radio guessing songs?
 

Ok seeing the 11:11 post made me remember this

ok lately and all my adult life.. at times i can guess correctly 12 outta about 20 songs on the radio before they play.. and this isnt my sub going off cuz they announced it three songs before.. i either start singing the song or say it out loud and it plays..

anyone do this..

this also stems from the ability of me picking up the phone and saying hi and knowing who it is before they say anything..

lol my mom tells me i dont need caller id.. pisses off the telemarketers though..

Precognition. It's a great ability if you have it. I wish I did. Put some effort into it and you might be able to pick winning horses at the track!

If you are listening to a Clear Channel station, the odds are with you, since they only play 4 songs each. :D

my friends and I had a theory about this...that it's all related to radio waves. There are so many waves passing through the air, and the human brain is bound to pick some up on a subconscious level. I think sometimes a brain picks up a song, especially the catchy ones, from the radio wave, and when you go to turn on the radio, you happen to turn it to that station. It happens to me all the time.

I think it is more likely that your subconscious is a highly developed scenario calculator.

There is a very clear explanation for this. You are living your life backwards.

I have this also, when I really really want a song to play, I'll turn on the radio and within 1-2 songs it's on the air. I'm not talking about the regular plays either, I'm saying off the wall tracks that don't get played too often. Another one I have is where I will pick up the phone a second before it rings. This one happens ALL the time. Other little things that happen to me is where I'll wake up about 5 sec. before my alarm goes off. There are other things, I've dreamed events to happen, and often. Stuff like that.

bah. you guys are silly. i think empu's right, you're living your life backwards.

this only has happened to me once and i made the song "gotta get through this" play on the radio. i for got the name of the artist though

That is pretty weird. . .the only thing related to that that I can think of is that when I have a CD on random I can sometimes guess what songs will play. Probably just rare ocurrences for me, though.
Does it happen often in any other areas of your life?

The radio has playlists, and a CD player on random isn't really random, it goes in a certain order based on the number of tracks on the CD.

Have you tested this objectively? The subconsh attaches more significance to wierd events so you tend to discount the normal ones and end up with bad stats. MrSelfDestruct and TheFirstDuffMan have good points. Try having your radio off and tuned to a random station. Before you turn it on, guess what the next song to start will be, not the one playing then tune your radio to the next station, turn it off, come back 5 mins later and try again. Log how many you get right and how many wrong as you go along, don't just try to remember. It might be interesting to see what the results are like for guessing 2 ahead, then 3 ahead, etc. Let me know if you try this, I'd be very interested to see the results.

Depending on the time of day you're listening to the radio, the playlist can be very short. It's not uncommon to rotate the same dozen high-traffic tunes during the evening hours. Try guessing the next five songs and getting them all right, instead of 12 out of 20, which is 3 out of 5--pretty good, but not supernatural, considering the nature of mainstream radio these days. The current playlist for Live 105, the big modern rock station in San Francisco, is only 37 songs. When you get familiar with a station, it's not unusual to be able predict the songs during the high-traffic times of day.