Snufkino wrote:We're hardwired to find meaning in everything, it's clearly plays a big part in both our survival mechanisms and higher intelligence. We experience a coincidence, then another and another, and the first one was related to what we were thinking about at the time, but then our sense of awareness and curiosity ("Is this danger?") comes into play, but has no way of being resolved and so another part of the brain starts reeling off greater possibilities and the gateway to schizophrenia starts to open?
Having said that, I'm still kind of fascinated by the coincidences themselves. I wonder what the chances are that you're thinking of X and then X is soon mentioned or experiences in some way. Then take into account that it's a seemingly very common occurance you can see why people get carried away to want to find meaning. Also what's up with when you hear of twins living on opposite sides of the planet getting married, or doing some esoteric thing at the same time, or you're thinking about someone you've not thought about for ages and then they call? What's causing that thought in the first place, and why at that specific time? Where's Morpheus to explain all this shit when you need him?
Maybe he was there, but died and we're all fucked. Phone boxes have been disappearing over the last decade so there are less escape routes. Coincidence?
Some form of morphic resonance?
...that pay phone thing is fun to think about