"... alleviate all that incessant TEXTING!!"

And cure 78.431% of all thumb complaints!

Ake... your report is, of course, what I mean by 'anecdotal'. I know several people who assert they have had .. ummm.. 'experiences' that they attribute to 'tuning in' to another's thoughts or emotions. Maybe they did...maybe they didn't.
What is NOT possible, so far, (and not even claimed) is testable, *replicable* tranfer of specific information - that is, on demand and in detail. Whether we can discover the facts behind the various claims is hard to say.

I am a 'skeptic', which is not the same as a 'denyer' on the matter.