Synchronicity is an eerie thing.

[Swede]

From wiki - "Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related. In order to be synchronous, the events must be related to one another conceptually, and the chance that they would occur together by random chance must be very small."

I also read somewhere that the more you notice it,the more it happens.

[Shine]

1. Happens to me all the time

and it's true, if you notice it, it happens more often.

[Lindsey]

2. Yea. It's been happening to me more and more lately. I agree that the

more it's noticed, the more it happens. I have a feeling that that's true for a lot of things - it feeds right into the LOA.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. It is where I live.

Electricity is the next city over.

[murielm99]

4. I don't quite know how to put this, but

I keep thinking about synchronicity when I watch "Lost."

When we get down to the last few episodes, will we find out that the whole island was an experiment that proves the dynamic that Jung tried to explain?

Will the truth about the island be something that exposes human life as so trivial that the secret of he must be kept, so that we do not lose faith in ourselves?

That is not quite what I mean, but it is late.

[Jamastiene]

5. Is that similar to deja vu?

If so, it's odd. I was emailing a friend of mine in California about how I just caught a paper towel on fire whilst attempting to cook macaroni and cheese in a new pot my mother sent over. When I clicked send, my email also happened to be set to check for messages at the same time. He had just sent me a photo of his sushi taken with his I phone. It was amazing that we had been in contact most of the day and neither of us said we were getting ready to eat, but we both decided to eat at the same time.

[Swede]

6. Yes and no.

Deja vu is a feeling that "this has happened before". An example of synchronicity from Jung:
"A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me her dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to the golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetoaia urata) which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since, and that the dream of the patient has remained unique in my experience." The Scarab represented Self-Generation, Resurrection and Renewal

[SteppingRazor]

7. Only if your mind makes it eerie.

Otherwise, it's just random, dumb coincidence, and there's nothing eerie about random events occasionally syncing up so that they appear to have some relationship. In fact, given the sheer volume of events going on all around you, it would be freaky if this didn't happen on occasion.

[Shine]

8. Synchronicity reminds me of the Mystery of life

When these "coincidences" happen that cannot be explained rationally, I personally feel enormously comforted because they remind me that even in the midst of the Mystery, of the NOT KNOWING, there is something "Bigger" flowing through it All, which binds the sacred with the mundane.

It reminds me that ultimately, everything is Connected and I am part of that connection.

Does that make sense? :shrug:

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. It's only eerie when it's not man-made.

It's easy to "create" synchronicity, if you know a person and their habits and their likes/dislikes. It's a highly Republican thing to do, but it's certainly possible.