Telepathic ways of knowing?

No. The phenomenon you describe is selection bias. Do you remember all the times you were thinking about someone and they didn’t call? No, you only remember the hits, not the misses.

I think it’s possible . . . I also think coincidence has something to do with it. Chances are, if you have close friends, you think of each other often anyway. Still . . .

The scientific portion of me recognizes and highly values that there have been absolutely no known demonstrated mental telepathic skills as you are describing, in fact in every single test they’ve done, the subjects score no more than random chance.

The portion of me that basis my knowledge on my experience also supports the thought that there are no such things as telepathic speaking or such other ESP abilities.

The rational portion of me also acknowledges that there is much scientific literature studying our brains and how it works, and it has observed that our brains love finding coincidences and patterns (such as seeing faces in the dark) and deeming them as important when they are really nothing beyond improbable.

I’ve had an experience you describe. I was thinking of my mom, so I picked up the phone to call her and started dialing. After a few beeps I heard a voice on the line and no dial tone, turns out it was my mom who had called me, but I had picked up before the phone registered! I could interpret this event as being mysterious or somehow telepathic, but in reality this has only occured once versus the thousands of times I’ve ever used the phone. My brain recognizes this as unique and may support a theory (in this case, of telepathic abilities) that really doesn’t exist.

all of these answers are amazing =D and realizing that the ones it happens with most are the ones whom you have things most in common with.

maybe the thinking pattern is the same?

Nope, I agree with @Ivan, it is simply selective memory. Sort of like that street light that flicks off when I drive under it every night on my way home form work. It’s not magic, or my presence, it is simply chance, or maybe the reflection of my headlights off of a parked car. Who knows? I’m sure its not some magical power. Just because you can’t explain something, that isn’t any reason to default to magic or fantasy.

“you only remember the hits, not the misses.”

Ivan, I think you forgot to quote that.
I wrote an essay about this Freshman year & used this quote.

I wasn’t trying to directly quote someone, but it doesn’t surprise me that someone would use that phrase.