I am reluctant to accept magical explanations for numerous similar situations that I've experienced. I have thought a lot about this, and I think I have a reasonable explanation.

We are not limited to five senses as is typically believed, but those other senses aren't psychic abilities. Your sense of touch alone discerns hot from cold, hard from soft, rough from smooth, etc. That's more than one sense. You also feel hunger, fatigue, pain, and many other sensations that are beyond the capacity of the five basic senses. That's enough to preface my hypothesis.

My thought is that the human brain is constantly flooded with sensory input that it filters into conscious and subconscious awareness. If it didn't the information would overwhelm us. A lot of that data, maybe the majority of it, goes unnoticed 99% of the time, but in situations of danger you act on that information without ever realizing you had it.

@JimG It's said you have 40 million thoughts racing through your brain at any given moment, but are cognizant of only a few of them.

@Allamanda thank you.

Who has a family of 100 people? lol

@greyeyed123 Amish

@greyeyed123 Everyone. Everyone in the living world has at least 100 relatives (counding cousins, 2nd cousins, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc, great aunts, uncles, living and dead) everyone has 100 people they are related to; or ancestors. Fun Fact: People who are deceased still had birthdays.
Do they all need to literally be in one room? No smartass, it's a hypothetical.

@MuzikDan It's a useless hypothetical. Yes, technically all humans are related if you go back far enough. Yes, you have 7 billion "relatives", and you can count all other living things also if you really want to (genetically). Not everyone has 100 living relatives by the definition most people would consider "relatives". If both your parents were only children, you have no aunts nor uncles, and no cousins. But even counting hypothetical aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents, and great grandparents, you are no where NEAR the ballpark of 100 people.

Also, my mother came from a huge family while my father came from a medium family, and all my great grandparents, great aunts and uncles, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and brothers and sisters do not add up to 50. They just don't. And NO ONE has my birthday. And my maternal grandmother kept track of all birthdays and anniversaries, and made sure we knew them also. Only one overlapped, and it was with an in-law.

It's just that your claim that related people are more likely to share birthdays seems spurious. I would be curious to know where you got this information. (P.S. You cannot use a hypothetical as evidence of something strange and fascinating in reality.)

@greyeyed123 That's weird that you also had a family member who shared a birthday with someone else in your family. Cool story.

@MuzikDan Good grief.

geez, that sounds like...mental strain.

@callmedubious I suppose to some it would be BUT to those who are adept at using Logic and Reasoning it would be a simple as almost anything else, would it not?

@Triphid ,
my problem is that logic & reasoning don't work very well in an illogical world,

@callmedubious They actually do in my world WHICH , if I'm not in error, is the same world as everyone else on this planet lives, i.e. Planet Earth.

it's good that you can understand james. i have a problem with his kind of mumbling syntax.

I guess he's not everyone's cup of tea.