Who's Calling? Evaluating The Accuracy Of Guessing Who's On The Phone

[Paul_Exeter]

"Some people claim to occasionally know who is calling them without using traditional means. Controlled experiments testing these claims report mixed results."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830723001805?dgcid=author

 

[Iris]

I've noticed that lately when I think of some of my close friends that they will ring in the next few minutes.

 

[Mythopoeika]

This happens with my Mum. She thinks of somebody and then they call her.

 

[Iris]

Maybe it's being on the same wavelength?

 

[Paul_Exeter]

My mum used to say the same, that she would always know when me or my sister was about to ring

 

[Delightful]

Didn't Sheldrake have some research on this?

 

[Mythopoeika]

Didn't Sheldrake have some research on this?

Do you mean 'morphic resonance'? Or something like that?

 

[Delightful]

Do you mean 'morphic resonance'? Or something like that?

Same guy.
But iirc he did research into telepathy, including the sense of being stared at, knowing who was calling before they called, and pets sensing the return of their owners.

 

[Fanari_Lloyd]

On my first day of starting a new job I was learning how to use their phone system as I was on reception and had to answer and then put people through to different offices. The manager was showing me around and the phone rang when we were in the main sales office so she said I should answer it and put the call through from there. I picked it up and said, ‘Yes, mum?’ It was my mother (No mobiles then, though the sales reps had car phones so I would always give my work phone to my mother in case there was an emergency etc). i was in that ‘first day in new job’ half-panicked state where I’m trying desperately to remember everything but somehow I just knew it was my mother.