Ever have that weird experience where you find yourself reading the phrase that someone's singing at that same moment?

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I was just perusing the threads here and the moment I scanned "Jessica Lynch takes a stand" the Stevie Wonder song I'm listening to, "Saturn," goes "We can't trust you when you take a stand / with a gun and Bible in your hand."

This happens to me a lot and it always freaks me out.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This is my happening and it freaks me out.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 9 November 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sorry the coincidence was startling.)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 9 November 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I was once on a crowded bus, and I looked to the side and saw a girl I vaguely recognized. I knew I'd seen her before but I couldn't place where. We sheepishly smiled at each other while I tried to remember where I'd seen her. I finally realized that she was a pyschology grad student who had once asked me some questions for some study. Then I started trying to remember her name. I knew it was unusual and started with an 'A'....right then, the song on my discman finished and the next one started with "Abigail!....". Which of course, was her name. (she's the only Abigal I'd ever met and the song - Magnetic Fields - Abigail Belle of Kilronan - is the only one I know to mention that name....it must have been fate) At any rate, she was reading a book and I didn't feel like bothering her to explain the stupid grin that had just appeared n my face.

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 9 November 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I love when things like this happen.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 9 November 2003 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

One time when I was in high school I was sitting around smoking some weed. The radio was on, and just as there was a pause between two songs, suddenly this one Beatles song popped into my head totally clearly and out of nowhere (can't remember which one, but I think it was something from Sgt. Peppers) and then one second later that song started on the radio.

And I never smoked pot again.

― Octothorpe (Octothorpe), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That also used to happen to me as a kid, but as a kid I used to listen to Top 40 radio a lot more often and the sequencing just wasn't as hard to guess.

And, great story Elliot. I wish something a little more cosmic would happen like that, but most of the time it just involves scenarios like the one I initially mentioned. It's stranger than deja vu because it's immediate recall.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

deja vus are insane..its like getting a peek into how memories are formed..as they happen. Sometimes, I can predict that one is happening, and even though I don't know what will happen next, I know it will feel familiar. Like "ok, whatever he says next, I will think I've heard it before" At that point though, the deja-vu-ness flickers off.

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

this happens a lot when you're reading lyric booklets.

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

'Ceptin, of course, the lyric booklets for Underworld.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

the same day I read Lester Bangs's essay on the "Incredibly Mixed-Up Zombies" film is the same day my VCR was taping it off an MST3K marathon (and I had no clue it was even DONE by mst3k). That was fucked.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

This kind of shit is why Pulp's lyrics booklets have a nice note asking you not to read them and listen to the music at the same time.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This has happened with people saying stuff on TV and me reading an identical line.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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