Conference hydra::dejavu

    
    My wife and I have always had this "ability". It's not perfect
    nor can we pass specific information. What we can do is one of us
    just thinks of the other for a few minutes. 
    We became aware of it when she was pregnant with our first son.
    At the time we were living temporarily in an appartment with no
    refrigeration. We didn't even have a coffee maker. I used to get
    up first (I still get up first) and go to a nearby coffee shop to
    get coffee for me and cold milk for her. (to help decrease the effects
    of morning sickness) On a number of occasions I'd have to pull our
    old beat up VW over and hang my head out and vomit my guts out.
    The first few times I'd come home after this to find Marie had just
    finished throwing up herself. I never believed in sympathy pains
    or the like before that but I was sick every morning for the complete
    9 months. It only happened in the first pregnancy, the other two
    didn't affect me. (except for the usual father surviving through
    pregnancy)
    Even before we were married we could make each other think about
    the other regardless of distance or time of day. We experimented
    with this after we were married by calling the other (on the phone)
     whenever we had a strong feeling about the other. With the exception of
    distress nothing else could be be communicated except an awareness.
       
    Marie had a bout with uterin cancer over a year ago and I could
    tell when she was having an especially bad day while sitting here
    in my office. There were times when I'd wake up in the middle of
    the night worried sick about her and wanting to be able to be in
    the hospital with her. The next day I'd find out that she had a
    rough night. Thankfully she's since recovered but our strange 
    method of communication continues. 
    
    Two years ago our youngest, then two, had wandered into the woods
    in the back of our house (we live an hour west from 495, in the
    middle of nowhere) When Marie realized that Ben was lost she paniced.
    At about the same time I had a feeling of total terror and I felt
    very strongly that Ben was in some sort of trouble. A half an hour
    later everything was fine. Marie called me at work and told me
    she had every kid in the neighborhood scouring the forest looking
    for Ben. They found him at the edge of a thousand acre marsh crying
    
    Marie and I don't get all goose bumps when this happens either.
    We just except it. We don't bother to rationalize oe explain it.
    It just is and that's just fine with us.
    
    I might add that since she was a little girl Marie has had many
    strange things happen to her. from precognitive dreams to instant
    feelings about people close to her. 
    
    Rob
    
    

    I was in Spain when this happened to me...
    There were four of us sleeping in one room. One evening I woke
    up from a horrible nightmare of people crawling out from under
    rocks. As I lay awake not being able to return to sleep I heard
    two of the other girls tossing and turning and one started crying.
    In the morning we were talking and discovered that we had all 
    had the same nightmare and later learned that there had indeed
    been a rock avalanche in the village some years before but we
    were never able to discern if people had actually been killed
    in the catastrophe which occured dow the road from where we
    were living.
    I remember during the end of the dream I suddenly saw my sister
    standing over me and I asked her "Lin, what on earth are you
    doing here?" as I knew she was 3000 miles at home in Massachusettes.
    When I got home I was telling Lin about the trip and the odd
    incidents that occured there but had not described the nightmare
    because it still shook me up. Then she said "nightmares? you want
    to hear about a REAL nightmare. I woke up and screamed from this
    one..and proceeded to describe in detail the same nightmare I
    and three others had in Spain. I asked her if she knew when
    she woke up, although she couldn't give me the day she could the
    time which was 10 I recall checking my watch after it happened
    to me which was about five - which made up for the time
    difference between the two continents.....!
    Fran
    

    I believe the term for the phenomenon in .2 is synchronicity however,
    correct me if I am wrong.  I would imagine that is a hard one to
    study in that we don't all remember our dreams.  Can anyone else
    add to this?  Has anyone else experienced this?  I believe M. Scott
    Peck briefly mentions this in The_Road_less_traveled.
    
    As for communication over distances, I think it is common only rarely
    recognized as anything other than a hunch.  In my own family, my mother
    can predict (she will inform my father) when one of us kids will be
    calling (by telephone, folks ;).  She often starts her phone calls
    with, "I told your father you'd be calling tonight..."  When this
    happens for years, you begin giving more credence to telepathy. 
    
    I have often pondered whether or not contagion was not another
    example of the belief in sickness being transmitted by thought
    over distances to receptive minds (receptive meaning those not
    protected against such lies). --but this leaves the bounds of this
    note.
    
    Saludos,
    
    jge

re: .3

   I think the term to use here is 'trans-personal' dreaming.  It isn't
   that uncommon, particularily to people that are close to each other
   and results in shared dream experiences.
   
   Synchronicity, a term coined by C.G. Jung, is defined as acausally
   connected events.  Meaning two or more events that appear as mere
   conicidence but are connected at some other (unconscious) level.
   I think there is separate topic on it.
 
   Terry