Strange Experience

[Miss Chicken]

The strangest experience I had was when one of my sons was about 2 and a half he pointed at the TV which was off and said "Mummy, penguins look". I turned the TV on and there was a segment about penguins on.

However I will concede this might have just been a coincidence and I only remember it because my son fluked it.

 

[Rek]

No.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I once had a dream that I ate a giant marshmallow. When I woke up, my pillow was gone.

 

[Mr Cool Dude]

"Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me."



Live Long And Prosper

 

[scotpens]

I've never had a prophetic dream or a psychic vision or anything like that. My mother once lived in a house with a haunted toilet, though.

People just assign paranormal causes to what is mere chance.

Chance? Chance is the fool's name for fate.

 

[Holdfast]

Have you ever had an experience that you felt was so odd that it was unlikely to have been caused by chance? Or even just an instinct that some event in your life had been arranged - even if you couldn't prove it, or even if you doubted it yourself.

Of course. Synchronicity, it's called.

I don't actually believe the cause of these sort of events is supernatural (it's just cognitive bias), but it has a powerful and seductive effect on the psyche nonetheless. And in truth, I choose not to purely write it off as cognitive bias either, but rather enjoy the possibility that synchronicity may occur. It adds a little extra splash of colour to life.

 

[Jadzia]

Of course. Synchronicity, it's called.

I don't actually believe the cause of these sort of events is supernatural (it's just cognitive bias), but it has a powerful and seductive effect on the psyche nonetheless. And in truth, I choose not to purely write it off as cognitive bias either, but rather enjoy the possibility that synchronicity may occur. It adds a little extra splash of colour to life.

Synchronicity is something that often comes up in those personality tests, in the domain of 'introverted intuition'.

I do have strong intuitive functions (extraverted intuition is my dominant function), but synchronicities are one thing I've never had time for... which is quite interesting to me.

The notion that two or more events may be causally related because they happened to occur at the same time or same place or whatever, I'm happy to write off as coincidence.

If I can see a causal chain, or a common cause, and it's feasible, then that's a different matter. I wouldn't call that syncronicity then though, as I'd have formed a provisional explanation.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I once had a dream that I ate a giant marshmallow. When I woke up, my pillow was gone.

The experience must have left you feeling.... [puts on sunglasses] ... a little down in the mouth.

 

[ITL]

I once had a dream that I ate a giant marshmallow. When I woke up, my pillow was gone.

The experience must have left you feeling.... [puts on sunglasses] ... a little down in the mouth.

 

[RJDiogenes]

We can always depend on Zion for amusing pillow talk.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I have had some prophetic dreams. Some were just simple little things that I didn't think much of when I had the dream but later remembered that I had dreamt it after the incident occurred. Like, say, running into someone at the grocery store or someone calling me that I have not talked to in a long time.

I have also had some that were of bigger events in life, such as a detailed dream I had of living in an apartment with my sister and a friend of hers from high school, and we were all going to the same college. This didn't make sense to me at all at the time because my sister was going to a different school far away and neither her nor I were very close to this other girl, she was just an acquaintance really. Then through a series of events my sister could not go to the other school and decided to go to the same college as me, and invited this girl from her high school to live with us. When they called to tell me the news I was like, "I knew it!" I have also had a few dreams about people being pregnant before they had told me they were. I would say I have good intuition in general.

 

[Holdfast]

Of course. Synchronicity, it's called.

I don't actually believe the cause of these sort of events is supernatural (it's just cognitive bias), but it has a powerful and seductive effect on the psyche nonetheless. And in truth, I choose not to purely write it off as cognitive bias either, but rather enjoy the possibility that synchronicity may occur. It adds a little extra splash of colour to life.

Synchronicity is something that often comes up in those personality tests, in the domain of 'introverted intuition'.

Indeed. Not suprising really, given that synchronicity (in this context) is basically a Jungian concept, and most personality testing (esp. MBTI, but also some of the others) draws heavily on Jung's work on character/personality types.

The notion that two or more events may be causally related because they happened to occur at the same time or same place or whatever, I'm happy to write off as coincidence.

I think the difference compared to me would be that while I'm intellectually happy to write it off as coincidence, just occaisionally it pleases me more to consider it synchronicity, although acknowledges this pleasure is held tightly confined within an emotional milieu rather than allowing it to blur into my rational side. It's like enjoying dipping one's toe into a particularly exotic & perfumed hot bath, safe in the knowledge that if it's too hot I can always escape.

 

[Amaris]

Yes.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I think the difference compared to me would be that while I'm intellectually happy to write it off as coincidence, just occaisionally it pleases me more to consider it synchronicity, although acknowledges this pleasure is held tightly confined within an emotional milieu rather than allowing it to blur into my rational side. It's like enjoying dipping one's toe into a particularly exotic & perfumed hot bath, safe in the knowledge that if it's too hot I can always escape.

I can dig it. That's exactly what I do in anthropomorphizing inanimate objects.

 

[TheBrew]

A few months ago, I had a strange experience with my friend that we still can't explain.

We drove to Microcenter to pick up a wireless router. When we got back to the car, the car was in the spot ahead of where we parked (as if it had pulled through) and slightly askew. We checked and there was no damage to indicate that someone hit it to make it slide. It was geared into park and was on a level parking lot. Somehow, it slide forward right in-between two other cars.

We are still seriously confused by it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

That used to happen from time to time when it was a kid. Apparently, keys from one model of car would fit all cars of that type, and occasionally someone would accidentally get into someone else's car if they had the same kind. Or so I was told by my Uncles at the time.

Maybe somebody just was screwing around and pushed it forward with their truck or something.

 

[ares93]

you might think this is BS but when i was, dunno maybe four years old. my grandfather was sick at the time. i don't know why but my mother asked me where my grandfather was expecting to hear the hospital. but i turned around, started crying and said "with the angels". safe to say this spooked my mother and she called the hospital. and my grandfather had died three minutes before she called...

i also have and extraordinary ability to spot when people are lying and i can somehow always "feel" when someone is around me. even if they're hiding. no one have ever been able to explain these things. especially how i knew my grandfather was dead.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Sometimes, whenever I think long and hard about a certain song, a few minutes later it turns up on the radio. It happens a lot.

 

[ares93]

Sometimes, whenever I think long and hard about a certain song, a few minutes later it turns up on the radio. It happens a lot.

thats just pure statistics. if you listen to a song long enough you'll start to like it and if the radio station plays it that much its popular. ergo they play it a lot and you'll probably hear it sooner than later.

its like what they say about NYC. if you stand on a street in new york long enough you'll meet everyone you know

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Sometimes, whenever I think long and hard about a certain song, a few minutes later it turns up on the radio. It happens a lot.

thats just pure statistics. if you listen to a song long enough you'll start to like it and if the radio station plays it that much its popular. ergo they play it a lot and you'll probably hear it sooner than later.

But these are songs that don't necessarily appear on the standard playlist, or aren't played that much anymore.