"Coincidence"? I think not!

Selective perception. Confirmation bias.

Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one stumbles upon some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.

The reason for this is our brains’ prejudice towards patterns. Our brains are fantastic pattern recognition engines, a characteristic which is highly useful for learning, but it does cause the brain to lend excessive importance to unremarkable events. Considering how many words, names, and ideas a person is exposed to in any given day, it is unsurprising that we sometimes encounter the same information again within a short time. When that occasional intersection occurs, the brain promotes the information because the two instances make up the beginnings of a sequence. What we fail to notice is the hundreds or thousands of pieces of information which aren’t repeated, because they do not conform to an interesting pattern. This tendency to ignore the “uninteresting” data is an example of selective attention.


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I get this shit all the time too, like twice a week or so. I'll be looking at a completely random subject or see it on TV or something, then I'll see it somewhere else the same day.

Like about a month or so ago I watched a recommended youtube video on the Kamchatka peninsula, I thought nothing of it and the next day my dad brought up Kamchatka out of the blue, really freaky

I think it is the higher spiritual self (not bound by space, time, or conventional thoughst) communicating to you that life is more than you think, and that you can set your own fate, a divine fate in essence. These ways of opening up to cosmic realizatoins can take many forms and shapes, most of them seemingly supernatural to us. The nature we do understand (physics, biology, daily life) is in fact one and the same as the supernatural realm that we consider fictitious or phantom-like. It is because our world that we live in is an imprint of a higher order taking effect, and our minds, as well as our actions, have an significance to that higher order. I believe our bodies serve our higher self, one that can be difficult to live up to, though, not impossible and with enough confidence can become natural. That's also the way to success as I experience it.

Not coincidence. See: "synchronicity". See: "Jung" <yes, again>

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