Men In Black and dissecting the brain

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The short of it: On my way to purchase a small firearm, and I do mean small, I was comparing the size of my soon to be owned pistol with the one used by Will Smith's character in the first "Men In Black" film as they are both tiny weapons. After I picked it up, I stopped by a friends house and showed him the pistol, to which he noted "it's like the gun off MIB!" which was strange, but, it is reminiscent so nothing too bizarre. A few days later (today, as I'm writing) I was searching for some journal articles online and had to resort to searching sci-hub (shoot me), but it didn't appear. I clicked on a link to sci-hubs twitter, and the very top post was talking about astronomy... and linked a picture from "Men In Black." This unnerved me. Anyway, a bit later I began searching for brains to practice dissections on and happen to have found some sheep brains, and later in the afternoon, I began talking to my neighbor. When I entered her apartment, she showed me a pig she was dissecting, and let me borrow the remains as she hadn't touched the head. This really began to unnerve me. It was the clustering of all these coincidences within a 72 hour period that has me so unnerved. Strange things like this happen to me quite regularly, and it does bother me. Unrelated to this story is a time when I stayed up drinking with a friend, and it got emotional. I said quite frequently, "you're better than me." I was trying to get rid of latent jealousy. The very next day at work, a co-worker out of nowhere came up to me and said "She's better than me! She's better than me!." What. The. Hell. I asked him why he said that, and apparently he was quoting from the comedy film Anchorman. This freaked me out, and caused some paranoid delusions.
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Date submitted:Sat, 10 Mar 2018 01:07:01 +0000Coincidence ID:9910