That's a good question and I have no idea. This reminds me of the SCANATE remote viewing program, where the viewer would be given just coordinates and they could then start to gain information about the site. Crazy, right? I may be going off the deep end, but it almost seems like there is some intelligence behind these phenomena, as if something about consciousness can understand, interpret, and organize in a way that helps the desired outcome.
In my opinion, I think consciousness is fundamental and everything occurs as quantum information processing and integration (both matter and our conscious experience, including thoughts). Perhaps consciousness "makes sense" of the quantum information and may allow for these things to occur because of this. I don't know...it is something I really wonder about.