In Ominous Woosh, John Thorne’s lore-dissecting retrospective of Twin Peaks’ third and final season, the author quotes a passage from the Yoga Vasistha that “tells the story of a sage, who entered the mind of another man and lived there”:
In the old days […], I entered someone else’s head and then I saw a universe with a sun and an ocean and mountains and gods and demons and human beings. The universe was his dream and I aw his dream. Inside his head I saw his city and his wife and his servant and his son […].
I had picked up his karmic memories along with his dream. I had become involved in that world, and I forgot my former life […].
Time passed. A sage came to my house, and slept and ate, and as we were talking, he said, ‘Don’t you know that all of this is a dream? I am a man in your dream, and you are a man in someone else’s dream […].’
The passage makes an interesting point—that to read someone’s mind, we would need to inhabit a new universe. This is because no intellect is a mere collection of thoughts—there are perceptions, personal mythologies, and memories, too—a landscape of mental matter that can shape an entire world in and of itself.