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Pensatucky · 2023-01-27T18:41:58+00:00

I have 7 year old twins, boy and girl. my daughter was off school today poorly. Around 11am she suddenly shouted that her arm was hurting, I had a look, nothing there. It was her left arm. 5 minutes later we got a call from school, DS had had an accident and they think he may have broken his arm. Left arm. Woo or massive coincidence?

Magi84 · 28/01/2023 13:08

It's a twin thing. Had this experience with my twin son and daughter. Both adults at the time. Daughter was married and living in France. Son was still living at home. On3 night we were awakened by him having a nightmare and getting up and unfortunately aiming his fist at the window as his nightmare was about needing to escape from something. Injured his arm luckily only slightly. However the following day around lunchtime my daughter rang from France to ask if all was well with him. I asked why and she explained that during the night she had obviously sleep walked to the window and was lucky in that her husband woke up to find her about to try to open the window as she was feeling the need to escape.

jetadore · 28/01/2023 13:52

Iamatissuebox · 27/01/2023 18:51

twin friend of mine has been involved in scientific research studying this - it’s a thing. Proven under controlled conditions.

If you have one, please share a link to this research, I’d be very interested to read.

DrManhattan · 28/01/2023 14:05

How is it a twin thing? They aren't identical, they are the same as a brother and sister. It's a coincidence I reckon.

Magi84 · 28/01/2023 14:41

I agrée Dr Manattan there are not identical and therefor not what basically are truly thought of two be twins. Just babies born from two eggs simultaneously fertilised. However the event I mentioned was probably the one I remember best (my daughter not only felt the sensation of wanting to escape but her right wrist ached which turned out to be the exact part of his arm which was injured. This was mainly why she phoned) but there have been over the years many perhaps less strong instances where they have known things about the other that were definitely weird. Never happened with my other son who was a sibling. They are now 60 years of age and still have strong connections from time to time. Still living I two countries.

MotherofBingo · 28/01/2023 15:21

There are weird, unexplainable things that happen all the time. Shared experiences from people all over the world with nothing in common whatsoever. Science hasn't actually found an answer to every mystery yet. I'm not saying that they won't, and I'm not saying that there won't be a rational explanation for these things some day. But right now, nobody can come up with the reason that so many twins - regardless of them being identical or fraternal - have these experiences. Which are often very consistent and very precise, it seems to happen too often to be a coincidence.

Gilead · 28/01/2023 16:50

Twin one was under GOSH for a number of years. Twin two would know when she’d had tests involving needles and would tell her father. Would also know when she was on the way home. They’re 26 now, live almost three hundred miles apart but know exactly what’s going on with one another. They have periods at the same time and frequently get matching spots. It’s most odd.,

sunflowerdaisyrose · 28/01/2023 17:23

Definitely coincidence but interesting all the same!

NoBoatsOnSunday · 28/01/2023 17:34

The kind of thing where, if it involved non-twins, it would instantly be written off as a coincidence.

I’m sure your children will suffer injuries and experience a multitude of other physical sensations throughout their lives. For every time they both experience similar feelings, in the same body part, at/around the same time, there’ll be a bazillion times they do not.

YouJustDoYou · 28/01/2023 17:36

Woo!!

NoBoatsOnSunday · 28/01/2023 17:43

MotherofBingo · 28/01/2023 15:21

There are weird, unexplainable things that happen all the time. Shared experiences from people all over the world with nothing in common whatsoever. Science hasn't actually found an answer to every mystery yet. I'm not saying that they won't, and I'm not saying that there won't be a rational explanation for these things some day. But right now, nobody can come up with the reason that so many twins - regardless of them being identical or fraternal - have these experiences. Which are often very consistent and very precise, it seems to happen too often to be a coincidence.

But if twin shared-experiences between twins are actually a common thing, why does it never occur under controlled conditions?

If there was actual evidence that twins did ‘share experiences’ at a higher rate than other people, but nobody could work out why, then we could say that science hasn’t found the answer yet. As it stands, the ‘phenomenon’ doesn’t appear to exist.

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 28/01/2023 18:13

NoBoatsOnSunday · 28/01/2023 17:34

The kind of thing where, if it involved non-twins, it would instantly be written off as a coincidence.

I’m sure your children will suffer injuries and experience a multitude of other physical sensations throughout their lives. For every time they both experience similar feelings, in the same body part, at/around the same time, there’ll be a bazillion times they do not.

Exactly. I don't have a twin.

But, who knows, I might have an unknown, unrelated 'pain twin' somewhere in the universe and when I get a random ache or pain, it's because my 'pain twin' has broken their leg or burnt their hand on the oven, and perhaps when I twisted my ankle a couple of months ago my 'pain twin' might have been lying on their sofa watching telly and wondering why their left ankle was suddenly twinging.

But, I doubt it.

acupofteamakeseverythingbetter · 28/01/2023 19:10

I had similar with my twin.

I had bad tummy pain and was kept off school, thought it was appendicitis. All of a sudden the pain went and my mum had a call from the school to pick my twin up as she had tummy pain!

She ended up in hospital that night and had her appendix removed!!