Using Yosemite on Mac, out of NOWHERE makes a call using iPhone

This is gonna sound really weird, but happened twice already.
I have a Macbook Air on Yosemite 10.10.1 and an iPhone 5s (iOS 8.1)
Two days ago while just browsing on the web on my Mac out of nowhere suddenly appeared the call box thingy (the one for 'continuity' introduced recently) (top right of the screen, it said: "Calling <Brother's Name> using iPhone"). It appeared for like 10 seconds and then cut off. (I thought well, my brother called me and hung up).
But today it happened again. I was using a code editor (Sublime Text) doing nothing else and I see the same call interface box appear, once again saying "Calling <Brother's Name> using iPhone" and after 5 seconds my brother picks up the phone: "- Hello?".... I was like ***?, my iphone was right next to me on the table, completely locked and unused for the previous 1 hour or so, I had to ask my brother if I was the one who called him or vice versa and got surprised when he said I was calling him from my phone.
This is extremely weird and I would like to know if anywhere else has had this problem. I am a software engineer, I am not like tech-stupid or anything, I am pretty sure that out of nowhere my Macbook Air called my brother's phone (twice) using my iPhone. (his is an old Android phone if anyone cares),
I even picked up the iPhone to see if any message said "Calling <Brother's name> form mac" or something similar but nothing appeared on the phone. I even turned it off to make sure the call was taking place from the iPhone and wasn't anything else. As soon as the iPhone was turned off, the Mac call was dropped.
P.S. I don't do drugs nor have any mental illness. Also, English is not my first language but tried my best at making myself clear.

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