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Coincidences

15 replies

LuckyAmy1986 · 30/03/2025 22:54

Daily.

E.G. Like i'll be talking to DD about a song (haven't heard it in years) and then we go and put on the tv, and the song is on. What's the meaning?

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MistressoftheDarkSide · 30/03/2025 22:56

Quantum entanglement.

Look up Carl Jung and synchronicity. It's fascinating.

IntermittentFarting · 30/03/2025 22:58

There’s no meaning, it’s a coincidence.

KrisAkabusi · 30/03/2025 23:00

Just those things that happen, confirmation bias, lucky, etc. Theres no meaning to it.

LuckyAmy1986 · 30/03/2025 23:00

@IntermittentFarting I'm talking daily, it's starting to bother me. I feel like I can't escape the coincidences!!!

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stayathomer · 30/03/2025 23:01

I once thought of a girl I hadn’t seen in years and wondered how she was doing and she walked into the shop I was working in, 70km from where we’d grown up! Mad thing was two days after that I thought of a guy from college then saw him, and a week later I bumped into an old teacher! Nothing after that although I’d have adored if the streak had continued!

LuckyAmy1986 · 30/03/2025 23:07

It's starting to bother me a lot

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LuckyAmy1986 · 30/03/2025 23:07

@MistressoftheDarkSide i dont know if I am smart enough for that

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teksab · 30/03/2025 23:08

stayathomer · 30/03/2025 23:01

I once thought of a girl I hadn’t seen in years and wondered how she was doing and she walked into the shop I was working in, 70km from where we’d grown up! Mad thing was two days after that I thought of a guy from college then saw him, and a week later I bumped into an old teacher! Nothing after that although I’d have adored if the streak had continued!

I always think these things happen in 3's

LuckyAmy1986 · 30/03/2025 23:10

Something higher up is happening. It's too much.... it happens to me all the time.

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MistressoftheDarkSide · 30/03/2025 23:17

My late DP and I met at 42, and we had so many coincidences it's bizarre. Both only children, we had the same family dynamic - children of divorce with a mother living alone and a father and step-mother each. We both grew up in households living with our maternal grandmother's

We both had similar waistcoats, red and black brocade. We both had nigh on identical Victorian clocks passed down through the family. We had the same Alchemy Gothic pendant, and the same miniature antique pen knife.

He had a brain bleed, and on my 53rd birthday, I was told he'd had a second, and "wasn't coming back". On his 53rd birthday, one month later, I had to pick his burial plot. He was a body piercer, his birthday was Valentine's day, and so the irony of picking a hole in the ground to lay him to rest was pretty strong. I then had to bury him on my late mother's birthday.

On various family and friend's birthday I have been informed of other people's deaths. I've rather gone off birthdays.

My mother and I were both widowed at exactly the same age, my step-father dying of cancer that took too long to diagnose. My late DPs cancer was only discovered at post mortem - it had metastised to his brain.

There are loads more. I think of it all as a rather macabre cosmic joke.

MistressoftheDarkSide · 30/03/2025 23:21

LuckyAmy1986 · 30/03/2025 23:07

@MistressoftheDarkSide i dont know if I am smart enough for that

I'm not that smart, but it's an enjoyable rabbit hole 😘

MistressoftheDarkSide · 30/03/2025 23:27

When I left my dickhead ExH I couldn't take all my furniture, and I was really peeved about an antique pine dresser that my Step Dad had restored.

Visiting my new MIL with then new DP, she presented me, unprompted, with a miniature ornamental dresser as she was de-cluttering. Neither I nor DP had mentioned my previously lost dresser. That was a weird one. In fact, I hadn't even been specific about my list furniture to DP, so he couldn't have given her the heads up.

autisticbookworm · 31/03/2025 04:30

Today we were doing a quiz. In between questions my dd mentioned Stephen Hawkins the next question he was the answer!

stayathomer · 31/03/2025 06:13

MistressoftheDarkSide

Im so sorry for your loss, yes the birthday thing for deaths was something my dad always said, I remember my 21st birthday we were all together in my manna’s house after my granddads funeral and my dad came in and whispered (oh god this was your 21st, wasn’t it? I’m so sorry. On my birthday we used to have an aunts anniversary, it’s awful when your birthday is marked). We have two other birthdays in the family where relatives died and recently have come across friends who have the same but all people close to them
if you know what I mean, so not a friend of a friend of theirs. Actually on the weekend of my dads birthday anniversary we meet for fils anniversary weekend

LuckyAmy1986 · 31/03/2025 07:06

@MistressoftheDarkSide I’m sorry for your loss

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