Is it normal to think about someone and then you see that person?

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I get this very often: not only I may be thinking about someone, and then the person calls, or I see them somewhere. I also get this a lot: I have to see someone, and just when I am arriving at their place, they are just about to leave, so I catch them just in time. Or I think the name of someone who is in the room, involuntarily, and my mind seems to call them by their name with strong desire and urge, and the person looks back to me and asks me what's up, and swears they heard me calling them. Once, I was walking along with some friends in the food court of a mall, and suddenly, my own internal voice told me "her name is Thelma" and I looked at a person working on a food stand, and I told my friends "her name is Thelma", and we went and asked her and that was her name. She was not wearing a name tag, and she showed us her ID, my friends never believed me, they thought I had heard her name being spoken by someone else calling her. But it was just an impulse. I get all these experiences more often when I stop smoking, and when I fast for several days, or eat very little, specially vegetables and fruits. What's going on?

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  • OswaldCobblepot
    11 years ago | pl

    You should read up on confirmation bias.

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    • Francophile22
      11 years ago | pl

      I've read up and you're FOS, a lot in this post is not related, for example Thelma etc.

      My mother would do this psychic thing where a friend who had made no plans to come over, and no talk about it had previously-occurred, would show up 15 minutes after my mom would say she had a mental impression that the person would come over. In fact, on two separate occasions that I witnessed she actually hallucinated that the person was on her doorstep 15 minutes before the person actually arrived unannounced. The Scots call this "second sight".

      I teach piano lessons and I frequently get a mental impression that a specific student will cancel (no, it's not the kind of person who usually cancels). If a potential student says they're making their mind up to take, and if I get a mental impression they're not going to take, I'm about 85% correct.

      P.S.: I am also a scientist and I see no inherent conflict about knowing that something can be true which is scientifically difficult to prove. I think there's a scientific explanation for ESP and you just have to be open-minded enough to let the truth be whatever it wants to be.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago | pl

    that happened to me today, i was singing to myself at work, smile , anyhow i started to think of charlie chaplin who wrote the song, and what it represents, then i noticed the desk calendar was not turned to todays date so i turned the leaf and the little motto on the new one is "in the end everythings a gag" Charlie chaplin

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  • Jeaneathean
    10 years ago | pl

    Happens to me from time to time. Odd, isn't it?

    The thing is, thousands of things happen to us all every day, so there are bound to be coincidences or concurrences now and again.

    I am quite certain there is no significance to be attached to it.

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  • butternutsquash
    11 years ago | pl

    About 2 years ago I was really obsessed with Matthew Gray Gubler (an actor on Criminal Minds) I got all of the seasons on dvd for my birthday and I watched them mainly because of him. I also wished, when I blew out my candles, that I'd meet him that summer. I usually don't make wishes like that, I tend to make ones that I pretty much know are going to come true, like "I wish that I'll have a fun summer" which is pretty much up to me... because I don't really believe in that stuff...but something in me was like "oh who cares, this crap doesn't work, just wish for what you truly want" so I did, thinking nothing of it. I went to Pennsylvania that summer and on twitter I saw that gubler was in NY and I begged my mom to take me because it was only 5 hours away. She said no. I kept thinking "he's so far, yet so close!!" About a week or two later we arrived home in los angeles....and as I'm walking through the terminal at LAX, I see Matthew freaking Gray Gubler. So yeah, my birthday wish came true. It's just a coincidence, but what a crazy one. I was watching Criminal Minds on the plane, and then bam! I always tell myself that things won't come true if you think about it too often, but it happened that time. I still can't get over what an awesome coincident that was. I've also had some weird ass "thelma" stuff happen as well. I dreamt that some girl I know dyed her hair brown, and the next day she did. It was pretty shocking because she had gorgeous red hair. I tell myself that all of these things are just coincidences, but it's still pretty cool. Like recently I silently wished that the traffic light would turn green right on cue with this certain part of a song I was listening to, and it did, right on the beat I had been thinking of, and I got a little too excited about that. Haha yeah...sometimes I'm easily amused. Maybe these things aren't just coincidences but...I don't know what they mean so I try not to dwell on it.

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago | pl

    Yes; this happens sometimes. You should read "The Secret".

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