This is the weirdest but I guess this must be the place to ask…
I have a very vivid recollection about viewing a documentary on twin telepathy some four-five years ago. It concentrated on an experiment where identical twins were hooked up to some equipment and were situated around a hospital far away from one another. Then when a large pile of plates was suddenly dropped in the room, giving one of the twins a proper scare we saw her identical sister react. I remember her even commenting how she felt a kind of twinge the exact moment her sister got scared.
I’ve tried to extensively google for the documentary today (again) and find nothing, with no mention of such an experiment either. To put it plainly I usually find whatever I’m googling for. What I can also remember was talk about mirror neurons and I’m veering towards the documentary and the experimented on being either from the UK or from Denmark. The government channel I remember seeing this documentary on (in the daytime) isn’t famous for War Of The Worlds-esque stunts. The way the experiment was laid out and simply observed also makes for very boring sci-fi. I’m aware of “documentaries” like “What the Bleep do we know” happening but this doc was just focused on this very simple experiment.
All in all - what the hell was I viewing? I don’t dream things like this.
I found something later on, this is from liveabout.com:
Experiments
Guy Lyon Playfair, in addition to his book research, has conducted informal experiments of his own to test the psychic connection between twins. These are some of the results.
For a television show in 2003, Playfair set up a test for twins Richard and Damien Powles. Richard was placed in a sound-proof booth with a bucket of ice water while Damien was some distance away in another studio hooked up to a polygraph machine (a “lie detector” machine that measures respiration, muscle and skin response. When Richard plunged his hand into the ice water and let out a gasp, there was an obvious blip on Damien’s polygraph that measured his respiration, as if he too had let out a gasp.
In a similar experiment before a live TV audience in 1997, twin teenagers Elaine and Evelyn Dove were likewise separated. Elaine was in the sound-proof booth with a pyramid-shaped box while Evelyn was sequestered in another room with the polygraph. When Elaine was sitting relaxed, suddenly the box exploded in a harmless but shocking pop of sparks, flashes, and colored smoke. Evelyn’s polygraph recorded her psychic reaction at the same moment, with one of the needles running right off the edge of the paper.
Playfair is quick to admit that these were not experiments conducted with the strictest scientific protocols, yet it is difficult to explain their outcomes.
Interviewed here: [https://youtu.be/SBVq2BcO9eU] Not taking a stance to the stories featured really.
I wouldn’t trust that Playfair (an “expert” in the paranormal) was being diligent enough to exclude trickery.
He was reportedly fooled in the Enfield Poltergeist affair.
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2012/07/enfield-poltergeist/