ASU2003

I just watched Who Killed The Electric Car?, and what do I see when I refresh Yahoo's front page...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070107/...toshow_volt_dc


Back in 1997 I was coming out of the movie Conspiracy Theory, and this was on the TV.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/30/diana.dead/

I know that they are just conquiendences, but still it is weird.

I should have watched "An Inconvient Truth" right before that iceburg broke off last week.

Has anything else happened to anybody here where you watched something on TV or in a movie, and then something related to it happened in real life while it was on?

Willravel

Don't rent Independence Day. Or A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Shauk

yeah just stop watching movies.

well, no, you can watch the neverending story, I give you permission.

ratbastid

Yeah... I got done watching Team America: World Police the other day, walked over to my computer, and found that we'd hanged Saddam. Very similar experience.

skier

Eh, your brain looks for connections in your everyday world all the time. If you develop an interest in cars, you will consciously notice many more nice cars when you're driving. Get a dog, you'll seem to find dog related news and experiences all around.

it is interesting though

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Demeter

What Skier said.
Once we experience something, it's like a fog is lifted and you can now see it, where as before it held no significance to you, so it was overlooked or ignored.
I noticed this after a family member had a serious illness, suddenly it seemed I saw articles about it everywhere, but in truth, it had only just finally become interesting to me to read about.

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Shadow_fire

Hahaha I actually watched An Inconvenient Truth like an hour and a half before I heard about the icebergs. Good stuff.

Infinite_Loser

We all turned out all right at the end of those movies, so I think it'd be okay.

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Willravel

I'm making a movie called "Willravel get's 500 billion dollars, wins an olympic gold metal, saves the wales/rainforest/children, and saves the world from the Decepticons", would you care to screen it?

In Independance Day, we lost several billion people.

And Hitchhiker's Guide really sucks. That reccomendation had nothing to do with the paranoia thing.

Sharon

What about deja vu? Is there a connection there?

Cynosure

This is true. Furthermore, nowadays we are exposed to such a multitude of subject matter on TV, in magazines and newspapers, and now on the Internet. (Especially on the Internet!) Any given day, hundreds if not thousands of different subjects bombard us, from the mass media. Of course, most of it we sub-consciously filter out, without it sinking in. But if we have a certain subject or issue or topic on our mind, then we're bound to notice it when a form of mass media features it or at least makes reference to it.

And so, if you're looking to find some kind of divine or otherwise supernatural insight or guidance by watching the mass media ("Is God talking to me through my TV... ?!"), you're bound to be fooled and misled.

Daniel_

Go watch that movie where an overweight, witty and much loved Englishman who posts on an american messageboard wins millions on the lotto and retires will you?

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Astrocloud

The morning of 9/11 I had a dream right before it happened -that there was a huge traincrash near my house. Now I know that we were talking about watching movies but think about it like this:

A premonition is only a premonition because of the significance which we give it.

So let's discuss the relevant experience.