Weird coincidences that keep happening to me. Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm not saying I can predict the future or that anything supernatural is happening. I've always dismissed these things as coincidences. But after so many similar experiences, I honestly just find them eerie and wanted to know if anyone else has experienced something like this.
It started with small things. Sometimes I'll see a couple and randomly think, "They're not going to last." Months later I'll find out they broke up. Other couples that I never have that thought about seem to stay together.
Then there was a girl I met on the very first day of college. I had never spoken to her, knew absolutely nothing about her, and after just looking at her I had this random thought that she had autism. I forgot about it completely. Later she was diagnosed with Level 1 autism. I'm not a medical professional, so I have no idea why I even thought that.
There was also a distant relative I hadn't thought about in years. One day I randomly asked my mom about him. The next day we got the news that he had cancer.
Probably the strangest one for me was when I suddenly became obsessed with reading about cancer. I was reading Reddit posts, watching YouTube videos, and even looking at research papers for no particular reason. It was completely out of the blue. A few months later my mom was diagnosed with cancer. I'm not saying the two are connected, but the timing has always stuck with me.
The one that has stayed with me the most happened when I was in 7th grade. My grandma was talking about my little cousin, who was around five years old, saying how smart she was and how great she would be when she grew up. Out of nowhere I remember thinking, "I'm sure she won't grow up." I wasn't scared or emotional. It was just a random thought that came and went.
The next year she passed away.
Another thing that still feels strange is that on the day she died, I happened to walk past her house. She lived far away, and that was actually the first time I had ever walked that far after school with a friend instead of taking the school bus. While passing by, I casually told my friend, "That's my uncle's house." Later that day we got the news that my cousin had died.
Has anyone else experienced something similar, where random thoughts or interests later lined up with real events often enough that it made you stop and wonder?