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>Person A goes and privately draws a picture of a red elephant with butterfly wings
>Person A goes and tapes the picture to a random telephone pole in a random town in Iowa.
>No one knows anything about what he just did
>Person A immediately gets on a plane and flies to his hometown of Gallup, New Mexico and visits his friend Person B
>Person B starts talking unprompted, seemingly randomly to Person A about a red elephant with butterfly wings

How do you explain this phenomenon? Like if this exact thing objectively happened to you, what could explain it? Could Person B read Person A's mind?
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take your meds.
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>>16930776
Wtf, I'm not crazy
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Look up Morphic Resonance by Sheldrake
He also has a banned Ted Talk https://youtu.be/JKHUaNAxsTg?si=bVY-RmaIPx7A3732
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>>16930783
Okay, but seriously, take your meds or fuck off back to /x/.
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>>16930783
Yes, you are. There are countless explanations for what happened, nearly all of which you'll reject because you'd rather believe some esoteric bullshit over your own fallible memory.
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>>16930813
Thanks
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>>16930775
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Tl;dr: you're thinking about [thing] so you pay more attention to [thing] when it comes up. You're also more likely to associate things tangentially related to [thing] with [thing] because it's actively on your mind so [thing] starts to appear more common than it is.
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>>16930813
what you mean it's banned? it's literally on youtube
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>>16930886
Yeah but I don't think it's frequency illusion when it's something hyper specific and extremely strange, lik red elephants with butterfly wings
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>>16930775
he just looked like a "red elephant with butterfly wings" kind of guy
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retard
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>>16930775
Most people are too unaware to notice phenomena like this, or they're too stupid and write it off as a simple coincidence, even though the details are highly specific and the odds are almost impossible for it to be a simple coincidence
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wat
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>>16931005
Something that specific is less likely to be frequency illusion but it's also significantly less likely to happen at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4v6vC_ew00&pp=ygUUbW9ycGhvZ2VuZXRpYyBzb3Jyb3c%3D
You guys played too much 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors
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>>16930775
Person A is being gangstalked
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There's a bit of a "birthday paradox" situation going on that if you have a large enough volume of data points you will inevitably get a large amount of extremely unlikely specific combinations of two data points just because the volume of combinations grows so fast.
Unlikely events are likely if you do enough tests
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>>16930775
>be on subway
>think "I hate niggers"
>door opens
>niggers
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>>16930813
>si=
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>>16930775
The idea of a red elephant with butterfly wings isn't particularly unique. You never talk about weird stuff with people? Maybe there was a popular movie with an elephant airing?
People used to independently come up with new math which is far more unique. Either human thought converges on some ideas due to environmental cues or the independence was never there. You might've seen something that prompted you to think about the elephant and you just forgot about it.
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>>16932130
>The idea of a red elephant with butterfly wings isn't particularly unique.
This
OP is a retard. I talk about red elephants with butterfly wings all the time with people



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