Is This Empathy?

I am so not used to this, but I have no where to go. Um, I have been looking for answers. It started when I was younger I can't remember when but at the time I mistook it for realizing something using logic. However I have recently come to understand that is isn't because of logic or luck or anything like that. When I was younger I could tell someone's personality just by being near them for a few moments. Now Listen it's not like it came to me instantly it was more like "Oh that guy tipped his hat... Now he's sitting down... A brief case..." At that moment I didn't like him. I don't remember who he turned out to be but I figured that I was just guessing.

Later on in my life when I was about 20 I was sitting with some friends playing a game in the Library when a guy came up and sat watching us for a few moments. He asked if he could play and was told No by my best-friend. It was not as if it was sudden or as if I realized it at the time but I could feel... Er... No, I... Don't know how to describe. It wasn't as if I just knew it but I didn't come to the conclusion logically... But I came to the conclusion that this guy was a good guy and I let him play with us for a while. He has since then become one of my closest friends.

This thing began to happen in increased frequency over then next few years and I am now 23. Things have happened to me so much that I'm beginning to worry. First was a person nearby now I can talk to someone a state away and be able to tell the way they feel and the thoughts that reside deep in their soul... I think... I am so confused. I can't understand this at all. I've always been good with people able to talk about their problems and come to a conclusion on what to do. See I could have a knack for psychology but some things that happen are very scary. I knew that my girlfriend had gone to sleep and she lives states away. I even said goodnight on IM. She never told me she was going to sleep. Along with this, the same girl was turning on her web cam so I could see and... I don't know how to explain it. It's not just knowing it. It's slow yet fast. It never hits me like a freight train. I never physically felt anything. I just come to the conclusion with out any outside stimuli. I typed "you're not on I'm" and the next words she wrote were, "I'm ugly". This isn't genuine proof I know but, I am worried. The frequency of this happening is increasing rapidly. I can tell how things are going to happen... Not future like more like a conclusion I unconsciously come to. Believe me it's not seeing the future more like knowing all the outcomes and selecting the few most logical.

Okay I sound crazy. I sound insane the kind they lock up in insane asylum for a thousand years. I'm just worried.