Gwilo

Some Twins say they share a mental or emotional connection, some people report odd feelings then get a call that a close family member has died or been in an accident or something.

I've always been quite sceptical about this alledged "psychic" connection, so i have traditionally discounted the ability to form such a link with someone. Some events are making me possible re-evaluate this bizarre occurence.

What do you think?
Vote whichever is closest, and share your thoughts please.

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TeflonTom

there's some triplets 2 girls & 1 boy who live round the corner from me, all through school they seemed to allways 'know' stuff... it was like witchcraft or something

Goochie

I think a combination of the last two poll options. Its probably not possible, but it could be - and only then between family members (twins etc.)

The only "connection" between for example, a married couple, results from time spent together and the way you become like each other. It sounds cheesy but in a good relationship you do become as near to each other as possible in almost every way - this means that you often find yourselves saying and doing the same thing at the same time without prior consultation with your partner.

Two become one, and all that romantic nonsens does (for me, anyway) have some grounding.

heresmo

I notice when I visit my sister - not that often, as I moved 200 miles away many years ago, that we have the same pillowcases and other household things of which there are many different ones which could have been chosen. Surprising, as there's a two-year age difference and we are as different as chalk and cheese both in looks and temperament.

Our mum sent me two envelopes last year, being one from me and the other from sis as mum had noted how similar our writing was. Re the latter, it was obligatory in our school that we wrote "copperplate" writing - even italics was not allowed. I subsequently learned caligraphy (sis had no interest), so it's a mystery as to why our writing is so remarkably similar, since neither is copperplate.

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apd007

Definitely think its possible, almost probable. I'd just like to know how to access and use it.

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jec

like when you haven't seen someone for months or even years and you just think about them, and then you met them again very soon afterwards, thats happened a few times, coincidence?

heresmo

Im inclined to think that's prescience rather than a connection (if I may). I'm not trying to be argumentative. IOW, as I understand it, we as humans (including our best experts) don't really understand timelines well enough to know how our brain perceives things.

Seemingly, as our heart is at our centre (our lifeforce if you like), the idea that our heart rules our head is also being considered, though I guess we are years away from working out the neurological connection, let alone defining what the heck our brain/soul thingy is.

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Tom_vRS

Being a twin, I say "no".

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heresmo

Not sure what the winky emoticon means, so I reckon you must tell us more

Thanks
Mo

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neilwilliams

I'd say there can be something between twins but it's not always the case. Growing up as a twin I had 80% deafness due to glue ear but my brother and I would do things together without any verbal communication (or so I'm told!). It could have been some sort of physical signal but as toddlers I doubt we'd have developed that level of subtlety in our communication skills.

Certainly when my brother died I experienced the pain of grief in a very physical way - so physical the doctor was called out to check my appendix wasn't about to burst!

As a theory, the connection between twins is one that's run and run. Many people see it as telepathy, although I think it's more subtle than that. The regular "what number is he thinking of" game was never that successful with us.

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Depends on your definition of connection, certainly in my marriage my wife and I have spent long enough together to be able to predict certain things, my wife seems to often manage to know when Im going to want a drink long before I have a chance to get out of my chair and get one. In much the same way as I can tell when somethings wrong from small cues her own family wouldnt pick up on. I could predict my wifes responses to many things as she could mine.

What does get my goat is when she manages to predict me being unpredictable, when I come home 15 minutes late from work and shes guessed that its because im getting her some chocolates on the way home.... Do have to work hard to surprise at times.

Was there a "connection" before we got married well I was attracted to her the moment I saw her, and we got along so incredibly well as friends for a couple of years before things changed into a relationship. There was certainly a "kinship" we just got along...

MissKia

I just recently met up with a friend I haven't been in contact with for ages. Needed someone to talk to and they seemed to know what was going on better than I did.

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thegavsters

My mum sometimes gets a feeling that someone is standing over her shoulder, and each time this happens something bad happens to my older brother.

This I would say is definitely the connection you are on about.

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MissKia

Definately; the 'each time' does sound a little worrying though...

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heresmo

I know nothing of how these things work. I have had dreams where I can hear my sister calling me. You can imagine how disconcerting these are, given I'm not planning a visit nor is there any particular reason that I've consciously thought of her in any context that I know of. Naturally I ring her straight away (come daylight hours) "Just to see how you're all doing." Nothing so far has been untoward, so Goodness knows why these things happen.

Mo

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dstev2000

I always do it with phone calls and texts to SWMBO, more often than not I cant get through to her as she is calling me and vice-versa, at various times of the day as well.

I do it with other people as well, someone I havent spoken to for days or weeks, I pick up the phone and dial as they are about to call me. It's very odd.

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heresmo

There was a programme on telly (a year ago?) about a study undertaken which seemed to show that things happen that our heart records, but it takes a while long for things to filter through to the brain and for our five senses to become aware.

Back on-topic, they seemed to be saying that maybe we'll know already that the phone is going to ring. I don't recall anything in that prog that says you'll know who is at the other end of the phone though. (Quantum leap to me)


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pixi

My older sister (three years) and me seem to do weird things. One evening whilst out I couldn't get a name out of my head, so much so that I told Mr P that this was the name I would have to give to a child if I had a girl.

Whilst travelling home my sis rang me on my mobile and was telling me that an old friend of hers that she hasn't heard from in years had just rang. This friend had given my sis the news that she now had a baby girl and guess what the name was that was weird enough but what came out of my sisters mouth next freaked me out even more. She told me that this was the name she had always thought about giving a girl and that she hadn't told anybody. I told her to stop right there and put the phone to Mr P's ear and told him to just say the name I had been talking about all evening.

We were all a bit freaked from that.

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storm monkey

My wife has a strong connection to me.............via the bank account. Even separated by hundreds of miles, I get cold judders down my spine whenever she gets out the credit card!

On a more sensible note, I think that what people see as connections come from a deep familiarity and understanding of somone, be they sibling or partner.

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Marwood

storm monkey has it spot on in his second paragraph!
Human nature is such that we look to interprit the coinsidental or the natural with some wider 'special' meaning. things need to happen for a reason and without this we move closer to the assumption that our existance is meaningless. For an individual to assert this would undermine biological and psychological drive forces. To not try to give a wider significance to our thoughts and deeds would also tend undermine our need for order in a chaoic system. The Greeks bought into fate and this is a recurrant theme in literature. Of course this, many would argue, is God's will, however perhaps God and his mathematical genius is just another way that we seek to give meaning to what we don't quite understand.
It wolud be lovely to have conclusive evidence that people can connect, however there is little such evidence other than the annecdotal. Telepathic communication, as seen with ziener card experiments is utter tosh.
However, having sais all the above I saw a very compelling tv programme on the'connection' between pets and their owners, however storm monky's analysis seems apt here too.
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tfboy

As with most things, you'll discover if you have a connection with someone when you least expect it, when you've just met the person, etc.

I had one with a girl I met working in Beirut a couple of years ago, and it was most freaky at times...

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apd007

Sadly I suspect your right.

When I was with my ex, we were talking about kids (not having them, we hadn't, and were not, together that long) but we were talking about names. The 1st name and 2nd name she came out with were unusual on their own, but when put together were even more unlikely.

She had not being in touch with her dad for 15 years, but later on last year she found him. Her dad had a baby with his new partner about the same time we were talking about kids in general and had called the baby the same unusual names in the same order.

As far as I know, there is no history of either names in the family. Coincidence? You tell me.

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