Unlikely chains of events: perhaps you lost your false teeth overboard and found them inside a fish you caught twenty years later?.Uncanny patterns: imagine picking letters in Scrabble that spell your name.Parallel lives: such as when two people in a small group find they share a birthday or an unusual name, or when two people discover their lives match each other in bizarre details.Simultaneous events: for example when two people phone each other at exactly the same time.Or even a repetition of a really rare event – like winning the lottery twice, or your life being saved twice by the same person!
Or when over several years multiple members of the same family are born with the same birthday. Surprising repetitions: for instance when you’ve had not contact with someone for ages, then find two connections to them very close together in time.To help you recall the coincidences that have happened in your life, here’s a list of some common types of coincidence: Your coincidence stories can also help him explore the scientific explanations which may account for them – whether by doing the maths to calculate the chances of a coincidence, or speculating on the weird and wonderful workings of our brains.Ĭoincidences tend to be ‘surprising matches’ – sometimes they are lucky, sometimes unlucky, sometimes just mind-boggling. Why? By recording your coincidence stories here, you can help him build a picture of what kinds of coincidences are out there and which ones seem to ‘get to’ us the most. Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University wants to know about your coincidences!
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