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Crazy coincidences

anna.

anna.

colors your eyes with what's not there
This happens to me so often. I wonder if it’s frequency bias that makes it seem that way or if it really happens more than - usual? Because what’s “usual?” Here‘s the latest example:

Earlier this morning I was thinking of a friend I’d lost touch with about 20 years ago. He had an extensive vocabulary and had introduced me at the time to a word I didn’t know, let alone know how to pronounce. The word was synecdoche. I don’t know why he popped into my mind, it’s been years since I thought about him and I was thinking about how I still struggle with that word.

Fast-forward a couple hours, I decided to visit the local art museum. One of the art pieces is titled Synecdoche.

How often does this kind of thing happen to you?
 

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Quagmire

Quagmire

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anna. said:
This happens to me so often. I wonder if it’s frequency bias that makes it seem that way or if it really happens more than - usual? Because what’s “usual?” Here‘s the latest example:

Earlier this morning I was thinking of a friend I’d lost touch with about 20 years ago. He had an extensive vocabulary and had introduced me at the time to a word I didn’t know, let alone know how to pronounce. The word was synecdoche. I don’t know why he popped into my mind, it’s been years since I thought about him and I was thinking about how I still struggle with that word.

Fast-forward a couple hours, I decided to visit the local art museum. One of the art pieces is titled Synecdoche.

How often does this kind of thing happen to you?
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A lot.

I remember one time I was sitting in a coffee shop talking to somebody in RF about Gypsies/Romani people when a truck pulled up outside with the word ROMA --- what the Romani people call themselves --- painted on the side.

It's really common in my life to be thinking about someone I hadn't thought about in a while and then run into them soon after.

And by 'soon' I mean sometimes in less than an hour.

I lead a pretty solitary life and I really only have three (what I would call) friends in my town, and we see each other less and less since I moved across town last year.

Twice in the last year I've gotten a thought that I should make an effort to get back in touch with them, and both times I ran into all three of them within the space of two days.

I'm sure part of this is because when I'm feeling sociable I'm out and about more, more likely to visit my old haunts and therefore more likely to run into people, but even so, running into all three of them in the space of two days is unexpected: back when I was going to these same places every day I might run into one or two of these people once every week or two.
 
anna.

anna.

colors your eyes with what's not there
Quagmire said:
A lot.

I remember one time I was sitting in a coffee shop talking to somebody in RF about Gypsies/Romani people when a truck pulled up outside with the word ROMA --- what the Romani people call themselves --- painted on the side.
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This happens frequently to me too and it did just the other day, that I'll be reading a word and hearing the same word in a song or movie playing in the background at the same time I'm reading it. And not a common word that would increase the chances either, more like your Roma. It's so interesting, it's like two language rivers flowing from two sources that converge at the same time on a single point of data in a moment of time. Not quite the same thing but that reminds me of the time I was at an intersection with a car that had such an unusual paint job that it caused me to notice it, one of us going straight and one turning right. Ten minutes later, that car and I ended up at the same intersection at the same time again, on two streets of a 4-way stop. I wouldn't have noticed if the car hadn't been memorable, but it's amazing that we took two routes that brought us to the same intersection at literally the same time about 6 miles away.
 
Quagmire

Quagmire

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Quagmire said:
I remember one time I was sitting in a coffee shop talking to somebody in RF about Gypsies/Romani people when a truck pulled up outside with the word ROMA --- what the Romani people call themselves --- painted on the side
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I was curious to see if I could find the post from when this happened, since it was quite a while ago.

Here it is:

Mass deportations to the East

UN warns France over Roma deportations - Telegraph Treating a whole ethnic group as criminal and then deporting them East. This is disgusting. It is also worth bearing in mind when we hear Sarkozy or his cronies attack Islam. They are fascists.
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The Sum of Awe

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Very often. Especially with numbers. Just now, for example, I looked at the time and it is 7:42, and the numbers 7 and especially 42 have a recurring synchronicity with me.

There are so many other examples but I'll just leave it at that for now.
 
Dan From Smithville

Dan From Smithville

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anna. said:
This happens to me so often. I wonder if it’s frequency bias that makes it seem that way or if it really happens more than - usual? Because what’s “usual?” Here‘s the latest example:

Earlier this morning I was thinking of a friend I’d lost touch with about 20 years ago. He had an extensive vocabulary and had introduced me at the time to a word I didn’t know, let alone know how to pronounce. The word was synecdoche. I don’t know why he popped into my mind, it’s been years since I thought about him and I was thinking about how I still struggle with that word.

Fast-forward a couple hours, I decided to visit the local art museum. One of the art pieces is titled Synecdoche.

How often does this kind of thing happen to you?
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That happens to me rather frequently and has since I was a child. I don't know what it means. Perhaps I subconsciously make note of facts that get connected in my brain somehow and are noticed when they rise to the surface in a sense. No idea. I find it interesting. I think about someone I haven't seen in a long time and then I see them or they call. Things like that. Nothing useful like stock tips or lottery numbers. Just a curiosity.
 
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