Are Coincidences Dependent On Our Thoughts?

[LiuHo]

Would you like ‘to catch’ the coincidences of your life?

[Old_Geezer]

The mind might be the thing that identifies a coincidence, but by definition, coincidences are dependent of anything particular. They just happen.

[woofgang]

I have no idea what you mean

[Kar53]

I experience many coincidences daily and have never found anyone who can explain what it means. The nearest I have got is to say it is to do with synchronicity. I can be reading a line in a book at the exact same time someone on the tv says the same line word for word. I can be filling a CROSSWORD puzzle clue in then hear someone say the exact word at the same split second. Words that are so obscure.
I am often quite spooked by them but they happen so regularly.
Anyone else have similar experiences?

[Cloverjo]

Yep,I’m with with Kar. These things do happen. It would be weirder if they never happened.

[Old_Geezer]

What the heck happened to the word "not" that I clearly typed into my first post ?!

[Peter Pedant]

// I have no idea what you mean//

//The nearest I have got is to say it is to do with synchronicity.//

yeah I think it is about synchronicity and the ideas of C G Jung who wrote a book called 'Synchronicity'
bit of a heavy read but worf it

My own view of group consciousness is that if you educate 500 people in roughly the same way
and present a stimulus - "why do you think X?"
a certain proportion will say Y
This is not group consciousness but the fact they share a background

[LiuHo]

Nowadays we call 'coincidence' a situation when, for example, you are thinking about your mom and in a second she's calling you.
I wonder, can it be so that coincidences are dependent on our thoughts - firstly, I start to think about mom, then (less than in a nano second) she starts thinking about me and only then she calls to me...
So we ourselves (by out thoughts) generate the situation, which then we'll call a coincidence?..

[woofgang]

PP its the bit about "catching" coincidences that I don't get.
In a similar vein, there is a very good book called "Blink" about intuition and about its basis in actual factual knowledge processed incredibly quickly.

[Ken4155]

The coincidence that bugs me the most is that every time we play Leicester, we can only field a vastly under strength 11:-((
Kar, i experience exactly the same thing. Reading the paper with the radio on, eyes light upon a word just as presenter is speaking exact same word. I then rush to the ABC guide on the racing pages to see if there are any nags with that particular word in their name. Some call that a coincidence bet, others (myself included) a mug's bet.

[naomi24]

//Would you like ‘to catch’ the coincidences of your life? //

What does that mean?

I think it possible that thoughts can lead to 'coincidences' but coincidences don't occur for that specific reason.

I was driving to meet a friend and on the journey listened to someone on the radio talking about a book, published over 80 years ago, that I'd never heard of. I met the friend and during the course of the day we came across a second-hand bookshop. The first book I picked up was the one that had been the subject of the radio conversation. That's a coincidence.

[Theland]

I often hear a knocking sound.
At the same time somebody turns up at the front door.
Inexplicable!

[woofgang]

Theland that's amazing. Its like when a wrong number rings me. When they apologise I say its okay cos the phone was ringing anyway.

[10ClarionSt]

Was this synchronicity?: One day we had some really sad news about the death of a close relative. sad is putting it mildly. It was devastating. Two hours later, a close relative turned up right out of the blue from Australia on our doorstep and totally took us by surprise. Can you imagine the mix of emotions? Was that coincidence or synchronicity? It was one strange day, for sure.

[sevenOP]

'Synchronicity' is as subjective( vague and open to individual interpretation) as 'spiritual'.
Try getting a straight definition of either without 'god' being hinted in it.

Coincidences are the few occasions our oft considered thoughts coincide with actual real occurrences. ( oft thoughts that pass through our minds many many times but we forget those until the very few times the thought coincides with reality and we focus on these... a statistical effect )

[jno]

coincidences are just things that happen more or less simultaneously. There are gazillions of these every second. So yes, coincidences are things you think are coincidental because you're aware of something that makes them relevant to each other.