This is a true, very strange story that happened to me.

[skooooo]

Please tell me what you think happened. I have never been able to wrap my mind around it:

I was about 25 when this happened, and in graduate school at a Big 10 university. Because I wasn't enjoying the program so much, I decided instead of teaching during the summer, I would clean houses. I worked for a small company that would give me addresses to go to and clean. So I had done this for a few months already, when one day I was assigned to go to a small house that had been vacated.

When I arrived at the house, there was a woman there who said she was a social worker, who was taking care of some things in the house. She mentioned that an old woman had been living in the house, but indicated she was gone.

So the social worker went on to doing her job, and I started cleaning the place. Maybe an hour had passed. I was starting to vacuum a bedroom in the house, when I started thinking back to something that happened when I was about 14.
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This is the memory: About 1978, my grandmother had moved into a new house, and was getting it in shape to move her stuff in. My sister and I went over to see her. Grandmother was upstairs, working in a bedroom. My sister and I noticed that there was some graffitti on the wall. Some hippie stuff about "peace," and "pot."

My sister and I laughed at it. My grandmother then said that she had found a plastic bag of some herbs or something in a drawer in the room when she was cleaning earlier.

My sister and I laughed at that too, and started teasing Grandma that that bag was hers and she had been smoking pot!

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So I was vacuuming the room and laughing to myself about that memory. After a minute, the social worker came into the bedroom holding a plastic baggie up for me to see. This is what she said to me:

"I found this in the kitchen. Does this look like marijuana to you? Do you think that old woman could have been smoking marijuana?"

I just about went into shock. I have never understood what happened that day and what kind of intersection took place that my thoughts were so close to what happened.

[csziggy]

1. The odor of the pot probably triggered that memory

[skooooo]

2. there wasn't any...

That doesn't make sense. :shrug:

[csziggy]

3. Even a very slight smell can trigger memories

It may not be enough to be apparent, just a little whiff. And pot odor is very hard to get rid of.

[skooooo]

5. Why would..

..she come into the room I was and say those things to me?? She didn't know what I was thinking. It's too weird.

[LisaL]

13. Because you were the other peson in the house.

It's only natural for her to ask you what did you think it was.

[skooooo]

16. Ok..but why was I thinking..

..of the exact same thing happening in 1978 right before she asked me?

It's too weird for me to not thing there was something unexplainable going on. It could just be a coincidence, but the EXACT words she said were just like what my sister and I had said to my grandmother 13 years earlier.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Is your grandmother still alive

[skooooo]

6. No..and she was dead when this happened...

[Sinti]

7. Synchronicity

I suffer from and have learned to hate long strands of synchronicity. Kind of similar to yours, but more complex, and intertwined. So nothing really happened, it just seemed kind of interesting, and maybe meaningful at the time :)

[skooooo]

10. Yeah.. you'd like to understand what's going on..

...but maybe it doesn't really matter so much. Even years afterward, thinking about it would shake me up.

[roody]

8. serendipity

The Pot Goddess was with you.

[lildreamer316]

9. This kind of thing happens to me and husband all the time.

It's along the same lines of thinking of a song and then immediately hearing it on the radio; thinking of someone and then right then they call; etc.

I do not have a ready, 'reason' based; scientific explanation for it; but I know it happens.

[skooooo]

11. yeah..

These were such two strange things to have been connected like that....hmmmm

[lildreamer316]

15. I just have to believe

that time is really an illusion; or we are actually all 'psychic' to some degree.
But, that's just me. :)

[IsItJustMe]

12. I have had several experiences like that. Some people say that it is a person's power of intention

that leads to these synchronistic events.

I bicycled most of the summer and never saw a snake, which I thought was kind of unusual, since the area I ride in is rural.

No sooner than I had that thought, about 5 foot in front of me was a snake. Coincidence? I no longer think so.

[skooooo]

14. What's "power of intention?"nt

[IsItJustMe]

21. Basically it is the idea that if you concentrate on something hard enough, it comes true.

There is plenty of evidence that there is some truth to it. A quote from some famous person one time said

"As a man thinketh all day long, so he becomes."

The events that have happened to me have always been happenstance and off the wall, but have happened none-the-less.

[skooooo]

22. Interesting..

Yeah I've heard of that line of thought before.

:thumbsup:

[IsItJustMe]

23. I can't really explain it, but at the same time I know there is something to it. A few weeks ago,

for no reason at all, I thought of an old high school friend I had not seen in over 25 years.

The next day I ran into that person at the grocery store, and two days later at a car wash. There is meaning in there somewhere, but damn, don't ask me what it is.

[OnyxCollie]

17. Reality generator kicking in.

Did you take the bag?:smoke:

[skooooo]

18. no!

I was too freaked out. :scared:

Probably the social worker took it.. :rofl:

[tularetom]

19. When I was 25 if someone had brought a bag of weed into a room where I was

My reaction would've been "Thank you god".

[skooooo]

20. oh now

You didn't read the story, and I have no idea what she was holding up. That's not the point of it! :crazy:

[agincourt]

24. Myself, I think it's a coincidence

A highly unlikely one, but a coincidence all the same. Thanks for sharing the story, I enjoyed it. But I don't think it's something to get too freaked out about. I've known too many people who have lost track of their dimebag over time. The fact that both instances have older women smoking pot makes it very interesting though.

[bkkyosemite]

25. Maybe it was your grandmother saying hi............

:-)

[Faux pas]

26. My thoughts exactly. Glad I read all the way through the replies

before I added my 6(th)cents. Family and friends who have passed find interesting ways to stay in touch.

[uppityperson]

27. My thought also. I would smile and think "hi gram, thank you"