Has anyone else experienced weird coincidences while reading a book?
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I've been curious if anyone else has experienced something like this. I'm not saying it's supernatural or anything—I think they're probably just coincidences—but the timing has been so weird that I still think about them. The first one happened while I was reading Murders at Mount Fuji. I had just started working in a supermarket in France and knew almost nothing about wines. A customer asked me for a wine called Chablis , and I'd never even heard that word before. He found the bottle himself, came back later to pay for it, and that was the first time I'd ever seen or heard the word. After work, I was walking to the metro thinking about that interaction, wondering how I was supposed to know what Chablis was. I got on the train, continued reading my book, and while I was still thinking about it, the very next line mentioned people drinking Chablis with dinner. I literally stopped reading because it gave me goosebumps. I just thought, "What are the chances?" Then yesterday something even stranger happened while I was reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami. I get hemorrhoids before my period, and yesterday the pain was really bad. I had just finished work and was sitting on the metro thinking about how much it hurt and how exhausted I was from dealing with it. I looked away from the book for a moment when the train stopped, then looked back and continued reading. The next sentence said, "Come to think of it, throwing up was no big deal. It was no less painful than hemorrhoids." I was honestly stunned. I closed the book and just sat there for the rest of the journey. I'd never seen the word hemorrhoids in a novel before, and seeing it at the exact moment I was experiencing that pain felt so bizarre. I've had a few smaller coincidences like this while reading over the years, but these are the two that I remember the most. Has anyone else had a book unexpectedly mention the exact thing you were thinking about or experiencing at that moment? I'd love to hear if anyone has had similar experiences.