>…with two of my friends, Vickie and Teresa, and it’s happened several times, so I know it’s not a coincidence. I’m not a big phone person (which all my friends can attest to), so when I think of someone and they call me shortly thereafter, I know it’s because of my superhuman powers of suggestion.*

Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them — now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.

Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails.

Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.

“The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected,” he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. “The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one.”

He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.

Haven’t y’all experienced this before? And doesn’t it kind of freak you out when it happens? Makes you wonder what the mind is really capable of if we knew how to use it at maximum capacity.

*I do have super powers. Maybe. Alright, I can bend my thumb all the way back. That’s a super power. Sorta. Isn’t it?

Reuters: Telephone telepathy — I was just thinking about you