Synchronicity

[Humberto]

Some months ago I posted the following:

The Venus symbol is associated with femininity:

Image: Wikimedia Commons

On my way to coffee with Elizabeth, shortly after the sun had set, I noticed Venus in the night sky. Was it a good omen? Of course, I now know that Elizabeth was not to be my Venus.

Last night, I again noticed Venus in the night sky while I was driving. But then I began noticing that Venus was moving. Eventually I realised it wasn't Venus I was looking at, but an aircraft.

The moral of the story: the true Venus is always there, somewhere, in the night sky, but often times we get exited when we see fake Venuses.

(http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/538489-I-can-t-sleep?p=10667703&viewfull=1#post10667703)

Venus is known as the evening star and the morning star.

On Monday evening I drove to visit my lady friend Ashlee. Every morning I thank the Lord in my prayers for sending Ashlee on my path. While driving to visit Ashlee, the Michael Jackson song I Just Can't Stop Loving You was playing.

Note the following line in the lyrics of the song:

Heaven's Glad You Came...

This line was sung by Michael Jackson hence refers to the woman in the song. Heaven is glad the woman came along the man's path.

Synchronicity 1: After having thanked the Lord in my prayers for sending Ashlee on my path, while driving to visit her, I hear the line "Heaven's Glad [the woman in your life] came [along your path]".

While this song was still playing, I noticed Venus in the night sky, and thought about my earlier life lesson, that there are many false Venuses in the night sky, but the one true Venus remains. Then I thought that Ashlee is my true Venus; I have found my true Venus. And as I was thinking this and staring at Venus, the following line in the song played:

At Night When The
Stars Shine
I Pray In You I'll Find
A Love So True...

Synchronicity 2: While staring at Venus, the evening star, thinking about Ashlee, my true Venus, about whom I pray every day, I heard the above lines.

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

I don't believe in that Jung nonsense.

 

[MKFrost]

And then you were caught speeding?

 

[GreyBush]

Someone needs to tune this ou's ballie he's still on here.

 

[Jings]

Very interesting story indeed. Experienced synchronicity too, except the results were not as expected:

Some months back on a workday afternoon, I'd been in a rush to check and signoff a BRS when suddenly getting a taste of urinary alkalizer in my mouth. Immediately contacting my husband, who was at home, asking if he had drunk any alkalizer. Confirming he was still drinking the last of it, for heartburn, because he could not find any anti-acid tablets.

What followed next was an inquest, of which a series of questions was asked and answered. According to my husband, I may have planted spy cameras. Subsequently none were found and everything went back to normal. I would probably have done the same had I been in his shoes.

 

[Roxi_B4b3]

My dad and I experience synchronicity quite often. Just yesterday I had a debate with my colleagues about a certain topic, I wanted to prove them wrong by googling it, and just as I turned on my mobile data on my phone, and email came through from my dad about the exact same topic.

Just you posting this thread is kinda synchronicity, because my dad and I discussed synchronicity, and how often it happens, just last night

 

[cerebus]

There are many imitators but there is only one authentic Humberto.

 

[bromster]

Life is all about finding happiness in moments like that. We live and die on autopilot. Synchronicity really wakes me up and makes me quite reflective and aware of my surroundings. People, life, earth, animals, space. It's actually overwhelming when you consider how beautiful it all is.

 

[systemofpurplelimpminion]

Makes you wonder if this is all based on Kazimierz Dąbrowski theory of personality being based on experience and upbringing or even some of Sigmund freud thoeries, but ya, experienced similar things not to long ago, even here on mybroadband

 

[jboyx989]

So the 99.9% of times where "synchronicity" fails to occur, this fact is ignored...

And the 0.1% of times where it does appear to happen, somehow this is magic?

Confirmation bias anyone?

 

[systemofpurplelimpminion]

So the 99.9% of times where "synchronicity" fails to occur, this fact is ignored...

And the 0.1% of times where it does appear to happen, somehow this is magic?

Confirmation bias anyone?

Obviously there would be some form of being biased, in matters like what Humberto describes. There are so many chemicals firing off that clarity is assumed, but by all means not possible.

And on a less pompous note, he's in love , let him be....

 

[RanzB]

This line was sung by Michael Jackson hence refers to the woman in the song.

Sure bud

 

[Humberto]

Another synchronicity

Every week night, I make myself two cheese and tomato sandwiches to be eaten for breakfast and lunch the next day. I do this in the evenings so that I don't lose time in the mornings having to prepare food. My breakfast sandwich gets toasted in the mornings in a snackwich type sandwich toaster while my lunch sandwich gets taken to work and is not toasted in any way.

This morning, I placed my breakfast sandwich in the sandwich toaster and then went back to bed to lie down for a few minutes while the sandwich was toasting. I was extremely tired having had just three hours' sleep last night. I ended up falling asleep again and by the time I woke up, the sandwich in the sandwich toaster had been burned black, hard as a rock, and inedible. I had no choice but to toast my work sandwich and eat it for breakfast, which I did, but this meant that I did not have food to take to work today. I was wondering what I was going to eat at work; I don't like getting fast food because it is unhealthy and I can taste and feel the saturated fat in it.

Every second Friday is "cake day" where I work. Members of the department take turns in groups of two to bring cake for the entire department and the cake is served with morning tea. Today was cake day but the two people whose turn it was to bring cake not only brought cake, but a variety of tasty breads and bread rolls with a selection of cold meat slices. I ended up having some of the leftovers of this bread feast for lunch this afternoon.

So on the one day that I did not have my own lunch with me, a nutritious meal was provided for me by chance.

 

[Batista]

4 out of 7 days in the week, i look at my computer clock or my cellphone clock and the time is 12:34,never 12:33, never 12:35!This has been going on for a few months now.

 

[Pooky]

Humberto, I believe you are a very clever man.

 

[Humberto]

Another synchronicity

Before leaving work on Friday, I printed three documents to take home for the weekend in case I found the time, energy and inclination to read them. I printed these documents over the departmental printer which is located downstairs from my office. My intention was to get them on my way out of the building. Hence I packed my things (wallet, keys, documents, books etc.) into my bag and left my office not intending to return again on Friday.

Before leaving the building I quickly stopped by the printer room to print the three documents I had earlier sent through. For some reason, only one of the three documents had arrived at the printer. Hence I had to go back to my office to print the other two documents.

When I arrived back at my office and switched on the computer, I discovered that I had forgotten to remove my memory stick from the computer. It would have been a problem if I had forgotten my memory stick at work because I was planning to do some work at home over the weekend. Hence it was a blessing in disguise that I had to go back to my office else I would have left my memory stick at work.

Had I left my memory stick at work, the following might have happened:

• Upon not finding my memory stick at home over the weekend, a fruitless and frustrating search for it around my house, in my car, and in my bag, would have ensued.
• I would have worried that I might have lost the memory stick.
• At an inconvenient time, for example on Saturday evening, when deciding to do some work, I would have realised that I had forgotten my memory stick at work, and I would have had to drive to my office to fetch it.
• At that special moment when inspiration strikes, I would not have been able to work because of not having my memory stick with me.

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

Or you could've forced the intern to do it for you while you go on a date with a girl from that dating site and take her to a hotel room where the kids next door make such a loud noise that you are unable to perform and then go to their room and throw them over the balcony one by one and listening to the overture to Rossini's La gazza ladra on your iPod while doing so.

 

[Humberto]

A possible synchronicity?

On Monday evening I was driving to visit a friend. I decided to stop at a nearby Spar before going to my friend. It was raining, and had been raining the whole day, so the roads were quite wet. It was misty outside and visibility was poor.

At one of the traffic circles, there was a black car with its emergency lights on. I slowed down as I approached the traffic circle because I didn't know what to make of it. The car began reversing slightly and then stopped before slowly driving off.

I guess the driver wasn't sure which way to go.

For the next few kilometres I drove behind the black car. It is remarkable that our journeys coincided for so long. The black car drove in front of me all the way until I turned into the small shopping complex where I wanted to do shopping. It was as though the black car was an advance guard of sorts, first having waited for me to arrive at the traffic circle and then clearing the way for me.

You could say I was stuck behind the black car as it was driving at a speed of around 30 km/h. I am a patient man so this did not bother me too much but at one stage, the car behind me got impatient and overtook both myself and the black car in front of me in what seemed to me a somewhat dangerous maneuvre.

Suppose the black car had not driven in front of me. What might have happened then? I would have driven at a speed of around 60 km/h in wet and misty conditions, conditions that increase the risk for a car accident.

If it were not for this black car that served as my advance guard, clearing the way for me and ensuring that I drive at a safe speed, perhaps I might have been involved in an accident.

 

[Humberto]

Is it better to learn to be successful and joyous consciously or to learn poverty and misery unconsciously and believe there is no choice?

Milton Erickson​

 

[Kloofvreter]