Anomalous simultaneous events

As a person with an interest in all things anomalous, I am constantly amazed by how often events occur that fit that description, even if on a minor scale. One phenomenon I noticed years ago concerns the simultaneous (or near simultaneous) occurrence of two separate events with a clear similarity but with no direct connection. I was reading a newspaper one day and the television was on in the background. I came upon a person’s name while reading, a person unfamiliar to me. Within no more than a second of reading the name, someone on the TV program mentioned that same person’s name. That was interesting—and strange—I thought. The article I was reading had nothing to do with the program on TV, yet the name came to my attention from both sources at exactly the same time. Then, on another occasion, a similar thing happened, a simultaneous occurrence that made me sit up and take notice because the coincidental events involved a word so rarely heard that I could not help but marvel at it coming up twice within seconds from two different sources. I began to pay more attention, and soon these strange, seemingly coincidental events started to pop up all over and in varying forms. A song on the radio comes to a certain word in the song; within a second or two I read that identical word in a book, or a pamphlet, or even on a can label. I know these simultaneous events occur fairly often, but the truly mind blowing ones are those involving something so unique that seeing or hearing them referenced twice within a span of a second or two seems highly improbable.

Over the years, I have come across variations within the general phenomenon. I am reading the word hare and hear at the same time someone mention the word hair in a nearby conversation. What principle is at work here? They are not the same word, only sound alike, yet both choose to appear to me at the same time. I pointed out these “coincidences” to my brother, and to this day we both constantly notice these types of events. The puzzling thing about this is that we most often (but not always) experience these occurrences independently. His coincidences happen to him and mine to me. It’s as if these events are targeted to the experiencer. These incidents occur so often now that I just laugh when they happen. You hear people say all the time that they were thinking about a song and it comes on the radio, or something similar. That’s interesting in and of itself, but these occurrences I refer to seem to have nothing to do with what you are thinking about. They appear to be random. If what an individual experiences has any direct connection or meaning to the experiencer, I have not seen it. I’m sure this happens all the time to people, but how many pay attention when it does? It does make you think the universe works in ways that we haven’t even begun to understand.

Update, Dec. 29:
Just before Christmas, I was watching TV when an ad came up featuring Jimi Hendrix’s version of Bob Dylan’s song, “All Along the Watchtower.” I switched channels to check on another program just as Jimi sang, “There’s too much confusion…” At the “fusion” part of the last word, I changed the channel and immediately (I mean at the exact moment the channel switched) I heard the word “fusion” again, this time being spoken in a commercial for the Ford Fusion car. This is another example of what this blog post is about, an anomalous simultaneous event. The two uses of the word had no connection, being about two separate things, with one actually being part of another word. Yet they happened to be spoken at nearly the exact same moment, within a second of each other. As usual, the bizarre part is that it occurred to me alone, as if directed at me. For whatever reason, it seems the universe wants me to notice these things and I have no idea why or what it means, but they happen much too often to be mere coincidence.

Here's an article on the science of coincidences: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/58116...