Coincidence or weird?

[Anemonia]

A few weeks ago my partner had to go away for a few days so I was here in the house by myself.. On one of the evenings I listened to a particular song quietly and pottered about. The music would not be heard by anyone outside the house.

The following day I went out for a few hours and on return the neighbours were in their garden playing the exact same piece of music I’d been listening to the previous evening. As I went into my house they disappeared inside too. I’ve never known them to play music outside. Tbh, It made me feel very uncomfortable but I’ve ignored it. Aibu to feel uncomfortable or should I just assume it’s a coincidence?

They obviously heard it and it remained in their memory.

Unless they have bionic hearing they wouldn’t have been able to hear the music

Well was it a Taylor Swift song or eighteenth-century choral music?

If it was something popular it is probably a coincidence.

I can’t see why this would possibly make you feel uncomfortable

Coincidence

Depends on how popular the music was.
Something obscure and I'd be spooked.

Was it a particularly unusual peice of music?

Depends on the song. Is it one that’s being played to death at the minute? One that’s high up in the hit parade?

Uncomfortable in what way? That’s it’s woo, or that they’re listening in to your home somehow?

Coincidence

Why did it make you uncomfortable?

There's 2 ways to find out.

1. Rip your house and gardens apart looking for bugging devices.

1. Ask them.

How did you listen to it ? Radio? Were they also listening to the radio? Coincidence.

A bit of context about the music would help but are you saying that they are sending you some kind of message? Why are you uncomfortable?

If there’s no way they could have heard the music then it’s obviously a coincidence. Why would it spook you?

I was watching/ listening to it on my computer. The song’s a classic rock number from the 90s. Probably just coincidence they were playing it as well.

Even if they weren't consciously aware of hearing it, it's possible some part of their brain recognised the beat or bass notes and brought the song into their mind.

It's equally possible that a similar experience is what made you want to listen to the song in the first place.

This is the second overly paranoid thread I've read from yesterday evening. (The other one about a table being moved and possibly being surveilled). What is going on with people?

What is going on with people? getting close-ish to halloween?

Coincidence
either that or they've bugged your house, cracked your wifi code or spend their evenings with a glass against your wall

Why can't you tell us the song?

Here's another suggestion: the song (or bits of it) is currently being used in a commercial or even in another song that's doing the rounds at the moment. So the reason YOU chose to listen to it was because you have been reminded of it. And your neighbours have too (along with many many other people).

It could've come up as a recommendation on a device that heard you playing it.

Coincidence - but possibly triggered by half-heard bassline. If next door played “Money” by Pink Floyd and I had no tv or radio on in the house, I would definitely recognise it, even subliminally, then I’d probably play it a day or so later after the reminder!

Are they weird In other ways. If there is no back story then I'd laugh it off as a coincidence, however, I do wonder why you're considering that there could be more to this?

It’s hardly inconceivable that someone else would play a classic rock song from the 90s.

Just a coincidence.

Here is the grip you are missing…