Synchronicity

MotoDC

Ok back on topic, I often wonder if synchronicity is merely a product of the susceptibility of the human mind to suggestion. For example, when I was young, whenever my parents bought a "new" car, it would suddenly seem to me that EVERYone was suddenly driving that same kind of car. It didn't occur to me until I was a few years older that I simply wasn't noticing that particular kind of car on the street until it was a part of my personal experience.

I'm sure this doesn't apply to all instances of synchronicity, but in general I'd say very few of us are as observant and intellectually honest with ourselves as we'd like to think.

cincybearcat

MotoDC wrote:

Ok back on topic, I often wonder if synchronicity is merely a product of the susceptibility of the human mind to suggestion. For example, when I was young, whenever my parents bought a "new" car, it would suddenly seem to me that EVERYone was suddenly driving that same kind of car. It didn't occur to me until I was a few years older that I simply wasn't noticing that particular kind of car on the street until it was a part of my personal experience.

I'm sure this doesn't apply to all instances of synchronicity, but in general I'd say very few of us are as observant and intellectually honest with ourselves as we'd like to think.

A Paradigm shift?

Byrnzie

This morning I learned the word for 'Salty' in Chinese with a Language app on my phone. Then this evening at work one of the things I was assigned to teach was the word 'Salty'.

Weird. :crazy:

adropinthepark

MotoDC wrote:

Ok back on topic, I often wonder if synchronicity is merely a product of the susceptibility of the human mind to suggestion. For example, when I was young, whenever my parents bought a "new" car, it would suddenly seem to me that EVERYone was suddenly driving that same kind of car. It didn't occur to me until I was a few years older that I simply wasn't noticing that particular kind of car on the street until it was a part of my personal experience.

I'm sure this doesn't apply to all instances of synchronicity, but in general I'd say very few of us are as observant and intellectually honest with ourselves as we'd like to think.

I definitely think that this is sometimes a part of it to the point that I often make a game of it. I'll decide that every time I see a reference to bowling it's a kind of inside joke between me and the universe. Then, bam!, I see bowling pins in the most random of places and I smile. I'm easily entertained.

On the other hand...

Sometimes things feel like too much of a coincidence. Like when...

I was talking to a friend one summer and she was telling me about how she and a former used to give each other four leaf clovers whenever they found them, which was, apparently, often. I was skeptical. I had occasionally searched for four leaf clovers ever since a scavenger hunt I took part in when I was nine. I had yet to find one.

A few days later, I was walking over to my friend's house and wondering how the heck she had found several four leaf clovers, but I had never found one. And, right when I was thinking about it, I looked down and at my foot was a freakin' four leaf clover! I wasn't even looking for it. I was just walking.

Later that summer, I was on a different walk thinking about the whole four leaf clover coincidence and, once again, I spotted another four leaf clover just off the path.

Crazy.

peacefrompaul

hedonist wrote:

Hmmm. Last night I decided to buy the fixins for my (not so famous) fettucine alfredo with shrimp and...asparagus

Send some of that my way... minus the asparagus

:P

chadwick

my dad was in memphis, tennessee april 4, 1968 the day martin luther king jr. was assassinated. i was in memphis, tennessee hauling goods around the country in my semi tractor trailer april 4, 2003 or 2004. 35 or 36 years later. that really felt eerie to me. also dad had died in 2002 so this really was spooky to me. the air in memphis felt electrical, it was wired & alive or whatever.

chadwick

Byrnzie wrote:

This morning I learned the word for 'Salty' in Chinese with a Language app on my phone. Then this evening at work one of the things I was assigned to teach was the word 'Salty'.

Weird. :crazy:

badass

rollings

Byrnzie wrote:

Anyone else have any examples of synchronicity?

Yes and I love it.

I have a friend with whom this kind of stuff happens all the time.

We talk on the phone alot and oftentimes we'll get on a stream of making up goofy bullshit stories--94% total nonsense.

One time one of us put out there "Ace Frehley" and then we both at the exact same time said "and his jacket....." :wtf:



what
what?
did you just say jacket,
what?

STAYSEA

Byrnzie wrote:

So, I just read a NYT review of a documentary on the life of the Buddha, and the writer mentioned that the director of the documentary had also made some docs on people such as Lincoln, the two Roosevelt's, Napoleon, Freud, e.t.c, and It occurred to me that I didn't know there were two Roosevelt's, and so tried to think who they were. I could only think of Teddy Roosevelt.

Anyway, I then decided to watch a Ken Burns documentary called 'Horatio's drive' about the first cross-country automobile journey in the United States, and the first thing the narrator says in this doc is this:


"On the evening of May 19th, 1903, in the oak-paneled game room of the exclusive University club in San Francisco a group of well-to-do men were sharing drinks, and conversation. The talk centered on Theodore Roosevelt's political fortunes, and the chances that the Boston pilgrims might take the pennant in the brand new American league."


Anyone else have any examples of synchronicity?

I do... But I do not wish to share with you.

Fruit Loops. We always agreed. Now u disagree with everything I post. WTF , makes you think I want to share a thread with you?


JK... but really. WE agree about we agree on NOTHING.

Christmas sux... I know you share that thought. Synch it...

hedonist

This is such a cool thread; I love hearing about these things (they said timing was everything).

Staysea, I don't know what you're on about here. Do you think it's possible to keep personal/private shit personal/private?

Give it a whirl!

redrock

A while back, saw a guy wearing a certain T-shirt in Oxford street. An old T-shirt - made me think of a friend for whom I bought the same T-shirt many, many years ago (20+ years!!).

Spoke to hubby about this in the evening, saying we should take a little trip when possible. Two days later, I get an e-mail from said friend saying he is in London for business for a couple of days, can we meet up....

Coincidence? Kismet?

Another one:

Recently wondering how a friend's son was doing (have sort of lost touch with friend a bit..). Same evening, friend Skypes to announce son is getting married in August...

So many examples... Cosmic links of the mind?

hedonist

redrock wrote:

So many examples... Cosmic links of the mind?

I think so. Sometimes wavelengths are in sync, whether person-to-person or person-to-nature, or something-to-anything. Just blows my mind in the best way when it happens.

Last week, a bullet we'd managed to dodge a few months ago came back and hit its target; as such, we;ve suffered a blow but we're getting through it and in the process have had these odd...links in thought.

Yesterday evening, my guy comes to me and says "you know, I've become motivated to..." and I finished his sentence - correctly :P

(he told me to get out of his head )

adropinthepark

Earlier this week I had a fucked up dream where I ended up with an upside down pentacle written on my inner right wrist that I couldn't wash off.

Now this evening, randomly clicking through BRMC vids, I click on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQzjcq4BGAQ

Power of suggestion on this one, I'm sure.

However..Also this week...

One morning, scrolling through Facebook, some person or organization showed a graphic with frogs in boiling pot as a demonstration of climate change. Later that day, an instructor used frogs in a pot (with a gradually rising temperature) as an example of people not realizing when an issue is brewing.

Byrnzie

redrock wrote:

A while back, saw a guy wearing a certain T-shirt in Oxford street. An old T-shirt - made me think of a friend for whom I bought the same T-shirt many, many years ago (20+ years!!).

Spoke to hubby about this in the evening, saying we should take a little trip when possible. Two days later, I get an e-mail from said friend saying he is in London for business for a couple of days, can we meet up....

Coincidence? Kismet?

Another one:

Recently wondering how a friend's son was doing (have sort of lost touch with friend a bit..). Same evening, friend Skypes to announce son is getting married in August...

So many examples... Cosmic links of the mind?

An old work colleague once appeared in one of my dreams - this was in about 2008 or 2009. I'd worked with him in 2002.When I woke up I checked my Facebook and noticed he'd just sent me a friend request. I hadn't seen him in at least 6 years, and he'd heardly crossed my mind until that dream.

hedonist

Byrnzie wrote:

redrock wrote:

So many examples... Cosmic links of the mind?

An old work colleague once appeared in one of my dreams - this was in about 2008 or 2009. I'd worked with him in 2002.When I woke up I checked my Facebook and noticed he'd just sent me a friend request. I hadn't seen him in at least 6 years, and he'd heardly crossed my mind until that dream.

I think it is some sort of mental or energy link; how some are more in sync with others in a weird (unknown) way, without even realizing it till it happens or is recognized.

chadwick

i will all of a sudden be thinking of a friend pretty deeply and within a few minutes or day or so they will call me. this happens to me constantly.

Byrnzie

So, earlier today I was reading this post in Lonely Planet's forum - http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/t ... ID=2229734 as It just happened to appear when I searched for some travel info about a city in China. This dude talks about the rights and wrongs of rebuilding ancient sites. I thought it was pretty interesting, but had no relevance to what I was looking for.

'I've just returned from Datong which, let's face it, is a bit of a dump. but I was interested to note that the local government are rebuilding its "Ancient" city wall. Now, I am a history buff. I came to China because of its long history and richly varied culture but I've always been against completely rebuilding things# as it comes across as fake and leads to an almost Disneyland-type experience.'

Anyway, I arrive home from work and check the Guardian's page and begin reading this book review http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/ju ... ins-review about a book on Roman Britain:

'...Commercial considerations of a different kind come into play at Hadrian's Wall...the wall, and the many tourists it brings (1 million a year, with over 200,000 walking at least part of the route), are now at the centre of the local economy...there is talk of rebuilding, to allow visitors to experience the fortifications in all their imposing grandeur. In this case, perhaps, the venture is justified.'


I mean, is that some weird shit or what? It's not everyday that I read about the rebuilding of ancient sites, so for the same - pretty obscure - topic to crop up twice is definitely a bit odd.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Never noticed this thread before.

About 15 years ago, I was teaching my class and got sidetracked with a life lesson. I used a reference to a boy who had been picked on at our school somewhat... who one summer holiday drowned saving his friend in swirling waters. A tragic and moving incident that had affected me and many others.

No word of lie, it was a day or two after the lesson when a kid had lost their textbook and needed one. I grabbed one of the extras, opened it up to record the number, and the last signature in the book was the one of the child who had passed.

I just sat there as if someone had slapped me- void of thought and staring at the name.

As a side... I was moved to tears every year when this boy's mother came to the year end awards ceremony to bestow a scholarship to a student at our school in memory of her child. No matter how much time passed, this woman remained unable to control her emotions when speaking of her son and the loss. Not to derail the thread... but it is this type of pain that has not been lost on me and what drives my conviction for the death penalty if it can offer some a measure of comfort in the event some bastard takes the life of someone's child... I'm for it. People are correct when the DP cannot bring back the victim, but I think they are wrong when they claim the law should not exist to service the survivors. Such profound pain. I could only imagine.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

last night my wife and I were sitting by our back yard fire....she tells me she had a dream the night before that we had twins (she's not pregnant), and I told her the night before that I had actually had a dream that my PARENTS had twins.

Good thing I'm married. Otherwise there might be a possibility of conception.

chadwick

thank you, byrnzie, thirty bills & hugh dillion. all good stuff

this kinda stuff happens constantly to me but i am now thinking of this one amazing simple thing that is so fucked it makes my head spin. i was wondering how a certain word was spelt & wanted the exact definition. i was using a large hardcover dictionary & was pretty unsure of the spelling. without looking at the letters in the side of the closed book, you know, the dugout finger tip thingamajigs with a couple letters on each notch, i simply open the book & exactly where my thumb is resting is the exact word i am searching for.

bizarre?










pretty much