Weird Coincidences.....

[M4Dad]

I had one yesterday, whilst working into work one of the guys on Reception said to me "I had a dream about you last night, are you going to be moving to Chicago soon?"

Which is pretty random, but not as random as the fact I spent the previous evening in bed reading quite extensively about Meigs Field, which is an airport on lake Michigan, Chicago, in fact, I fell asleep whilst reading the book.

To me that's quite a mental coincidence. Anyone else?

I've got one. Many, many years ago I went to a large event with a hundred or so people from all over a fairly large region of the uk.
6 years later, whilst looking through fiance's photo albums (those were the days!) I spied a photo with me in the background! Spooky.

When away at university I had a dream involving a specific animal chasing me into some toilets and me being relieved it couldn't get under the gap in the door.... until
It jumped over the door and had to beat it off with a branch - finished my mum who had had exactly the same dream still
Send shivers down my spine

Coincidences make me feel weird and uncomfortable - extreme coincidences send me into a panic. I don't know why they just do.

A few weeks ago I was reading a book I'd been meaning to read for ages and there were several weird but relatively minor conincidences between the content of the book and things that had been in the news that day/week. It started to unsettle me a bit so I put down the book for second, saying 'God I really don't like coincidences', and looked out of my apartment window over the neighbouring car park.

The minute I looked up I noticed two identical cars in parallel rows of the car park. They were parked directly across from each other, and started backing out of their spaces at the exact same speed and in the same direction. They went from reverse into drive at the same time, arrived at the intersection at the same moment, turned into the road at the same time, and drove out of the car park one following the other. It was like watching a perfectly synchronised convoy. It looked like a glitch in the matrix.

The coincidences themselves were all really minor, but all the layering of them made me feel like I was losing the plot.

This year OH and I went away for the weekend to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We popped into a pub for a drink and found somewhere to sit down. A short while later a couple came over and asked if they could join us as there was nowhere else to sit. We got talking and it turned out that it they were having a weekend away to celebrate their wedding anniversary. It turns out that we had married on the same day as them.

An old Bryan Adams song appeared randomly in my head one evening as I was getting ready for bed. I turned the radio on to find not only the same song playing, but also at the same point as it was in my head!

My family used to own a newsagents. There was an elderly man who did our paper rounds for us. He was sweet, but very annoying and would stand chatting to you for hours once he'd finished when as a 16 year old you just wanted to be hungover and read magazines in peace whilst you were doing your weekly Sunday shift

My dad could never be persuaded to open later than 5am, except Christmas Day. The paper man was never ever sick either. One day we had a family emergency and had to drive to a town at least 90 minutes away. Small village on the outskirts of London. To lighten the mood, my dad said 'oh well, at least you get a little break from Roger today' (not real name).

I swear to god, I look out the window and Roger is strolling down the road!

Never ever known anything so odd. I can't actually remember if we ever asked him about it tbh. But yeah. Very strange.

I miss Roger

My grandma's brother died on her birthday.
A few years later she died on his birthday.

A friend has four kids, all born on 29th of the month, including one born in a February leap year.

Back in the day when I was a student a friend visited from another city. We wanted a bit of weed so my friend paged some random man (yes it was pre-mobile phones) who used to sell it in his city who had moved to my city. After a bit of confusion on the ensuing landline call trying to arrange to meet up, it turned out the fella lived in the flat upstairs from me, literally a metre above our heads. Handy!

Me and DP were talking about an hour ago about how Whatever by Oasis sounds like The Idiot Song by Neil Innes.

We're now watching an old Monty Python thing and Neil Innes has just sang The Idiot Song!

I don't believe in woo at all, but my dad used to be a member of a golf club. Lots of social functions and karaoke had just kind of taken off.

One night, my dad was as pissed as a fart and sang Sylvias Mother by Dr Hook.

Anyway it was a hot mess and went down in history. So much so that my mum played it at the crem when he died, to kind of make people have a laugh and walk out with a smile on their face.

A few months after he died, mum took us all on holiday to Greece for some family time and we were sat outside a little taverna, chatting to another english couple.

My mum regaled them with the story of Sylvias Mother, then blow me, what came on the GREEK radio, that had not played ANY english music previously. Only bloody SYLVIAS MOTHER.

It was bizarre and lovely and emotional.

It was 2 decades ago now, but still gives me goosebumps when I think about it.

Sorry that was long

Every time I tell people where I'm from they have some sort of connection with the place. I find it spooky EVERY time.

I posted this on MN years ago, but sometime in the 1990's when public phones were still a thing, I walked past a bank of them in a supermarket one evening. Suddenly one started ringing, and unusually for me, I picked it up.

It was a friend who was trying to reach me, they'd misdialled my home number. I still think about that one.

When I met my ex we got talking about out family, turned out my mum had died the day after his mum 14 years earlier in the same hospital.

The hotel DH & I got married in offered a free night for our first anniversary. We had just got into the room & switched on the radio, only to hear " Pachelbel's Canon" which was played whilst we signed the register. Made me cry.

I was visiting my friend in Canada and she took me to an ice hockey game. Struck up a conversation with an American man sitting next to me who, it turned out, had spent the last 10 years living and working 2 minutes away from where I lived in the UK.

My dad rents out building/ office units. Bloke kept not paying rent, big financial worries etc so dad cut him some slack. We went on holiday, we're in magic kingdom Florida and lo behold there's the bloke walking beside us down Main Street. His wife was very sheepish. He brazened it out.

My uncle was on holiday at coast 2 hours away. His right hand man at work (ownncompany) called in sick. He arranged other cover. Lo behold uncle went to random zoo park, and bumped in to bloke off sick! 200 miles from home!!!

Don't know if I believe in coincidence. But I do believe in Karma!

I've had loads! I'm convinced I'm psychic. I was laid in the bath one day and randomly started thinking about how my city might have looked in the Tudor times. I sent a text to my aunt who I know is into that kind of thing and asked her if she knew what the history centre was like in town. She replied "are you spying on me?? I'm here now, looking up Tudor history of the city". First time she'd been in years and she never told anyone she was going.

I once randomly started thinking about a friend I'd not spoken to for months. I picked up the phone to call her and realised there was no dial tone (as if someone was already on the line). I was confused and said "hello?" And said friend replied "hello? That's weird, the phone didn't even ring before you picked it up!" She'd called at the exact same time I'd picked up the phone to call her.

I was asleep in bed one morning and dreamt that my partner at the time was running around the room shouting "get up! Shit wake up!! Oh god wake up!". I woke up, my alarm hadn't gone off and I was late for work. Later that day partner said "did you manage to get up this morning? I remembered id turned your alarm off and forgot to put it back on and was pacing around my office saying "oh my god! Get up! Shit just get up! ... as if you could hear me!" 😳😳😳

@NameChangeFamousFolk WOOOOOAHHHHH! Now I'm gonna be thinking about it too...

where are you from Thinking?

A few years ago I bought a little grey lead-reln pony for my DD. He was 21 (getting on a bit for a pony!) and his documents showed that he had had many homes over the years and had moved all over the country from family to family each time he was outgrown. He was a very sweet little pony, but nothing special (although he was special to us!), no distinguishing features and to be honest I would probably have had trouble picking him out from a line up of similar sized grey ponies (there are about 10 very similar looking ponies in our local Pony Club alone!).

When our farrier came to trim his hooves the first time, he got to about the second hoof and said "this pony reminds me so much of my daughter's first pony". By the time he got to the 4th hoof he was saying "yes, our little pony was so like this one, it was years ago, I wonder what happened to him". He explained that he had bought his daughter the pony when she was about 5 (she was now 17) and he had had a funny name that he couldn't quite remember, it was on the tip of his tongue. I said there must be something about little old ponies with funny names because this one is called Lenny! "Yes! Lenny that was it!" said the farrier .

When I got home I checked through all the paperwork we'd been given when we bought him and sure enough about 6 owners previously was the Farrier's wife's name. He had been to the other side of the country and then back again in between them and us! Bless little Lenny Lightening, sadly he only lived another 8 months but he was much loved by us in that time and I like to think that he knew he had "come home" (or near enough).

Strangely, a year later I bought an ancient horse lorry (1986 reg!). Next time the farrier came, first words out of his mouth were "you're not going to believe this but that was my first horse lorry 10 years ago!"

I split up with my first big love. We'd been together for 13 years (17 to 30). He was a swine, I was feeling very delicate.

I met a guy at work within two months, I hadn't planned on finding someone else maybe ever. He was astonishingly beautiful and it felt as if I'd always known him.

We quickly started dating, five or six weeks later he asked me to be his girlfriend.

Within ten minutes, he asked me what my father's surname was (I had my mother's maiden name), and commented how strange it was that my father's surname was also his paternal grandmother's surname.

Yep, you've guessed it, his grandmother was my grandfather's sister. Our fathers were cousins. He was my second cousin.

Accidental incest 101.

This is the craziest one I've ever had. The first year I ever went to a comic convention in America - which hosts about 250,000 people - I went up to one of the booths where they were giving out free poster tubes (and i needed one).

I got chatting to one of the guys working there (one of dozens working at the booth) who picked up on my British accent and said he'd just been to London. I was like oh cool, I'm from London - which area? So he said the name of the area I'd grown up in. I was like, oh how funny I grew up there, do you remember the name of the road? He didn't but for some reason had taken a pic of the outside of the building he'd been staying at so he shows it to me - and it was the building housing my parents' flat, where I'd grown up.

He'd spent two weeks staying with the (new) downstairs neighbors who'd recently moved in. He thought I was lying when I said it was my parents' building until I confirmed the neighbours' names.

My sister and I were on holiday in Melbourne. One of the shop assistants we were talking to noticed we were Kiwis and said her uncle lived in NZ in Small Town. Turned out he was our neighbour.

On holiday with my family very far away from home, on the way to a day outing (on a steam train)we started discussing an old university friend of my DH (who lives in the same town as us but who we had lost touch with and not seen or heard of in years).

We get onto the steam train, and one other family joins us in our carriage....you guessed it, the university friend and his family.

I was in Beijing for work. I dreamed about a good friend of mine from colleger. She and her family were very musical, we had loads of sing-songs/sessions in her house and they always finished with a particular Irish song - kind of taking the piss out of it really. I hadn't been in touch with her for a while so when I woke up I thought "that is a sign I should call her when I get home". I spoke to dh and told him I had dreamt of Mary and felt bad I hadn't been in touch.

I then went out with a colleague to see some sights before our flight - we only had a few hours so we took a taxi. The taxi-driver was listening to a chinese-language radio station, mostly talk in mandarin and local music. After about fifteen minutes, the Irish song my friend always sang came on, played, the dj named it in English and then went back to mandarin programming.