Recurring Themes

This goes against every scientific course I'm taking at the moment but oh well. Basically it just as the title says,I've been having loads of recurring themes coming up in my life lately. Not all of them (if any) seem to have any significance. It's just these weird random themes that keep popping up. For instance it could be a random word like renaissance that I'll come across one day say on a dvd and then for the next couple of days that word or theme will just continue to pop up everywhere in strange ways. I don't know if ultimately there is any significance to it but it does seem a bit strange. It reminds me of a dream I had years ago where a six digit number seemed quite important. About a month later I got some sort of e-mail account where they give you a random number for a password and it was the same number. Does anyone have things like this happen? If so has anyone made any sort of sense out of it? Don't know,maybe it's just something to fuel my belief in things in and above this physical world. I guess we can't really say but I do welcome theories. Another example is about five years ago I was telling my friend how I was going to move to England,this stranger overheard us and it turned out he had lived in the same city I was moving to. I'd never seen him before but ran into him a few times that summer and he kept bringing up this nightclub in the city I was moving to,eventually it embedded itself so deep in my mind I got a job there and made some life long friends,weird stuff. Any thoughts?

 

and this "goes against" any actual "science"? precisely how?

 

Because if you're going through scientific methods you have to be able to prove theories with experiments. There is no way to test the meaning of recurring themes, any scientist would scoff at something like this as they do with all spiritual topics.

 

There is a good scientific explanation for this: coincidence. Coincidence is a statistical certainty, and it happens to all of us, every day.

 

Yeah this always happens to me. You mean when something springs to mind, then for days after it seems to be all over the place where it wasnt before? I think everyone gets it

 

Yes, for example when you learn a new word you often start reading and seeing it all over the place. This doesn't mean it wasn't there before, just that you weren't tuned to it so didn't notice it. This is because the mind is a self-patterning information system. When one thought or experience has blazed a path through your synapses or when a pattern of thought becomes strengthened by repetition it's then more likely you will think or notice the same or related things.The mistake is to assume that the pattern you are noticing is anything other than the inside of your own brain

 

blue car syndrome!
(basically in the scenario, you buy a blue car and all of a sudden you notice that everyone seems to have a blue car.)

 

I think a TRUE scientist would scoff at the scientist that would scoff at something like his. Simply because these phenomena are reproducible (though not by us perhaps) by reliable means (paying attention and patience), observable, measurable (if you can describe something of a thing, then you have made a measurement), which is scientific method. Incidentally a lot of science nowadays is finding a lot of answers in Eastern thought. Meditation is not considered a science by the popular perception, but in actual fact it is; just an internal science (mostly internal, I know this is a generalisation) instead of an external science.

I think you might find the theories of a contemperary of Freud's: C. J. Jung, interesting; in particular his thoughts about Archetypes and Synchronicity.

My 2 c.

Peace

 

I don't know if this counts, but there seems to be a cosmic running gag where my bf gets called "ma'am" and "miss" a lot. He does NOT look like a chick and everyone who knows him says the same, but for some reason, at the oddest intervals, people think he's my lesbian lover or something... Perhaps it's wishful thinking.