What does it mean when there are unusual coincidences?

Question

common examples:

you dont hear the word frog for a month but then all of a sudden you hear it on the radio at the EXACT time you see it on a billboard. (this happens to me a lot)

-you are thinking about someone who you havent talked to in a long time and right at the instant you think about them they call.

-you feel someone looking at you. you are paying attention to something else when you feel someone looking at you... you check and sure enough they are (could be at any distance). and vice versa, someone has their head away from you and you lock into looking at them and it somehow alerts them and they look at you for seemingly no reason.

...are these things really coincidences? could they be some kind of a message for us to pay attention to something? do these types of things happen to you frequently?

Answer 1

Flicker of extra sensory perception, and God's message.

Answer 2

The one about feeling somebody looking at you usually is not a coincidence.

Other things like the billboard and the radio boil down to probability. You've heard of the bell curve? Typically sets of events events fall somewhere in the middle, while out on the more remote edges some so called coincidences occur.

For example, the proportion of red lights to green lights when people are driving. Average is fifty percent either way, insofar as their are only two choices, red and green. It would be rare that you would go for a week of city driving every day and get no red lights. But it could happen. Maybe it would happen twice in your life. It could also happen tha6t every third light you come tyo turns red just as you approach it, for a month. In the world of events, the extent to which someobdy experuiences all red lights could very well bwe the extent to which somebody esle is experiencing all green lights. But most people experience an even mix most of the time.

Now, why does any particular person have experiences at the edges of the bell curve for a while? This is to ask a very big-picture question. We could call this probability too. We could also call it cause and effect. These things follow their due courses. To understand and lay out all the causal factors is well beyond the scope of your actual question here!

Answer 3

These things are not coincidences, life is synergistic and these events happen to me and I am aware of them as best as I can be. You can't read too much into everything though. Some occurences just happen, other occurences I see the synergy and they cause me to want to live on. Some people aren't aware of this and don't recognize them when they happen, they kind of go through life sleep walking. We are all connected and things work together even though we can't see or understand why sometimes and our lives really are interesting when it comes right down to it.

Answer 4

Beyond the fact that they are coincidences, when you come up with a proof that they carry a message from some other consciousness, please let us know.

How do you like this example that happened to me. Once I lived in London, and worked with someone in a school. I returned to London five or six years later, and sure enough, standing in line getting a ticket for the subway in one the thousands stations was the colleague I worked with years before! What's the mystical message? None.

Answer 5

It means your mind is alert and learning, just like everybody else is.

If you are like most people, you cannot remember what you had for breakfast twenty days ago. Most events in life are trivial, you deal with them, and then you move on to the next thing (you automatically forget trivia as breakfast). Still, the mind (the subconscious ?) is still alert for patterns, and lets you know whether it finds something unusual. Some things have to be consciously discarded.

Answer 6

you know what happens to me, I'll have this thought that i think is so creative and original, then i'll see it in the news or hear it in a song and i'm like hey man you're talking about me, were you watching me?

I think i'm just in my late 20's male so much of the world is geared to try and sell things to my demographic. Or We all are getting pretty much the same information from our 300 channels on tv, or even just from where ever, we all go through similar world events and some stay current on scientific discovery. So we have the same info and we come to the same conclusions.

or maybe i'm psychic or the star of a secret reality show and you're all watching me getting inspiration.

Answer 7

Answering your first and only possibly your main
question;

At 10.15pm on a saturday night in the summer of 2007,
its likely that another unusual coincidence happened;
And that was, that a possible correct Answer was posted
here on yahoo answers;
(And its subsequent fate,that of exposure and selection
by voting,could be a coincidence too).

Answer 8

These are just odd coincidences. They do happen to me frequently, but they're nothing to be concerned about. They don't hold a special warning or purpose, they just happen.

Good luck!

Answer 9

once i was writing to my sister. id just written 'Toadaly' (totally) its a joke we have. i felt that i should go outside for some reason. there, in front of the door, looking up at me, was the biggest toad ive ever seen. the only toad id seen in many years. read: 'The Roots Of Coincidence'... Arthur Koestler