Chapter Five
Over the next month, Sarah got better at breaking off her dreams, though she still could not control who or when she visited. It was around that time that Seth slipped into Sarah's room one night.
"Sarah! Wake up." he whispered.
"What's up?" Sarah croaked back sleepily.
"Hey, were you just dreaming with someone?" Seth asked.
"No, I started to earlier, but I broke it off," Sarah said. "Is that why you woke me?"
"No, I woke you up to tell you that I visited with Dad tonight!" Seth exclaimed.
Sarah sat up quickly. "Really?" she prompted.
"Yes, it was the weirdest thing! I see what you mean!"
"Oh, I'm so happy that you finally know what I'm going through," she cried, wrapping her arms around him and pulling him into a hug.
"Me, too!" Seth said. "Why do you think that you always visit girls, and my first visit was a guy?"
"Maybe because boys and girls brains are different, and our "dreams" can only go to brains that are like our own?" Sarah speculated.
"Maybe," Seth agreed. "We should experiment more and see if that's the case."
"You see, this proves that girls are more mature than boys!" Sarah exclaimed.
"Why do you say that?" Seth inquired.
"Because I started "dreaming" when I was sixteen, and you didn't until you were seventeen! You're just not nearly advanced as I am!" Sarah explained haughtily.
"I'll show you how advanced you are!" Seth announced before grabbing Sarah and tickling her into submission.
When Seth finally acquiesced to Sarah's breathless pleas for him to stop, Sarah pulled him into her bed and made him stay with her for the rest of the night.
Sarah spent the rest of the week trying to explain to Seth how to control breaking off a visit, and how to sift through someone's thoughts, though Seth agreed with Sarah that it was probably not a good idea to that with his father. However on Thursday night, he did visit while his father made love to his mother.
After he had left his father and cleaned up the mess in his shorts, he slipped into Sarah's bed. When she woke up, he asked, "Were you visiting Mom tonight?"
"Yeah," she said, blushing, realizing what his question probably meant. "You?"
"Yup," he said. "I didn't realize that Mom still looked that good naked. And man, can she move!"
"Look, it's embarrassing enough to eavesdrop on them like that," Sarah said. "Let's not go over all the details."
"OK," Seth said.
They lay together quietly for a few minutes, then Seth whispered, "You realize that I made love to you tonight."
Sarah stiffened a little, then shoved at him. "No you didn't!" she hissed. "It was more like we were both watching the same porn movie."
"And happened to be masturbating together?" Seth asked. "Because I don't know about you, but I came when Dad did."
"So did I, with Mom" Sarah admitted quietly. "All three times."
"I guess it's probably a pretty good thing that your first experience is with someone who can cum lots of times."
"Yeah," said Sarah.
Seth started to get up, until Sarah grabbed his arm and asked, "Where are you going."
"Back to bed," Seth said.
"Stay with me tonight," she pleaded.
"OK," Seth replied, happily. He lay back down and pulled Sarah into his arms.
As they were falling asleep, Sarah muttered, "At least I won't have you poking at me in the morning now."
Seth, of course, proved her wrong.
The next night, both of them stayed up most of the night, and on Saturday they were back at the park. This time, both of them napped, breaking off from their dreams, or visits, soon after starting, and their theory held up; their minds seemed attracted to their own sex.
After four tries, Seth decided to hang out in a single mind for a while, trying to probe for memories as Sarah had taught him. It took him a while to get the hang of it, but soon he was probing the man's life. He remembered his childhood pet, a dog named Beetle that he had until he was almost done with high school. He remembered his first break up. He remembered when his Dad had died. He remembered his first sexual experience.
After Seth woke up, he discussed what he had found with his twin.
"Were you looking for anything specific in his mind?" Sarah asked.
"Not really," Seth replied. "I was just trying to find out more about him."
"So it looks like when you just let him feed you things, the strongest memories come out," Sarah mused.
"What do you mean?" Seth asked.
"Well, he remembered his father's death, his big breakup, his first sex, his favorite pet. Those are all things that were big events, things that he would remember clearly. When you went searching for memories without specifying anything, those strong memories came to the surface. I'll try that next time, and next time you go in looking for a particular fact and see if you can force that memory to the surface."
The next day they returned to the park and attempted what Sarah had suggested. They both found that they were able to repeat the other's discoveries. One of the people that Seth managed to get into was Matt, a boy that was in their class at school.
At first, he was just watching what was going on inside Matt's head, and Matt happened to look over at Seth and Sarah lying there asleep. It was very weird to Seth to be seeing himself from out of his body. As Matt was looking at them, he focused his eyes on Sarah. The thoughts that came into his mind were quite lustful.
Matt looked at Sarah and thought about what her tits were like under that tight tee shirt. He imagined pulling off her shirt and sucking on her tits. He glanced over at Seth and thought what a lucky bastard he was, sharing a house with Sarah; he probably always got to see her naked. He then focused back on Sarah and imagined having her over at his house, kissing her while his hand slipped under her shirt and cupped a breast, then ripping her pants off and shoving his cock deep into her.
Sarah stirred, and Matt started to turn away before she observed him staring at her. As he turned away, he noticed that Seth had a lump in his pants. He wasn't surprised. 'I'd have one too, if I was sleeping next to something that hot!'
Seth pulled out of Matt's mind and woke up as well. He turned to Sarah and said, "You have a fan."
"What do you mean?" Sarah asked with a yawn, which stretched her shirt even more tightly over her breasts.
"See Matt over there behind me?" Seth asked.
"Yeah," Sarah responded after a quick glance.
"He is doing some major league lusting after your hot body," Seth informed her.
Sarah blushed and asked, "Really?"
"Oh yeah, he was having some pretty graphic fantasies about you," Seth replied.
She shoved her brother and said, "I think you should keep it to yourself! I don't know if I want to hear about how other guys drool over me!"
"OK, I'll just keep it in my head then," Seth said with a leer.
"Pig!" Sarah exclaimed with a laugh. "Of course, you might be interested to know that a couple of the women that I've visited with have definitely noticed you!"
"Oh yeah?" Seth chortled with interest. "Do tell!"
"Well, not too much to tell," Sarah said. "They noticed you and were quite taken with the way you looked, but they thought that I was your girlfriend, so most of them just looked elsewhere."
"Most of them?" Seth pushed.
"Well, one of them was thinking about how we would look together doing it," Sarah said, blushing.
Seth didn't respond to that thought. He was at a loss for words.
Their day was mostly finished, so they picked up their belongings and headed home.
Over the course of the next few months, things remained pretty much the same. They didn't visit with someone every night, but Seth did find that on nights that his father went to sleep early, he sometimes visited with the man who lived next door. The twins speculated that the visit occurred with the closest conscious mind of the same sex.
The twins graduated high school, and summer began. There had never been any question that they would be attending the same college, and they had both been accepted at a state school about a four hour drive upstate from where they lived. For at least the first year they intended to live in the dorms on campus.
Over the summer, they basically bummed around and got themselves mentally prepared for college. They spent many days lying by the pool, Sarah in her brief bikini which showed off her slim body and still blossoming breasts — showed things off quite a bit actually, given how tiny the bikini really was. Seth usually wore ordinary swim trunks, but his defined body ensured that Sarah's friends were always bugging her to be allowed over.
It was on one of these hot summer days that the next breakthrough came. Sarah was out at a friend's house and their father was at work. Seth had been out late with some friends the night before, and he nodded of while watching TV. He was not surprised when his mind went off for a visit, but he was surprised at where he was visiting.
As soon as Sarah got home, he dragged her into his room.
"What's up?" she asked.
"I fell asleep today and my mind went visiting," Seth told her.
"So?" Sarah asked.
"I was in Mom!" he proclaimed.
"What?" Sarah shrieked in surprise. "What was it like?"
"It was the absolutely weirdest thing that I've ever experienced," Seth said. "I was in Mom, and I could feel what she felt. I mean, I felt my vagina and I felt my breasts!"
"Mom was playing with herself during the day?" Sarah asked.
"No, not felt like that," Seth said. "I mean that I could feel that I had them, and I have to say, I've never felt like I had those parts before!"
"Was there anything else different?" Sarah asked.
"You mean my having girl parts wasn't different enough?" Seth said with a grin. "Actually, yes, there were other differences. The thought process seemed different. I know that I shouldn't have, but I tried sifting through a few memories, and it was harder. It was like my mind didn't know how to look for them. I got a couple, but they were a little off, not quite what I was looking for."
"Weird," Sarah agreed. She thought about it for a few minutes, then said, "I want to try it!"
"I guess we're going to have to find a place where there are only men around," Seth mused.
"I know where there is one," Sarah said.
"Where?" Seth asked.
"Anywhere we go together!" Sarah said. "We can go out to the woods and then you'll be the only person there!"
"You want to visit in my mind?" Seth said, a little unsure about how he liked that concept.
"I won't prod around in your memories," Sarah promised. "I just want to feel what it's like to be in your body!"
"Well, I guess that's fair," Seth acknowledged. "I certainly know a lot of guys that want to know what it feels like to be in your body!"
"Shut up!" Sarah yelled, whacking Seth's arm.
"OK, we can go tomorrow," Seth said.
The next day the twins packed up a picnic lunch and jumped on their bikes. They rode down to a large wooded area, locked up their bikes, slung their backpacks over their shoulders and started hiking. About a half hour later, they decided to stop. Seth pulled a blanket out of his backpack and spread it on the ground.
"Ready for nap time?" he asked Sarah.
"Yup," she said, lying down. She covered her eyes with the edge of the blanket, and twenty minutes later she was asleep.
Seth watched her carefully, trying to figure out if she was visiting him or not. He felt a little tingle in his brain, the kind that you get when you think there's someone watching you, but he wasn't sure if it was real or paranoia. A few moments later, however, he started thinking about his first day of high school. That was a bit of a non sequitur, and he realized that it was probably Sarah pulling that information out.
"You're there, aren't you?" he asked in his head. He turned all around to give Sarah a look, then knelt down next to her.
"Oh, Sarah!" he said in a quiet, singsong voice. "I know you're iiiiin me!" Then he slowly started lifting Sarah's tee shirt. Very quickly, Sarah stirred and pushed his hand away.
"You perv!" she complained.
"You did it, didn't you?" Seth asked eagerly. "You were visiting me, weren't you?"
"I was," she exclaimed. "And I have to say that it is so bizarre having a penis! Did you feel me in your head?"
"I think I did," Seth said. "It wasn't a strong feeling, and someone who wasn't looking for it wouldn't notice it, but I think it's there. We'll have to try more to tell for sure."
"OK. Your turn now!" Sarah said.
"Are you sure that you trust me?" Seth asked.
"Of course, you idiot!" Sarah affirmed. "Despite you being a horndog and a perv, I still trust you more than anyone in the world!"
Seth grabbed her and kissed her cheek before lying down for his turn. It took a little longer for him to fall asleep, but soon he had nodded off. Some time later, he felt himself in Sarah's body. He took time to inventory the sensations. Sarah was standing, and her center of balance felt different than his. He paid attention to the weight of her chest and he noted that she had a completely different set of muscles between her legs.
"Are you in there?" Sarah asked.
He wasn't sure how he could answer her, but he remembered how Sarah had triggered a memory. Seth searched for a memory too, but it was slightly different than the one that Sarah had chosen. Seth pulled the memory of the night that Sarah had been tied up. He concentrated on how that made her feel, and soon he felt his nipples crinkling up and a slight moisture forming between his legs.
"Hey, stop it you perv!" Sarah shrieked, and she pushed the memory back down, focusing instead on Seth's body in front of her. She noticed that Seth had the start of a woody, and she said, "You must have liked that thought!"
She walked over and knelt between Seth's legs. "What do you think would happen to your visit if I moved my knee up a little? You're only allowed to look at my G-rated thoughts!"
She sat back. "How should we communicate?"
They both pondered a bit, and then Sarah said, "I have an idea. I'm going to make a memory. This memory is of me nodding yes." She concentrated a moment and focused on that thought. "Now I'll do the same with no."
When she had firmly stored both memories she said, "See if you can bring one of the memories to the surface."
Seth concentrated and brought the 'yes' to mind. "Did you try for yes?" Sarah asked.
Seth focused on 'yes' again.
"Are you ready to stop?" Sarah inquired.
Seth concentrated on 'no'.
"It works!" Sarah exalted. "Well, I'll know for sure that it works when you wake up. Mmmm, what next? We can do yes and no questions, but what else?"
She mused for a bit, and Seth pulled the impressions that she had experienced when Seth had started visiting her.
"Will you use that to let me know that you're in my head?" Sarah asked.
Seth thought yes.
"Cool!" Sarah said. "When you wake up, you're going to have to store these memories too, so I can call them up when I'm visiting you. Also, we could come up with a whole dictionary of things. I bet if we keep those thoughts together in our mind, we can call up everything quickly! Maybe we should also remember letters, so that we can spell things to each other."
Seth concentrated and rifled through her head until he got a thought of her talking to herself.
"You want me to try just thinking instead of talking out loud?" Sarah thought.
"Yes, " Seth brought out.
"This is so cool!" Sarah thought. Impulsively, she leaned over and gave Seth's body a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
Seth found a thought of Sarah seeing him with a hard on.
"Sorry if I excited you, " she thought.
"No," he thought. Then he found a happy time in her memories.
"Oh, so you enjoyed it you perv!" Sarah thought amusedly.
Seth riffed through her memories a little more and found a thought of her walking through the woods on her own.
"Huh?" Sarah said.
Seth repeated it, but she still didn't get what he was trying to communicate. Then he brought up the thought of her cell phone signal fading out.
"You want me to try walking away until we're not connected anymore?" Sarah asked. "You're such a clever brother!"
She kissed his cheek again, then got up and walked into the woods.
"Think the fading signal if you start to lose me," Sarah directed. "Until then, I'll keep asking if you're still there."
Sarah walked for a few hundred feet, and she kept asking if he were still there. Seth answered in the affirmative each time. "This is further than when that other woman disconnected," Sarah said. "Why are you still connected?"
Seth brought up the image of him shrugging from her memories.
She kept walking, and after about a half mile she called out, "Are you sure you're still there?"
Seth brought up the memory of his tickling her. Sarah jumped and said, "Stop that! I've gone far enough for now. I'm coming back."
When Sarah arrived back in the clearing, she told him, "Disconnect now. I want to see if I can feel a difference."
Seth did as she requested, and when he was awake she observed, "I did feel different when you were gone!"
Seth grabbed Sarah in a big hug. "Those were great ideas," he said. "Did I ever tell you that you are a genius?"
"Not nearly enough," Sarah replied with a grin.
The twins spent the rest of the afternoon memorizing useful expressions and thoughts in 'thought dictionaries' that they created in their heads.
As they were walking back to their bikes, Seth said, "We need to figure out how to choose who we're visiting. All of this won't be much use if the only way that we can do it is when we are completely alone."
"I guess that's true," Sarah agreed sadly. "And if we figure that out, we should figure out how to do it when we're awake! That would be cool!"
"Way cool," Seth chuckled.
Seth and Sarah continued practicing throughout the summer, with no luck controlling the direction of their visits. However just before they headed up to school, Sarah made another breakthrough. She once again slipped into Seth's bed and woke him up.
"Hey, I was visiting with the neighbor," Seth said. "You broke the connection."
"Then we figured out two things tonight!" Sarah exclaimed excitedly.
"Two things?" Seth said muzzily, having just woken up.
"That if you're woken up it breaks the connection, and how to make someone do something!" Sarah replied.
That woke Seth up immediately. "Make someone do something?" he asked excitedly.
"I was visiting with Mom, and she was getting ready to go to bed," Sarah explained. "I wanted her to stay up a little more, so I thought about her being hungry. I thought really hard, and I found her memories of it. That was all it took. She decided that she needed to go down and get something to eat!"
"That might just be because of memories of the hunger," Seth pointed out.
"I know, so I tried something else," Sarah continued. "When Mom was brushing her teeth, I imagined that she had an itch in a particular spot. I didn't find a memory of that spot, but I projected what a memory might be like, and she scratched the spot!"
"That is so cool! Can you explain how you did that?" Seth asked.
Sarah struggled to come up with an explanation, but couldn't verbalize it. "I know!" she exclaimed. "Let's go to the woods tomorrow and you can visit with me, and I'll remember how I did it!"
"Great idea!" Seth said.
"It was really hard, and it took a lot of concentration just to get a little itch." Sarah griped. "I don't know how much real control it will ever give us."
"Well, maybe it gets easier with practice," Seth said. He yawned. "I've got to go back to sleep. Someone rudely interrupted my sleep!"
Sarah stuck out her tongue and commanded, "Move over!" She climbed into bed with him and snuggled up, and soon both of them were asleep.
The next day they were in their little isolated clearing and Seth was asleep. He quickly went visiting in Sarah, and brought up the memory of his visiting.
"You're here?" Sarah thought.
"Yes," Seth acknowledged.
"Great," Sarah thought, then brought up the memories of what she did to influence their mother.
Seth thought an exclamation point, and Sarah realized that their mother had been naked at the time, and he could see that in the mirror.
"Stop it!" Sarah said. She concentrated on what she had done before, and Seth paid attention to the sensations.
"Did you get that?" she asked.
"Yes, " thought Seth. Then he tried it on Sarah. An evil thought crossed his mind, and he concentrated. About a minute later Sarah started pulling her shirt away from her chest.
"Damn, this shirt is so itchy!" she complained to herself. She stuck her hand under her shirt and started scratching, even reaching under her bra.
"That's your work, isn't it stinker!" she cried.
Seth brought up Sarah's memory of him nodding his head.
"Well stop it!" Sarah yelled in her mind. "It's itchy!"
Seth imagined a soothing lotion pouring over Sarah's breasts, and Sarah sighed with relief. "If I didn't know it was you, I would have pulled my shirt and bra off!"
Seth thought of a smirk.
"Just be careful buddy! How would you like it if next time I was visiting you, I imagined a four foot stick up your butt?"
Seth projected an image that Sarah had saved of Seth cowering in fear.
"You'd better believe it buddy! Now out of my mind!"
Seth complied, but not without first imagining a caress on her breast.
He awoke to see a small smile on Sarah's face. "That's certainly a useful addition to our skills!" Seth said.
"Well, I guess that depends on how we use it," Sarah acknowledged. "We still have to figure out a way to select who we'll visit!"