A patient is telling you about a dream she had with a beetle in it. You look through your window and you see an insect that seems like a beetle or in the same family of insects. Is this the subconscious of the universe talking to you? Is it God sending you a message about this woman?
The psychologist Carl Gustav Jung believed that this and other coincidences were a manifestation of the collective consciousness. He coined the term Synchronicity to describe these coincidences which are a sort of meaningful coincidence.
Knowing that others experience these kinds of coincidences and reasoning that though they exist they mean nothing was a big part in my recovery. While psychotic, I gave these coincidences supernatural explanation. God, the creator of the universe had implanted these coincidences all through my life to prove to me that he exists. Normal people don’t reason this way. I did when I was psychotic and it was a surprise when the dream world ended and I came back to reality.
How do you explain it? How do you describe it? It is an experience that is hard to share unless you really live it. People think of schizophrenia as hearing voices. A voice in your head starts talking and tormenting you. This is certainly true for some people. But not for all people. For people like me the delusion of reference and the coincidences were the most prominent feature. A good example of this type of delusion was in the movie “A Beautiful Mind”. John Nash started cutting magazines trying to decipher a pattern which he associated to soviet spies talking to each other. “The Pattern” is Synchronicity. It is a pattern that exists in the fabric of the world. Coincidences like shit just happen. Or maybe our brains seeks them and feeds on them. But that doesn’t mean that they mean something more than what they are.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_of_reference_and_delusions_of_reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
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