[threadbear]

I've been having synchronicity storms interrupted by apparently meaningless but interesting coincidences lately. Have you ever noticed that you'll be thinking of something and a few seconds or minutes later, the same thought shows up on this board, or some other forum?

A couple of years ago, I was researching aflotoxin. Ever hear of it? Likely not...it's a toxin produced by a fungus that infects peanuts. I googled away for half a day about this fungus. That evening, a new member appeared on Peak Oil forums named Aflatoxin. Weird. I hadn't mentioned anything about it on the forums, so it wasn't as if the new poster read a post I'd written and thought it would make a good name to go by.

Anyway, I thought it would be great if any willing participants would like to document their synchronicities and coincidences here. Concision is a good thing. Try to keep it short.

[Bas]

you'll see more "coincidences" when you're subconsciously looking for them.

[paimei01]

One day by chance I read on wikipedia about Stradivarius and how he made violins.
The same day I download the anime movie "Whisper of the Heart" the last movie made by Hayao Myazaki that I wanted to see, I say he is a genius and all his movies are great
And in the movie there is a Japanese boy who wanted to go to Italy and learn to make violins
Just a coincidence

[MD]

Y'know, I had just been thinking about starting a thread just like this one.

[threadbear]

This morning I was listening to the television, a journo named what sounded like "Ghoul" was reciting some story about post Halloween shopping, which triggered my memory about another meaningful name, a CBC dude called James "Cudmore" reporting on Mad Cow disease, a couple of years ago. As I'm laughing about this, I turn on my computer and recieve a spam from someone by the name of Cudmore. This all transpired within about 1 minute.

[Bas]

Anyone want to play Memory?

Bas (with the Coincidence Control Committee ; )

[MD]

Can I have the Coincidental paradox sub-chair title, please?

I've been humming Edie Brickell's "What I am" all afternoon, then I arrive at thispo thread about the number 23, where RonMN just piped in about getting too deep.

curious . . .

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'C')an I have the Coincidental paradox sub-chair title, please?

I've been humming Edie Brickell's "What I am" all afternoon, then I arrive at thispo thread about the number 23, where RonMN just piped in about getting too deep.

curious . . .

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'a') strong desire, to swim in the collective unconscious--to catch ideas, images and thoughts from the pooled output of 6 billion minds.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '.')..

Its all about sex, isn't it?

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'a') strong desire, to swim in the collective unconscious--to catch ideas, images and thoughts from the pooled output of 6 billion minds.

[jboogy]

something comes to mind immediately , years ago me and my buddy were on the phone for about 30 minutes just yakking , finally he says was I doing anything while we were talking or something like that , anyway it turns out we had both been doodling pictures of sharks and whales while we had been talking, and I don't think I've drawn a picture of a fish before then or since.It freaked us a little.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'd')ownloading the contents of the mind into the infinite.

[Plantagenet]

Sorry to be so down-to-earth, threadbear. You are clearly operating on a much high plane of being then I am.

Your writing on this subject is shear poetry. Please continue.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')Its all about sex, isn't it?

[Ferretlover]

Last night I called an old high school friend that I hadn't spoken to in more than a year.
The first thing she said to me was that she had been thinking about me off and on all week!

[mercurygirl]

Nothing really remarkable is coming to mind, but the next time it happens I'll be sure to post here. There will be a next time, for as you know threadbear, this has been happening to me A LOT. So much so, that months ago I mentioned it to my DH as something out of the ordinary.

Yes, you will see more coincidences if you're looking for them. But sometimes, it's more than that. It seems personal somehow, like MD's necklace experience. It seems to be telling me, "this is where you're supposed to be".

Perhaps the people who are more sensitive in other ways are more aware of this. I've always called myself a receiver.

[mercurygirl]

I started rereading "1984" last night, not sure why. Now AngryChimp is posting big quotes from the book here.

[ReverseEngineer]

I'm still trying to reconcile in my mind uncanny coincidences, including tonight's powerful windstorm here. I have been living up here on the Last Great Frontier around 2 years, and NEVER in all that ime was there a windstorm of this magnitude. Its blowing outside like you would not BELIEVE.

I did not PLAN to move here, what seemed to me to be bizarre circumstances of my life led me up here ever so gradually, moving ever outward from the center of civilization where I was born, New York City. I did not PLAN to be a survivalist, I just gradually got more nervous about things I saw in the economy and the way people were living that bothered me. I certainly never planned to start stocking up on food when I first got here, but I just kept getting more and more upset and looked for something to DO, and started buying food all the time. I knew NOTHING about Peak Oil until about a year ago when I started researching issues after the failure of Bear Stearns. Then it all started to come together for me.

I've had experience working in many different fields, I am thoroughly over educated as anyone who reads my stuff probably realizes. Kept jumping around though different types of work for 30 years, never real happy about anything until I got up here. Why? Why is there this windstorm tonight? Why is my US Passport expiring on October 13th? I'm flooded with coincidences I cannot rationally explain.

I am assuming tomorrow I will go to work and those around me will be about as unaware tomorrow as they have been since I began putting the pieces together a year ago. Well, maybe more since when Katrina hit I started writing some Doom then for friends of mine. Really though, I only got seriously doomerish in the last year.

How much longer will "regular life" exist for me? Will it be gone in a virtual instant in the course of a day or two, a week or two, or will it take months or even a couple of years (I HOPE!) to spin down here?

I'll TRY to get some sleep tonight, and head into work tomorrow, to teach the children for one more day. Each day a blessing. I am so scared though.

Reverse Engineer

[mrsea]

Why the fear? Our President said we will come through this ok.

Perhaps you should consider getting a dog.