John Agno’s post on Shared Thinking is fascinating on the blog carnival today! The research discussed there is mainly about shared thinking between twins, even those that did not grow up together.
This phenomenon does not only occur between twins. Mike and I are constantly amazed at the many ways we share thoughts between us. In fact, we’ve started testing it and in this way have realized it’s constantly happening when we’re together.
We notice it most often when we are driving around together and one of us will say something. That’s when the other realizes that we are sharing thoughts at exactly the same time. We are beginning to think we communicate best when not speaking to each other!
We will look around at our surroundings and then think the same thing at the same time. We also seem to come to the same conclusions at the same rate of speed. Call it mental telepathy or whatever you like, but it is definitely a special power between us and we love it!
How many of you have experienced something like this with others?
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I have experienced this connection with some close friends and my husband. I think it comes from mutual knowledge of each other, being able to read faces and body language etc. When you get to that point, it’s a wonderful (and potentially dangerous) turning point in a relationship!
My husband and I do this all the time — complete each other’s thoughts and sentences. Sometimes it’s downright scary, but also a testimony to how close we’ve become through our 28 years of marriage. It’s great to have a real soul mate, even if he read your mind!
Deborah:
I’m not so sure it has to do with mutual knowledge of each other because Mike and I have been like this since the day we met over four years ago. It’s almost like we knew each other in a previous lifetime or something like that!
Laura Lee
hello, nice blog you have got here. I know what you are talking about and I have experienced this with some of my closest friends..! And you can call this a mere co-incidence or telepathy, I recently wrote about something similar on my last blog Connections.
Cheers and keep blogging!
In a relationship, one mind revises another; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love, as our Attractors activate certain limbic pathways, and the brain’s inexorable memory mechanism reinforces them.
Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love. That is the basis for a love story (about two think as one) reported in the New Yorker magazine a few years ago. Here is the URL of a blog posting regarding this story that you might find interesting, too:
http://coachingtip.blogs.com/coaching_tip/2007/02/a_love_story_tw.html