simultaneous events/telepathic

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have had quite a few, always involving something to do with calling someone/texting someone. I experience it more with mobile phones compared to landlines I think. Most recently, I phone my dad (I hardly ever call him as i normally only speak to my mum.) He said he tried to phone me at exactly the same time as I called him. The creepiest one was a few years ago I was at a tutor after school, sitting in the work room doing an exercise she had given me to do. I suddenly had a thought out of nowhere that a particular friend of mine called Jessica was trying to contact me at that exact moment. She hadn't told me earlier that she was going to try and phone me nor did she usually phone me as we'd normally only ever speak whilst at school. I looked at the clock, was about 7.15pm. When my mum picked me up later I asked her did my friend Jessica try and phone me (phone our house phone) at around quarter past 7. My mum said yes, she had phoned at that time asking to speak to me. Sometimes I get times when I know 2-3 seconds before I receive a text that i am about to get one, it's just a feeling that I get inside of me that I'm about to get a message. Less so with emails compared to text messages for some reason. I also sometimes know/get a feeling about who it's from before i see it on the screen. I think I might be a bit telepathic, not all the time though. I normally find that if I'm by myself, it's quiet and I'm concentrating on something else, and feeling relaxed then I experience it more often.
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Date submitted:Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:29:33 +0000Coincidence ID:7324