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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6126426" data-attributes="member: 63">Mechanically, when someone tries to read your mind or mind control you, you either have a static defense, or you make some sort of saving throw. Maybe you have mental hit points that have to be ablated before the attack actually affects you.But what is the experience like? I think in images and sounds, only very occasionally in tactile or olfactory sensations. If someone is rooting around in my memories, do I hear them thinking words? Do I just feel a presence, like if someone was standing behind me? Do memories come to mind that I did not consciously choose to think about?How do you detect the fact that someone's assaulting your mind? Obviously if you see a bald guy with two fingers to his forehead, furrowing his brow, and suddenly you get an intense head-ache or your limbs start acting on their own, okay, that's easy to figure out. But if someone is just reading your mind, or planting a suggestion, what occurs from your perspective that might let you realize something is amiss? Is it like poison or a disease, subtle and slow-acting, or like a jaguar, painful and panic-inducing?If someone is in your mind, what can you do to stop them? Does simply thinking, "Get out of my mind" work? Do you have to visualize their existence in some sort of dreamscape and try to thwart their movements and actions? If they make you recall a memory against your will, can you just invent an alternate one, or will that cause you to corrupt your own recollections? Is it sufficient simply to recognize that you're being compelled in order to resist a suggestion, or is there a relative 'strength' involved; and in that case, how do you become stronger to either attack or defend?And, hey, if it's simply just Chuck Xavier blasting your brain with psychic energy, what does that feel like? Hallucinated pain? Malaise? A weight that holds you down or a feverish convulsion? To resist that do you just grit your teeth and 'play through the pain'?</blockquote>

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