There is some sort of psychological explanation for most seemingly amazing coincidences, but I’m not sure at time of writing what that explanation is. I believe it has something to do with the mind’s ability to spot patterns within the masses of information that flows through our senses every second.
Anyway… There was a person I knew a few years ago… A person with whom things were sweet but turned sour. I have succeeded in forgetting that person. (I will not go into details in this thread… it is irrelevant for the purposes of the thread)
Today my PDA reminded me that it was that person’s birthday. I had obviously never got aroud to removing the details from it’s memory.
Then about ten minutes ago… There is a song which was her favourite song, and therefore mine too at the time.
I have heard this song about once in the past year or so… until today. It came on the radio. A radio which someone brought in to work…
Why this is such a conincidence…
There is hardly ever a radio playing at work. (maybe once a month if I am forced to give an average).
The song is so well known to me that I will not fail to notice it if I hear it. (So I know how rare it is to overhear it)
I haven’t heard it for over a year (except once during another uncanny coincidence the circumstances of which memory fails).
It’s the birthday of the person I associate that song with.
Yesterday, my buddy whose family I’m vacationing with and I were talking about old (like ~13 yrs) tapes we used to have. I mentioned one by a fairly obscure DJ (Justin Long) that neither of us had thought of in ages. This morning, his mom brings in a People magazine. The cover story is about Drew Barrymore and her boyfriend…Justin Long. Apparently, he’s a famous actor but neither of us knew him. Weird.
Strangest coincidence I had was years ago where I had a dream about the band “The Roches”. Now I had seen them in 1979, but didn’t think that much of the show, never bought any of their CDs, in short never really paid them any heed since. But in this dream I’m on a stage performing and the audience is small and there are three ladies in the front row. I look at them and realize it’s The Roches (they are rather distinct looking ladies). I wake up with a WTF feeling. I shower and go out for breakfast and start reading the paper. There I see an ad for an upcoming Roches show in my town . So I figure I must have read this ad yesterday and it stuck in my head, becoming dream fodder. What the hell it’s been nearly 20 years, I’ll give 'em another go. At the box office I tell the ticket seller (the venue manager) the story, complete with the “I must have seen your ad”. She tells me that today was the first day the ad ran.
I reminisce about a film/TV show I haven’t seen in years and it will be on TV within two weeks guaranteed.
I’ve also been going through the “every song on the radio reminds you of a painful thing” thing for the last month.
I also had a bad night a week ago and was heading to the bottom of a bottle of vodka. I hit a moment of crisis where i could have sat up all night drinking alone or go to bed and make tomorrow a better day. I flipped on the TV to a music channel and said to myself I would go to bed if the next song was Fascination by Alphabeat. (It’s become my cheer up song what with all the depressing crap that keeps appearing on my radio.) It was an entirely obscure song at this point. Hadn’t even hit the charts. Guess what the next song was…
