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It's driving me absolutely insane that I still don't know what's going on.

Telepathy is one of the fundamental forms of communication between sentient beings. You are experiencing the effects of both empathy and projection working together, all being brought in to play and experiences through synchronicity.

http://www.light-weaver.com/telepathy/toc.html

I am not sure that explains anything, but your question is also somewhat vague in comparison to the preciseness of the answer you seem to desire.