Cluster synchronicities involve the repetition of names, numbers, and objects, usually within a short period of time. We’ve posted quite a few that deal with number clusters (11s are popular) and with names. We particularly enjoyed this cluster synchro from Johnny Walsh, who we “met” through evolver.net. It’s a layered travel synchro, which makes it even more interesting.
After the movie’s stirring climax, we retired for the night. For some pre-sleep relaxation, I opened the new “New Yorker” magazine, plus I turned on the radio. On a talk show a gentleman was plugging his book about coincidence and synchronicity. A cartoon in the magazine caught my eye. It depicted two headstones abutting each other–on the left, the deceased’s name is clearly seen as “Wilkes.” The other stone had an arrow pointing to Wilkes’ gravesite, and has emblazoned upon it “I’m With Stupid,” like the old novelty t-shirts. Just to have the cartoon/movie connection is nice, but to have a guy in the background talking about coincidences makes it a bit more savory.
She chuckled, if somewhat nervously, and then we both went back to our reading. It’s then that I noticed her Amtrak ticket stub on her pull-down tray in front of her. Under the PASSENGER NAME heading and her signature was her last name. The name printed on it was “Wilks.” No “e” in there like “Wilkes,” but certainly close enough.
I think she was too creeped out to tell me that her name related to my coincidence story after I had told it to her. I was a little creeped out too, I must admit, but I love it when the universe observes us instead of vice versa, and plays around with our minds a little bit.
New genre, indeed!
GLIMMER/TRISH–
Uh Oh, I started a new genre–Gravestone Sync! haha
Glimmer – this is fascinating! Thanks for posting it.I'm bringing it forward as a post.
I was in Boston, being given a tour by my husband's good friend. I was telling him about my ancestors, saying "we're mostly southerners, but a ship was blown off course in a storm during the colonial days and a bunch of C's ended up in this area." Something like that.
I had never been to Boston. We were in the second oldest graveyard there, the one overlooking the harbor. As I told him this story, I looked down to see a small gravestone with the words "Elijah C…. 1800 and something" the C was my last name. Not a usual last name, at all. This was obviously an ancestor.
We could not believe it. My husband's friend has added this story and the grave to his little tour!
Aleksandar -the synchros just keep piing up, don't they? Love this one.
Ellen's Acres.
Today I saw an episode of the cartoon Ellen's World. In her first imaginary adventure, she and a monkey found a huge jewel. In the second adventure, she traveled in a boat to Louisiana. Really.
I just left a comment on it. Love that story.
Just put a name /birthday one on mine. 🙂
Great post and subsequent comments. 🙂
Jama – wow. This person sounds like a parallel self or something! Four common areas. Definitely qualifies as a synchro in my book!
When this kind of synchro happens to or around me, I just smile, look skyward and say "Good one", for I believe, like another here, that the Universe is simply arranging the similar events we call "synchros" to mystify us.
btw, I haven't fallen off the planet, only out-of-state for a couple of weeks with limited internet service. While there, I was introduced to a woman a bit older than I, but whose first name is only one letter different than mine, her maiden name is four letters and rhymes with mine (also 4 letters), our birthdays are 4 days apart, and…until they retired, she and her husband ran a furniture refinishing business, while one of my hobbies was re-upholstering furniture. That's as far as we got with commonalities, but quite enough to qualify as "synchronicity", don't you think?
i'd heard the obama on-hold story too –
and ya'll know ya'll are talkin' bout my home, dontcha, suga?
Huffingtonpost now say obama is putting offshore drilling on hold:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/new-offshore-drilling-pro_n_558313.html
You're right, vicki, it's another synchro. Hurricane season starts officially on June 1. I've been feeling pretty positive about the season – given how cold it was in florida this winter. Now I'm uneasy again!
And you chose today to put this post up, another synchro.
Gone with the Wind – we are also in
hurrican season – I wonder what else will befall this area as it already has with tornadoes.
It feels like these two posts have a definite link, interesting.
Aleksandar – you came up with two remarkable synchros! The fact that Napoleon sold Louisiana today – when the oil spill reaches the coast of Louisiana and this Gone with the Wind connection. We'd had this post scheduled for today for at least a week or 10 days.
When these things happen to me, I usually expect more. For this reason I looked a few minutes ago Gone with the Wind in Wikipedia, thinking "there must be something about Louisiana" (your previous post and also my comments there). Brett and Scarlett have had a honeymoon in New Orleans, of course. You know – gone with the wind, changes, new era and stuff.
fabulous story, isn't it!!! love that it partly took place on a train, giving it a whole different connotation!
That one made me smile.
When these things happen to me, I am terrified. I mean, it seems that my unconventional behavior and thinking on my part of a hologram moves the rest of it.
Whoa…two strangers on a train…
This is one of those synchros that you say to yourself later after you share it, because it is so strange you have to share it, what on earth could this possibly mean? What am I supposed to learn from this or am I supposed to learn anything except that life is a mystery.
Of course the writer part of me immediately thought that this would be a neat beginning to a story. I love the part where he listened to "an off-beat radio show".
Thanks for a fun synchro after the oil synchro. Now I need to get some Excedrin for this headache.