I've just posted to the 'A-Z of Celebrity Thread'.

Whilst there I read the following sig :

"I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman." - Homer Simpson

And lo and behold as I read it what should I hear from the TV in the background showing The Simpsons? The exact piece of dialogue.

Weird!

:)

That is just too weird, Joe. It freaks me out when something like that happens.

Maybe it wasn't a coincidence Joe, maybe it was 'synchronicity'
Cue for intellectual/philosophical debate :)

Joe, that is nothing compared to the scary experience I have just had, when logging onto the forum again after feeding my face with a rather wonderful piece of sirloin of beef cooked just to perfection by my lovely wife.

I find to my dismay that Kirky's name isn't on view anywhere on the forum, there is more chance of finding chicken lips than this happening again in this Millenium. :P

I got in from uni on Monday night to catch the end of "Simpson Tide" - the Crimson Tide Simpsons spoof. It made me think that the real movie hadn't been on for a while and I wouldn't mind watching it.

Next morning the DVD "Crimson Tide" was on my doormat, it was quite low down in my rental list and I'd forgotten I'd put it on.

I get quite a lot of Simpsons co-incidences and déja Vu, I'm not sure if it's because I watch a lot of them or if there is really something strange going on.

Yes, Joe, the perceptive Draggletail just might be right there- synchronicity. Maybe it is a 'meaningful' coincidence, a nudge in the ribs to remind you that life itself is more 'meaningful' than you might otherwise be tempted to think. Over to Draggletail...

Had the same prob two days before Dave Allen died I was thinking about him-for some strange reason. The reason I say this is I often try to trace my thoughts back as to why I came to think of a particular thought,or subject and I recall at the time I could not think why I was thinking about him . This happens now and again to me and when it does something usually happens.

Happens to me ALL THE TIME and absolutely does my head in.. Sometimes it's so weird, I can't even get my words out to describe to people what just happened!

GazB

Joe, some things are just too wierd to be true ... *sound of twilight zone theme tune* ... like there is something behind the seeming chaos and coincidence ... good init !!

:thumbsup:

Originally posted by Draggletail
Maybe it wasn't a coincidence Joe, maybe it was 'synchronicity'
Cue for intellectual/philosophical debate :)

You mean he was playing a Police LP, working on the computer AND watching TV all at the same time?

Originally posted by timo
Yes, Joe, the perceptive Draggletail just might be right there- synchronicity. Maybe it is a 'meaningful' coincidence, a nudge in the ribs to remind you that life itself is more 'meaningful' than you might otherwise be tempted to think. Over to Draggletail...
synchronicity (not an expert - how could you be...) C.G.Jungs theory, seem to remember it can be found in the foreword to the I Ching (Richard Wilhelm translation) and probably loads of other places. Anyway,
Half an hour ago, I got the bus home and paid the bus driver a one pound coin and a ten pence coin for my fare.
Sat down, and on the seat was a one pound coin and a ten pence coin.........
Not that it could possibly mean anything :suspect: :)
Back to you, Timo :)

I used to the the I Ching a lot years ago, and the answers almost always seemed relevant - critics however would dismiss this as vagueness inherent in the 'ching.Barstewards :hihi:

Originally posted by mojoworking
You mean he was playing a Police LP, working on the computer AND watching TV all at the same time?
:) :hihi: :thumbsup:

Originally posted by mojoworking
You mean he was playing a Police LP, working on the computer AND watching TV all at the same time?

Who said men can't multitask? :D

K x

Hi folks,

I'm quite interested in Jung's work on archetypes so I've come across sychronicity - I don't know whether there's anything meaningful in it but it certainly bought me up short.

I've always been interested in coincidence and synchronicity, and I guess that I'm probably atuned more to my environment because of that interest, so I see the connections between different things more than I would if I went around with, figuratively speaking, my head down.

Glad I'm not the only one who suffers from it!

Joe :)

Originally posted by alchresearch
I got in from uni on Monday night to catch the end of "Simpson Tide" - the Crimson Tide Simpsons spoof. It made me think that the real movie hadn't been on for a while and I wouldn't mind watching it.

Next morning the DVD "Crimson Tide" was on my doormat, it was quite low down in my rental list and I'd forgotten I'd put it on.

I get quite a lot of Simpsons co-incidences and déja Vu, I'm not sure if it's because I watch a lot of them or if there is really something strange going on.

It's no wonder - you looked in the mirror lately? You're beginning to look incredibly like Mo from that very cartoon!!

Joe and Draggletail,
Without going deeply into Jung, this phenomena [as Gaz B indicates] is fairly widespread. I have had the usual experience which seems to happen in an instant, like deja vue, a related phenomenon. However, I once experienced a very, very 'elongated' version of what we'll agree to call synchronicity, whilst engaging in genealogical research on my maternal line of descent.

My mother's maiden name is 'Shirt', originally from the Del Sherd family of east Cheshire [their hunting horn heraldry is on the Macclesfield coat of arms, as are symbols denoting the Mottram family and others], but the nearest eight generations to me are all connected to the farming community in Cawthorne village near Barnsley. I was researching this line in the late 90s, and at the stage where I was having difficulty tracing the maiden name of the wife of my 8 times great grandfather [not surprising]. For some reason the surname 'Whiteside' kept going through my head. I don't know anyone of this name, and can only think of the ex Man Utd footballer, Norman Whiteside as someone with the name. It would not go out of my head for around a week. I even dreamt of being introduced to a modern day person with the name 'Steve Whiteside'.

Just over a week later, the genealogist Ken Ball phoned me [he had been assisting my efforts] to say that he had located farm deeds which refer to Mary Ann Shirt , nee Whiteside... You can imagine the my reaction. Coincidence? Synchronicity? I do not know. However, this 'elongated' version of the phenomena has made me keep an open mind on the subject.

This has happened to me a few times when I have had a tune in my head and can't remember anything more than the chorus, I turn on the radio and they play the song.

I don't think it has any great significance though, the last time I can remember it happeneing it was a Strawberry Switchblade song, what can that mean ?

It happens to me quite a lot too.

I was on my way upto Scotland on the motorway, when all of a sudden the traffic came to a halt, I made the comment oh no its the road to hell when suddenly seconds later the song by Chris Rea came on the radio.
Everyone in the car started freakin saying I was possessed.
(I have really nice friends)

Wouldnt mind but has anyone heard that song played on the radio in the last ten years?

My worst one was mentioning on Christmas day night that we hadnt had a really big disaster in a while and we were due a real biggy.
Hours later the Tsunami hit.
Im going to stop saying these things. (my mates really think im weird now)

Originally posted by timo
Joe and Draggletail,
Without going deeply into Jung, this phenomena [as Gaz B indicates] is fairly widespread. I have had the usual experience which seems to happen in an instant, like deja vue, a related phenomenon.

All my life I've had co-incidences like the ones described earlier in this thread.

Co-incidence/Synchronicity - whatever it is - it's the main reason I strongly believe in Fate and Destiny. There is definitely a hand guiding us and we all have our parts to play.

StarSparkle

Nick may well be right in that these experiences have no real significance. If they really were 'nudges in the ribs' from God, or some external supernatural source, why are they usually connected to trivial things like songs on the radio, change on the bus, and family tree research ? Surely, if we were being 'told' something, the subject matter would be more vital, would it not? Mind you, my 'Whiteside' experience detailed previously DID temporarily stun me!

Or, they do mean something, but we can't see what it is, it could be an alien inteligence trying to make contact through telepathy.

Or it might not.

Ahhh,

I love this kind of thing! I've had the experience of picking up the phone to make a call...and finding someone already on the line. I'd picked it up a split second before it rang.

Or thinking of someone, and running into them later that day. Or having a certain tune stuck in my head, and turning on the radio, and it's playing that song.

When I was 8 yrs. old, I had a disturbing recurring dream about my father. I dreamt he was very unhappy, and in a place with a huge flower on the floor. He desperately wanted to leave this place, but was unable to.

The dream wasn't enough to make me wake up screaming, but it frightened me. Especially when it happened more than once. I told my mother about it, and of course she pooh-poohed me, and told me not to eat pizza before bed lol.

When the dreams didn't stop, I told my grandmother. She listened to me, but cautioned me NOT to tell my mother for fear of upsetting her. She freaked out when I told her I'd already told my mother.

In time, the dreams stopped, and I forgot them. About a year after that, my father came down with a raging case of flu. He's always been very healthy, but this "flu" was different. After being sick for more than a week, and actually falling down when he tried to get out of bed, my mother called an ambulance.

He was taken to the hospital, and diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gbs/gbs.htm

After the initial diagnosis, and waiting until his condition stabilized, he was transferred to another hospital to recover.

SAINT ROSE HOSPITAL, in Hayward California. He was there for more than a year, and eventually made a full recovery.

And when you walked through the front doors and into the lobby, the first thing you saw was an enormous mural of a rose, painted on the floor.

When my kids tell me stuff like this, I listen to them.

:) Sierra

Sent shivers down my spine that story, Sierra.

Originally posted by Draggletail
Sent shivers down my spine that story, Sierra.

The funny thing is Draggletail, my father and I are not now, nor were we then, especially close.

When I was a teenager, our relationship was really bad, and I even stopped speaking to him for several years. The last straw was over money I'd earned as a child doing a couple of commercials and modeling for department stores and catalogs.

Money set aside for me in trust (with my mother as trustee) and withdrawn and spent by one or both of them. There was also no tax paid at the time the money was withdrawn, so guess who was liable for the tax bill? Yup, me.

I found all this out at the age of 21, when I filed my tax return, and got a bill instead of a refund from the Internal Revenue Service. It took me two years to finally pay it all off.

I love my parents, truly, they're not bad people. My father and I have since made our peace with one another, but I swore that when I had children, I'd do things differently.

And I have.

:) Sierra

Originally posted by nick2
This has happened to me a few times when I have had a tune in my head and can't remember anything more than the chorus, I turn on the radio and they play the song.

Perhaps the brain is absorbing the radio waves in some strange way? That's also happened to me far too often to be a co-incidence.