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Have you ever had that situation where you think of someone, maybe someone you haven't seen for a while, then suddenly get a phone call from them? I can think of two explanations:

- telepathy

- future causality

I am not sure which is most likely, but elements of both might exist.

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How can I know that my memory of thinking of calling them wasn't formed after they called? I think that a similar thing happens to me when I feel like a dream predicted an event. It's probably just a really vague dream that didn't quite crystalize in my memory until after the thing it "predicted" occurs.

option 3: Pareidolia

option 4: subconscious associations

If some world or local event that links you with another person happens, you may both be inspired to think of each other.

Also, "I was going to call you" means "I was thinking about calling you but I have terrible follow-through" for many people, so I was going to call you and you called me is basically saying "you have better follow-through than I do"

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