What is that?

I’m not sure when this started, and I think I’ve had this ability for a long time, but often, too often for it to just be a coincidence, I think of someone and then hear from them.

Not my husband or anyone else I speak to regularly but friends, acquaintances, and students, some I know well and some I’ve only met once.

For example, I’ll have a student I may talk to regularly for some time- even years. Then, not at all.

Out of nowhere, I’ll get a strong thought about them, or for no reason, I’ll randomly wonder how they are doing, and within hours, no more than a day, they will message me or book a lesson.

Sometimes, I don’t know the student well at all. I might have only spoken to them once. But, something they said will pop into my mind, and I’ll wonder about them and abracadabra; they’ll have booked a lesson.

I don’t always recognize their names, but when I see them, I think, how did I know?

The feeling is unique, too, and it can’t be forced. I can think about many people from the past, and it’s not the same.

This is a very distinct feeling, a sensation, as if not being generated by me but told to me. Much like dreams, where things happen, but if you become aware you’re dreaming and try to create something, it doesn’t work.

There is one person. In high school, I knew that popped into my mind many times with the same sensation. But I never heard from her so I couldn’t confirm it.

It was only during a specific period, and then nothing again. And to be honest, I barely knew her. We had some good conversations and usually hung out in a group, but we were never close. So, it’s strange to stay the least…

It’s only been since I started teaching that this phenomenon happens regularly, and I have a way of confirming it. I have met thousands of people over the past five years, so I have many ways of experiencing and validating this phenomenon.

I should also note there is no negative emotion attached to any of these people. Either they didn’t leave much of a mark, or I enjoyed their company.

I know many people I would rather not see again, but they never pop into my mind. Also, if I see them, I don’t recognize them. That’s right, I forget what people look like who I had a bad experience with…but that’s another post…