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A weird synchronicity

 
  

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higuita
10:50 / 26.06.03
I bumped into Puck yesterday in Birmingham city centre. We did the usual hellos etc and then he asked me where I was off to.
I replied that I was off to the dentist. The clock in chamberlain square then tolled the half hour. And Puck noticed that it was 2.30

Weird slightly synchronous things like this keep happening and I'm beginning to think I live in someone else's rather shoddily written sit-com.

Does anyone else suffer from this sort of thing? And no quoting Jung - I haven't finished it and I want to see if I can guess whodunnit.
 
 
Smoothly
11:03 / 26.06.03
Well, I'm obsessed with the number 11. And whenever I glance at the clock it always seems be be 11:11!

....No, wait. That wasn't me.
 
 
w1rebaby
11:18 / 26.06.03
Every morning, the entire universe, which vanished when I went to sleep, appears again at exactly the same time that I wake up.

I think this is very suspicious. I've stayed up all night at times trying to catch it out, but it just doesn't disappear - it must know I'm onto it. It gets a bit weird and flakey round the edges but it's still there.

I worry that if I do this too often, the lack of downtime will cause too much stress on the universe and it will vanish when I'm still awake, and then I'll be sorry.
 
 
gingerbop
12:20 / 26.06.03
Every time i come out of gym and sit in the car, its 9:11. But perhaps thats just cause i finish at 9.

I know what you mean about the bad sit-com though. Just little things, that you think 'what are the chances...?' and then get very paranoid that you're being watched. Or perhaps thats just me. If i was in a sit-com, nobody would be watching anyway.
 
 
Potguns
14:52 / 26.06.03
I am constantly waking up at 23 minutes past the hour with no alarm clock and anything that remotley interesting that happens during the day will be at 23 minutes past. It's been happening for so long now it isn't even an issue as such.

I decided in the end that if something was messing with me, scripting my life there aint a fukking lot I can do about it and if they were they aren't the best of narrators anyways, more punctual than anything else.

Pot.
 
 
waxy dan
15:24 / 26.06.03
and then get very paranoid that you're being watched. ... dammit! There's one ninja for the chop next week... bloody freelancers... "ooh yes" he says.. "I can walk with the wind" .. she'll never know I'm there, he sez.. rassum frassum...
 
 
that
15:29 / 26.06.03
I know I'm being thick. I must be being thick. I usually am... but I honestly don't get why y's story is evidence of synchronicity in action. Meeting Puck? 2.30 = 23? Anyone care to enlighten me? I shall blush prettily when I find out just how dense I am being, I promise...
 
 
Gary Lactus
15:35 / 26.06.03
Weirdest synchronicitous experience I had was when I was in Holland working on a comic. I had a month to comlete the thing and was writing it on the fly, letting my experiences permiate the story. Eg: I had decided to make a CD to go with the comic (it was for an audio/visual exhibition); the characters turned into sound and back again, each character being represented by a different instrument. "That's like Peter And The Wolf" said my brother. "So it is!" I said and changed the protagonist's name to Peter Wolf. The next day I'm looking through a second hand record shop and I find several albums by Peter Wolf (in my comic he was a composer)who I had never heared of before.

I later decided to put in a scene where Peter Wolf's mother dies. By way of saying goodbye to her he writes a piano piece and plays it once as a kind of private wake for the dead. The day after putting this scene in the story I recieved news that the resident graphic designer at the gallery I was staying at lost his mother in the night. The next time I saw him (2 days later)he was playing the piano. I had no idea he played the instrument. I began having second thoughts about the scene; what if he thought I was an insensitive prick for drawing inspiration from his loss? I put it in anyway and he lettered the Dutch translation and didn't say anithing so I guess he was fine about it.

Does it happen all the time? If you're open to it, yeah.
What can we do about it? Ignore it if you wish. Or use it if you prefer.
 
 
Gary Lactus
15:42 / 26.06.03
By the way, I assume everyone's heared the one about Alan Moore bumping into John Constantine. Much better than my story.
 
 
Bear
15:47 / 26.06.03
Cholister - I think it's like the joke - 2.30 as in two thirty as in tooth hurty - could be wrong though
 
 
that
16:31 / 26.06.03
Thank you Bear, and the person who PM'd me with the same explanation. Hadn't occurred to me...I really am slow. I was looking for something esoteric...

I like my synchronicities a bit more in yer face, I guess. Unsubtle, me.
 
 
Baz Auckland
17:56 / 26.06.03
Tell the Moore/Constantine story! I haven't heard it...

Whenever I have a day or week of strange occurances and amazing timing in running into people or events, I always take it as a good sign that I'm on the right track in my life...

...I remember the first week I was living in Toronto I ran into probably 4 or 5 people I hadn't seen in years, and my flatmate in residence turned out to be a friend of an ex-girlfriend from a small town hours away that I had actually met years earlier...
 
 
Gary Lactus
18:14 / 26.06.03
Erm... Moore met his own creation in a pub. That's about it off the top of my head. He refers to it in the Birth Caul and in other places that I can't precisely recall. Sorry if I over hyped the story. Someone round these parts probably knows more than me about it. Anyone?
 
 
penitentvandal
20:08 / 26.06.03
Constantine apparently just looked over and winked at him, IIRC. In a very devilish, Constantine (i.e. not Keanu Reeves!) way.

This was in a London pub, obviously. If he'd been in Louisiana, he'd have bumped into the Swamp Thing in a pub. How mad would that be?

In the beer garden, obviously.
 
 
gingerbop
22:23 / 26.06.03
Ahh- chol is still quicker than me in the 2:30 matter. I thought it was just a matter of being in sync with the clocks donging. But that makes much more sense, well done, oh clever y.
 
 
mixmage
02:59 / 27.06.03
okay... now I feel sick.
I open the post to find it happens on my doorstep [b'ham]... then the next post brings up 11:11...

I was just gonna post to the 11:11 thread, then thought you wouldn't care. Just got a Pm back from 2222 [genuine new member] then look up and find we're up to 2244 [welcome darren.1 in oregon].

right... I'll read the rest of the thread now
 
 
mixmage
03:07 / 27.06.03
what is even more spooky is that I didn't notice their meeting from my outlook high above the city... I distinctly recall unwrapping my sandwich as the chimes sounded...
 
 
6opow
04:30 / 27.06.03
Interesting what is possible with a little attention to detail, isn't it?
 
 
Never or Now!
05:13 / 27.06.03
The AMoore/Constantine thing is in "Snakes and Ladders". Moore says that one time in London JC came up to him, nodded and smiled and walked away. And then "years later, in another place, he steps out from the dark and speaks to me. He whispers:

"I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any cunt could do it.""

Ha!
 
 
that
07:26 / 27.06.03
I like synchronicities, but especially when they seem to indicate that I am on the right path. For instance, a lot of really blatant coincidences just before I got my tattoo made me very happy, and more certain I was doing the right thing.
 
 
waxy dan
07:46 / 27.06.03
What's the tatt, if you don't mind my asking?
 
 
that
07:57 / 27.06.03
Have PM'd you rather than tell the whole board... I know, I know, considering all the crap I post it's a bit weird for me to suddenly get the privacy bug.
 
 
The Puck
08:22 / 27.06.03
The really weird thing for me was the main reason i was in town that day was too look for a club that suited our needs for swish's birthday (see This ), so meeting a member of the board while on a mission for another was a bit freaky.

look i did a link thingy and everything
 
 
The Natural Way
10:11 / 27.06.03
I've recounted this one on Barbelith at least twice before:

I'd been trying to get the 23 thing to work since I first became aware of RAW (so I must of been pretty young), but I could never summon the fuckers. But then I picked up Vol 3 #5 of the Invisibles and the shit hit the fan. That ish was primarily concerned with magic and synchronicity....and particularly with 5 and it's constituents, 2 and 3. So I was pretty shocked when I spent all day bumping into the fuckers. At first I was all 'But it's just in yr head - yr making the connections', until later on that evening.....

I was at a friends flat on the South Bank and we were just about to head out for an indian, when the building's alarm went off. The building had a special display that allowed the residents to check which room was in trouble....and so Nigel unlocked the little door that protected it and....

I fucking knew it. There, in massive, flashing, red LED, the number 23...23...23.

That was weird. Thoughts like 'It's all in yr mind!' completely collapse in the face of that stuff.
 
 
Smoothly
10:25 / 27.06.03
You waited for that to be the 23rd reply, didn't you.
Tsk!
 
 
higuita
12:37 / 27.06.03
Gingerbop - But that makes much more sense, well done, oh clever y.

Like to take credit, but it was Puck who made the connection. Does that mean I'm a supporting character in his bizarre sit-com world? and why do I find that more reassuring than being in my own? I suspect it may be because a cosmic piss-take is easier to take if you think it's aimed at someone else... [or any one of a number of psychoanalytic answers that are possible].
 
 
higuita
12:42 / 27.06.03
Aaaagh - I've just come across another A. Parsons - that's the third one in as many days, and now I can't get the Alan Parsons Project out of my head!

I will stop paying attention, I will stop paying attention....
 
 
The Natural Way
15:28 / 27.06.03
Weaving: No I didn't. That IS weird.

Shit.

Not lying. Honest.
 
 
Smoothly
15:32 / 27.06.03
Hmmmmmm *strokes beard, raises eyebrow*
 
 
The Natural Way
15:20 / 28.06.03
Well, regardless, it's true.

And I really like it.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
15:52 / 28.06.03
Heh. I once had a looooooong argument with a girlfriend I was on holiday with about 23. I said 'it turns up everywhere', and she said 'rubbish'. So we stared out of the window and we couldn't see it anywhere and she laughed at me (it does turn up everywhere, but I have to say I don't think it's unique in that - 8, 67, and 3001 do that as well).

So then we went out to dinner and when we came back, we unlocked the door and she said 'okay, you win'.

We were in... Room 23.

Of course.

But you know what? It's nothing to do with 23.
 
 
gingerbop
19:14 / 28.06.03
I just did it again- i havent looked at the clock for ages, and i did, and it was 9:11. Hmm.

And I have to agree about 23. Everywhere.
 
 
adamswish
14:20 / 29.06.03
interestingly adding to puck's and y's stories last night in the bar celebrating the old birthday when I see two mates of mine I had invited to the do but not heard from.
On talking to them discovered they were actually there for someone else's birthday.

Plus being told of this thread that night two by it's author added a little edge to the meeting.

Oh and if we're living in a sitcom, baggsy the good life. Felicity Kendall, hmmmmmmm.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
17:32 / 30.06.03
hah!

funny this one. Good ole Mike Angus, my ex-colleague from Strathclyde University, heads up the first year in the architecture school o'er there. He's doing a grand job. Bit trainspottery of course, usual obsession with Corb and moh deh niz mmm but getting results all the same. Results means students actually deciding to stay on for second year, in what is a wearyingly long course with a shite pay reward at the end of it.

So, as well as shit pay for practising architects, the cads who teach the stuff get shit cash as well.

onyways: was at the degree show a couple of weeks back and met him doon (darn) the pub and got chatting and he was like yknow man, what you gonna do with your life boy - and I was like, well, you know me man, I like comics (haters: fuck off, I'm glad to be an amateur). He said,

you know sfunny you should say that cos years ago, like teen time or early twenties, I was in a band and one of the guys in the band had a pyschic aunty and she said she'd had a premonition that we'd become millionaires.

Ha ha Mike, look at you bhoy, yer top of the first year crew but yer hardly rollin in it, like a dirty greedy pig, ya daft cunt

no, no, no , no; but the guy with the pyschic aunty went on to write comics. He'd do the all the band artwork and he wrote some cool songs. There was one amazing song he wrote. And his girlfriend would always turn up. I remember she had these big eyes. She was cute. He's called grant morrison and he's a millionaire. Do you know him?

oi, yeesan!, oi phil! oi sinky! oi eddie! oi carson! oi oi oi!!!!
lissen to this guys, lissen to mike angus! for the fist time in your lives, lissen to this man!

Mike, tell these cunts what you just told me!
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
16:10 / 02.07.03
And I have to agree about 23. Everywhere.

lo and behold every tabloid newspaper in the land has a picture of david beckham wearing his new real madrid strip.
his number... 23
 
  

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