I can't say I have been sharing the same experience as you, OP. What I can say is that the brain functions on pattern recognition. When you purposefully search for a pattern, you seem to find patterns that are weakly related or not even patterns at all. In an effort to continue interpreting reality, the brain will generate patterns that do not even exist. When you experience strange coincidences, often they are very easily explained. A heightened awareness of coincidences is a result of making it a habit to look out for them. You can train your own thought patterns, this is actually a thing. I have used this knowledge to change my world view and be far less negative toward the rest of humanity. While the topic here is somewhat interesting, there is nothing but anecdotal and circumstantial evidence supporting it. People used to view celestial events and natural disasters as omens or proof that the end times are near, that God is angry at humanity and this is retribution, or even to predict that monarchs would die, etc. We know better now, the people during those times did not have the knowledge we do now. They noticed somewhere along the line that sometimes during these events or soon after, some people died or got sick. Thus, they found a pattern in something that didn't even exist. In this case, that celestial events marked impending death or disaster. In reality, those were coincidences. Coincidences, by their very nature, are two or more similar events or things that occur simultaneously or within close proximity of each other, but are in actuality unrelated.
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