My life has been filled with unexplainable occurrences.
Recently
they've been frequently appearing as strange coincidences. Leading up
to what just happened. Which, I am rather confused about. I also had a
friend over who witnessed it happen.
Let me back track a few weeks to explain the "strange coincidences".
Ryan
and I have been watching Doctor Who since Christmas time. We will watch
it a few nights a week and usually multiple episodes in one night.
I
had been pondering the concept of change and how nothing lasts forever;
the only constant in life is change. Or death, but death is also a
change from life. So, yes, the only constant is change. A few days later
and this thought was already long gone from my mind. Ryan and I sat
down to watch some Doctor Who. Several minutes into the episode the
camera cuts to a close up of the tenth doctor, at which point he
exclaimed "change is the only constant." It immediately triggered my
memory of having that exact thought only days prior. I paused the show,
told Ryan, and went about the rest of my night.
A
night or two later I noticed an update on Facebook from Scarefest
announcing a few of their 2013 guests. One of their guests is the host
of the show
Destination Truth. I'm not particularly a fan of this
show but I respect that this person was able to make a career where he
travels, investigates paranormal or mythological claims, and is a well
known TV show host.
Something I would also like to do. Ryan had
never seen the show so I offered to show him an episode. I opened
Netflix on our PS3 and started browsing through the different seasons
and episodes. I stopped at the episode on Pompeii and decided that
soundsed like a cool one to watch. The next night Ryan and I decided to
resume where we left off in Doctor Who. I opened it up in Netflix and
before hitting the X button to play the episode I happened to glance at the title...
The Fires of Pompeii... that marked the second coincidence in a row with this TV show. I pointed it out to Ryan.
A
day or so later Ryan and I are laying on the couch taking a nap. I had a
weird dream about bees. I was drowning them in some flavored liquid so
they would also marinate. I wanted to add them into the ground beef I
was browning. I remember being conflicted in my dream about eating the
bees. I didn't want to but I also remembered a time where I did and
liked it. I then awoke and told Ryan of my weird dream. I can't remember
if it was later that day or the next day, but either way, Ryan and I
went to watch Doctor Who. To my surprise the bad guy in this episode was
a huge BEE! Not only that but the bee's father had drowned and died and at the end of that episode that bee drowned and died. That was now THREE times in a row where what I thought,
dreamed, or did in real life showed up in Doctor Who. I actually felt
weirded out at that point.
A few nights later and I
have this absolutely wonderful dream about the Doctor flying me, Mrs.
Cook, and another friend away by using the moon's light. The dream
itself could be a separate blog entry. I woke up with such a happy
feeling. The time period it was set in, the wardrobe, the carelessness,
the absence of bad, just genuine, happy, innocent living (and dancing).
It was beautiful. But, back to the point. The Doctor harnessed the
energy to fly us across the sky by harnessing the energy from the light
of the moon. Yes, in real life, I am aware that the moon only reflects
the light of the sun and isn't an actual light source. Moving on... So
another day or so goes by after I had that dream. Ryan and I once more
sat down to watch Doctor Who. The episode was
Silence in the Library.
In this episode there is a character, Dr. Moon. I didn't think much of
it until the scene where the Doctor is in the library and points his
sonic screwdriver up at the moon and started to realize its purpose. The
moon was an artificial moon that maintained the computer systems on the
planet it orbited through wireless connection. This moon was built by
Felman Lux to protect CAL, his youngest daughter who became the
Library's computer. It was interesting to me that after having a dream
specifically about the moon, that in the next episode I watched, the
moon played a significant role.
I was able to finish season four without anymore of these coincidences. Not that I minded having them.
That
leads me to today. My friend Matthew came over so we could journal all
our ideas for a possible sitcom we want to write, film, and act in
together. He had his acting debut in my parody Jurassic Sock. I was
explaining to him why I chose certain clips to edit and why I left
others out. I told him I still had the original exported video of each
scene in chronological order. I wanted to play that for him to show him
why it wouldn't work if presented in that way. Keep in mind I had
exported this video as an mpeg several days ago. I watched it several
times after exporting it and also had Ryan watch it. Nothing but my
footage existed.
So, I opened the video and it started
playing...except this time for a split second before my footage started
there was a clip of a man in a blue suit, smiling, with his right hand
in the air waving. You could see him from a little below his shoulders
and up. It was almost cartoon caricature-like in the way that his head
was made a lot larger than his body. I immediately paused the video,
turned to Matt and asked "you saw that right?" He did! He said he
caught it at the corner of his eye so he wasn't able to make out
specifics, but he saw it happen. I brought the video back to 00:00...
Only my footage was showing. I started the video over multiple times and
I also closed the whole program and re-opened it with the same video.
Nothing but my normal footage played.
I don't really
understand why the past few weeks have been filled with strange
coincidences and now unexplainable things just occurring without
coinciding with something else. But, it is exciting and I am interested in seeing what else may or may not happen.
