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[Leave Britney alone!]

Oddly, for some of us, synchronicity can revolved around entertainment media, especially music.

After seeing the following movie:



...which is about a secret agent listening in on the lives of others in East Germany, who starts to become emotional over them to the point of helping them, it then made me think about a song from May 2011.

There's playlists I make each month and it so happens that the next day the May 2011 playlist CD was selected out of the many of them.



Of course the odds of this happening are not astronomical. It was May 2013 and and I already heard May 2010 so put in May 2011. Still had that song been on any other month of any other year it would not have been played the next day.

To top it off that same week on the history channel was an hour show on the Berlin Wall which had a part to play in The Lives of Others movie. Score!

Edited by Leave Britney alone!, Yesterday, 03:26 PM.

[_Only]

I know what you mean about it not having astronomical odds or anything, but it just puts a twinkle on your mind's eye, so to speak.

The same thing happened to me recently, when I got a very uncharacteristic urge to learn about the Donner Party, and to take a very long drive to visit the spot of their memorial at Donner Memorial state park, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada's. This visit made me even more fascinated and inspired by their story, so I decided I wanted to watch a full documentary of their whole journey the next day, back at home. I found a video on YouTube and started watching it. I looked down at the comments, and saw one of the recent comments mentioning that this day (the day I was watching the video and reading the comment) was the 167th anniversary of the day the Donner's and company first set off from home on their famous trip. They were right! 1 in 365 chance, but it was the twinkle in my mind's eye that made it great to me.

Sometimes I wonder if coincidences aren't just uncontrolled circumstances by whatever outside source, but created by the experiencer, whether they are consciously aware of their creation or not. But to go further with that idea, you'd have to believe that we personally (as well as collectively) create our own reality.

Edited by _Only, Yesterday, 07:04 PM.

[Leave Britney alone!]

Yes, yes, yes to your whole last paragraph. I wonder too and it seems highly plausible synchronicity is proof of our roles in co-creation as co-creators of reality.

The feeling of being a rat in a cage, a mouse on a wheel, is destroyed by synchronicity without even thinking about it. Ironically, somehow, it feels that way. You would think it would work in favor of predetermination and not freewill. (I actually believe both cooperate and are not mutually exclusive opposites, just opposites in illusion like many other pairs we consider opposites but which are two sides of the same exact coin). The feeling of synchronicity is exactly like flipping a coin and having it land on its perfect edge.

Also, strictly speaking, your chances were greater than 1 in 365. One has to factor in you decided to visit the Donner memorial the day before, then to watch a YouTube video, then factor in the 1 in 365 on top of all that. Not a mathematician but if we had one with time to spare they could probably figure out the odds.

Edited by Leave Britney alone!, Yesterday, 08:00 PM.