Oh good one Oz!
I didn’t think to offer that.
As an empath, I have experienced several times another persons’ waking feelings (emotions and/or pain) while I was asleep.
But, I didn’t think to suggest what you offered Oz...that it might be another person’s waking non-urgent “thoughts”. I’ve for certain experienced that at least once. One of my friends was reading a book at his home while I was asleep at my home a little more than one mile away. I experienced as a dream state exactly what he was reading as he was reading it.