Too Coincidental, has it happened to you?

Very interesting ideas, I like! I feel that there are no coincidences. That the little or big happenings that catch our attention are actually the universes way of letting us know we are very connected and they happen specifically for us to recognize. To lure us in some to see our thoughts are very much alive. The universes way of smiling at us, so smile back!

Yes, last year. I was walking with a guy that I liked, although at that time I wasn’t sure whether or not that was the case. I offered to take him home (since he lived just across our university); so when we entered the car, I turned on the radio, and the song was Paramore’s The Only Exception (which he really likes!).

When he got out of the car, I had to admit to myself that I did like him… so I kind of asked for a sign. And after that, for 2 days straight, whenever I entered the car and turned on the radio, the song was always – ALWAYS – The Only Exception! And I always catch it just when it’s starting! It was a bit unbelievable and amusing, haha.

We’re still friends right now, by the way. I have no idea whether that was a sign, or just simply a coincidence :)

“rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno”

Alex; hello i am robert

you happen to have a connection to the spiritual world which you are not aware of…so; the spiritual world is attempting to make the point it exist…you seem to want to develop your connection but are having some difficulty discovering a right path for you to walk…

you say you have an open mind; but, you seem to fill it with choices which lead you away from your connection…my suggestion…practice connecting to the spiritual world within you :D

Kinda Like what @Bryan Hellard mentioned, “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur

Haven’t read all of the comments through but skimmed to get a jist of it… well here’s my opinion on “coincidence.”

So firstly I went through a phase when I was really intereseted in this, so I’ve done a lot of thinking on it.
K, so I think the first problem with why our brains get so “boggled” by de javu and coincidence etc… is because most of us think (most of the time) in a very linear way. We are aware of the facts that we know now, our subconscious fills in facts we forgot (in a vague like picture.) Lastly, most of us see time (naturally) as a kind of line moving forward.

Point two is that our brains are wired to find patterns in the world around us… thats why we have mathematicians plotting away at functions, mapmakers making maps proportional to the real world, business calendars running on the same 5 day a week schedule everyday… etc you get my drift. We want to find corralations (which is like patterns) in the world around us. Obviously this works for the world we live in… 2.5 billion years of evolution in the making.

I’m going to guess that over the 2.5 billion years of evolution, our brains have evolved to release a series of chemical pathways that make us “light up” if you will, when we think we’ve found a pattern in our little linear world. It keeps our brain sticking the the adaptations we have for survival described in point one and two. And again, it works for our little world.

The problem is that we don’t know all the “facts” in the world… we get caught up in this linear time line we like to think in that we forget that the world has three other dimensions we know. And modern physics says 10 dimensions total (approx.) Imagine sectioning off a one inch wide line across the mona lisa and only seeing the painting within the boundaries within that line. Imagine that was the only part of the painting you saw? What would you see? An abstract ribbon with cool designs on it. Maybe even a pattern of lines. But the reality of what your actually seeing is not an abstract painting with patterns… its actually the mona lisa!
Some people might say “Not everything we see is what it really is” (or something like that) I disagree… we see what we see, lets just see some more.
Is it coincidence that I woke up in my bed in my house this morning, just like every other morning of my life? I dreamed about eggs last night and my mom made eggs for breakfast… is that coincidence? I read in some physics book, anything can happen at any given moment, its more about the probability of it happening.
Last point (this is getting long! sorry!!!): as helpful as our propensity for finding patterns is, its not a foolproof mechanism. For example, math seems to be rational and always right. 2+2=4. Yet the same formulas we use in quantuam physics start to give out wacky answers when applied to astrophysics, and vice versa. 1/3 is .3333…. its a number that never ends yet I can eat exactly 1/3 of a cookie. Our ability for finding patterns is still not perfect.

Thats just one way I look at it, and not to turn my post into an essay loll I’ll end there :)

This one was wierd: A few hours ago, I was in my basement reading “Conversations with God” and listening to Last.fm, when this song titled “Remember Who You Are” by the Living Legends came on. Before then, I had never heard of this song before, and I’ve been listening to the Living Legends for years. Anyone who’s familiar with “Conversations with God” knows the coincidence.

I work in a manufacturing environment. ( A plant with production lines)
I dreamt one night that there was a fire on our line, lots of smoke, and I could see one of my team mates trying to push the start button on our line.
The next day, I had all morning to think about it, and mull over how I would evacuate if a fire did occur. I even told my break partner.
Well, guess what.
That afternoon, we had a fire on our line, lot s of smoke, and that same team mate was trying to start the line when this was happening. I told my break partner: “Follow me.” And we took the nearest exit outside to safety and walked all the way around the plant to the front of the building.
Although it wasn’t a serious fire, the rest of the crew was criticized for evacuating towards the tunnel where the fire crew was coming from to try and put out the fire. They didn’t take the nearest exit route.
The only reason my break partner and I did, was because I had dreamt the event the night before.
Coincidence?