https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160517-pilot-wave-theory-gains-experimental-support/

In human communications, especially those with persons, places, organisms or animals with whom we have deep interest or intimacy, signals are often preceded by what I will analogize (from physics) to refer to as ‘a pilot wave’. Most of the time we are not consciously aware of the reception of the pilot wave (a term I use loosely here to indicate a signal ‘hint’ from the future or past arriving before or after an actual incident of contact).

This would explain the (false, I think) descriptions of ‘telephone telepathy’ and ‘pet telepathy’ as well as a number of other kinds of experience where intimacy or interest produce pre-contact signal sensing in human beings and animals. It is well-known, for example that a wide variety of animals and insects are generally aware of the futurial arrival of storms, floods, earthquakes, and other catastrophes — and are likely also aware of incipient opportunities.

I am especially interested in which modes of this phenomenon are likely to enter conscious awareness, under what conditions, and how to identify experiences that appear to be something like this, yet are not (telephone telepathy is generally understood to produce many false positives in common human thought and accounting).

I am not using the definition from physics, but rather using an analogy from this definition, which I include below for reference.

What has become clear to me is simple: the greater the degree of felt intimacy or interest, the more likely it is that we can become conscious of an incoming signal or situation long before it arrives in a form easily recognized by our common ways of thinking and accounting signal reception.