Coincidence?

Byrnzie
Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
edited December 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
So, I thought about someone this morning who I used to work with about 8 years ago. I don't know why. I've not seen him in eight years. And I can say that I've not thought of him in at least the past 3 or 4 years.
Anyway, I check my Facebook inbox this evening and there's a message from him.
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  • surfanddestroy
    surfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    There is a name for when things like that happen but I cant think what its called.
    Astoria 20/04/06, Leeds 25/08/06, Prague 22/09/06, Wembley 18/06/07,
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    its the vibe...
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    It happens to me often. I'm quite sure I experience it more than most people.

    It's freaky/weird/ and strange.

    Whenever I get visions for numbers though, I never win the lotto :thumbdown:
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    surfanddestroy wrote:
    There is a name for when things like that happen but I cant think what its called.

    Serendipity?

    Edit: Actually, I just double-checked and that's not the right word.
  • TravisTheSky
    TravisTheSky Posts: 615
    Sixth Sense?
    "May you live in interesting times."
  • PJPixie
    PJPixie Posts: 3,026
    wow, what day did that happen on? Same thing happened to me on Sunday. Thought of him on sunday night (he was my boyfriend 21 years ago) Woke up on Monday morning and had a message from him on Facebook!
    strange strange strange............
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    surfanddestroy wrote:
    There is a name for when things like that happen but I cant think what its called.



    deja vu?
    well, kinda sorta.
    freaky none the less.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Random
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  • StevieG
    StevieG Ontario Posts: 850
    About a year ago I was in the middle of doing something and I thought when I'm finished I'm going to call a great friend of mine, Tom, who moved away and whom I hadn't spoken to in about 3 or 4 months. About 10 minutes later I got a call from his wife telling me that he was dead. That was pretty eerie. He truly was a great guy and I miss him.
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  • PearlOfAGirl
    PearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    Byrnzie wrote:
    So, I thought about someone this morning who I used to work with about 8 years ago. I don't know why. I've not seen him in eight years. And I can say that I've not thought of him in at least the past 3 or 4 years.
    Anyway, I check my Facebook inbox this evening and there's a message from him.
    It must be fate.. ;):mrgreen:

    Wish you were here...
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  • spat
    spat Posts: 644
    surfanddestroy wrote:
    There is a name for when things like that happen but I cant think what its called.

    syncronicity
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    There is no Coincidence..Everything happens for a reason..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    spat wrote:
    surfanddestroy wrote:
    There is a name for when things like that happen but I cant think what its called.

    syncronicity


    With one breath, with one flow
    You will know
    Synchronicity

    A sleep trance, a dream dance
    A shared romance
    Synchronicity

    A connecting principle
    Linked to the invisible
    Almost imperceptible
    Something inexpressible
    Science insusceptible
    Logic so inflexible
    Causally connectible
    Yet nothing is invincible

    If we share this nightmare
    Then we can dream
    Spiritus mundi

    If you act, as you think
    The missing link
    Synchronicity

    We know you, they know me
    Extrasensory
    Synchronicity

    A star fall, a phone call
    It joins all
    Synchronicity

    It's so deep, it's so wide
    Your inside
    Synchronicity

    Effect without a cause
    Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
    Synchronicity...



    Part 2

    Another suburban family morning
    Grandmother screaming at the wall
    We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
    We can't hear anything at all
    Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
    But we know all her suicides are fake
    Daddy only stares into the distance
    There's only so much more that he can take
    Many miles away
    Something crawls from the slime
    At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

    Another industrial ugly morning
    The factory belches filth into the sky
    He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
    He doesn't think to wonder why
    The secretaries pout and preen like
    cheap tarts in a red light street
    But all he ever thinks to do is watch
    And every single meeting with his so-called superior
    Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
    Many miles away
    Something crawls to the surface
    Of a dark Scottish lake

    Another working day has ended
    Only the rush hour hell to face
    Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
    Contestants in a suicidal race
    Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
    He knows that something somewhere has to break
    He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
    The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
    Many miles away
    There's a shadow on the door
    Of a cottage on the shore
    Of a dark Scottish lake
    Many miles away, many miles away



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  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    It's a conspiracy, like everything else. 8-)
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  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    I think it's called FREAKY! it's like you're on the same wavelength as the other person...i feel like it happens to me a lot and i'm not sure if it's cool or creepy...
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  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    I think it's called FREAKY! it's like you're on the same wavelength as the other person...i feel like it happens to me a lot and i'm not sure if it's cool or creepy...


    Why are you wearing short-sleeves on a day like today?

    mwahahaha!! :lol::D
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    spat wrote:
    surfanddestroy wrote:
    There is a name for when things like that happen but I cant think what its called.

    syncronicity


    With one breath, with one flow
    You will know
    Synchronicity

    A sleep trance, a dream dance
    A shared romance
    Synchronicity

    A connecting principle
    Linked to the invisible
    Almost imperceptible
    Something inexpressible
    Science insusceptible
    Logic so inflexible
    Causally connectible
    Yet nothing is invincible

    If we share this nightmare
    Then we can dream
    Spiritus mundi

    If you act, as you think
    The missing link
    Synchronicity

    We know you, they know me
    Extrasensory
    Synchronicity

    A star fall, a phone call
    It joins all
    Synchronicity

    It's so deep, it's so wide
    Your inside
    Synchronicity

    Effect without a cause
    Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
    Synchronicity...



    Part 2

    Another suburban family morning
    Grandmother screaming at the wall
    We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
    We can't hear anything at all
    Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
    But we know all her suicides are fake
    Daddy only stares into the distance
    There's only so much more that he can take
    Many miles away
    Something crawls from the slime
    At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

    Another industrial ugly morning
    The factory belches filth into the sky
    He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
    He doesn't think to wonder why
    The secretaries pout and preen like
    cheap tarts in a red light street
    But all he ever thinks to do is watch
    And every single meeting with his so-called superior
    Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
    Many miles away
    Something crawls to the surface
    Of a dark Scottish lake

    Another working day has ended
    Only the rush hour hell to face
    Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
    Contestants in a suicidal race
    Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
    He knows that something somewhere has to break
    He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
    The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
    Many miles away
    There's a shadow on the door
    Of a cottage on the shore
    Of a dark Scottish lake
    Many miles away, many miles away



    :)



    :thumbup:
    kudos bathy!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited November 2009
    Here's another one:

    Last night I was reading a book by an American writer called Peter Hessler called 'Oracle Bones'. In it he interviews an American archeologist who makes a passing reference to the 'New Yorkers view of the world map'. This refers to a map produced by the New Yorker magazine which depicts the world as consisting mainly of Manhattan. I'd never heard of this before.
    Anyway, I was just watching Series 3 Episode 12 of Northern Exposure and Joel Flashman makes a comment about the 'New Yorkers view of the world map' stuck up on the wall behind his desk in his doctors surgery.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    spat wrote:
    syncronicity

    That's it.
  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    Byrnzie wrote:
    spat wrote:
    syncronicity

    That's it.


    yep...it IS called synchronicity...

    my mom and i always used to argue which was the correct term for it...cause she always calling it 'telepathy' so finally one time i went and got the big dictionary to show her that i was right by calling it sychronicity...

    but she kept right on calling it telepathy...oh well :wtf:
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