Predicting the next song?

Just a weird question I had. I am definitely more of a skeptic, more to the point that I have to have a logical reason for something rather than shutting out thoughts.

Anyways, the other day, my friend came over with a list of new songs he'd bought of iTunes, some of which I'd heard, some of which I didn't know existed. He put these 13 songs on shuffle and hit play. I started humming the riffs of one of the songs I did know, and right after I stopped, that song played. We thought it was cool so I guessed the next 4 songs. I got 4 out of 5 (First one correct, correct, correct, wrong, correct). Just now, I had my iPod on shuffle, and a song popped into my head. That song played the second after.

I was just searching for possible explanations, and figured this belonged here where it could be seen from both sides (extremely skeptical, and incredibly... paranormal?)

It happens to me all the time. Some people are good guessers. I can't really say if its supernatural or not.

I'm usually pretty good about predicting things. When I was 8 and played little league baseball, I was able to tell where the ball was going (when it was hit) 80-90% of the time by seeing one good practice swing from the batter.

However, I can't think of any explanation why this should be. My best guess (and this is out there) is that I've somehow subconsciously figured out the shuffle algorithm for the iPod. But that's only been the best thing I could come up with.

The other day I kinda had a similar experience. I was using a CES device tuned to a brain frequency that supposedly increases extrasensory perception so I decided to have some fun and test it out. I decided to use some tarot cards I recently bought and attempted to guess the image on the other side of the card from only looking at the back. The back of the cards are completely black with a design on them, so you can't see through to the other side or anything. I started getting a little weirded out because my guesses about the image for every single card I picked up was accurate and very specific. And some of them were incredibly detailed and I actually saw the image on the card in my head, as clear as any hypnagogic imagery...I could have drawn it, and I probably should have. I realize it is incredibly unscientific, but it's not like I was doing a real experiment. Just playing around for the fun of it really.

Anyone have a suggestion for a real sort of experiment I could do with the device on?

I can normally guess what songs are going to play when i shuffle my ipod (1200+ songs) 'the shuffle on the ipod likes select songs from all of the bands, and i can normally guess which ones are going to play, not necessarily in the order.

4/5 is too accurate for guessing imho, this sometimes happens to me when playing grand theft auto and i first turn the radio station i sing the song or whatever and it comes on.

I personally don't' think things are truly random or chaotic. I believe everything is influenced on a collective subconscious level. For example, if everyone in the world believed it would rain the next day, it would. I've seen it snow in the middle of april, so the earths tilt means nothing.

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Originally Posted by Aquanina

The other day I kinda had a similar experience. I was using a CES device tuned to a brain frequency that supposedly increases extrasensory perception so I decided to have some fun and test it out. I decided to use some tarot cards I recently bought and attempted to guess the image on the other side of the card from only looking at the back. The back of the cards are completely black with a design on them, so you can't see through to the other side or anything. I started getting a little weirded out because my guesses about the image for every single card I picked up was accurate and very specific. And some of them were incredibly detailed and I actually saw the image on the card in my head, as clear as any hypnagogic imagery...I could have drawn it, and I probably should have. I realize it is incredibly unscientific, but it's not like I was doing a real experiment. Just playing around for the fun of it really.

Anyone have a suggestion for a real sort of experiment I could do with the device on?

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