Cambridge Coincidences Collection

Well I Never!

Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University wants to know about your coincidences!

LDR

I meet someone whose name is similar to my fiance, a us army in afghan now. This someone is married and his wife's name is similar to my name. Another I met someone who worked in the place where my fiance father is from. Its been more than 2 wks now that my fiance and I have no communication. he once told me that there may not have internet connection in the place and that.. power isnt reliable... i miss him a lot.. :) what do you think?

Free Speech coincidence

Today I was given a 2 week suspension on Facebook which stops me from posting materials. I was raging about my free speech rights and wrote back to them to say so. At the same time I was going through my email archive looking for certain mails that I needed,I clicked over the the next page of mails and there was one called "Free Speech" which I had sent to the Metro in Oct 2012 about the right to say what one wants on social media sites such as Facebook. Two instances of the same issue separated by 7months coinciding within the same few seconds.

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Whenever I worked anywhere in an agency, I always bumped into C---we always shared similar experiences and beliefs-- I was told by a clairvoyant to meet X many miles away.Of course I would not contact somebody I did not know--- I met her many years later---having forgotten the message-- We believe conicidence is a higher spiritual awareness -- like dreaming about people you have never even met-- I looked for coincidences in life from about age 6, to lead me to my decision--- but was unsure why I did so--- Whenever I suggest anything, somebody writes about it or it is on the news the ne

Media Coincidence.

I have regular coincidences linked to media. Usually with music, but also with news stories, television and film. These coincidences have happened so regularly that I have decided to look into the phenomenon a little more. I realize that coincidence can be explained methodically with mathematical analysis, but what puzzles me is the how coincidence can present itself so regularly, and sometimes, as I have experienced, in a pattern in a compact time frame. Here are a couple of examples of coincidences which come to mind from the last 2 weeks. Last night I chose a DVD at random.

Same class same birth date

My friend John, with whom I was good friends and met in high school chemistry class shares the same birthday as me: 08/12/1993. He was born at 9:30AM, I was born at 9:30 PM. We were both born at Northwest Community Hospital in Chicago.

5:05 - rise and shine

Having discovered this website yesterday, I read about a dozen stories including "11.11 time display", which reminded me of an incident in my own life... Last summer I developed a bout of insomnia that lasted well into the autumn - it was a symptom (and subsequently an aggravating factor) of a sort of mid-life hiccough. I could get to sleep ok, but routinely woke in the night, and struggled to doze off again.

The key to her heart ...

Forty years ago, whilst staying at my (then) girlfriend's parents' home in Lincolnshire, I returned home from my student's summer job and let myself into the house. Only once indoors did it strike me - I hadn't been given a key for their house! It was my own parents' house key (Yale type) from London that had worked. After that, I had to marry my girlfriend ... obviously!

My Brother and I Bought Identical Car on the Same Day

My brother and I only talk a few times a year as we live several hunred miles apart. We both found it surprising that on the exact same day we both bought the exact same car. What are the odds of that?

Weigh a pie

12:30 17/4/13 - I commented on a Facebook entry for Jeff Beck where he was playing "Somewhere over the rainbow"- my comment "Why does anyone want to 'weigh a pie'?". 35 minutes later the BBC broadcast "Barely legal drivers [pt3]" which featured friends of the driver singing "Way up high" from Somewhere over the Rainbow - perhaps with Maggie Thatcher's death and the reference to Wizard of Oz songs,this one's propensity to be referred to has increased along with "Ding Dong the witch is dead"?

Weigh a pie

12:30 17/4/13 - I commented on a Facebook entry for Jeff Beck where he was playing "Somewhere over the rainbow"- my comment "Why does anyone want to 'weigh a pie'?". 35 minutes later the BBC broadcast "Barely legal drivers [pt3]" which featured friends of the driver singing "Way up high" from Somewhere over the Rainbow - perhaps with Maggie Thatcher's death and the reference to Wizard of Oz songs,this one's propensity to be referred to has increased along with "Ding Dong the witch is dead"? </p> <p>

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