Can twins can communicate telepathically?

In the first source, “Twin Telepathy”, Pamela Prindle Fiero talks alot about how twins share a special connection that surpasses that of ordinary siblings. Some twins experience physical pain when the other twin is also in pain, they have some of the same actions at the same time.

She gives the definition of telepathy as the process of assessing thoughts or feelings without help from sensory input like sight, sound or touch. She also throws in the idea of ESP, extrsensory perception, playing a role. She defines ESP as is an ability to acquire information without relying on physical senses or previous experience.

As far as scientific evidence of this phenomenon being true, there is none. But even without proof, the experiences can't be denyed. These experiences are accepted as a deep emotional connections. Twins are connected more intimately than other siblings. These experiences can also be seen in close couples such as a wife and husband. It is also thought that the experiences are more with ientical twins and not fraternal twins.

She performed an experiment with her own twins and with her husband. She gave them a test called the Zener ESP test. She explains the results from the twins test and the results from her and her husband's test. She goes into detail about the twins approach to taking the test.

In the second source, “How Stuff Works” by Katherine Neer, a part of her article covers telepathy in twins. She asks the questions, "Can they read each other's minds?", "Do they finish each other's sentences because they are truly telepathic?", "Do twins possess some shared form of extrasensory perception that the rest of the world doesn't?"

Some people believe that everyone possesses the ability of ESP and others believe that only "special" people have the ability. She also covers the subject of the results of experiments performed show that twins aren't anymore connected in this way than others. She talks about a couple of specific experiments that were performed and the results.

There are other experiments that have been performed that show not only twins but other close relationships also have telepathic tendencies. Results indicate that the bond may be merely the result of spending alot of time with each other and getting to know each other.

The explanation is that after living together for a long period of time, your brain has stored information about this other person from your five senses. These "things" can be stored conciously or unconsciously. Instead of the person "reading your mind" they are simply picking up visual clues and comparing them to those things stored in your mind.

In the third and fourth source, Twin Telepathy: The Psychic Connection by Guy Lyon Playfair, he gives different scenarios of telepathic experiences between twins and other closely related people. He says the intensity of the bond between twins is so strong that we should begin studying telepathy here. He also talks about how the necessary research has not been done. Tests started in the 1880's but no serious twin telpathy study has been done on a large enough scale.