Since I started to publish my synchronicity experiences on blogspot, my modus operandi has been to post my collected diary entries once a month. However, there are also stretches where nothing much happened synchronicity-wise. And some months where I have more experiences than in 3 months where literally nothing happens. So depending on the amount I might post the collected experiences of several months at a stretch or even a year. We'll see how it goes. I'll start with the actual year I started my diary - 2010. Here goes:
Now I have completed my synchronicity review and arrived in the present. This chapter triggered the rest of the document. Initially, I only had a few loosely disembodied entries; it was only when I started incorporating my own theories that the desire to make a cohesive whole and include my past emerged.
As I reported earlier, it all began with me noticing more and more synchronicities lately. Since I couldn't dismiss them with a mere shrug and didn't want to risk forgetting these fleeting and sometimes very subtle events, I decided to document them in this form. Here are my synchronicities, starting with...
September 2010:
On September 19th, I insert the game "Dead Rising" into my Xbox 360. As the game starts, I notice that it takes place on September 19th.
October 2010:
I have trouble logging into my university's internet portal. I go to the computer room in the basement and approach a student. I ask her if I can briefly use the internet on her account. We start talking, and I tell her that I enrolled in a seminar for which I have to read the book "The French Lieutenant's Woman." She reveals that she wrote her seminar paper on the same book.
12/12/2010:
I listen to the audiobook of Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher." In the book, there's a cabin in the woods called "Hole in the Wall." I watch a Japanese game show called "Brain Wall" and learn that the show is known worldwide as "Hole in the Wall."
20/12/2010:
I listen to an audiobook by Isaac Asimov ("The Caves of Steel"). At 01:12:19, it talks about how the protagonist met his wife Jezebel. Jezebel is the name I was linked to from Kotaku a day earlier when I clicked on a clip of Nicola Briggs. The audiobook seems to passively answer my question about coincidence or synchronicity. It turns out the protagonist, during their first meeting, tells his wife that his name is Elijah. Elijah was Jezebel's enemy in the Old Testament. The synchronistic relevance arises from encountering an unusual name and the trigger (recurrence making something synchronistic), the name Jezebel and its implications, aligning with the theme of "coincidence" or "synchronicity" in the story itself.
20/12/2010 - Dreamcatcher Update:
I have decided to note down the examples with dates. When I looked up when I became aware of "Hole in the Wall," it was on 12/12/2010. The significance of the number 12, doubled (month and day), led me to search for this pattern in the Dreamcatcher files. Lo and behold, at the beginning of Chapter 12, it talks about fate (a track is 60 minutes long). It gets even better and more specific; Chapter 12, 00:12:00 – 00:12:12: "Some huge pattern*. Something like a dreamcatcher that binds all the years since they met Duddits Cavell in the year 1978. Something that binds the future as well." The book has 23 chapters, each about 70 minutes long. Although the main theme of the book is synchronicity, it is explicitly mentioned only at this one point in the book. The probability of hitting this exact spot was astronomically low. As a sidenote, the year 1978 is my birth year.
*(C.G. Jung: "...Synchronistic events reveal an underlying pattern, a conceptual framework that encompasses, but is larger than, any of the systems that display the synchronicity.")
The passage in the book has almost the same wording as C.G. Jung's definition.
The significance becomes apparent when considering what I hold as the definition of synchronicity regarding fate and thus a theory for the reason behind synchronicity itself: "Do the right thing at the right time and place" (Feng-Shui).
And that's the "catch" in Dreamcatcher. The main theme of the story is synchronicity. It's about the characters doing the right thing at the right time and place. A few friends witness the abuse of the intellectually disabled Duddits and save him. Duddits possesses telepathic abilities that he subtly uses, such as rescuing a girl. This rescue is a mirror event representing the Earth's salvation, which the friends confront 20 years later.
Stephen King has drawn my attention to something I've always felt, namely that reality is thinner in some places on Earth. I believe the reverse is also true: there are places where reality is denser than others. In my opinion, synchronicity is evidence of this theory. Perhaps it is a kind of "reality cluster" or "dimensional cluster."
If one imagines that there are parallel dimensions in all gradations, then one could further theorize that there is an immeasurable number of twin dimensions that differ only marginally (e.g., choosing a different chocolate bar). There are also nodes that are the same in all dimensions, serving as a kind of dimensional anchor. If one perceives a concentration of synchronicities in one's life, it could mean being at a dimensional node where reality has an especially high density and stability. Everything is where it belongs, temporally, locally, and causally.
Gradations of the formula:
• Do the right thing at the right time and place
• Do the wrong thing at the right time and place
• Do the right thing at the right time but at the wrong place
• Do the right thing at the wrong time but at the right place
• Do the wrong thing at the right time but at the wrong place
• Do the wrong thing at the wrong time but at the right place
• Do the right thing at the wrong time and place
• Do the wrong thing at the wrong time and place
28/12/2010:
I listen to a Sherlock Holmes audiobook. At work, my colleagues exchange puzzles with each other. I learn that they started doing this the day before, precisely when I started listening to Sherlock Holmes.
29/12/2010:
While occasionally writing handwritten notes on a piece of paper at work, I receive the record of a customer whose last name is "Zufall" (German for "coincidence"). In over seven years at this job, I've never encountered this name even once. Coincidence?
31/12/2010:
I see a funny demotivational poster on the internet titled "Bestiality"; minutes later, I hear the same word in the Sherlock Holmes audiobook "The Sign of the Four": "Never have I seen features so deeply marked with all bestiality and cruelty."