stark ranting

This might sound a little out of character, but at times I can't help but wonder about the idea of global consciousness. The idea that our conscious minds might overlap in some nebulous way, difficult to grasp as it may be. There is perhaps nothing as individual and isolated as perceived consciousness, and yet the thoughts that run through someone else's mind can be oddly similar to my own. Is it coincidence? Do shared experiences cause analogous ripples of thought through each of our minds? If you consider the way fads take off in our culture you can see a shared responsiveness to a new idea, one that hits everyone the right way at the right time. It could be due to social pressure, or shared experience, but I can't shake the idea of a broader conceptualization not limited to a single mind.