"coincidences"

Discussion in 'Mind Games' started by Freedom_Man, Oct 27, 2013.

  1. Freedom_Man

    Freedom_Man Senior Member

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    Ok I'm going to give an example of what I have been going through...

    One night I was reading this bible I had, it has a picture in it of "Jacobs Dream" ever since I read the word "dream" the song on t.v. said "dream"...

    my next example is a little less specific but I'll be thinking to myself and start hearing the word I just thought in my head, in my enviornment, whether it's on T.V. or in a song, or just in the group of people I'm around.

    I keep seeing a certain number pop up at random times, it's not like I look for this number, it just creeps on me at times lol... like I just saw it as soon as I wrote that on my clock in the minutes section... what do ya'll make of things like this?

    Me and my friend were watching a movie one time, the 2 women in the movie were his girlfriends name, the girl I was interested ins name... just strange things like that.. loll...
     
  2. porkstock41

    porkstock41 Every time across from me...not there!

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    i call those types of things coincidences. just like you i guess :p

    i get that one where you hear a word you just said pop up in a song or on TV. it's always good for a chuckle.
     
  3. Freedom_Man

    Freedom_Man Senior Member

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    yeah it's probably nothing too strange it's kinda bad that all these amazing ones happen but i cannot think to recall back to them lol...
     
  4. newbie-one

    newbie-one one with the newbiverse

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    it's the kinda shit that freaks you out if you're stoned, but it doesn't mean anything. it's just weird
     
  5. Anaximenes

    Anaximenes Senior Member

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    Maybe we're all being stoned by the incidence of the exactly dynamically asteroid travelling out there. I will crash because of properly measured and deduced planetary motions.

    But we looked again and by coincidence the meteors just approach Earth out of crashing range by mean deviation from the flight path that God, you know, really wanted. MIT is full of s***. They even think they can engineer this stuff on the last records.:)
     
  6. kokujin

    kokujin Senior Member

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    you were meant to fuck the universe, and know what it's thinking. go.
     
  7. odonII

    odonII O

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    The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

    The reason for this is our brains' prejudice towards patterns. Our brains are fantastic pattern recognition engines, a characteristic which is highly useful for learning, but it does cause the brain to lend excessive importance to unremarkable events. Considering how many words, names, and ideas a person is exposed to in any given day, it is unsurprising that we sometimes encounter the same information again within a short time. When that occasional intersection occurs, the brain promotes the information because the two instances make up the beginnings of a sequence. What we fail to notice is the hundreds or thousands of pieces of information which aren't repeated, because they do not conform to an interesting pattern. This tendency to ignore the "uninteresting" data is an example of selective attention.

    In point of fact, coincidences themselves are usually just an artifact of perception. We humans tend to underestimate the probability of coinciding events, so our expectations are at odds with reality. And non-coincidental events do not grab our attention with anywhere near the same intensity, because coincidences are patterns, and the brain actually stimulates us for successfully detecting patterns... hence their inflated value. In short, patterns are habit-forming.
    http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/
     
  8. Anaximenes

    Anaximenes Senior Member

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    And then one has the hand stuck in 'your' brain. That will work two ways:that it really materially happens; or that the free action is a failure in the ideal sense: all one wanted with the hand is to think it would do that without the thoughtful activity of the Free Man, freeman.
     

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