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To ask if anyone else has unexplained "physic" moments

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mellowheart · 20/10/2015 13:50

I can't explain how this happens but my DH will often start singing a song that I've just suddenly thought of in my head. It's often a very obscure type song, definitely not one he's heard recently. It happens immediately after I've thought it. This has also happened with others but much more often with DH. It's like he's picking up my thoughts, itms. Anyone else get similar type things?

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Thistledew · 22/10/2015 13:27

Maybe it is because people seem to experience these unexplained occurrences on a far more regular basis than winning the lottery? And that unlike winning the lottery, there is often no obvious connection between the two coincidental acts?

Very advanced physics has started to provide explanations that maybe one day could explain some of these phenomena. If one day we are able to prove the theory of parallel universes, (which is a credible, logical strand of mathematical/physic theory) then maybe one day we could come up with a theory of some sort of 'slip' between them which means that information is transferred between the same events that are happening at very slight different times.

WoodliceCollection · 22/10/2015 13:41

I had an unexpected physics moment just the other day when I accidentally touched a Van de Graaff generator.

...Wait, was that not what you were meaning?

Justmyluck1 · 22/10/2015 13:42

honestly ask for this thread to be removed

Firstly not my thread and secondly why? There are many threads on aibu that are not adversarial but helpful,cathartic or just plain funny.

Relax a bit and stop trying to tell us all how clever and logical you are.

Thistledew · 22/10/2015 13:42

I'm not even going to attempt to explain the maths or physics behind it, but the explanation provided by 'string theory' is that although we perceive the world in three physical dimensions, that actually time is just yet another dimension, and that there are 6 or 7 other dimensions that we cannot yet perceive or describe, except by the use of advanced mathematical equations. Vibrations occur in these dimensions that we describe as events. It is not outside the realms of possibility that some people have the ability to perceive these vibrations in other dimensions and can somehow decode the information contained in them. Their ability to do so may depend on the way in which those vibrations happen rather than on the individual's abilities,which would explain why they can't demonstrate their abilities in demand under test conditions.

Thistledew · 22/10/2015 13:59

So ironically, it may well be that people do have unexplained 'physics' experiences after all! Wink

Justmyluck1 · 22/10/2015 14:01

Thistle Grin

ThatsNotMyRabbit · 22/10/2015 14:03

Haven't read the whole thread so apologies if it's already come up but I read a post on here once that - if true - may even give me (a hardened sceptic) pause for thought!

The poster was in the garden with her small son, pottering about and the poster found her thoughts drifting to (I think) an ex boyfriend and how good he was in bed/what a good body he had etc.... and her small son said, apropos of nothing "Stop thinking about naked men Mummy!" :-D

CactusAnnie · 22/10/2015 14:46

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Thistledew · 22/10/2015 15:09

CactusAnnie- now who is denying the possibility of a rational explanation?

You say that it is completely coincidental that I happened to think of exactly the thing that exP was doing, even though up until that point I had never considered it a possibility. That there was nothing at all that caused that thought as opposed to thinking about anything else in the world? (I should add that I also thought that exP thought that I would take one bite and put it in the bin and then he would be cross because he was hungry- he agreed that he had that exact thought, but I don't have an empirical basis to prove that).

You would say that a complete random coincidence is more likely than a theoretical prospect that the chilli cheese on toast had already happened in an alternative universe (a theory for which there is some mathematical proof), and that I somehow perceived an echo of that event?

Of course, we don't know, but there is some logical explanation for the multiverse theory, but the random coincidence relies on the occurrence of almost infinitely improbable events.

How would you explain it?

CactusAnnie · 22/10/2015 15:46

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F0xglove · 22/10/2015 15:54

I've another, I used to play table tennis with a boy in 1984, but that was my only connection to him, we didn't go to school together or live near to each other.. About two years ago I dreamt of him, there we were, with 80s hair, runner boots and stonewash denim skinny jeans playing against each other, he was winning. I saw his mother's death in the paper about two days later. I hadn't given that boy a thought in 30 years.

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mellowheart · 22/10/2015 16:16

I had an unexpected physics moment just the other day when I accidentally touched a Van de Graaff generator.

...Wait, was that not what you were meaning?
I did mention the misspelling. Smile

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Justmyluck1 · 22/10/2015 16:36

Great thread mellow Smile

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mellowheart · 22/10/2015 16:46

Thank you Justmyluck1 I'm enjoying it too. I love reading some of these posts.

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Justmyluck1 · 22/10/2015 16:48

Me too fascinating stuff. Smile

SmillasSenseOfSnow · 22/10/2015 16:56

However posters can use some degree of decency can't they? And accept that for lots of us these experiences are raw, real and in some cases comforting.

If you think it's all bollicks then up to you but to keep posting that is boring.

You know you're scraping the argument barrel when you start appealing to 'decency' to shut up the people who have at least some grasp of logic.

Honestly, when you start openly stating that the thread is only really for people who believe in supernatural nonsense, you demonstrate what it's all about. You enjoy thinking of these phenomena as being unexplained, or even supernatural. You enjoy it so much that you simply cannot bear to hear rational explanations, or for it to be pointed out that you're scientifically illiterate, and you want to surround yourself with other people who can tell you it's ok to believe in nonsense.

Is it cognitive dissonance, utter stupidity, or a mixture? Who can say?

What really is the limit, though, is trying to accuse people of being the thread police for inviting you to move the thread from AIBU in response to YOU acting as the thread police in telling people not to keep posting dissenting views because it doesn't make you feel good.

MistressMerryWeather · 22/10/2015 17:01

I think these sort of threads really bring out the worst in some people.

Being a skeptic does not give you a pass to be rude to people.

You can state facts but you don't have to be a dick about it.

EnjoyTheSimpleThingsInLife · 22/10/2015 17:02

This will probably sound strange but every time my children hurt themselves (bumped head, cut knees etc) I literally feel the pain in the same place Confused

It last happened a few days ago, DD6 was playing out, all of a sudden I got a bad pain on the side of my head, next thing people were knocking on the door saying DD had been hit on the head, in the exact place I felt it.

Thistledew · 22/10/2015 17:08

I don't know, it seems that the 'sceptical' people are equally resistant to a complex and mathematically possible (if not fully formed or understood) explanation as they are to a 'supernatural' label. Both are just ways of being resistant to explanation that are currently outside the logical comprehension of most people. I actually see a high degree of arrogance in saying "I can't comprehend any explanation not within my scope of experience, therefore those accounts must be false". Rather than saying "There are so many of those accounts. I cannot discount them all as being dishonestly related. Maybe there is an explanation that I cannot yet comprehend, or which has not yet been discovered".

I don't believe in the 'supernatural' as such, other than when it is used as a label, as it has been for a long time, for a phenomenon that is yet to be explained by science.

CactusAnnie · 22/10/2015 17:25

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MistressMerryWeather · 22/10/2015 17:28

Are you quite alright Annie?

Thistledew · 22/10/2015 17:36

I wondered that too. You do seem rather hysterical- or are you deliberately being snide?

What I am saying, is that I do think there are logical explanations, but that we just don't know the logic yet.

Another example - playing guessing games at Christmas with the family. DH says "This is hard to describe. It's a natural feature". I say "Grand Canyon". Maybe a lucky guess, but the vivid image of it that came into my mind before I said the words exactly matched what DH said he was picturing.

Thistledew · 22/10/2015 17:46

And I also knew the day DH was going to propose. We were on holiday for 10 days and his plan to propose was a complete secret. It was halfway through the holiday and not on a day of any specific significance. It was something about the way he looked at me sometime in the morning that I knew he would ask at some point that day, but he didn't get round to it until after dinner. Our plans were flexible. We were staying with family and went out for a walk that day. We were all tired when we got back so decided on the spur of the moment to go out for dinner. DH says it was only at that point that he decided to ask that day, and took me out for a walk after dinner to do it. I didn't even know he had bought a ring.

CactusAnnie · 22/10/2015 17:51

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SmillasSenseOfSnow · 22/10/2015 17:57

OBVIOUSLY you don't need to talk about string theory to explain how two spouses think about turning off the video recorder at the same moment. Really, really, really you don't.

I considered invoking Occam's Razor but thought I'd best give up before I'd even started on that one, given how the rest of the thread has gone.