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[NF] Your Moments of Synchronicity

OrangeAppled

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Have you had any memorable moments of synchronicity in life?

A brief definition of synchronicity (in case you don't know) - a meaningful coincidence, with no apparent linear connection. To distinguish it from serendipity, it's not a happy accident or discovering something meaningful when you weren't looking for it. It's more of a, well, syncing up of two moments in a mysterious way that signifies something to you as an individual.

A Jungian example is a woman who had a dream about a beetle of some kind, and then Jung opens a window at that moment she recalls it and the very same kind of beetle flies in. This moment created a shift within the woman, so that she was able to get in touch with her emotions and irrational side (she was described as being too stuck in her head, aka intellectualized everything too much), helping her with her therapy.

I had a moment not long ago... After speaking with a friend about something I was upset about, I received a text message the next morning asking how I was now feeling. At that exact moment, a song came on in my car with lyrics that freakishly mirrored our exchange. This gave me a realization about something bigger in my life - like a idea of what I felt/wanted in general. Seems simple and even silly, but these are interesting moments for me. It's something I'm increasingly looking for, wondering if they happen more than I realize but was just not noting before.
 

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This stuff used to happen all the time between me and my ISTP ex-boyfriend. We were very much on the same "wavelength."

Do you ever do that thing where you ask for a sign regarding something in particular? I do that sometimes, but then I don't trust the "signs" I get as anything more than coincidence or what I want them to be.

Actually... wait... lately at work, whenever I think about how much I hate my job and how I need to find a way out, if I look out the window at that moment, the stoplight outside is always just turning yellow. It has happened so many times it is odd. If it means something, I am not sure how to interpret it.

I'm oddly uptight for an INFJ regarding these things. I try not to invest too much belief into this stuff, but at the same time I totally believe in that which we cannot explain. I literally make no sense, haha.
 

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I'm going to say yes, but it's a very private and sacred moment for me.

And other ways.. I just don't want to tell it to the wrong people you know? :mellow:
 

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perception bias :coffee:

That's exactly it ;)

Perception bias revealing to you what's been pushed out of your consciousness.

I can see how people might equate this to "I saw Jesus in my pancake syrup!", but that's not what this is.

It's not seeing mystical signs in things that tell you what to do or not do or what is objectively true. It's also absolutely about cognitive bias and subjective experience.
 

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That's exactly it ;)

Perception bias revealing to you what's been pushed out of your consciousness.

I can see how people might equate this to "I saw Jesus in my pancake syrup!", but that's not what this is.

It's not seeing mystical signs in things that tell you what to do or not do or what is objectively true. It's also absolutely about cognitive bias and subjective experience.

do u even tarot brah
 

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I was reading his biography while listening to the songs of my beloved songwriter and guitarist. One of his songs was completely misunderstood, it was about how revolutions are destroying their creators and how sooner or later the situation comes back to what it was before. People misunderstood it and made an unofficial hymn of political revolution. Anyway when I was finishing the book I got to his funeral where many people came, lighten the candles, singed and played the most known (mentioned by me)song. I was moved by the ignorance of people and in the very moment I heard that his record dedicated to Bob Dylan was playing. He said to Dylan that people eat, drink , feed with his blood and juggle with words of his songs; that to be close to his death is the only reason of the escort of fans and advised him to run away with the waves while people will hold false candlelight.

Well wasn’t really personal, but this was a very unusual coincidence (I was playing all his albums, more than 20, during reading book)and I never thought before that he might have meant this song to be about himself too. Made me think about how we are able to guess what will happen to us at some point.
 

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I hadn't played violin in ten years and my sister asks what instrument I first learned to play. No more than two minutes later my uncle texts asking if I still have my violin. He's never texted before or since.

I could probably list eight just as odd occurrences I've experienced.
 

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This has happened to me, especially as a kid. It does heighten awareness of more "unconscious" aspects of oneself. I don't mean unconscious in the sense that you're not aware of it ...but in the sense that those aspects of yourself/life are hard to articulate using language... it's just a "feeling" that only the person experiencing it can experience fully and deeply.

...The only way to 'articulate such a thing is through art.
 

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My sister and I have both been friends with someone who had the same name and possibly similar psychological condition.

The three cats I have have the same coloring as the cats another lady I know has. It's weird when I go to her house to rehearse. One is a brown-tabby Maine Coon, one is fluffy black, the other short-hair black with white markings. Although, she also has a fourth gray cat.

One really creepy thing I cannot give specifics for is that a lot of significant people in my life have names that express the way they related to me. Their names are so apropos that they seem like a novelist came up with them.

Edit: Here's one example about the creepy names that is really general. I recently dropped a class from a professor who had everyone call him "Dr. A", and he was the most extreme A-type personality I have ever encountered in a professor. I didn't imagine it, but it may be more of selective awareness for when the names do align with their behavior. Still, that would be a funny name for an over-the-top ambitious professor in a story.
 

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Ah I thought of one maybe not too serious:

When I was in middle school I wanted cyan blue hair even though I've seen no one else worn (and I didn't really use the Internet that much outside of games)

In high school I had a huge crush on a girl with a septum piercing and he hair was pheonomenal and had been a crush for a long time.

Sometime in high school I wanted small gauge piercings.

Then when I was around 21 to 22 I found the girl who has all 3 (well 4 if you count the hairstyle too)

yeah not my best because it probably is found with other girls too.
 

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Yesterday when I came home from worked I met a man I had never seen on the stairs, carrying a bag. I don't know all of my neighbours so it was probably one of them but my mind went on tangents, as usual. Maybe he was a burglar or something and really good at his job cause his smile when he greeted me seemed perfectly genuine. Shaking my head over my own thoughts, I went on thinking that it wouldn't be even that suspicious for me if my door was only closed but not locked because real life is just not my forte. I reached my door, it was locked, but when I got in the lights were still on :O
Well played, universe, well played.
 

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This stuff used to happen all the time between me and my ISTP ex-boyfriend. We were very much on the same "wavelength."


I'm oddly uptight for an INFJ regarding these things.

The synchronicity, being on the same wavelength with someone is something that I have associated with Ni arcanum.


Otherwise, for an XNTJ, I'm oddly fascinated by these occurences, whether on a subsconscious or occult level.

I had many things happening in my life in a very oddly organized manner to simply call a coincidence. They still do, and future events unfold the way I want them to in a way that I cannot explain. Does it happen that we just predict them and calculate their probability with great accuracy, or do we somehow contribute into their manifestation? Frankly, I put them both on the same coin because of Y*.


Y : Data compiled on a subconscious level subjectively brought into life using Ni*.

Ni : All that shit you cannot explain.
 
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