zers for teaching them to be bad sports, while Bill watches in confusion from the stands.

** In "Three Men and a Comic Book", Lisa tells Bart he'll have to get a job to pay for the rare comic book he wants, and Bart starts having an internal monologue a la ''Series/TheWonderYears'' (complete with [[ParodyAssistance voice-over by Daniel Stern]]). Then Homer yells at Bart to stop staring off into space monologuing.
** An interesting example from "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", 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]'')
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Big Pink Loser", 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!

* Sayaka Maizono from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' does this frequently. Jokingly claiming that she is psychic is pretty much her CatchPhrase.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s anime adaptation hints at this at times. It can be hard to tell whether [[FirstPersonSmartass Kyon]] is talking to himself or having an internal monologue, [[FilmingForEasyDub particularly when his mouth is hidden]], so it's ambiguous whether [[RealityWarper Haruhi]] responding to him is a case of DidIJustSayThatOutLoud or this trope.

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