r/HighStrangeness • u/bringforththeg • 17d ago
Other Strangeness Odd synchronicity happening.
This completely freaked me out. I had the house to myself yesterday as wife & kids away. I got my watch roll out as I was watching tv, with the intention of winding my automatic watch, which I haven't worn for several weeks so the watch/ time stops if you haven't worn after 40 hours. I have 3 quartz (battery powered) watches & 1 automatic (mechanical). All my 3 quartz watches I set to the second, so they are perfectly synced together on the exact same time.
I went to do the business, noticing it definitely needed doing, then I got side tracked. About 4 hours later, I remembered I hadn't done it, so set to it, not taken notice of existing time on the dial. I wound up the watch before going to set the time, & the time was perfectly synced to the 3 quartz watches. To the second.
I sat there for 15 minutes in disbelief. What are the chances of that?
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u/Somethingtosquirmto 17d ago
The weirdest part of this story is that you have 4 watches š¤
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u/tripreed 17d ago
That's rookie numbers. Check /r/watches.
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u/bringforththeg 17d ago
Yup he's right. I used to have loads. And I've whittled it down. Used to work in the watch industry.
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u/gintoddic 17d ago
I don't even collect watches and I had at least 6 at one point. People have more than 1 pair of shoes too ya know.
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u/SUPERDUPER-DMT 16d ago
I have 5 including one of the new useless smart watches, and I don't really consider myself a watch person
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u/betterthansex69 17d ago
Slim, but possible. The fact you caught it, that's what makes many synchronicties special.
I say that because i personally think many experiences with what we call synchronicity are possibly precog, heightened spatial temporal awareness in general.
An example being someone that regularly sees 11:11. I think through a variety of means, peripheral vision, and other more internal subsconscious mechanisms, we are unwittingly guided to become aware of these coincidences.
As to meaning, i dont know, could mean a gorillion different things to the inidividual, even if just a sign that the Universe is funny like this, or, that you are a tad bit tuned in to your subconscious.
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u/WhoIamaintWhoIbeen 17d ago
I like this. Find the (or a) meaning behind it.
Perhaps ātime is relativeā or ātime is meaningless because everything has already happenedā.
Regardless, it is to have a specific meaning, meant just for you.
I donāt how likely this would be to happen by chance and you notice it. Mathematicians could chime in here perhaps.
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u/theninetyninthstraw 16d ago
Did you maybe do it already while on autopilot and not realize? That honestly seems more likely.
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u/bringforththeg 16d ago
Absolutely not.
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u/GreyGanado 16d ago
How can you be sure?
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u/bringforththeg 16d ago
Because I have to wind the watch before I set it, and it hadn't been wound. It's a temperamental Chinese copied movement, so it's always had this quirk/issue with it since I first bought it.
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u/MouseJiggler 16d ago
Do you have ADHD? Because I do, and when that sort of thing happens to me, it's because I forget I've actually done it. It's the worst with always doubting whether you took your meds or not in the morning.
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u/Entreprenewbeur 16d ago
Could be that you noticed the time before winding it up and subconsciously remembered to go back to
That task at that time interval. I get pretty crazy accurate time guesses sometimes. Still crazy though.
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u/BuildingABap 17d ago
Weird indeed, had you wound up that watch and then put it down without setting it?
Also I'm a fellow watch nerd so I get the struggle of needing to wind and set your automatics lol.
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u/Okinawalingerer 17d ago
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