Morphogenetic fields, Memes, Lamarckian evolution etc.

Several years ago I had read an article on Morphogenetic fields, asking if it is fact, fiction (,fantasy) or fraud. According to the theory learning to ride a bike is easier for children these days because everyone who has learnt to ride one set up a field which everyone else has access to.

Lamarckian evolution has some traits of that but has a somewhat sounder footing.
See http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22061/ for an example. Conditions that someone grows in, their memory, can apparently be passed on. What that means though is that you have to actually see a few people learning to ride bikes to benefit from it.

Vaguely speaking, this is akin to memes, the mental counterparts of genes - ideas that can jump from one person to another. But in the case of memes, you latch on to an idea. It can be completely abstract. You make it yours and spread it.

Watched today a TED talk by V Ramachandran: Neurons that shaped civilization. Here he talks about mirror neurons which fire when you see some one do some action (remember yourself trying to stretch out to catch a ball when you want the fielder on the TV screen to catch it?). Apparently the firing of the neurons can allow you to learn some tasks (as well as experience feelings the other person may). So very likely it is these mirror neurons that help you learn riding a bike quicker than the first person to do so.

That, I feel, still does not explain phenomena like my dreaming that Nandu Narvekar, a Marathi detective, was eating a lot at a party and the food ended up in my stomach. I had an upset stomach the next day.