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The Process Behind Communicating Thoughts from One Person to Another · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We utilize speech to communicate with other people.
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  Speech, however, is a translation into vibrational
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  patterns of specific thought content developed with a
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  particular pattern of electrical impulses.
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  When it is effective, the hearer receives the vibrational energy
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  of the speech he has heard and converts that speech into
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  corresponding electrical impulses in the brain,
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  triggering understanding of the content of the speech.
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  So if we break this down to the elements involved here, first
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  the speaker needs to formulate a thought, idea, concept, image in
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  his mind. There are people who cannot
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  speak, but who nevertheless can formulate clear ideas and
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  thought formations. Modern researchers have begun to
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  pick up those brain impulses, and they can then convert them
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  into synthesized speech to communicate the thought that
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  validates the underlying vibrational pattern that is
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  intended to be communicated through the speaking process.
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  The second part is the conversion of these impulses
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  into speech, whether through the use of the vocal capabilities of
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  the individual or, as noted above, through synthesized
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  speech created from the electrical impulses of the
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  brain. The more clear and focus the
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  thought content, the more clearly the speech process can
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  communicate that thought. In mechanical terms this is
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  increasing the ratio of signal in the form of the clear thought
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  being communicated to noise in the form of any vague or not
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  clearly defined elements that are being transmitted.
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  The higher the signal to noise ratio, the more precisely,
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  clearly and directly the speech is able to translate and
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  communicate the essence of the thought form to the hearer.
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  To the extent the speaker is unclear in his own
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  understanding, he will necessarily have more noise in
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  his communication than signal, leading to non understanding and
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  confusion for the listener. The third element then is the
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  receptivity and ability to convert the speech back into
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  electrical vibrational patterns in his brain, thereby capturing
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  the thought form and imagery that the sender is
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  communicating. The receiver must be able to
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  attend to the communication or he will miss the sense or he'll
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  garble it. One element to this is to
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  understand the specific language being used to transmit the
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  content. For instance, a physicist may
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  communicate information about quantum mechanics to a
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  layperson. If it is done using the jargon
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  and special language of physics, there will be far less
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  communication than if the language translating the
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  thoughts is modulated to the language and background of the
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  hearer. However, it must be noted that
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  understanding of a particular language is not absolutely
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  necessary in all cases, particularly if the speaker has
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  a very clear signal and can create images that are
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  powerfully formed in his mind. In that instance, the receiving
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  party may not understand the specific words, but may get the
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  sense and understanding of what is being communicated, the
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  mother writes. Quote.
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  The ideal condition, which has already been partially realized
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  by some people, is to transmit the essential idea, and even
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  something that is higher than the idea, the state, the state
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  of consciousness, of knowledge, of perception, directly through
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  the vibration. When you think, the mental
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  substance vibrates in a certain way in accordance with the form
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  your consciousness gives to your thought, and it is this
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  vibration which should be perceived by the other mind if
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  it is well attuned. Indeed, words serve only to draw
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  the attention of the other consciousness or the other
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  centre of consciousness, so that it may be attentive to the
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  vibration and receive it. But if it is not attentive and
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  doesn't have the capacity to receive in comparative silence,
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  you may pour out miles of words without making yourself
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  understood in the least. And there comes a time when the
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  brain which is very active in emanating certain vibrations,
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  can only receive vibrations which are clear and precise.
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  Otherwise it is a kind of vague mixture of something confused,
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  imprecise, which gives the impression of a cloudy woolly
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  mass and doesn't evoke any idea. So one speaks, the sound is
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  clearly heard, but it conveys nothing.
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  It is not a question of sound. It is a matter of precision in
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  the vibrations. If you can emanate your thought
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  in a very precise way, if it is something living and conscious
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  emanating from your consciousness and going to meet
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  the other consciousness, if, so to speak, you know what you want
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  to say, then it arrives with the same precision.
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  It awakens the corresponding vibration, and with the
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  corresponding vibration comes the corresponding thought or
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  idea or state of consciousness, and you understand each other.
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  But if what is emanated is woolly imprecise, if you do not
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  know very well what you want to say, if you yourself are trying
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  to understand what you want to say, and if, on the other hand,
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  the attention of the hearer is not alert enough, or he is busy
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  and active somewhere else, well, then you may talk to each other
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  for hours. You will not understand each
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  other at all. And in fact, this is what
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  happens most often when you are able to see in the consciousness
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  of others the result of what you have tried to communicate.
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  It always gives you the feeling of you know what distorting
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  mirrors are. Have you never seen distorting
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  mirrors? Mirrors which make you look
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  taller or fatter, which enlarge one part and reduce another?
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  You are faced with a grotesque caricature of yourself.
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  Well, this is exactly what happens in the other person's
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  consciousness. You have an altogether grotesque
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  character of what you have said, and people imagine that they
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  have understood each other because they have heard the
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  sound of words, but they haven't communicated.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Orobindo and the
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  Mother. Powers within, Chapter 2.
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  Power of Thought, pages 20 to 21.