Strange Coincidences

[LadyCG]

I was sat here and for some unfathomable reason I thought about CRAFT1948 whom I haven't seen in a while. I did a search for her profile and it was exactly 3 years ago today she last looked in. Coincidence or some psychic explanation?

Have you had any baffling coincidences?

I can sing a song in my head and my husband will start singing it out loud. I'll suddenly think about my mum and in that very instant she will call me or vice versa (that has literally happened HUNDREDS of times).

Do you believe in ESP or would you chalk such things up as nothing more than pure coincidence?

[Atheist]

Pure coincidence. Why look for psychic explanations for inevitable coincidences.
Richard Feynman once said in a lecture, "Today, I came through the parking lot and saw a car with number 3245CA97B. Do you know what the odds are against seeing that exact number? It's so unlikely that that was the exact number that it's hard to believe that it happened - that I actually saw that number. But I did!"

[LadyCG]

The thing with my mother and me has just happened a ridiculous number of times. Far too many times to just dismiss as pure coincidence.

[Karamia]

I have strange/unlikely occurrences that happen on daily basis.
Like you, I also have the exact same thing with my own mum constantly. At times I will pick up phone to call her and she already on line as she has rung me and phone hasn't had chance to ring.
I can be filling in a crossword puzzle clue and at exact same time I am writing it, the same word will be said on TV (peculiar words not in everyday speak).
When I looked it up its called synchronicity and Carl Yung has got lots of examples of similar things.
My husband and I found we had exact same photo of our mothers on a works photo as it turned out they had both worked at same place and were both in the photo years before we had got together. They never knew of each other in workplace.

[douglas9401]

Is it coincidence that you deny the possibility of coincidence?

Asking for an invisible friend.

[LadyCG]

I'm not denying it really, Dougie, and I respect anyones opinion or I wouldn't have asked. I think many things can be explained scientifically or accepted as "just one of those things" but the calls and messages between my mother and me and one of us thinking something nanoseconds before the other one saying it is something that has baffled the pair of us for years.

Karamia - very interesting post, thank you.

My mum's twin sister died 2.5 years ago, suddenly and unexpectedly. Two days before she died she said to her husband, "I've got two days to live, get used to it." She claimed to have been hearing voices for a month saying, "Come on, Pauline, it's time to go."

Coincidence? I'm not inclined to think so.

[Cloverjo]

It would be more weird if these things never happened.

[Canary42]

It's a quirk of the brain, very similar to the deja vu effect. You didn't actually think about a relative just before they call, but the brain tells you you did.

[jourdain2]

Thousands of times. Yes, ESP is a fact so far as I am concerned. Far too many provable instances for me to go into, it's happened all my life. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio..." etc.

[Karamia]

I crossed paths with my (now deceased) husband long before we actually officially met and we both remembered the incident. He was much younger than I, and I had been to a radio 1 roadshow at local boating lake with my friends -at the end while leaving we saw a group of teens throwing another lad in their group into the lake. I remember saying 'Oh look at that poor lad! He'll be drenched!' My husband was that lad. We didn't meet until another 8 years.

[LadyCG]

Canary, I've stopped what I'm doing randomly and reached in my bag for my phone and then it's started ringing in my hand. Not once or twice, but many, many times.

[piggynose]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1818644.html

[Zacs-Master]

Until quantum mechanics, and in particular ‘entanglement’ are fully understood (or much better understood) we’ll never know whether synchronicity is a ‘thing’ or whether they are just coincidences. Latest discovery is that one random sub atomic particle can affect another billions of light years away.

[LadyCG]

Piggy, we I need to read that entire thread or is there one thing that you wish to draw our attention to?

[Zacs-Master]

LCG, it is a very similar thread. Maybe you’d be interested in some of the answers therein?

[Peter Pedant]

When I looked it up its called synchronicity and Carl Yung has got lots of examples of similar things.
Yup - he did
and he wrote a book called - - - synchronicity - I cdnt get past ch 5 - where he says that his theory - of synchronicity that is! is not scientifically verifiable - - oh.

he does point out distractors - if you think of your mama alot, then your telephone calls will coincide

[Arksided]

I do believe that coincidences do happen but lean more to the elk that there's a definite connection 'out there' between us almost like the Universe has a conscience.

[bednobs]

one might even say it's a strange coincidence that someone posted a near identical post 2 days ago!
I guess that's what piggy is trying to say :)
also, if you read that thread, other people get the phone call thing too

[Zacs-Master]

PP, you might want to read my post. Yung didn’t have the benefit of knowing about entanglement.

[Peter Pedant]

er that is to do with Bells theorem innit?

I doan wanna get too er bogged down in this

[zebo]

About 20 years ago it was about another 20 since we had left the country we'd lived in for a few years and as we were getting breakfast ready one Saturday for some reason we started wondering about people we'd known there and talking about one particular couple, I'd raced dinghies with the man. We sat down to eat, turning the newspaper pages and I was speechless! There, a double page spread, was an article written by one of the sons of couple we'd just been discussing, it even had a photo of him in the dinghy I raced with his father!