I have always been a person that examines just about everything on a routinely basis. What I have seemed to notice is that I make up the things that happen in my life.
As a very terrible example, say for instance I hear of a concept, and then the next day I see something while I am driving to school that relates to that concept or I see something on tv. The thing is is that I have never seen anything related to this concept ever before and I have no interaction (besides in my brain) that caused this to happen. I know this is very vague and you could obviously point out that it is all just coincidence. The thing I am seeing is that it happens every single day when I look for it. It goes way beyond coincidence. So, I am looking for your input. Has anyone ever noticed this or am I simply crazy. I was reading up on quantum physics where we supposedly observe photons into reality and it reminded me of how I feel pretty sure that my brain (for lack of better wording) puts these concepts into reality.
If you still arent fully understanding what I am saying, take for instance a dream. The things that happen to us while we are awake and conscious can be interpreted in our dreams. My girlfriend has told me of times where she dreams about someone trying to kill her with a knife. The day before she had those dreams, I was playing with a knife and we saw a strange guy at a restaurant (the guy that tried to kill her in her dream). The only difference is that instead of these concepts showing up in my dreams, they show up while I am awake in reality. Just that the concepts are more logical.
Before anyone gets smart, I am fully aware of myself. I am not a weird person that just needs help so if you dont understand what I am saying that is perfectly fine. Discuss…
What you are referring to is called “Synchronicity”. We sort of have a way of drawing to ourselves the lessons we’d like to learn. It’s like the human will is a sort of gravitational force. Also, our intuition leads us toward the concept as well.
While some people on this board might consider you crazy, most of the people I know personally would not, and would consider what you say as something that “goes without saying.”
At Burning Man this summer I was sitting there ruminating on how cool it would be to have a robotic riding spider, and my friend tells me “Noah knows the guys in San Francisco who can make it they’re called Squid Labs.”, Noah being one of the guys we were camping with. That sort of thing happens to me all the time when I am centered.
You have two things going on here. The first is the attempt by your brain to organize information in understandable ways. The brain doesn’t like spare ideas or pieces of information floating around out there and tries to integrate it into the whole.
The second, and probably most important, is that people are very attune to new information they aquire and see it easily it in the world. This happens frequently with new words. People can swear they have never heard of a word and yet it tends to pop up all over after they learn it.
I will pick two things at random. Focus on them and be amazed when they show up in the next few days:
DALLAS
SKYDIVING
Report back the significance once it makes itself known to you.
Thank you. Most of the people I have talked to also agree that we somewhat make up our reality in this way although it doesnt appear they think about it as much as I do.
I understand your example of new words learned but its not necessarily something that obvious. For some reason I always quickly forget all the examples of what exactly I am talking about (besides, I think it might only be something that relates to my life experiences so it wouldnt quite matter). I will take those two words and see what shows up. Should be a nice little experiment.
I know what you mean but I wouldn’t think of it as “inventing” things but rather “attracting” things/events. It often happens with words or names - you haven’t seen a word or name for years, try to recall it, and then suddenly it appears in lots of totally unrelated conrtexts. Colin Wilson the English occult/psychology/philosophy writer discesses the phenomenon in several of his books.
For whatever reason neither of Shagnasty’s examples would quaiify. I guess because neither word is distinctive or unusual enough to create that little buzz of recognition and coincidence isn’t the important part of its revelation, the focus of concious will is.