Have you ever thought of someone, who you haven't seen in years. Only to bump into them a few days later??

Question

What is this called and why do you think it happens. Is it just pure coinsidence??

Answer 1

It's called 'coincidence'.

If you were to keep track of everyone time you thought of people from your past, and how many of them you run into soon after, you'd see that you notice the latter, not the former.

Nor are you taking into account the times you didn't think of a person and ran into them.

Then multiply these by all the people in the world, you'd see it was coincidence when it does happen, because most of the time it doesn't.

I mean, in a world of over 1 billion people, a one-in-a-million chance happens a thousand times a day.

Answer 2

That has happened to me actually, a friend i missed alot named Jaxin had move all of a sudden because of family issue and we never really got to say bye. I had been thinking i wanted to talk to him and the next day i saw him at the mall. I really don't know what this is called! It's pretty trippy whatever it is, huh?

Answer 3

Yes. I think it was just pure coincidence.