Synchronicity

FROM A SMALL TOWN IN THE SOUTH- Synchronicity is one of those things that are very odd and hard to ignore. In case you're not familiar with the term, here's wikipedia's definition.

"Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance."

Here's a fascinating depiction by the Frenchman CJ Jung, who wrote books about synchronicity.

I don't really understand it. Anyway, my personal experiences with the topic are many. The most recent one occurred around midnight last Saturday. I was hanging out with some friends, and we were all in a haze of exhaustion talking about random subjects. I had slowly settled into a couch and had stopped participating in the current discussion. I was mindlessly scrolling through the album titles on my iPhone and sleepily admiring the album art. My screen was facing the wall, and no one present could see it. Then exactly as Alison Krauss' album "Forget About It" scrolled past my fingers, one of the people in the room suddenly ended his sentence with the phrase "forget about it." It felt really strange, almost as if a spark had jumped a gap somewhere in the space-time continuum.

These occurrences happen to me a lot. They're also strangely hard to remember. I'll write more about them when they happen.

What causes the phenomenon? What forces are in play when two unconnected and yet very oddly related events occur at the exact same moment? It seems to fall into the same category as deja vu, which is another topic for another time.