Mine has just been staring at me and then moved ahead to the room I was going to and sat where I was going to sit.
I think they can sense emotions. Mine always know when I am sick or sad and one in particular always comforts me by getting in bed under the covers with me and putting his head on the pillow next to mine.
cats communicate on a mental level, yes ....i've interacted with too many over the years for anyone to convince me otherwise - but, like people, they do have varying degrees of intelligence
You probably go in that room and sit in that spot everyday. Cats and dogs always pick up on that. It's like when a person goes near the door. A dog will most likely know to follow and go outside to go to the bathroom.
Test your theory by speaking gibberish to them. My dog understands me, so if I speak gibberish she gets confused and pouts with me for about an hour.
Somehow I do not think a cat would be very interested in what people think or what is going on in someone mind. They are way to into their little feline worlds.
I don't know about reading minds, but I definitely know my cat senses things, emotions and whatnot. She will come over to me when I'm upset or not feeling well, stand up on her hind legs and put her front paws on my leg for me to pick her up. Then she cuddles against me. Or if I'm sitting, she'll come over and plop down in my lap, gives me kisses with her nose. Normally she's off doing her own thing, very independent, so I know she understands when something is "off" so-to-speak. She always "talks" a lot. Every morning when I come downstairs she'll perk right up and do her little talking thing. It's like she's telling me good morning. It's so cute. And she'll come in the kitchen while I'm cooking and start her little talking bit, I talk back to her, she answers in return, and it goes on for a while. She especially loves when I call her my pretty little baby girl.
Yeah. Like, if you really love 'em, you can tell them so by feeling like you really love them and then giving them a pet or something which expresses in touch what you are thinking in words.
I think they are very good at picking up very subtle cues. I can open my eyes really wide at my cats and they freak and disperse. It's a subtle cue that one might mistake for something deeper. Cats probably have finer honed instinctual abilities than we do. We have evolved out of our's for the most part.