Too Coincidental, has it happened to you?

talking about coincidental, look at my post in the “just a question?” discussion… Unless that discussion sparked this one, which it probably did?

I swear, I was the first person to think of a Snuggie…

I’ve heard this phenomenon referred to as the “Universal Mind.” From what I’ve gathered from the theory it s is based around the idea that all thoughts are original in nature and belong to a sole creator. Once he thought has come to be the creator is limited in time on whether to act on the idea or not. In part if the creator chooses to sit idle the idea still exist and it has to go some where. The ideas are theorized to collect in a collection pool which can be accessed by any human. So Jessica if you would have been walkin around with your bath robe on backwards 3 years ago you would be a millionaire lol…

Ofcourse the question, why does this happen is not answered. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an evolutionary advantage for groups to be more cohesive. And maybe there even isn’t a why or maybe its because we all came from the same source.

As for my personal experience with these phenomena, it’s become so annoying that I had to start investigating. One rational explanation would be that at some point you just send a signal, a simple thought out into the universe and from then on your unconscious is constantly on the lookout for that piece of information. Consciously, you’ve completely forgotten about it, but your antenna is still out, without you knowing. To illustrate this, here’s something that happened to me a while back: I was desperately trying to remember the name of some guy from college. I was at it for a few hours one day, trying to get there through all sorts of associations, even trying to think if I’d ever seen his name on paper, and how that would be easier to remember with my photographic memory. I wasn’t able to do it for the life of me. Three or four days later, so a considerable amount of time, and by then of course, I’d stopped thinking about it, I was driving into town and a huge lorry passes by, with huge letters on the front of it ‘MIRKO srl’. Also, his name is Serbian and at the time I was in Romania.
A basic explanation would then be that I was somehow on alert and noticed something I otherwise wouldn’t have bothered with or wouldn’t have considered noteworthy. That’s the rational explanation, but in some cases that is just not enough.
For those who want to explore the phenomenon I recommend C.G. Jung’s ‘Synchronicity’. I’d love to tell you what it’s all about but I haven’t read it yet. I’ve recently decided Jung is one of the awesomest people to have ever lived, up there with Waldo Emerson and Einstein, and am now painstakingly reading through tomes of his writing. Synchronicity is the next one on the list though, so I’ll perhaps report later with my findings.
Jung is the one who came up with the concept of ‘collective unconscious’ which is a far better phrase than the above mentioned ‘universal pool of ideas’ and in my opinion deserves a lot more credit for his work. Most people haven’t heard of him but have heard of Freud (he was on coke all the time, of course it’s all about sex. jeez) which is a real shame.
Anyways, another good one was when I became obsessed with socially adept psychopaths ( the ones who aren’t murderous but cause just as much damage without being physically violent) and was reading on the subject. About two weeks later, in the span of one week I saw one episode each of CSI, NCIS and the Mentalist, all educating on the concept of the non-violent psychopath. I was thrilled more people found out about it because whenever I tried to talk to people about it everybody just thought I was exaggerating.
At the end of that week I was beginning to think to myself: ‘My God, I can control television!’.

Ive seen waking life about four times now and it seems that every time I still don’t remember the whole movie. Maybe should watch it sober haha.

I was sober the first and second time I watched it and trust me, I don’t remember it either. There’s just something weird about it, and it’s not just the drawing stuff. :) The information is just so new and so concentrated it makes it hard to wrap your brain around all of it.
Now the third time I watched it I wasn’t so sober and I think that was still one of the best trips ever. I felt like a three-year old on Christmas day, that sort of enthusiasm just makes life worth living. I just had that feeling that the universe had opened itself up to me and now I had the answer to everything. brilliant movie, good times…

one of my college roomates (assigned at random) has the same birthday as me. Aug 17. Really strange

Everyone has decent answers. I came up with an explanation that has two prongs. 1. Intuition within with subjective perception of consciousness 2. the very root of “the law of attraction”.

I don’t want to bore everyone with a long winded response, so I’ll summarize idea. 1.
As we go through every instant of life, we are constantly recording everything of significance from thoughts to occurrences to actions while simultaneously creating relations and connections between these events interdependent of each of other through casualty. When we step in in a pile of shit, we can create the assumption that it was “bad luck” or it might be a “bad day” and on the flip side we can say the opposite if we were to find 20 dollars. As we live we are constantly defining everything around us.

Now when this is phenomena mixed with intuition or what I like to call the natural law of attraction. See the law of attraction has been taught as if you think of something enough it will create itself right? In reality this isnt the law of attraction but actually a MANIPULATION of the law of attraction because it is consciously guided by the choice maker.

When coincidence occurs it is clearly not on the part of the choice maker because then it wouldn’t be coincidence. So this could lead us to the conclusions that we have these thoughts that will lead to us defining an action or event as a ironic coincidence because we connected it as such with the early prophetic premonition, but in reality its just the natural law of attraction working naturally. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND ALREADY KNOWS WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN!!! INCEPTION!!!!! DAHM DAHM!

I think it’s a mix between the answers of Martijn and Krish. Yes, selective-bias and the mass priming effect can definitely account for a lot of these occurrences. However for happenings like mine, Alex’s and Sofia’s, those rationalizations can possibly be held responsible. There is definitely some element of law of attraction-like stuff going on that cannot (yet) be explained by modern science. I fully believe in concept of a collective-consciousness and in the idea that we can somehow be guided towards certain events based upon our thoughts and desires. Serendipity runs RAMPANT when you have your mind set on achieving a goal. Anyone that has experience with intention-based meditation can attest to this. I love logical and rational as much as the next guy, but I accept that there are some things we cannot explain. And I love that :)

Exactly Jordan. A very interesting idea that runs parallel with all of this, including collective consciousness, happened to me today. My college roommate and his girlfriend were meeting today for the first time in a while. As soon as she got here. Plans randomly fell in place for me to hang out with a friend I hadn’t seen in sometime. It is uncommon for me and my friend to hang out, but it just happened. On top of that it left my roommate to “be” with his girlfriend for quite a bit of time, “uninterrupted”, due to my elongated absence. It makes me think that the fabric our interdependent realities is ultimately caused by collective consciousness of us and those around us and lastly our enviroment. Stay with me here… could it possible that my rare occurrence-hang out with my friend was ultimately caused by my roommates own personal intention? Could I go as far to say that this thought that I had and therefor this post that I am writing was ultimately caused by me taking part in this discussion before all of this occured? Coincidence? I think not! :o