people have thousands of different ways of explaining nature and our connection to the rest of nature-(the basis for many weirdass religions)...there really is an energetic connection between living things on the individual as well as group levels...the 'flavors' of the resulting vibration(i.e. community, anger, hatred, love)...apparently our subconscious mind is highly keyed to this spetrum. how well your subconscious communicates this info is dependent on how well your conscious mind LISTENS...easier said than done for most! those who are more sensitive(empathic)have a much better connection between the conscious/subconscious...this was actually common knowledge to the kahunas of hawaii for centuries(or longer!). some people can be TOO sensitive, and appear quite flaky,bleeding hearted, probably have personal friendships with angels and garden faeries, and far too thin skinned for this world! I'm sure you know someone who fits this description...yet they're the first to detect the coming tornado/earhquake/(insert disaster here), even before the dog!..it's just that-instead of saying"oh! I subconsciously felt tremmors or whatever.".they say (and believe) 'the great god hubajuba' told them!