I’ve noticed when I’m hanging out with Jordan, that my ability to manifest a thought is instantaneous.
As he was leaving the house last week after a potluck, I saw that the porch light was off when I opened the door, so I mumbled, “Oh, no, is the porch light burned out?” as I simultaneously flipped the switch to turn it on and the light bulb went POOF! And everyone stared at me and my timing. Weird.
Then yesterday coming back from the dental office, Jordan is all drugged up and miserable, can’t really talk cuz he’s all shot up with locals and cotton balls in his mouth, I took a wrong turn downtown and got us stuck in traffic for a minute before realizing I could take the Hawthorne Bridge.
“It must suck to be you right now,” I told him. “Awake enough to know where you are but not be able to talk and say, “don’t go that way!”.”
He mumbled something and shrugged as I turned onto Madison to take the bridge.
“Well, at least the bridge isn’t up.” I offered and smiled as the light turned red and the barricades dropped down a couple cars in front of us and the bridge started to lift.
“Fuck!”
So there we were, trapped by the bridge lifting and Jordan likely feeling like crap and wanting to go home and the Trumpet Guy ( the dude who sets up his stand on the corner of 10th and Burnside, or on the ramp of the Hawthorne bridge where he plays the trumpet all hours of the day for donations) is squeaking out warm up. I became momentarily hypnotized by the flashing red lights and thought, “I should go see Indiana Jones one more time before it leaves the big screen.”
Da-DaDa DA! Da da DAAAA.
The Trumpet guy burst into a slightly off-key version of the Indiana Jones theme song and the sound ricocheted off the cars and I got this ridiculous grin on my face. I talked to Jordan briefly about it but could tell he was in no mood for conversation – not that I blame him, holy crap!
Meanwhile I think to myself, “The Indiana Jones Theme song is one of the most easily recognizable themes. Spielberg and Lucas really knew how to find someone to make a good harmonic marker in the mind.”
Just then, Trumpet guy changes tunes and jumps into the Star Wars Theme.
Right then I though, “Okay, I quit. No more thinking. This is creepy and could potentially be dangerous. No more thinking.”
All day though, when I thought of someone they would call. When I imagined something I needed to get done, someone would invariably mention to me that they needed to remember or do what was also on my mind. Weird. It was just one of those days.
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I believe that both of those theme songs were written by John Williams. He is a movie scoring GENIOUS! He also wrote ET, Harry Potter, um and a whole bunch of other ones that I am forgetting right now.
Maybe you’re manifesting psychic tendencies. Or something.
Sometimes I get stuff sort of like that happening. Not that instantaneous, but I’ll think of a movie that I haven’t seen or heard about in a long time, and then 2 days later it will be on HBO, or I’ll think of an old song I haven’t heard in a while and an hour later it plays on the radio. Stuff like that. But I am a believer in coincidence, so…there you are. Your stories are better.
I get the radio thing quite a bit. A song will pop into my head for no apparent reason and I’ll turn on the radio and it will be playing. Maybe my ears can pick up radio waves and my brain can translate them? Nah, I would have gone completely insane by now if that were the case.
I’ve had this kind of thing before, and it tends to happen to me in cycles. Do you ever notice that it’s very much related to hormonal cycles? Mine seems to be anyway. Food for thought.
When I had braces I used to think I was picking up the radio signals because I would start humming in the car, then turn the radio on and the song that came on would be right were I was humming the chorus.
Weird.
I wonder what else my braces were picking up….
Neat-o!
I love synchronicities. I think of them as gifts from the gods now. It always makes me feel like the universe is trying to tell me that it knows I’m trying to listen.
Epiphany made me think a bit – interesting that you mention it happens around Jordan. I have noticed frequency has everything to do with who I’m around and how much I’m growing. When you and I started noticing them together, they were prolific, when I met Derek they went crazy, in addition to some totally blissed out moments that were really like being on mushrooms… now that Jasmin is living with me and I’m going through a growth spurt, they’re heavy again.
Too bad Derek doesn’t want to be on this bus : (
Oh…my God. I totally had one of these moments this morning! Bizarre coincidence since we were talking about it so recently.
Basically while I was in the shower this morning a poem popped into my head. Now usually that early I’m not capable of rational thought, but the poem…I believe it’s Dylan Thomas…the whole “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
So anyway, weird that I’d think of it but whatever. Then later when I’m getting ready to leave I walk into the rec room…where my fiance is watching a DVD. Now keep in mind I’d just walked in. And the character says “I read this poem once…”
And guess which one it was. I know! And just those too lines, too.
Totally bizarre.
Hey Epiphany that’s an awesome story…
Just for you…
http://theblissquest.com/blog/2006/04/20/do-not-go-gently%e2%80%a6/
Cheers!