Synchronicity? Or coincidence?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
Walnut Creek, California
January 11, 2021 11:29pm CST
I was listening to a favorite band on YouTube this evening, when I realized that an image from a video of a 1977 performance may be the same one that I used in a recent video of my own music.
If so, this is entirely coincidental. Could there be some kind of "synchronicity" out there? The Grateful Dead was/were around before I was even listening to "rock 'n roll" music. But they quickly became my favorite band in the early 1970s, when I was but a young lad.
In my recent video of a traditional song I open (thanks to Vanny and DJ) with a lovely image of the sun through trees over a snow-covered field. Again, my thanks to Vanny and DJ for helping me come up with this image.
But is it really the same image that someone used when posting the 'Dead's Franklin's Tower, where Jerry forgot several of the lyrics, in 1977?
I'll link my recent video in which the image occurs. If I can, I'll find the image on my computer and post it as the photo that goes with this post.
If they are the same, or close to the same, is this "coincidence"? Or "synchronicity"? Inquiring minds want to know.
(Or maybe I drank too much wine last night and imagined that the image was used in the Grateful Dead video.)
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@xander6464 (40939)
• Wapello, Iowa
12 Jan 21
It is synchronicity which is the same thing as a coincidence (the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.). But neither of them really explain anything---though coincidence is generally taken to mean that there is no reason behind the events occurring.
I think there are coincidences but not all of them feel unrelated. There seems to be something going on that I can't find or even define that accounts for the ones that can't be just shrugged off.
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@xander6464 (40939)
• Wapello, Iowa
12 Jan 21
@myklj999 That's the third dimension of this puzzle. The musical side.
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@xander6464 (40939)
• Wapello, Iowa
12 Jan 21
@TheHorse I will allow that that is possible. But considering the billions of images available, how likely is it that the two of you would even see the same image, let alone, choose it? It's cases like this that made me reject The Law Of Large Numbers. I don't know what's going on but I am fairly certain that things like this aren't just random occurrences. It is possible that they may not even have a meaning or purpose but something is directing them.
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@RebeccasFarm (86976)
• United States
12 Jan 21
Where did you take that beautiful photo?
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@LindaOHio (158581)
• United States
12 Jan 21
It was probably bound to happen sooner or later. I think it's a bit of both coincidence and synchronicity.
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@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Jan 21
@LindaOHio I was born in an altered state. I AM an imaginary play pal.
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@LindaOHio (158581)
• United States
13 Jan 21
@TheHorse lol I hope you've recovered from your "altered state".
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@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
12 Jan 21
probably coincidence. Not quite the same thing but I know as a writer, I have to be well aware that the stuff I read elsewhere sometimes has a tendency to try and to come out in my stories. I am not consciously choosing to write someone else's material into my story. I've had to change things a time or two to keep away from that kinda thing.
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@RasmaSandra (74146)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Jan 21
Coincidences can come up really unusual. Thanks for sharing, I love that photo.
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