Synchronosicity?

[Virginia Dawn]

Have you ever had any odd coincidences in your life? There is a kind of joke in my family that there are psychic tendencies. Not something that can be controlled, but dreams and experiences that make you go, "hmmm."

For example, when dh and I were dating, we sat listening to the radio and talking about music. Within a half hour period, five of the songs that we mentioned played right after we talked about them.

Last month I was in the car with ds 14yo and the radio was on NPR. Ds asked me what something on another car was and I said, "the outline of a state." Well *immediately* following that, the President of the United States said, "the outline of a state" with exactly the same tone I had. I don't even have any idea what the context was. Ds and I just sat there with our mouths open.

Anyway, I tend to think this kind of thing is pretty common, but people just don't talk about it because others might think they are wierd. ;)

Now is your chance. Tell us about your odd life coincidences.

[PrairieAir]

When I was in high school, I had a nightmare that I was trapped in the mall overnight. I had been shopping for a prom dress and hadn't realized they were closing. I was terrified, but then I got curious and started roaming the mall. I passed a little shop I had never seen before. I don't remember seeing the name of the place in the dream, but they sold cinnamon rolls as their main product and the decor stood out very clear to me in the dream. I even saw the exact place it was in the mall in relationship to other stores I knew well. A few weeks later I went to the mall (a 45 minute drive) and saw them putting up a little eaterie in that exact spot from my dream. From what was finished, the decor looked like it would look a lot like it had in my dream. The last time I had been at the mall, there was another store there, so there were no hints. The next time I went back, there was a completed Cinnabon in that spot and it looked exactly like in my dream to the last detail. I had never even seen or heard of another Cinnabon before that. It seriously freaked me out! I hurried on out of the mall. I've thought about that from time to time and wondered if I was supposed to go in and sit down. Maybe I was supposed to meet someone there. Maybe it was like the Apostle Paul having a vision of the man from Macedonia or Peter and the vision preceeding Cornelius' visit. I don't remember any people or going into the store from my dream. I don't know. It's just weird. I wish I had gone in and sat down, though:)

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

Anyway, I tend to think this kind of thing is pretty common, but people just don't talk about it because others might think they are wierd. ;)


I don't know how common it is, but it happens to me on occasion. And I don't usually talk about it. (Because others will think I'm weird!)

Part of the time, stuff happens because I'm fairly intuitive and put two and two together. Part of the time, though, there's simply no real explanation for it. My mom engages in a lot of "magical thinking," so I am overly cautious about admitting this. I *think* I have a pretty firm grip on reality, but how do you know if you don't? :eek: :ack2:

:blink:

:laugh:

[Virginia Dawn]

I don't know how common it is, but it happens to me on occasion. And I don't usually talk about it. (Because others will think I'm weird!)

Part of the time, stuff happens because I'm fairly intuitive and put two and two together. Part of the time, though, there's simply no real explanation for it. My mom engages in a lot of "magical thinking," so I am overly cautious about admitting this. I *think* I have a pretty firm grip on reality, but how do you know if you don't? :eek: :ack2:

:blink:

:laugh:

I've always considered myself to be realistic to a fault. My children complain about my realism all the time. I'm very leery of mysticism. That's why I was convinced that these crazy, meaningless coincidences happen to most people. That would make them normal, right?

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I really am weird. :glare:

Thanks for being brave enough to answer. ;)

Maybe I should keep my goofy thoughts to myself.

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

I've always considered myself to be realistic to a fault. My children complain about my realism all the time. I'm very leery of mysticism. That's why I was convinced that these crazy, meaningless coincidences happen to most people. That would make them normal, right?

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I really am weird. :glare:

Thanks for being brave enough to answer. ;)

Maybe I should keep my goofy thoughts to myself.

You might be weird. But that's a good thing. (How could it be a bad thing?)

Reading books like Innumeracy and How to Lie With Statistics make me dismiss a whole lot of what people feel is supernatural that's just simply numbers and happenings... happening.

I'm not much of a "god" person. But I know enough to know that I don't know much. And it's humbling to contemplate The Way Things Are. (As opposed to The Way Things Ought to Be (Limbaugh), which sits on my shelf in between The Way Things Are (Lucretius) and Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot (Franken). This, it pains me to say, is my idea of Very Funny. Juxtaposition combined with Books as Decor equals Humor at my house. It's a very weird house. But I get to smile a lot.)

[Doran]

Have you ever had any odd coincidences in your life? There is a kind of joke in my family that there are psychic tendencies. Not something that can be controlled, but dreams and experiences that make you go, "hmmm."....


It happens to me with people. The way it works for me is I'll talk about someone aloud, or think about the fact that we haven't communicated in a long time, and within 24 hours -- often less -- they'll get in touch. My kids laugh about it because I do tell them, with words like, "OK, that's pretty creepy...." Coincidence? Perhaps. But, one that happens with regularity. And, frequently enough that sometimes I don't have to say anything because no sooner than I've finished speaking about the person, the phone will ring.


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Doran

[Virginia Dawn]

It happens to me with people. The way it works for me is I'll talk about someone aloud, or think about the fact that we haven't communicated in a long time, and within 24 hours -- often less -- they'll get in touch. My kids laugh about it because I do tell them, with words like, "OK, that's pretty creepy...." Coincidence? Perhaps. But, one that happens with regularity. And, frequently enough that sometimes I don't have to say anything because no sooner than I've finished speaking about the person, the phone will ring.


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Doran

This happens with my Dad and I. Personally I think it is a product of guilt. :D
You know, we both care just enough to start getting that nagging feeling that it's time to call at the same time.

Most of my intuitive experiences are very negative in nature. I think that has a lot to do with being realistic. I can tell by observation when things are not good in other people's lives. But nobody likes a prophet of doom, you know, so I usually keep my mouth shut. (most of the time)

[elegantlion]

I have things like that happen a lot. I'm not awake enough to list some of them yet, but yes, I find it stranger than coincidence.

[Virginia Dawn]

And it's humbling to contemplate The Way Things Are. (As opposed to The Way Things Ought to Be (Limbaugh), which sits on my shelf in between The Way Things Are (Lucretius) and Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot (Franken). This, it pains me to say, is my idea of Very Funny. Juxtaposition combined with Books as Decor equals Humor at my house. It's a very weird house. But I get to smile a lot.)


You have a much better sense of humor than I do. If I were you, Rush would have been in the thrift store long ago.:D

[Doran]

This happens with my Dad and I. Personally I think it is a product of guilt. :D
You know, we both care just enough to start getting that nagging feeling that it's time to call at the same time.

Most of my intuitive experiences are very negative in nature. I think that has a lot to do with being realistic. I can tell by observation when things are not good in other people's lives. But nobody likes a prophet of doom, you know, so I usually keep my mouth shut. (most of the time)


You can't have my spot on the couch over guilt. I called it first! :glare:


These calls aren't about guilt. I get those kind, too. With my mother. No, these are people who aren't expected to keep in touch with any consistency, and people with whom my own communications are sporadic. It just happened the other day. I was cleaning out my inbox and saw one from a friend in Maine that I hadn't heard from in ages. I thought, "I ought to see how she's doing." The next day there was an email from her. The email in my inbox was from August.

As for keeping my mouth shut.....I'm sorry, I don't understand. What does that mean? ;)

Doran

[CleoQc]

Before I met my DH, I was sent on a business trip to Ohio. So was my future DH. We were employed by the same company but worked on different floors, so we didn't know each other. We worked together on the project for 2 weeks. Of course, we basically took every meal together, and in the course of those 2 weeks, we ordered EXACTLY the same thing, meal after meal after meal. At one point, it became a joke. One would leave for the restroom, while the other would order. Then the first one would order. Same order each time. It was freaky...

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

You have a much better sense of humor than I do. If I were you, Rush would have been in the thrift store long ago.:D

I can't get rid of it. It would mess up the trifecta. By itself, it would never have come HOME from the thrift store twenty-five cent shelf.

Ben used to carry it around at ABS to freak out his Spanish teacher. Then later, he carried around Franken to freak out his math teacher.

He never carried around Lucretius, though. He was all about cause and effect back then. :rolleyes:

[Daisy]

I have no comment on your actual conversation because I'm not that in touch with my inner self. I just had to post on this thread because I love the word, "synchronosicity" and it made me happy this morning. How could you have known it was what I needed? (oooohhooooooh....eery music). :lol:

[Valerie(TX)]

I've had several things like that happen in my life, although I can only bring one to mind at the moment. This is the one that still bothers me, to a small degree, and since I do believe in God and do believe that there is an ongoing battle between evil and good, I think that this was an evil thing meant to cause a small child pain and guilt. That perspective has helped me to let go of allowing it any power in my life, although the incident still makes me sad.

When I was 8, we had just stayed with my maternal grandparents for several weeks, then traveled to another part of the country to live with my other grandparents for several months. (We lived overseas, so that furlough year was always greatly anticipated as a time to reconnect with family, loved ones, and the churches that financed my parents' missions work.)

All my grandparents were warm and loving, but I had not really connected with my mom's dad during the two weeks I had just spent with them, although, in retrospect, I don't know why. He had taught me to fish, and I don't remember that being an excruciating thing :001_rolleyes:, but for whatever reason, there wasn't much of a bond there.

One night, while at my second g-parents house, I began thinking about death and about how so many families lose loved ones. I thought through the list of family we knew, specifically g-parents, and essentially chose the g-parent that I could live without, then I drifted off to sleep. It was my maternal g-father. The next morning over breakfast, my mom and dad told me they had received a call during the night that her dad had been in a car accident the previous evening and had died many hours later.

For years, I carried the secret guilt of having "wished his death," and I could not bring myself to tell her about it until just a few years ago.

Bad "synchronicity"!

[Cadam]

My dh is the creepy one but it's not always positive. With people he knows well he can predict the sex of a baby. It is a little freaky but the three really sad times were when he knew people were going to die.

The first time he had this sense that a person close to someone he loved would die, but he didn't know who. He didn't tell me because he thought it might be my dad. :eek: It ended up being a friend of a friend. Dh thinks it was God's way of preparing him to be ready to comfort his friend.

[Virginia Dawn]

I have no comment on your actual conversation because I'm not that in touch with my inner self. I just had to post on this thread because I love the word, "synchronosicity" and it made me happy this morning. How could you have known it was what I needed? (oooohhooooooh....eery music). :lol:

I don't even know if I spelled it right though. Maybe I should go look it up.:001_smile:

[Virginia Dawn]

For years, I carried the secret guilt of having "wished his death," and I could not bring myself to tell her about it until just a few years ago.

Bad "synchronicity"!

Ugh! That must have been horrible. :grouphug:

[j.griff]

Well, my mom can "sense" when something's wrong with me (upset, etc.) and will call within a short amount of time to "check on me" because she just "had a feeling" that something wasn't right.
My aunt is 4 years older than me, and even though we live across the country from each other, and we never talk to each other on the phone, we frequently have the same interests or thoughts at the same time. It's really weird. When we were in high school my mom would take us shopping, I'd go my way and my aunt would go her way, we didn't bump into each other during the shopping. When we were all ready to go pay for our clothes my aunt and I would have the SAME shirts, sometimes in a different color. :eek:

[j.griff]

Also, I told a fellow worker (years ago) to "beware the bridge". I didn't see him for a couple of weeks (worked different shifts) and when I saw him again I asked him if he'd had any "bridge trouble". He didn't remember me saying that to him, and he was :eek: that I asked him that, he had wrecked his car right beside a bridge the week before.

[Miss Peregrine]

I have things like that happen all the time.

Once I was driving to the grocery store and I had a song stuck in my head. This was not a current song, totally random. I parked my car and when I got out, that exact song was playing over the speakers in the parking lot and it picked up right where I was in the song. :eek:

Or I will be wondering about something, anything and the next day I will see an article about it or see a a sign that explains it.

I think it is weird, but it is something I totally love about myself.

[j.griff]

oooh, one time we were in a store and dd was humming a classical tune, we were walking around a corner and she stopped humming to ask me something but right at that moment we heard a man's cell phone ringing, it was the same tune, and it was at the spot that dd had stopped humming.
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[Jean in Newcastle]

Well, when we were teens my brother and I both had this really bad feeling about the trip my parents were on. We were 100% sure that they had been in an accident. We both discussed what we knew about guardianship in their will. We both were distraught by the time they got home - with no accident or problem at all!!! So synchronicity didn't work for us at all!