A matching name/ocurance/number/event

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Hello everyone, I just have to share the tremendous amount of co-incidences relating to matching names, numbers and similar. This happens to me at least once a day . So I feel it is time for me to share this with you. For instance just 5mins ago, I talked to a friend over the phone about dogs. I put the phone down and on the TV, a film was running, one person said to the other: "Well how is your dog?" ....Now this was not a film about dogs. Another very unusual co- incident which happened to me a few weeks ago: I am writing down a name with a name of a location, I look up onto the TV screen and a list of names came up with film credits. The first name I read was identical to the name I just wrote on a piece of paper and the location given next to it was identical to the location I wrote down. Another incidence: I am thinking about a topic and that topic is being discussed or mentioned on the radio or TV, in a song, within seconds. I checked many times whether the thought I was thinking was in any way what so ever mentioned on the radio/TV before, and they NEVER were. Therefore my subconscious could not have picked it up before I was conscious of that thought. Another incidence could be that I am thinking of a problem and find someone else discussing this very problem, again on the TV, or I open a magazine or a leaflet comes through the door, within a short period of time. Or I type a sentence which contains a certain place and that place is being mentioned on the TV/radio etc at the almost exact moment when I type it. These words/thoughts that I find echoed, are usually not the run of the mill, every day words/thoughts. They can be very abstract and very uncommon. Like I am thinking about the theory of relativity, while I watch a cooking programme and within a second or two they would talk about Einstein. (not necessarily about relativity) This occurs to me with increasing regularity, so much so that I can almost feel what kind of energies provokes those experiences and when this happens I can, provoke things to be said on the TV with my thoughts. I would love to know who else has such intense experiences. Some other "co-incidences": I want to ring a friend and wait(sometimes an hour or more) until the moment feels right: I ring only to find out that that person literally, just walked through the door. Or this morning I rang a friend, who lives abroad to check whether she received her flowers, and within 2mins the flowers arrived with her. (no particular time was arranged for when the flowers were meant to be delivered. And so it goes on and on. I asked myself what the purpose of my gift is and what I meant to do with it?? Does anyone know? Thank you for listening.
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Date submitted:Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:02:56 +0000Coincidence ID:6780