Inspired by Neo's post about Laura Buxton's balloon coincidence, I thought I would start a topic where people can post their favorite amazing coincidences - either personal ones or ones in the news.



Here was the original reporting of the story: http://archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/2001/6/28/215077.html

About a year ago, I came home to an empty flat in Melbourne. I decided I would enjoy the quiet time over some reading. Before I sat down, I went to kitchen and fished out a glass. Now. For some reason--unbeknown to me--I decided I wanted a tall glass of ice water. And this is odd for two reasons. One - it wasn't a warm day. And two - I didn't generally drink ice water.... ever. We kept a Brita filtered water jug in the fridge at all times and I naturally drank that. Furthermore, the only ice that I was able to rummage up was the store bought kind in a plastic bag. It had been sitting in our fridge for well over a month, lingering from my roommates 21st.

This is not in itself a strange act but it was peculiar. I can honestly say that I had never done it for several months leading up to the incident, nor for several months after that. Nonetheless, I took my ice water, sat down and opened up my book. I was reading Bryan Greene's, The Fabric of the Cosmos, starting on some chapter I can't remember. Within in the first couple pages, Mr. Greene uses an analogy of melting ice to help explain entropy. If I remember correctly, he returns to the analogy on more than one occasion. Needless to say, I found the melting ice in my glass, less than a foot away, quite convenient--serving as a helpful visual aid.


Several weeks after this, I was heading to bed around 3am, and I decided I should send a text message to my old friend in Sydney. This was a bit odd, because I wouldn't normally message her at such an hour, but I thought what the hell, just send it. My attention was focused precisely on this girl and the things I wanted to say to her. I spent a minute or two punching in the lengthy message and just as I was about to hit send, my phone rang. And no, we weren't frequently speaking.


Really, for me though, the strangest thing is that I often get the feeling that I pick up fragmented bits of information from the immediate future (that are never of any general importance). Just some strange sensory perception of a coming moment, flashing like a bolt of lighting, fractions of a second before it comes to fruition.
Have you ever been sitting with someone you are familiar with, and you are both trying to come up with the answer to something and just before your friend spits the thing out, it flashes in your head. And honestly, when this happens to me, I don't believe I have come up with it. I had no cognitive thoughts leading to that answer. It honestly seems to me, like the other person has the "ah-ha" moment and it instantly flashes in my mind, which is mere instances before it's jubilantly spit it out. Either that, or it's so near in the future, that my mind is able to get a whiff of it. Because often times, my unabated flash of insight is a loose manifestation of the answer I'm about to hear. Like if someone is about to say "leaf" as a solution, I might get a flash of trees or a forest. And then BAM, the answer is already upon me.

Sometimes I really think our minds are entangled. But you would be hard pressed to notice it if you weren't aware of the possibility.

I wanted to say as for amazing coincidences....I lived in Illinois for a few years and even though it was not unusual for me to dream about something in the future (very specific details and specific to the person)it was most unusual for me to dream about something and it occur in the immediate future. Anyway, one night I dreamed that I would be driving and my young dgt. would be with me and I dreamed of a specific intersection where the event would occur. In the dream I would be approaching a four way stop and a car would be approaching from the right. In the dream I would stop and then hurry through the intersection and the car approaching from my right would be going too fast to stop and hit me broadside. I knew where the intersection was that I dreamed about. The next morning I had completely forgotten about the dream but luckily it was still with me as I drove my dgt. to school. I approached the four way stop and I very nearly started to hurry through the intersection when the dream 'hit me' and I stopped dead still and didn't go on through the intersection after a quick stop. The car I dreamed about approached from the right and appeared to be going to stop at the stop sign but merely slowed and then sped through the intersection. If I had not stopped because of the dream that I suddenly remembered I would probably have been hit broadside! It was eery that I had dreamed about something that would occur immediately and of course the details were exact. On a deeper level it tells me that the future is essentially written in a way but I was given an opportunity to change what was supposed to happen. Then, I can only wonder who or what gave me that opportunity. I could drive myself nuts thinking about why and what does it all really mean...

Funny you mentioned the Dean Radin book. I read it about a year ago, and I would also highly recommend it. He covers a lot of really cool stuff that I would have never even thought to consider.

This actually relates to something I mentioned earlier: recognizing the phenomenon. Once I read that book, I became consciously aware of the possible existence of telepathy and other "mind entanglements," as were described in the book. And it was only after that point that I began to see these strange coincidences, because they are undoubtedly subtle.
I remember when I was working as a taxi driver, I used to notice them a lot. There would usually be 20 or 25 of us working at a time. We were all connected via a cb radio and all vary aware of each other. And I perceived it to be quite common for several people to have the same thoughts simultaneously or have peculiar hunches about another driver that turn out to be inexplicably true. Like, for instance, we used to have to radio to base when we arrived at our destination, to get more information, and I can't tell you how many times I would be pulling in the driveway, reaching for my mic to radio base, and have them pop on to the airwaves---asking me if I had arrived yet. Obviously, there is a a degree of chance, of odds, but you see this stuff happen enough, and you start to wonder.


And Jim, thanks for the other stuff; I find it very interesting. It's all pretty new to me, so I'll dig a little deeper.