How weird is this ?

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smr said:
Hi guys,

I live with my girlfriend (who is expecting in April) and her two kids ( so in a sense my step kids )...

The other night ( I'm pretty sure it was Wednesday night ) myself and my partner were in bed, and I was in that state where you're sort of slightly comatose, just about to drift into sleep and I had this hazy thought/blurred dream which was completely and utterly random -

that basically my step kids had never watched the Truman Show before - and that was it. Nothing more, not another thought, it randomly came from no where and then disappeared. I definitely thought it though and am not getting confused.

Well tonight I've been upstairs in my study listening to music and drinking a few beers... came downstairs and saw that the missus is watching Resident Evil, and flicked through the channels to see what else was on if she was interested in any of it, then saw the Truman Show on Film Four + 1... and said "Oh the Truman Show's on - this is better!"... and she goes "Yeah I know, the kids just watched it".

Why is this a big deal?

Well firstly I've never had a random thought like that ever - like "so and so has to watch this."

The fact that I thought of this particular film in this thought - and it could literally have been millions of others - and lastly, why I thought of this 2 days before the very thing happened - I've known them for 5 years now.

Some of you might be thinking that I've sub conciously picked this up by reading TV Guides - only I don't read tv guides and hardly watch any TV as it is... obviously if it was a sub concious thought process or some kind of subliminal advertising / message I wouldn't know about it as my unconcious would have picked it up say a day or week before the film came on.

I can assure you that this isn't the case, however. Just a massive coincidence I guess but when things like this happen to me it gets me thinking that there is more to this life than meets the eye. :eek:
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Had a simular thing last week. Was watching some kids show about animals, a hippo came on screen and some random thought popped into my head 'i wonder if its possible to ride on a hippos back'
The next day there was a clip in the paper about some numpty farmer riding his pet hippo.

At that point i sat back in my chair, out streached my arms and put my hands behind my head and thought 'ohhhh yeh, life is sweet'.
 
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It's easy for people to say "nah it's not real, it's just coincidence" but how do we know for sure....
In an kids alien film I watched (yes I know, bad example) one of the characters said to the human "you can use your mind to control things as well but you are yet to discover it."

So there could be all sorts of things we can do (i.e. have premonitions) we just have no idea of how to access it and use it. There could be aliens on other planets right now laughing at us saying "HA! they don't even know how to move things with their minds yet!" :p

The film Signs freaks me out. Especially where the mum is mumbling to the dad when she's dying about things that don't make sense until the aliens attack.
 
It is very true that we don't understand a vast proportion of the mind and what it can do so who's to say what it is capable of.

There are amazing things that are being theoretically talked about in all seriousness now that would have been laughed at outside of off the wall scientific bods just a few decades ago, such as the multiverse theory.

We have advanced scientifically a huge way than even 100 years ago but we are still incredibly basic in our knowledge of the universe and how everything works.

One thing that makes me think (and any physics buffs on here will probably shoot me down in a second) is that we only ever live in the instant.

Everything that has ever happened or will ever happen, occurs in the moment we are existing in, what if when we are dreaming we can somehow let our barriers down and see another part of that instant...maybe it's like a tiny film reel in our minds and it unwinds at the pace that we experience things.

I know, it's probably tosh and makes you wonder about free will and all the rest, but I just can't explain the camera TV dream I had and it's made me wonder ever since.

P.S. I like your sig secretspy, and your's Nix. :)
 
I've had instances of thinking of some long ago obscure movie, song or show that i haven't heard/seen in years, turn on tv/radio and there it is. Within a day or two usually.
 
Thing is, we never remember the non-coincidences, do we?

Every minute we think of daft things that never find a connection outside our own minds - then when something /does/ happen in both realms: "Whooaaaah!"

I do like the idea that there's a little bit more though.

We already know that all the crazy stuff that happens at a sub-atomic level is just completely mental. All sorts of odd stuff is going on down there which may as well just be utter magic. No current other explanation for how things hold together the way they do! The science bods are trying though - hence big underground circles built to smash sub-atomic particles (hadrons) together as hard as possible in the hope we find a new mystical part of the puzzle.

Seeing as there are all these tiny wee things (including neutrinos which can apparently whizz right through our whole planet with nary a wobble) in existence which we can't currently detect without extreme difficulty - who's to say there isn't some wave or particle which can zip from mind to mind...?
 
Slightly related to the op, but i've had similar weird things like that happen to me. I've usually noticed it most with watching films though. Like when i put a dvd on, then a few days later or sometimes a week later, it's being aired on tv.

It happened 5 times last year.
 
lets hope you will be a good father , you did the work in the bedroom now you're going to have to man up and bring it up.
 
I think sometimes your brain can mess up when storing memories which can lead to strange things being retrieved when accessing certain thoughts. It can also mess up the time line of events so a memory that you think is from last week is actually from today and got dumped right back there for some reason. Those sorts of glitches probably happen quite often so couple that with some coincidence and you've got what appears to be some major weirdness.

Can be quite worrying thinking that maybe you can never 100% trust your own perception of events. Especially if someone accuses you of something that you're pretty sure never happened. "I have no recollection of doing that, or can think of a rational reason why I would need to do it, but who knows, maybe I did."
 
Macky said:
I get stuff like that sometimes. Huge cases of deja vu too. I can pretty much predict how the scenario will pan out. Just every day stuff I mean. I think it is pretty cool tbh.
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I get stuff like this fairly often, but I can't predict how scenarios will pan out beforehand - it's only afterwards (usually).

It just makes me think how weird my memory is. When I remember thinking of 'whatever thing', of course it feels completely real, no doubts that I certainly had this same scenario play over in my head a few hours---->years ago. However, as I can never actually experience the past again how do I know? My memory is the only reason for believing that I thought of something exactly the same before it came up in real life. I wonder if it's just the mind playing tricks - either I've thought of something similar, or just knew it was a possibility, and my brain has inserted an extra memory where it could possibly have occurred.

Lack of memory can be more scary though - a few years back, I got into the habit of turning my PC ever day that I got back from school so I could play age of mythology or whatever. One day, I came home, and sat in my chair, and the computer was on. I know it was definitely not on when I got home, as nobody would have used it all day, and it wasn't on overnight. As I sat in that chair, I realised I had absolutely NO recollection of turning the computer on, or even walking up the stairs. If I wasn't sitting upstairs with the computer on, I would never have known that I had done those things. That was scary. At first I wondered if that's what being an adult is like - simply running on autopilot according to the programming laid down as a child (well, maybe they do). But now I'm wondering if it was some form of split personality and it was like a different person was me. I don't know, and I hope it never happens again.

Less scary, but more annoying is when I put stuff down and then can't remember where it is even a few seconds later, although the difference here being that when I find it I remember putting it there. (Or do I :eek:?!).
 
I dreamt of lemon flavoured polo mints 5 years before they came out.

Other than that my brain is permanently full of random nonsense and bizarre thoughts fortunately most of it never comes true.
 
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