reply to post by ldyserenity
It's been said that synchronicities occur more frequently (or are noticed more, depending on your viewpoint) when one is about to/is going through a
change in their life. Usually (I think), this means a raising of their consciousness, possibly more so if the person pays attention to the synchs. A
synchronicity is a coincidence with meaning. I recently used this quote in another thread (in a thread which synched with me personally as a matter of
fact!):
"Saying that something is a denizen of the psychic realm in no way precludes its also having an efficacious force in the physical realm through the
phenomenon called synchronicity." - Carl Jung
Your weird dream sounds like a lucid dream, as those occur more frequently when one is just falling asleep, or about to wake up; or more likely, if
one falls asleep again after having just woke up. There is a middle ground between sleep and waking that sometimes appears grey and amorphous. If you
can keep just enough consciousness to know whats going on without waking up fully, you can ease yourself into a dream of your making. You'll probably
slip into it fully eventually and just dream, but if you can keep your mind calm enough, you can direct your dream as you wish. I've not read much
about out-of-body experiences that do not occur in near-death situations, but I would surmise that lucid dreaming is on the "spectrum" of asteral
travel and OBE's; perhaps even remote viewing, bilocation, and other phemomena.
There was an old thread here where someone went to a quiet remote area and whenever he said something of (presumably personal) importance, a noise
would occur such as a bird chirping or a distant car honk or dog bark. He did the same experiment with another person there as well. Don Juan of
Casteneda's
Journey to Ixtlan would call it a
confirmation from the universe, and used the sounds of a coffee shop in the same way as
the person in thread I mentioned. You don't have to be in a remote location, the synchs happen constantly, at all times, and are relevant to you
personally, if only you can realize it.
"Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other
dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist
conception of the universe in an image." - Alan Watts
Synchronicities can show you that all things are connected. This is the mystical application, one which actively proves the Eastern maxims which state
that all things are connected, all is one, and that separateness is an illusion. Synchronicity + Mysticism =
Synchromysticism:
"Synchromysticism admits the reality that anything can be connected with meaning to anything else." - Jake Kotze
-------------Personal story time------------
So, I was talking to my family, trying to explain the importance of the number
72 (and
27 by extension), as I had recently turned
27. The ages
27-30 are called the
Return of Saturn becase the planet saturn is in the same approximate signs in those years as it
was in the year you were born. One of my cousins and I were talking about Jimi Hendrix (his idol as he plays the guitar), and how he had joined "The
Forever
27 Club" along with other musicians such as Jim Morrison who all died at
27. My other cousin has a "Zune" music/video player
and I was scrolling through it and stopped to listen to a song by No Doubt from their album: "
The Return of Saturn" (his only No Doubt song
and album on the device). This cousin and I play poker together, and he knows my favorite poker hand is
6-8 suited. (Once I got a royal flush
in video poker and cashed out with $
68 - yeah, I only had one quarter left so I missed the big payout! The Cashier said: "lucky
68" to
me when paying me. In the first
X-Files movie, Mulder runs up a heafty bar tab and the bartender says to him: "Looks like
68 is your
lucky number." as in: 68 bucks.) Anyways, where was I ... Oh yeah, so he and I went to eat at El Pollo Loco. The date was 07/02/09 and the building
number for the El Pollo Loco was
729. My cousin pointed out that special deal they were having, shown on the posters covering all the windows,
which was
8 pieces of chicken for
6 dollars (well, $6.99). I pointed out to him that the maximum occupancy for the establishment
happened to be
68. And by the way, there's no way 68 people could have fit in there even if they were stacked three high, so it was quite
surprising to say the least. Oh, yeah,
the Return of Saturn happens again at ages 5
8-60 and then again at
86-88. (Full story
here.)
-----------end personal story time-----------
Well, that's not going to happen every day, at least not until I know everything about everything! But the possibility is there that this type of
thing happens constantly and we're just not always aware enough to notice it. So, only during those moments of clairity and/or change do we tap into
the collective unconscious just enough to see that separateness is really an illusion.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake