What does it mean to believe in coincidences?

You think of someone out of your past and strangely, you hear from them or chance to meet them unexpectedly. Just a coincidence, you say. Or, you have been working on a problem that has been elusive for days, but suddenly something completely unrelated makes it all clear. Just a coincidence.

What is it called when you see coincidences?

According to Wikipedia Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.

What does it mean if you don’t believe in coincidence?

According to the Cambridge dictionary, a coincidence is defined by ”chance or luck. ” I don’t believe in coincidences because I don’t believe that these positive and life-altering moments happen through chance or luck; it’s a lot bigger than that.

Why does coincidence happen?

Why do these extraordinary events happen? Various strange forces have been put forward. Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer proposed that coincidences arise from a basic physical force, called “seriality”, though he dismissed as superstition any supernatural ideas that could, for example, link dreams to future events.

What is the meaning of coincidences?

From Wikipedia, “Any given set of coincidences may be just a form of synchronicity, that being the experience of events which are causally unrelated, and yet their occurring together carries meaning to the person observing the events. (In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.)”

What is the difference between coincidences and near misses?

When something surprising happens, we don’t think about all the times it could have happened, but didn’t. And when we include near misses as coincidences (you and your friend were in the same place on the same day, just not at the same time), the number of possible coincidences is suddenly way greater.

Is it a coincidence to run into someone you know?

When you consider all the people you know and all the places you go and all the places they go, chances are good that you’ll run into someone you know, somewhere, at some point. But it’ll still seem like a coincidence when you do. When something surprising happens, we don’t think about all the times it could have happened, but didn’t.

Do coincidences count as synchronicity?

(In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.)” I’ll bet you’ve been on the receiving end of lots of coincidences in your life.