PY,
Thanks for sharing some experiences. I'm interested in things like this, and I always have been. However, in order to understand these things, I always thought that understanding
ourselves was a really important prerequisite. So I've eventually followed a path to study perception, consciousness, and what makes the human mind. From what I read, I think this must be interesting to you, too.
I have 2 comments:
1. Maybe I missed you mention it in another post, because I didn't read this thread very diligently before posting. If this is a very consistent phenomenon, have you thought about submitting to scientific testing? As Ned posted, there's a huge reward. Furthermore, it would help others discover the nature of yourself. Who knows, maybe it would help you understand yourself better as well.
2. I'm not really interested to try and explain away your experiences without real evidence; however I think it is important to motivate that it's possible. There's something in your explanations that is implicit, but that I think is wrong. For some of the examples, I think it's a key point, and in investigating in the future, I think it's important to be aware of.
There are more ways to communicate than 'meets the eye.' This means two things:
1. There are ways to communicate besides just seeing and hearing.
2. Not all communication is conscious.
In your experience, you've described a lack of conscious visual and auditory communication. However, it's really possible that there's communication going on in other ways.
- Unconscious visual cues (from your friends to you, or from you to your friends) about what you or your other friends believe about the photo (easy to happen in a 'yes' or 'no' scenario); this is how horses 'learn' how to count. This is also related to how ouiji boards are explained to work (control of motor function beneath the 'conscious will' level). This can't explain many of your experience, but it's important to control for in a scientific experiment.
- Sense of smell - I think this is the most important one. As discussed
in this video (~4:00 - 7:00), there is some really unexpected and interesting behavior that is controlled via ferramones. For example, ovulation cycles in a community of females become synchronized over time due to ferramones. This isn't unique to humans, but is found strongly in other mammals. I think this is an important thing to control
Of course, these are just the thoughts of an amateur; this list is not complete or even really too important. The main point is that there truly are ways to communicate that I believe you're not considering, and that's important to investigate and to control. Because, like you, I'm interested in what lies behind all of it.
I hope this post provides some meaning for you; I appreciate your open-mindedness and your search for others of the same ilk.
Ben