OrangeAppled
Sugar Hiccup
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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.
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.