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To think telephathic connections are real

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Karmachameleons · 06/02/2021 01:28

That thing where you are thinking about a person, and then they contact you out of the blue. It happens to me a lot, and not just my friends or family who I speak to regularly and where it could easily be coincidence.
Two recent examples among many:

I have had an old friend get in touch after years, the same day I sat down to write her a letter.

I’ve had an old college tutor get in touch the day after I nearly sent them an email to thank them (6 years after leaving.

I don’t think it happens every time of course, but I think that under some as yet unknown conditions, our thoughts can connect with other people. Who agrees with me?

OP posts:
MechantGourmet · 06/02/2021 01:32

Yeah, I knew you were going to post this this evening Wink

araiwa · 06/02/2021 01:33

Nope

Shaniac · 06/02/2021 01:35

I agree with you. I was always raised in a family who firmly believes in telepathy and as you said every single time i think of someone even someone i havent seen in ten years that very same day they contact me. Or if dp is at work we always seem to have the same thoughts at the same time and text it to each other. We even have similar dreams sometimes. I dont think its a supernatural woo thing i think its just an instinct.

MrsTerryPratchett · 06/02/2021 01:35

Nope. You think of tens of people a day. One of them is bound to call you at some point. Statistics innit?

You remember the outliers.

I've thought about Tim from University many times. Has he ever contacted me? Has he bollocks.

Furrybutts · 06/02/2021 01:43

It's not something I have given much thought to....however I have 5 adult DC and I always know when something isn't right with one of them, and which one, before they even contact me.
Doesn't happen with anyone else though.

JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows · 06/02/2021 01:46

I don't think it's telepathy, I think it's more like our instincts are far stronger than we realise

Kljnmw3459 · 06/02/2021 01:49

I agree to an extent though I'm more likely to believe that it is due to familiarity than anything else. I've had a few occurrences with my twin that might fall into that category. Such as me being out without her and getting a strong feeling that she needs me or she's upset or hurt. And when I see her she tells me that she was indeed hoping to see me and needing my support at that moment.

Beecham · 06/02/2021 01:53

Agree it's just statistics.

Coincidences will happen every now and then. But there will be hundreds of times each week when you've thought of people and nothing happened. You just remember the coincidence.

My husband and I think the same things quite often, but I think that's just being in tune with someone.

Zevia · 06/02/2021 01:54

Nope. You think of tens of people a day. One of them is bound to call you at some point. Statistics innit?

You remember the outliers.
This.

JoyIsCounterfeit · 06/02/2021 02:10

I think we forge strong connections with people we are close to, and more: I believe the mother/child bond involves a 'knowing' that can seem like telepathy.
When my dd was born, I felt our minds were 'bonded for months afterwards, that we could communicate by thought. I could feel her separation as she got older, but we are still 'in tune, as i am with my dm, and was with my dgd. In the last year of his life, out of the blue I would get urges to ring him, so overwhelming that I'd run to nearest phone box if i didn't have mobile credit...each time, my incredulous dm would tell me he'd just collapsed, literally minutes ago. Not pleasant, but an extreme example of family connection. I think you can develop it with very close friends, too.

Wilsonwilson · 06/02/2021 02:42

I do think it's real. Have a look, at videos by Rupert sheldrake, he does experiments around this.

Wilsonwilson · 06/02/2021 02:44

Most people will dismiss the idea out of hand, evnn though we don't understand everything yet, Einsteins spooky, action at a distance, not to mention consciousness.

Longtalljosie · 06/02/2021 09:56

I think our brains make connections we don’t appreciate at the time. So perhaps there’s something in the news, for example, that sets off a thought process that leads to you and and old friend both thinking of each other. It could be as random as a shade of blue on a newsreader’s jacket which is the exact shade of the bathroom in your student house. But you see it, and your old housemate sees it, and you don’t make the connection consciously, which means you are both thinking about those days the following day then one of you sends a text...

unmarkedbythat · 06/02/2021 09:58

No. I think its coincidence. We notice them and attach significance to them, and forget all the many, many more times we have thought of someone and they haven't got in touch. I don't believe in any sort of telepathy at all.

youvegottenminuteslynn · 06/02/2021 13:25

It's a sort of cognitive bias I think. You may think of dozens of people a day but when one of them contacts you, it feels like there's something woo about it even though none of the others did. And even though every other time you've thought about that person they've never contacted you.

UrAWizHarry · 06/02/2021 13:30

@Wilsonwilson

Most people will dismiss the idea out of hand, evnn though we don't understand everything yet, Einsteins spooky, action at a distance, not to mention consciousness.
Most people dismiss things with no evidence out if hand, yes.
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