Cambridge Coincidences Collection

I was having a rather lengthy argument with my mother and we had gone over a variety of topics, all over the place, really. In the course of this argument we had been arguing about one of her friends, who had been on my mind earlier that day. I brought up her friend in a casual way and didn't use the woman's name and when my mother asked who I was talking about, I said the woman's name. Not two seconds later the phone rang and it was that woman calling, just "coincidentally". It was so strange in that I had literally just said her name, and she hadn't called in a while (it wasn't like she was calling every day).

One night I dreamt that I was in the student lodgings of a young woman with the same name as me. Of course, I just thought I was dreaming about my own younger self. The next day, I got an unusual email from the IT techies at work saying 'we have set up the email account of (my name)'. Now, I have been living and working here (at a university) for about 20 years, and never run into anyone with the same name as me. Although neither my first name nor my family name is particularly unusual, the family name is not too common where I now live. It turns out there is now a student working at this university who has this name, and that's who the techies meant to contact. This was the first I had heard of her. I have had several such predictive dreams since I started recording them regularly--I am in a Jungian analysis.

I went to a work function organised by my wife's employer, and at dinner was sat next to the wife of one of the partners in the firm. She told me that she had grown up in London, specifically in Dulwich, but now lived in Cambridge, where she taught at a sixth form college. I told her that I grew up in Cambridge, and was a student at that sixth form college, but them moved to London, where I now live - in Dulwich.

A story in our local paper detailed how equipment used to provide high voltage fencing to keep cows in a field had been stolen,and used to electrify children's playground equipment. This was described by people as 'sick and vile'. Being vocal about the disparity between how this equipment was used upon animals and people,I chose to comment about the 'electric fence used on cows'. This evening,only shortly after discussing this item on Facebook,the programme 'It was alright in the 1970s' was discussing sexual diseases and its effects upon her sex life and remarked that such diseases were like 'an electric fence around a cow'. Quite a bizarre analogy,but all the more bizarre in terms of its timing.