These have been happening to me farrrrrrrrrrr too much lately. If I write them down, they'll stop.

1. I can't sleep, and have a sudden and brilliant idea - I will write a book about sex. I make a ton of notes, a few thousand words maybe, then sling the notes in the corner and go to bed. Next day, Woman is sitting on my bed and we are talking about something completely unrelated when she says "Have you ever thought about writing a book about sex?"

Initially, I gave her a ton of shit for going through my notes. But she hadn't (she can barely read my lousy handwriting anyway). It just... occured. No prior reference, nothing.

2. I am watching that stupid Daffy Duck cartoon with Dave Mustaine (fuck you, I'm on holidays) where they play 'Back in the Day' and destroy the Saxophone Whasis of Doom. I decide to play The System Has Failed and turn the volume up to "Noise Complaint Leads To Criminal Record" level.

The moment Back in the Day finishes (track 7), I hear a huge smash. One of my brandy balloons has walked off the speaker due to the bass vibrations and smashed itself to fuck at the exact fucking instant the song ends. Like in the cartoon. I barely even noticed Something That I'm Not starting.

Stop fucking with me, fate.

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CARL JUNG IS FUCKIN WIT YOO

Ever seen I Heart Huckabees?

For me, coincidences begin to occur when I leave an acute eye out for them. They've always been there, your just more tuned into them because of the first one (which is a pretty weird one. Chances are she did read your notes and you should spank her. Spank 'er goood). I always see things falling into sync with whatever I'm listening to. Freaks me out. Sorry to hear about your Brandy.

EDIT: Mabye I'm wrong and you've got some strange power. You should try brainstorming a book about a giant three ton dildo dropping from the sky onto someone you hate infront of there family, or anything else you want to happen.

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That's fucking weird.

Also, thats a pretty big compliment when a woman asks you if you've ever considered writing a book about sex.

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Yeah, me too and all. I was torn between admiration for the sheer weirdness for the situation and annoyance that now I only have one brandy balloon, which makes their plural use for seduction purposes redundant.

Also, the trailers coincidence is just awesome. What are the odds - you bump someone with a trailer, and in the 90 seconds you have to go and apologise, someone bumps you with a trailer. Douglas Adams would cream himself with that one.

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i like coincidences, but every try to trace a life changing event back to something like running 5 minutes late or something? thats always fun. so much leads up to what happens in your life

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One time I went to a store to buy some groceries. And i bought for like 50 euro's or something. and the woman behind me bought EXACT the same stuff I did. And she of course also had to pay the same amount of money i did But it was freaky

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Carl Jung is the perpetual fucked, never the fucker. He gets fucked by archetypes, by coincidences, by his masculine and his feminine side, but he never does any fucking. That's his lot.

I Heart Huckabee's is a more easily digestible version of some weighty things, including Jung, that Jim's almost definitely already read. I'm not sure whether I'd say the movie's better if you don't know the material it parses or if you do.

My favorite bit on coincidence lately comes about midway through Immortality, by Milan Kundera, where he breaks down coincidences into their various categories. But I don't have it here, so I can't make clearer reference to it.

That happened at the restaurant my husband and I dined a couple weeks ago. The hostess brought it to our attention that the customer right before us had the exact same thing as us and the bills were identical.

My folks were traveling once and the same 3 numbers showed up in various places on the trip. They played the lottery back then and Mom told Dad he should play those numbers. Of course, my stubborn dad didn't and the numbers came in that week for the Ohio lottery and in reversed order in the Pennsylvania lottery the following week.

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I like opening my cellphone and seeing '2:22' or '3:33' or '11:11'.

wow talk about irony. i remember once i was walking under a tree, and normally at the spot im walking at,i would cross the street and get to the other side because its closer to my house. I was gonna cross, but hesitated so i kept walking, and then about a few seconds later, right where i was gonna walk, this huge blop of bird crap comes falling down and splats on the floor. Then some bastard on a pickup truck blasting his crap music zooms by at about 35 mph in a 10(?) mph speed zone [small, dead end streets, residential area]. I couldve been hit by that truck because it looks like nothing was stopping it, and to top that off, i couldve had a bird crap on my head.

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ITS THE MOTHERFUCKIN ANTI-CHRIST!!!!!



or you could just be having bad luck....yah....wacky shit like that happens to me a lot too

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Dying with birdcrap on my head



Damn that's even more freaky

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Yeah weird stuff like that happens alot to alot of people i've almost been killed a number of times but yeah i'm still here and i've never been shitted on by a bird.

I can't think of any strange coincidences right now but they have happened.

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Sometimes I catch myself walking on someone else's footsteps.......I was about 10-15 feet behind this dude, and he slipped on the ice. I wasn't paying any attention, and I did the same thing--exactly where he did it.

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Hahaha

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no coincidence there....you are just a clumsy fuck...

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thats when you make a wish

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my roomate was playing the drums in the jam room we got, around 9:30pm, i sleep early to go to work early the next day, and the sound of drums had been keeping me up. my roomate had been playing drums since like around 7pm or so, so this was like since i returned home for the day till sleepy time<around 9> he had been playing the drums non-stop. so i was getting a little pissed, he also locked the door to the room so noone can interrupt him. the door is made on a wood frame, 2 pieces of dry wall insulated with carpet and old goodwill cloths<wieghts like 300 pound, big fucking door>. i wanted to smash thru the door to tell him to stop<drywall is easy to punch and kick thru>...........as soon as i touched the door to see whether it was really locked or not<it was locked> my roomate stops playing...........im talking the exact instant, i waited to see if he would resume playing and he does not. so i grab a seat and rethink about what i had just intended. i was glad i didnt annihilate a that door which was a son of a bitch to build and install, from which that roomate did most of the work and would be surely pissed. but that was a little wierd

but you ant tell anybody, other wise it wont come true

lately i have been having certain moments in my life reference to other moments i have already experienced. such as if the sun is shining at a weird light, or the way the wind is blowing. it just brings up the feeling of something i did when i was a wee little one.

and also whenever my band practices, something goes wrong. an input brakes, a cord busts, fuses blow, screws lost...fucken every time..

That's called Deja Vu.

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Yeah, I get Deja Vu constantly...

Oh and once I said to myself "it's 15:36", looked at my watch and it actually was 15:36.

I felt, from what I caught, that they did a respectable job on the material covered (if thats what you ment by not knowing).

Concidence today (small): I was reading a biography on Jung. I love his misconception of Jesus as a "man-eater" when he was young.

The last huge coincidence that comes to mind was one that happened a few years ago. I was up late at a friend's place and we (and a few other people) where watching this horror movie called "Basket Case". There is a scene where the protagonist wakes up in the middle of the night and looks at the clock, which, coincidentily, happened to be the exact same time in reality.

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Are these coincidences...or fate? looooooooooooool

yeah deja vu i guess, but its shit that happened years ago...

also, if i see what time it is before i go to bed, (say 11:30) and i say to my self "wake up at 6:00" i will...right on the fucken money too

About a month before the incident happened, I told my best friend not to get shot on msn..and hes like "naw man, i'm not going to get shot"...a month later..I was talking to his little brother on msn, asking how my friend was doing and that he was going to visit him tomorrow...the next day my friend was dead with 2 shots in the head.

On New Year's a few years ago I was at my buddy's old which is over 90 years old(and ppl have died in it..also on the site of the great Halifax Explosion in early 1900s)...anyway, a few of us were smoking/drinking/chewing mushrooms in his basement in the dark..which looks more like a dungeon(had an terrifying open well in it too)...ANYWAY..we hear this HORRIFYING scraping noise from above in the ceiling and we yell upstairs to a few more people.."what the fuck was that?" and they're like "huh?! I thought you guys made that noise"...So anyway, we fucking look at each other...and within 15 seconds were were up on the top floor like a bunch of scared children.

I've had much stranger shit happen..but this is weird shit that just comes to mind.

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Ok, one time at a friend's house my other friend had a Mars bar...which I ate when I was really high...he thought it went missing..a few days later he reached under the couch and found a new, unopened mars bar..and was like "oh there's my chocolate bar!"... ..lol...I fucking freaked out and confessed to the crime because I could not live with that paranormal activity.

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Sounds to me like someone has put a curse on you or something

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When I was in Kindergarten I used to be stuck in a private christian school (:rofl but there was the big church auditorium and it had a huge ass grand piano in there. Your typical grand piano...not an organ mind you.
One day we were all in there and it just started playing notes by itself..pretty god damn weird if you ask me....

maybe not as freakish as other stuff I can think of...but hey, I was 6.

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I'm not thinking right now.....someone tell me the difference between incidence and coincidence.

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www.woodbunny.co.uk/about_me.htm

scroll down....till you come to the piccy of the Amethyst crystal i think it *may* suit this topic

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That site is terrifying...you either had an awful childhood, are Elmer Fudd or are you are a female...

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oh thanks! am female, a tattooed, giger, horror loving slayer fan if that helps? so you are basically saying i'm terrifying? dunno whether that a good thing or not

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haha, no, it's cool...I just thought you were a burly male with a bunny obsession. I'm glad things are cleared..I can now rest peacefully.

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are you really claryvoiant and all that? can you tell me my future or anything about me over teh internet?

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yes i really am clairvoyant and all that, and it tricky over the internet, but i have done it before, but it is hit and miss...but yeah if you want i'll try for sure, PM me your date of birth, where you were born, where you are now, i also need your permission to tap into your energies, and the question if you want a direct answer...and erm a tarot reading ok for ya? It's tricky over the internet, because of all the amount of people online at any one time, and yeah if you gots a piccy of you that'd help, can't say it'll work, but will give it a go if ya want

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on second thought thats too creepy

fate, bring me what you will!

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coolies!

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lol, that's cool! never been one to force anyone, but NEVER been wrong with my tarot readings, in the (nearly) 20yrs i been giving them. and it def freaks people out, esp strangers! lol it funny this one guy asked me if i was stalking him, and he came up to me in the pub one night asking me for a reading lol

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I'm such a skeptic when it comes to that shit..

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yeah so was this guy, that said i'd stalked him, to be honest i'd rather give tarot readings to people like you, who are totally skeptic...lost count the amount of skeptics i've turned around

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You have been registered here for over four years and have posted less than sixty times.

1) How are you alumni staff?

2) Why did you pick today to post a bunch of stuff?

i dont know, but i know guitar demon remembers her from way back when. shes probably had a different account or something

seems like a real character though...spicing things up around here

do you predict bad stuff too bunnie? like how someone will be injured or relatinoship ends?

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when i orginally joined i posted a lot, a hell of a lot, i started writing poetry in this section, then a new poetry section was created called poetry lyrical, i was a moderator of that section, then real-life got busier and i wasn't able to be online and post as much as i wanted too, but i wanted to stay, which is why i am alumni staff, and i didn't really pick today to post a lot of stuff, just today not as busy as any other day got a bit of quiet time...to sit back, relax drink caffeine and get a few heart-attacks listening to the Rugby Union

answer your questions?

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yeah my old username on the old server/database thingy was woodbunny, i changed it to simply "bunny" when nomad moved to the new one, since everyone called me that anyway....

...& yeah i can predict bad staff, i mean if i see someit in the cards and the person beforehand has told me they want to know everything then yeah i will tell them, but it depends, if i saw someone get injured, i dunno if i'd tell them or not

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Can you sense if this site is gonna get shut down soon?

That'd piss me off and alot of other people i should think i mean the amount of time some of us put into the site.

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No, it's not going to get shut down because there is nothing impending this process.

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Good.

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Unless nomad get's struck by lightning..hopefully MT is in his will...

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So I'm not the only one here who likes to use these.


One of my funnest times with tarot was with a few friends --- we had this one friend that we suspected him of being bisexual, and I was doing stupid things like
'one-card answers'. We set up a question : "Is Davy bisexual?" and I decide aloud - "Whatever gender the character portrayed in the card is, that will mark his sexual preferences".

I shuffled the deck three times, and drew The Lovers



He hates tarot now.

that's cool!! i once had this stranger give me a tenner for a reading i did, he said i was brillant! lol i just shrugged and took his tenner! well who am i to hurt his feelings? cause i do most of my readings in pubs...i tend to get pints set in front of me for tarot readings that i've given lol

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haha yeah, thats how i see it all.

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I wrote my thesis on belief in paranormal phenomena and manipulating gullible beliefs and how the two seem strangely related. My thesis got 1st class. Convince me.

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Well said, I concur good man!

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sounds interesting...what was concluded?

LONG POST WARNING:

Suck-up. Never ask an academic about their work - it makes them think they're interesting.

What got me started was a 1998 study which showed something really quite strange - it was a study concerning a newspaper survey. What the researchers did is put an ad in the paper which said:

"1) Do you believe in Extra-Sensory Perception? Y/N
2) Answer the following questions:
- I travel regularly in a white car
- I own a CD/tape of Handel's Water music
- I have a close friend/relative named James..."

When they collated all the results, people who believed in ESP were far more likely to answer Yes to these questions overall than non-believers. It was a pretty basic study.

However, I noticed something in the results - vague questions like "My back is giving me pain at the moment" or "Last night I dreamed of someone I haven't seen for years" showed a much bigger difference between believer and non-believers than really factual stuff - "Once I broke my arm" or "I have been to France sometime in the last year".

So, when it comes to an ambiguous statement, a psychic believer is more likely to say yes. That makes sense, or how else would psychic readings work? Basically, I tell you a bunch of ambiguous stuff and you agree with me.

Now, this is where it gets interesting.

This willingness to agree with statements reminds me of a nasty little phenomena called the Barnum Effect. This is when you write up a bullshit personality profile and put in things like "You have a tendency to worry at times, but not to excess" which are almost always true, and then you give the personality profile to a person. Almost always, the person says "WOW! IT'S REALLY ME!" and is very impressed. This is funny, because this incredibly accurate description is the same description you give everyone.

So considering all this, I designed the following test:

I determine how much someone believes in the supernatural - do they believe in ESP, telekinesis, psychic powers, crystal balancing, astrology, the Loch Ness monster etc.? - and make a scale.

Now I know how much people believe in the supernatural, I give them a series of Yes/No questions about their past, which are split up into three categories:

Factual - Either it happened or it didn't. You can't get these wrong.
(example: "I have broken my arm once.")
Quasi-Factual - This is a piece of crap statement which is completely open to interpretation.
(example: "I make a lot of phone calls")
Emotional - This is a question about a mood state, not a fact.
(example: "I feel anxious about the state of the world in general.")

My prediction: Supernatural believers would say more Quasi-factual stuff was true than non-believers, but the Factual and Emotional results would be the same.

What happened: Supernatural believers said the Quasi-Factual stuff was true more than non-believers, but ALSO SAID MORE FACTUAL STUFF WAS TRUE. The Emotional questions showed no difference at all.

The conclusion: People who believe in psychic phenomena are more likely to agree with you if you make a factual statement about their life, even when you say something REALLY SPECIFIC - it's like their mind is searching for content within a question to agree with, rather than trying to evaluate it properly.

This was Experiment One. Experiment Two found even more gnarly stuff. If anyone gives a shit, I'll put it up when I have time.

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I would like to see the rest of your test and the intrpretation. This is very interesting stuff.

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my bro was gonna go with his friend to spend the night. my dad said yes at first but then five mins later he said no. and my bro's friend got in a car accident that day, and died 2 days later. i was in shock, i didnt believe his friend was dead, because he was more like bro to me.

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Bunny, I know you do Tarot card readings. I have looked into it and once I even had one done. It was freaky, fun, and intriguing. I think I found the clarification within myself but the card reader just helped make the generalizations to me. She didn't really know me but I will never forget her. Perhaps it was just me thinking she couldn't tell me anything with cards that actually allowed her to do so in my mind. That is what a medium is though.

I was wondering if you can actually do a Tarot reading online? I will be a willing and open test subject, but tell me or PM me about what you think might be needed. I know normally it has to be done in person, but If I can help you find a good way to do it here then I'm game.

You might need more then just me to help you know if you can do it online.

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I've had Tarot readings performed for me over the phone/online by a friend of mine, and I've also given readings to people using the same means of communication.


Um .....




*disappears into a puff of purple smoke*

Last night we parked up in this carpark, which was just a paddock.

We somehow managed to park between 2 piles of cow shit, both right outside the front doors

How does this shit happen!?

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okay just got some more stuff on my website

direct linky:

http://www.woodbunny.co.uk/spiritual.htm

and yeah i know it a bit of a mess so bare with but not bad for some-one who got about 6hrs sleep last night, been up since 8.30am and it now 10.30pm if i say so myself lol

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I sat on this chair today. and the moment i get of it. the thing falls apart

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how's that a freaky coincidence?

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yeah...very interesting. do you have the actual paper on your computer still cause i would like to read it. if you do post it or email me if possible.

your weight was probably holding it together, and when your got up, it came loose.

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fatass.

Well i presum you would expect a chair to break when you were on it not when your not on it and there is no weight on it.

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24 hours in a day; 24 beers in a case.

Coincidence?

I think not

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Haha good point there but to be honest only americans would drink that much in a day.

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True. Other peoples might drink more

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Maybe like me

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I was going to start a thread, but this will do. Ive collected these over some time, and i agree with Darko, they are always there, you just have to notice them.

8-31-05
As I drove to work I listened to “light of misery” by mourn in silence. All the sky was grey with clouds but an opening in the distance. the light just so happened to be shining directly over the location of my burnt out job’s location.

9-2-05
In fetching a dictionary to look up a word in a poem entitled “The Penguinmen stomp on our hearts” (from this site!). I opened the dictionary to begin looking for the word, and the first thing I saw in the dictionary was a picture of a penguin.

9-3-05
i was playing my guitar. a riff i made myself. when i decided to call a friend on his cell and see what he was going to do. i dialed the number only to realize that the dialing tone of each number matches the fist 7 notes of my riff. the only 7 notes of that part.

9-4-05
While on the computer I was listening to the outro song on a Leather strip album and at the part with the piano and piccolo, the livingroom clock did its 2:45 chime. It just so happened to match perfectly and sound like a bell, as if on the cd. And it was not a single noted chime, its that slow arpeggio chime clocks do before the hour chime.

2-20-06
I was online, talking to Transient and he was listening to From the Frozen Plains by Mithotyn. After describing my favorite part of the song, he informed me that it had reached that part just then. (...yeah, not really impressive)

2-22-06
This morning I went to the kitchen to eat something. My mom leaves the radio on, so I heard what was on. As I left the kitchen, the last words on the radio were “you are the love of my life”. I went to my moms bathroom to get a hair clip and I saw a little red paper which read “you are the love of my life.”

2-26-06
I awoke from a dream which just included a guy in a classroom who had acid splashed on his face and ate away at it very quickly. I turned on the tv and Seed of chucky was on. Within a minute came the part where the photographer guy was knocked back and got acid spilled on his face. It was the same side of the face, and burned away very similarly. Also I had never seen that movie.

I got one.

So theres a street in my city called Manchester Street. It's the street where all the whores sell themselves.

So the game we play is to guess how many whores there will be when you drive from one end to the other.

At the start my friend and I blurted '11' at the exact same time, which was kinda random.

But then, we got to the end and had counted 11 whores
I found it kinda freaky actually.

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Not too long ago, I had a weird experience with the car radio. I would get in my truck, and whether i turned on the radio right away, or waited 15 minutes, AC/DC would be playing as i turned it on. It happened at least once a day for about a week. After the 3rd or 4th time I had to tell my friends to make sure I wasn't going insane, but they noticed it too after i had mentioned it. It wasn't the same station every time either.

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it its a game your playing, i wouldnt be too surprised to get it right. i mean, you obviously have passed that part numerous times, and there should generally be a steady number of whores there.


hmm, maybe id think it were weird if the band was a less popular one. ac/dc has way too many radio plays, and way too many shirts for sale at dillards and jc pennys.

EDIT: but yes, different stations doing it too is a little weird, or id actually say dumb. but if radio djs (or whatever they are) like to start the morning with shit, i mean ac/dc, then its not that weird.

I completely agree with your replys.

Other than some strange dreams..I don't remember anything too weird happening to me recently...other than FearFrost complimenting how good my ass looks lately..

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Janice Pendrake was washing dishes in her home when suddenly her hand got very warm....she backed up from the sink and looked in amazement as it cramped and took a twisted form.

1,232 miles away her daughter in a college dorm room was giving her first handjob.

Coincidence?

Yeah, but it wasn't always at the same time of the day either. sometimes in the afternoon, evening, morning, whenever

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that makes it more interesting.

i had a very minor one today. my car cd player doesnt display the time, so you have to push button to do so. well, the song was at 2:10 sec. right when i pushed for the clock, the thing still said 2:10, i pushed it again and realized it was the time as well.

Alot of people say what Im about to say right before I say it.

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That means that people know you too well. My girlfriend does that to me all the time

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No I mean they say the same opinion as me exactly as how Id say it as their own opinion. Not like "Ya, then Gordy's gonna say ************." then me replying "Ya! Howd you know?"

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Yeah like the other night i was on the phone to my gf and she knew exactly what room i was in and that i was lying on the bed with my phone in my hand............

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that could serve as a problem later.

No she knew i had my mobile in my other hand aswell as the normal phone.

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About time I put another one of these up:

Hungover to the bullshit yesterday, I turn away from the cricket and look out the window. A girl who bears a startling resemblance to an ex-girlfriend is walking past the window. She looks at me, still walking. I have that sudden flash of recognition, except I don't think it's her. She wouldn't have just sailed past like that if it was her, anyway. She lives a long way away. There is no reason for her to be walking past my window in exercise gear.

I haven't heard from, or thought about, this woman in more than a year.

Today, apropos of nothing, phonecall in her beautifully mangled accent: "Hey, it's me. Let's have coffee this week."

Unreal.

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I can't believe I didn't get banned for a week.

Which is actually not a coincidence. God I'm a dumb shit.

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You're not amusing, its just stupid.

It is quite creepy as well to think of the last time you saw someone (something like seven years or sth like that), to think of not having answered the last letter you got (six years ago) and then walking downstayrs and finding a letter of that person in your mayl! This sort of coincidence happened to me too many times in the past seven years.

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It was an act of god that they had one specific specialty beer left when I went to the liquor store today.


Or..I checked the website's inventory last night and there was one left.

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