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Exchange or "Exchange" of Thoughts Between People,

who are in exceptional states of consciousness (meditation, psychedelic use) — does this find any explanation in modern science? [inspired by the column on perception] For example, when a person claims they were riding in a taxi and the driver was giving them a guided tour of the city, mentioning historical facts that the "tourist" later googled and confirmed to be true. Meanwhile, the other passengers (including those in a normal state of consciousness) insist the driver was silent. Or another example — when after "returning," both people claim that "there" one would mentally start a sentence and the other would finish it. And, importantly, in their normal state, both recount a similar meaning of the "exchanged" thoughts. Vera Vladimirovna mentioned in her lectures a monograph that confirmed that the hearts of people standing close together influence each other's electrical characteristics, for example. Could an excess of corresponding neurotransmitters of endogenous or exogenous origin make nerve cells more susceptible to changes in electrical fields? Or perhaps these are some mysterious Lamarckian "fluids" — substances perceived by, say, a vomeronasal organ that has become hypersensitive? Could one "transmit" an emotion this way? Or is this all pure autosuggestion?