Catching a thought from someone else

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Often, I will be thinking a certain thought, and I am then wondering whether to say it to my wife, or not. In the meantime, and before I get to actually say it to her, she says the exact same thought to me, with the exact same wording too, that I was going to use, to her. She has caught my thought. I was thinking that this only happened between humans, but it also happened between my dog and me, once too. I was cleaning my Dad’s bedroom up. I had my dog with me. I was using a small hand-held vacuum cleaner to clean up some dirt and dust under the bed, and on the actual bed too. I saw something red and sticky-looking under the pillow. I did not immediately know what it was. My dog jumped up onto the bed, went up to it, looked at it, and sniffed at it. Then she looked up at me. I immediately knew now what it was a throatie lolly that Dad had probably half chewed and was still sticky. He had placed it under his pillow, and had then forgotten about it, it seemed My dog knew in her mind what it was and as the recognition went through her brain, I also picked up on the recognition somehow in my own brain, and I knew now what it was too. She knew, so then I also knew. I knew what she knew because she knew, and I then knew too, because I picked up on her knowing, and it connected me through to my own past memory of what this was then too. I had caught my dog’s thought. Has anyone else ever had a similar experience like this before, with their pets?