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I've had both scenarios happen; where I thought of an obsure song only to turn on the radio to hear it and thinking of a long forgotten friend only to bump into them later that day. These types of events are definately off-putting and give you somewhat of an eerie, supernatural feel. However, I put these types of events into perspective they seem like nothing out of the ordinary at all.
Try to conceive of the number of times you've thought of a song or a person and DID NOT have any experience involving them in a relatively short time span. We think nothing of that non-event, nor should we. However, when the statistically miniscule, yet certain, event occurs where there is a short time span between our thoughts and a related experience it seems like providence. In reality, it is just the statistical certainty that we recall so many memories in the average day that eventually a close-following random experience will be related. No big deal at all, but when it happens we don't think of all the times nothing follows so we perceive it as a bigger deal than it really is.
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