Synchronicity can be a strange and wonderful thing!
Sometimes I reflect on the sad fact that I seem to have grown so rooted in the practical and functional world that I have almost forgotten about the magic of the unseen realms. I'm by no means a “woo-woo” person, but I've had enough unusual experiences I have never been able to explain that I am open to at least the possibility that there is lots going on around us that we just can't see or touch or feel yet.
One of these unseen things is the connection I occasionally have felt — and feel — with a very small handful of specific people. Even though we may be half a world apart, it is as if we know what the other is doing and we're somehow living parallel lives.
The scientist and skeptic in me tries to dismiss some of these things as being the result of the Law of Extremely Large Numbers which postulates that in a large enough sample size something extremely unlikely is actually extremely likely to happen.
In other words, we focus on the extraordinary.
It is part of human nature to look for patterns even where none exist. In most cases, I'm willing to concede that we're basically working with wishful thinking. But there is a difference between two people wanting a sandwich at the same time and thinking that's "pretty amazing," and two people wanting a bacon and avocado sandwich with thinly sliced red onion, sea salt ruffle chips, and a particular type of white wine from a particular vineyard, at the same time.
And then there's the unlikely activity of dream sharing. I have been dream journaling and engaging in arm chair level dream analysis for almost 30 years so I do remember a lot of my dreams as well as a lot of details from my dreams.
Again it's one thing to talk to a friend and going "Oh gee, we both dreamt of a barn and we both dreamt of a cow." Sure that's not particularly rare. But when you can describe layer upon layer of rather strange and esoteric details that are identical, and even meet the other person within your dream, then we start to enter territory that can't fully be explained.
It reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine who is a professor of physics at MIT concerning the occurrence of unlikely events. My friend , whom I'll just call “the Flying Dutchman,” is a hardcore scientist who also studies the tarot, psychic phenomena, and the messages from dreams just for the fun of it.
He visited here a few years back and we had a lovely lunch talking about unusual and esoteric things. One of the things we talked about is the way people who “see things” or “hear things” or “hear voices” or claim to be “psychic” are often perceived by the scientific community as being slightly crazy if not entirely nuts. But then he mused on the fact that you have all these people who see, hear or intuit things, and who are arguably nuts, but the only problem is that you end up with so many people who are nuts in exactly the same way. His point being that if they were truly nuts, the way in which they were nuts would be fairly arbitrary.
It made more sense when we were talking in person...
The sad thing, though, is that these possible "unseen realms" are not something we get to talk about very often. You can't just message someone you don't really know and say "I saw you in a dream, and buying that house is a bad idea" because we've been conditioned to characterize something like that as "creepy", all the way from talking about a house they've never told anyone about, to dreaming about a stranger in potentially intimate ways.
That is nuts, right? Or IS it?
I'm running on relatively little sleep at the moment, so this is probably a little incoherent.
Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful weekend!
How about YOU? Have you ever dreamed people, events or places that turned out to be real... WITHOUT having any kind of previous information? Did you tell anyone, or keep it to yourself? If someone dreamt something possibly life-changing about you, would you want to know? Comments, feedback and other interaction is invited and welcomed! Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!
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