[quote]Edevus wrote:
Sometimes I feel there’s some kind of connection between people and situations that is very hard to explain. Maybe it’s just coincidences or maybe it’s ourselves forcing it.
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I’ve noticed a similar effect before as well, in regards to a link between people that spawns unusual incidents.
I’ll preface my brief story first by saying I had access to a host of esoteric and paranormal books as I was growing up. My father who was studying psychology before he joined the US Navy seemed to have a fascination with such things and of course as I found his library the interest was passed on to me - so by the time I was 16-17 or so I was fully confident that astral projection, psychokineses, telepathy and the like were real and likely being studied/harnessed by every major government across the world in an effort to develop superhumans. Lol…I was young, impressionable and very imaginative. =P
Anyway, to close the preface I’ll just say that I eventually grew out of such things by the time I hit my mid-twenties. I had spent a few years as a fortune teller (cards and runes) and had a reasonable amount of exposure to the scene and realised eventually that for the greater part it was a sham. At best it was someone benevolent and highly intuitive, at worst it was a malignant fraud who preyed on the weak.
Never in that time did I experience or meet anyone with a true gift (and I mean illogical and supernatural insight) that could not have been staged, cheated or ascertained by intuition in some way. Now that’s not to say that I don’t believe there may by anomalies out there somewhere, I can’t know that for sure. But you generally have to go with what you know, until it can be proven otherwise.
So, anyway, the reason I’ve said all that (if anyone’s even made it this far lol) is that there are a couple of things that have happened in my life that were just so bizarelly coincidental that they struck me as near impossibilities. And that’s saying alot given my disbelief in the supernatural.
The first and second instance happened on the same day and in the company of the same two people. Two friends and I from college were heading out to another mates house where we planned on getting drunk/high/whatever with a few girls. We were bussing it out from the city (was about an hours journey) and being slightly knackered I was laying across my own seat and at some point got a song stuck in my head.
I didn’t hum it, or sing it, I was kinda just daydreaming and after a few minutes one of the guys I was with started singing the same song. This wasn’t a particularly popular sing or anything either so it wasn’t as if we were both just listening to it on a radio that day. All three of us knew I hadn’t sung or hummed the song first and they could only take my word for it that minutes before I was actually listening to the song ‘in my head’. We laughed and shrugged it off as coincidence.
Later that same day, as the chicks had gone out to get the food (yas!) I was showing the same two guys how to play hearts. After instruction we went to cut the deck to determine who started and all picked up 6’s. We laughed and did it again and again picked up 6’s. We went “WoOoOoOoOoooooo” as you would, still laughing, and picked up 6’s. At that I started feeling a little awkward and said to the only other person in the house at the time, who was playing Sonic the H and not paying much attention, to “come check this out!” at which point I picked up a 6…and then the other two guys picked up two random cards, not sixes. To be honest, we were quite relieved. And we decided to not bother playing hearts…
Another person I had weird experiences with was a girl I dated briefly. The first couple of nights she stayed at mine I had incredibly lucid ‘seeming’ dreams. The first of which I was floating towards the ceiling and saying to myself “WTF!?” as I was aware I wasn’t dreaming. As I went to turn my head to look back down upon my bed something very big and colourful suddenly started flying around me. It was like a giant moth of some sort and I woke up with a start.
The second dream was of my mother phoning me, again very lucid seeming, and crying over the phone as she blurted out that my grandad was dead. The silence on the phone, where I was sitting at the time - everything was just as I remembered the day, 5 months after, that she actually did phone me to tell me my grandad had died. I had told my cousin about my dream a few days after I had it and we both remarked on how fucking incredibly coincidental it was.
What all that means? Fuck knows. I do suspect that as we are basically bound energy sometimes, possibly, our energy matches the energy of another in frequency or strength and this can cause unusual things to happen. Be it thinking of something right before they say it, having the same thought simultaneously, knowing they’re about to phone…whatever. Maybe we have a greater link to the people around us than we are aware of, something more powerful than blood or genetics.
Or maybe, like in the card experience above, so many things happen to us daily that shit is bound to get stirred up every once in a while. 