Connections or coincidences? Premonition or random experiences?

[Rocco]

Sorry if this is incoherent my brain is processing a lot as I write this.

Sometimes I cannot accept the thought of coincidence when things happen to me. I am left wondering if it is just a processing issue, a thought based sensation, or something else. The open minded part of me says it’s an odd mental connection to people/thibgs, the rational minded part of me says it’s mere coincidence.

The easiest way to describe this is Randomly thinking about a person then immediately/soon after receiving a phone call or text from that very person.
Thinking about a random subject and suddenly being questioned about that very thing or unintentionally finding information about that same subject

It happens to me several times a week in assorted situations.
Most commonly I will be randomly thinking/remembering a person I have not communicated with in a long time, then they call me. Or text me out of the blue.
It literally just happened again just now as I was typing the last sentence. A person popped in my head that I have experienced this premonition or coincidence with several times, and my phone rang before I could finish typing. The very person I thought of. It’s starting to feel really weird.

Yesterday I had been randomly thinking of an ex-girlfriend, then found a sticker she had given me last year. Then woke up to two texts from her after about 8+ months of no communication.

This morning I had a missed call from an unknown number from a state I lived in over 25 years ago. It turned out to be an Aunt I rarely talk with, who I had just thought of earlier this morning.

This phenomenon happens in other ways too, not just with people. It might be simply explained that I just think of a LOT of random things daily and eventually some will happen or have an essence of coincidence. It just is starting to feel eerie when I feel like a pattern is emerging. It gets harder to dismiss as simple coincidence when it keeps happening.

The fact that it happened while drafting this post is unsettling.

 

[Vesta]

I am haunted by other irrational thoughts when I make a mistake or miss out on something important. If something that was previously uninteresting to me suddenly becomes significant, I begin to believe that I may have been in an unstable emotional state. My perception may have been distorted. I need to reshape my thinking in order to avoid repeating similar situations in the future.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Sorry if this is incoherent my brain is processing a lot as I write this.

Sometimes I cannot accept the thought of coincidence when things happen to me. I am left wondering if it is just a processing issue, a thought based sensation, or something else. The open minded part of me says it’s an odd mental connection to people/thibgs, the rational minded part of me says it’s mere coincidence.

The easiest way to describe this is Randomly thinking about a person then immediately/soon after receiving a phone call or text from that very person.
Thinking about a random subject and suddenly being questioned about that very thing or unintentionally finding information about that same subject

It happens to me several times a week in assorted situations.
Most commonly I will be randomly thinking/remembering a person I have not communicated with in a long time, then they call me. Or text me out of the blue.
It literally just happened again just now as I was typing the last sentence. A person popped in my head that I have experienced this premonition or coincidence with several times, and my phone rang before I could finish typing. The very person I thought of. It’s starting to feel really weird.

Yesterday I had been randomly thinking of an ex-girlfriend, then found a sticker she had given me last year. Then woke up to two texts from her after about 8+ months of no communication.

This morning I had a missed call from an unknown number from a state I lived in over 25 years ago. It turned out to be an Aunt I rarely talk with, who I had just thought of earlier this morning.

This phenomenon happens in other ways too, not just with people. It might be simply explained that I just think of a LOT of random things daily and eventually some will happen or have an essence of coincidence. It just is starting to feel eerie when I feel like a pattern is emerging. It gets harder to dismiss as simple coincidence when it keeps happening.

The fact that it happened while drafting this post is unsettling.

Not uncommon phenomenon in my life. All sorts of things like this.

Remember those old landline phones? Ever pick up the phone to call someone and they were already on the line before you dialed? They called me, but I picked up the phone before it rang. Nuts! Probably 4-5 times in my life.

Deja vu frequently...random things...knowing that I had a flash in a dream the night before. My dreams often have random flashes of people, places, and things I've never experienced before...then within a week or so...there I am experiencing it in real life. Again, random, meaningless, no predictive value.

I had a patient of mine die at 04:30 in the morning, my wife, her nurse was there when she arrested and died. My wife was working nights, I worked days at the time. The freaky part, I was asleep not dreaming of anything that I could recall, then I felt a wave of electrical energy pass through my body, woke me up with a jolt, looked at my clock, and I knew exactly what happened. I knew who it was and that my wife was there. I explained the whole experience to my wife, and she said, "Exactly as you described."

I had a dream that the power was going to go out at the hospital at 11:30am, and that the backup generators didn't kick on, making me run to a patient's room and manually ventilate them because their breathing machine shut off (this was before the new vents with the internal batteries). Sure enough, I'm in the ICU at the nursing station, look up at 11:29...I'm like "No way"...walk to my patient's room just in time for the power to go out. Bagged him for a minute or so before the generators finally kicked in and life support equipment could be restarted. That is some crazy stuff!

Glad to know there are others like me.

 

[NB79]

The classic movie thing, like 'i can feel in my heart my son is alive'
Those things are normal soul spiritual experience, people cut they spirituality off, by not believing etc.
But the 'i was just thinking about a person and they called me', we are spiritual beings, and there is things going on inside we are not fully conscious about.
God can give a believer 'discerment' and with that some spiritual understanding.

 

[fattymeatysardine]

I am a logic biased thinker. Coincidences don't make sense to me. From my perspective, it's just life, and estimating things the like possibility of coincidences is impossible and unproductive.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Sorry if this is incoherent my brain is processing a lot as I write this.

Sometimes I cannot accept the thought of coincidence when things happen to me. I am left wondering if it is just a processing issue, a thought based sensation, or something else. The open minded part of me says it’s an odd mental connection to people/thibgs, the rational minded part of me says it’s mere coincidence.

The easiest way to describe this is Randomly thinking about a person then immediately/soon after receiving a phone call or text from that very person.
Thinking about a random subject and suddenly being questioned about that very thing or unintentionally finding information about that same subject

It happens to me several times a week in assorted situations.
Most commonly I will be randomly thinking/remembering a person I have not communicated with in a long time, then they call me. Or text me out of the blue.
It literally just happened again just now as I was typing the last sentence. A person popped in my head that I have experienced this premonition or coincidence with several times, and my phone rang before I could finish typing. The very person I thought of. It’s starting to feel really weird.

Yesterday I had been randomly thinking of an ex-girlfriend, then found a sticker she had given me last year. Then woke up to two texts from her after about 8+ months of no communication.

This morning I had a missed call from an unknown number from a state I lived in over 25 years ago. It turned out to be an Aunt I rarely talk with, who I had just thought of earlier this morning.

This phenomenon happens in other ways too, not just with people. It might be simply explained that I just think of a LOT of random things daily and eventually some will happen or have an essence of coincidence. It just is starting to feel eerie when I feel like a pattern is emerging. It gets harder to dismiss as simple coincidence when it keeps happening.

The fact that it happened while drafting this post is unsettling.

Yes. Way too often in my life to ignore as well.

Remember those old landline phones? Ever pick up the phone to call someone and they were already on the line before you dialed? They called me, but I picked up the phone before it rang. Nuts! Probably 4-5 times in my life.

My longest-term friend and I literally ALWAYS did that. There was not a single time when one of us dialed the other that the other would not pick up the phone to call them. After the first several times, we just expected it, and stopped being surprised. This continued right up till we started using cell phones.

This friend was autistic and was diagnosed a decade and or so before me. When I told him about myself, he replied he had known that since he'd been diagnosed and had an idea what autism was.

 

[TBRS1]

How many times do you think about a person, but they don't call?

Keep score. If EVERY time you think about a person they call, you've got magic power.

If it only happens once out of, say, every twenty times, it's chance (5% probability of occurring).

 

[Shevek]

My best friend and I are usually at home, but if we are out, we have an eerily high chance of meeting. Many other other, and more amazing coincidences have happened to me from time to time. Granted, an infinite number on possible coincidences didn't happen, but there seems to be no middle ground - there's not a huge number of slightly amazing coincidences.
"A Course in Miracles" postulates that the physical world is made up of energy so highly condensed that it makes a convincing illusion where a soul can forget it is part of a continuum, and that more etheric beings respect that and will almost never frighten us with contrary evidence. Losing fear through meditation or just habituation makes the supernatural more likely to manifest.

 

[Judge]

Interesting to look up a formal definition of what may constitute a "coincidence".

"A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. The perception of remarkable coincidences may lead to supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims, or it may lead to belief in fatalism, which is a doctrine that events will happen in the exact manner of a predetermined plan. In general, the perception of coincidence, for lack of more sophisticated explanations, can serve as a link to folk psychology and philosophy."

 

[Shevek]

Interesting to look up a formal definition of what may constitute a "coincidence".

"A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. The perception of remarkable coincidences may lead to supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims, or it may lead to belief in fatalism, which is a doctrine that events will happen in the exact manner of a predetermined plan. In general, the perception of coincidence, for lack of more sophisticated explanations, can serve as a link to folk psychology and philosophy."

It can also keep a gambler addicted. It may be a glimpse of a reality in which the supernatural, occult, paranormal things and fate all co-exist, along with absolute reality that can't ever be captured in the words used for duality.

 

[Judge]

It can also keep a gambler addicted. It may be a glimpse of a reality in which the supernatural, occult, paranormal things and fate all co-exist, along with absolute reality that can't ever be captured in the words used for duality.

Yep. The very perception of "being on a roll". A mathematical falsehood.

 

[Judge]

Though I did have one such incident that always left me wondering. When in the early 80s I got a call from my mother asking, "What's wrong ?".

She was calling halfway around the world from Italy at the time.

My brother had become seriously ill the night before.

 

[Masked Man]

It's basically saying you believe in magic.

Going to be the Debbie Downer here: There is no magic. It's just a coincidence. There were just as many times you thought of someone and they did not call. Your brain just doesn't remember those times as much.

 

[Judge]

It's basically saying you believe in magic.

Going to be the Debbie Downer here: There is no magic. It's just a coincidence. There were just as many times you thought of someone and they did not call. Your brain just doesn't remember those times as much.

A strictly theoretical thought:

If virtually nothing cosmically happened by accident, wouldn't that reflect something far more complex and greater than any nebulous sense of "magic" ?

I don't give much to the thought of "magic", particularly given its associations with entertainment. Though I sometimes wonder about peoples who may be more in touch with their environment than the majority of society. That there is still so much that science has not or cannot answer.

 

[Rodafina]

I want to believe in magic and signals from the universe, but I just don’t have the evidence to really believe in anything more than our magical brains which are so capable of making connections between the things we are attuned to and giving personal meaning to mundane things.

I don’t wish to devalue the experiences others have described here, though. I just figure if the universe is conducting the lives of some people, it ain’t me. I am just a little collection of cells clinging to a big rock flying through space, not all that different from the insects I photograph.

 

[Judge]

I don’t wish to devalue the experiences others have described here, though. I just figure if the universe is conducting the lives of some people, it ain’t me. I am just a little collection of cells clinging to a big rock flying through space, not all that different from the insects I photograph.

That brings up another theoretical consideration. That being on an alternate plane of existence that it is not intended for us to truly understand how we got here or why, but to simply live it. Though it certainly wouldn't explain a few who may have figured this out, and whether or not it amounts to some cosmic transgression. Or not, given so much inherent skepticism to shield such a possible reality.

That most of us are not to supposed to know by some intelligent design. Wild speculation perhaps, but amusing to ponder unless one believes in vengeful deities.

Or as I like to ponder, that if we are "cosmically sent to college" with our own permission, why would we be given all the answers to every test?