# Strange But True Stories of Synchronicity

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-stories-of-synchronicity/665686>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 8, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-stories-of-synchronicity/665686 "2013-08-08T05:59:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![wellanuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-stories-of-synchronicity/665686/1 "2013-08-08T05:59:59Z")

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…or, at least, what I think synchronicity means. (I think of it as kind of a real life case of a hard to explain coincidence that is, in the end, nothing more than a coincidence; feel free to correct my ignorance if I am wrong. Maybe the real meaning connotes a sense of things being tied together in ways we can’t fathom. I forget, and I can’t be arsed to look it up now.)

In any case, give me your true stories of synchronicity/coincidence. No fair making stuff up!

Here is my Strange But True Story of Synchronicity:

(And to convince you it is true, my story is based on the pathetic admission that I was looking at old SDMB posts of mine…no way I would cop to that just to make up a story about a fake coincidence)

Just prior to starting this thread, I came across this old post of mine:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14919937&postcount=52](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14919937&postcount=52)

The content of the post is just a date, which I posted over a year ago, and which happens to be _tomorrow’s date_!

I did not say to myself “Hrrr, hrrr, hrr, I gotta be sure to remember to link to this post one day ahead of that date to make it look like a weird coincidence!” I also do not make a habit of looking at old posts of mine. (No! Really! I don’t! I’m normal, just like everyone else! I have a life! At least, I must have, mustn’t I?) Therefore, it would seem to be a not very likely event. And yet it happened.

Oh, and if anyone can figure out why I selected that particular date without any hints, give yourself a pat on the back. It took me a while to figure it out myself, just now, even though I posted it in the first place.

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**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-stories-of-synchronicity/665686/2 "2013-08-08T06:04:38Z")

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Mother-in-law → same birthday as my sister  
Father-in-law → same birthday as my brother

Day, not year on both of those. 🙂

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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true-stories-of-synchronicity/665686/3 "2013-08-08T06:53:08Z")

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My wife and my mother shared the same birthday.

Very helpful, as each could remind me of the _others_ birthday.