It's true. Ever felt like someone was staring at you in a crowd, then turned around and looked that exact person squarely in the eyes?
Ever wondered how you knew which person out of all those people was the one staring?
Ever think of someone you haven't talked to in a while, and then they call you on the phone out of the blue?
What made you think of them before the phone rang?
There is something to it. We have the capacity to put out a sort of mental energy that can be perceived by others. It can be positive, or it can be negative, and it can impinge upon others.
From a purely materialist perspective, it’s difficult to escape concluding that thoughts are things, with substance of some unidentified sort. From a religious perspective, thoughts directed to our Creator have long been known to be powerful, and that power is magnified by numbers.
The hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck sensation, that knowing you’re being watched feeling, is a different matter. It’s ancient, predator-prey stuff. Ignore it or become divorced from it at your peril. You really can tell, if you’re paying attention.
How? Don’t know.
I can well remember growing up in the boonies with no telephone and on numerous weekend occasions my mother would say something like, “I would like to go see my brother Ray but I think maybe my sister is going to come here a little later so I guess we will stay home.” Quite often the person would drive up just as predicted.
Agree and it is not just humans.
When we go diving, I will hover somewhere and stay very still until a school of tangs or something comes along, at some distance away from me. I will pick out one and without moving my head, just my eyes, focus on it. Suddenly, that particular fish will break formation and go darting in and out among the others. I have observed this happening over and over in various places, various times.
As to the phone thing: my husband and I will be talking about someone we haven’t seen or heard from in a long time, sometimes years. Within days, that person will call or email.
Want to make someone call or email? Just concentrate on them. A photo will help. They will contact you. Again, we have both tried this countless times and it will usually work. We also usually find out that something stressful has been going on for them and that is why they haven’t called/written. It will NOT work if that person is estranged from you for whatever reason they may have. Just for people, often just acquaintances, with whom you don’t have a serious history. So, it doesn’t overcome strong emotional estrangements, IMO.
The staring stranger in the crowd event is also accurate, or has been for me.