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Empathy is caused by mirror neurons, which replicate the neurological experiences of others to give you a harmless taste. An empath has an over abundance of mirror neurons.

To understand what it's like being an empath, imagine watching someone smell the inside of a very nasty old shoe, and though you cannot place what, specifically, the smell is like, by watching them your brain chemistry makes you feel as though you just smelt something repulsive. All of the neurological effects of the sensory data carry over without the data itself.

That's the lighter side, the heavier side is watching someone relive a traumatic experience in their life and you break out crying. You don't need to have experienced getting a catheter removed to know what it's like, you merely have to listen to someone as they relive the experience. Again though, the specific sensory data does not carry over, which stands it apart from telepathy and shit like that.
Is this proven or just a theory? Not that I doubt you im just curious about this. By the way do any empaths here have empathic parents and or siblings?