Hi to All-
Haven't been around for a long time and thought I'd drop in and let friends know I'm still alive. I've spent over a year integrating "God Mode" experiences and the synchronicities are coming hot & heavy lately.......anyone else notice a magor uptick in these "reality glitches"??? Seems I can't go a day w/o something that makes me say "Whoa....Holy Shit."

Something comes this way...and I don't think it's wicked.

Soon.......

Namaste

-Boypony

The brain is hardwired to find connections. When you are looking at completely random information, the brain see's patterns and connections...that's my take on it.
What specific glitches are you referring to?

Hmm synchronicities. haven't had them for a while. There used to be a bunch. Before/after mushroom trips they seem to peak inside the mushroom hallucinations, something weird.

An example i remember, is sometime ago me and a housemate were taking a walk 'round the block. having some casual conversation about our roommates etc., suddenly the topic changed to that of the girls in the house. at that same instant, we walked underneath a pink tree and we where stepping on scarlet flowers. A massive scenery change. Seemingly reflecting the lush dushie feelings that the girls in the house are offering to us. Ofcourse, my friend there didn't have an eye for such "coincidence". He just didn't get it. I know i sound a bit weird now but

I have a feeling, some gut instinct that all of this is a divine deja vu. My friend was supposed to realize the significance of this synchronisity. But he just wasn't there yet. And in a later life, this exact same moment will occur. Again, and again and again. Until we 'get it'. and burst out in cosmic laughter!

And all of life is like this. moments are repeated again and again until we make the perfect choices. and all of life is one big synchronisity and it untill it is blatantly obvious that all this is just a dream within a dream. Ofcourse this world is AEONS away from now.

What we have here is minor awakenings. Some individuals wake up in this life time. Others in 5 lifetimes from now, in a paralell dimension. Others are 10 lifetimes away, still others who are firmly rooted in materialism need 100's of lifetimes to 'get it'. I have about 6 to go. Not so much. But i'm still making wrong choices. I can't handle the truth as of yet.

Another strange event happened yesterday. It was almost full moon and i felt the urge to smoke dmt while watching the full moon. It's a misfortune that black clouds where obscuring the moon. I was thinking, Meh.. I'll still smoke some. Just to eradicate these fears i was having. I smoked leftovers in my pipe. Took two hits and i got some effect. The grass gained some eyes and i looked up to where the moon is. Still a tremendous amount of black clouds obscuring the moon. I realized it is physically impossible to wait for the moon to show up in the clouds. The clouds are just too thick. I observed my gvg to take one more hit. Focusing on the lighter and making sure i was getting what minimal amount of smoke that is still in the pipe into my lungs. I got a tiny bit of dmt in my system. It was empty. I looked up to the clouds. And to my amazement. The moon was there. Shining bright through a hole in the clouds. They just disappeared! I felt blessed. And got a really good look at the moon. And the colours it was reflecting. A pretty cool sight. What a coincidence right? The clouds had to have had vaporized a good chunk for this to happen at the exact same time i was smoking dmt. It seems logical to assume those black clouds would still be obscuring the moon if i hadn't hit that pipe. I was observing the clouds for over 30 minutes. They never showed any sign of clearing any time soon.

Weird stuff, but i should really stop typing on my computer. I am living way past my bedtime. heheeh

Now I believe synchronicities to be a complex phenomenon. I don't think that there's a hard and fast answer or that all synchronicities were created equal, but part of me is in line with shaneduddy. Not only are humans wired to recognize patterns, but the psychedelic experience can increase pattern recognition across the board. So I think part of it is seeing the patterning in the experience of daily life. I forget who said it, and I'm paraphrasing but someone said something to the effect of 'Rome falls every minute, and the goal is to see when it's happening' . History tends to like to repeat itself, and these synchronicities could be the recognition of that on a small, personal scale.

My dreams are freaking me out since my last san pedro journey, haven't touched spice since

But check this out:

Some background: my first girl and I were the perfect trip partners. I've never met a girl who can handle psychs like she did. Unfortunately due to money issues, she left the country after we had stayed together for 2 years, to go study for free. I couldn't get a visa - tough titty. Its been 3 years since then but we finally communicate again

So 2 weeks ago we chatting and she told me she's going to a bachelorette party that evening, I told her enjoy bla bla and chat soon.

Last weekend I was at a gig, at the end of the gig, guitarist says: "alright, I'm gonna throw out 4 cards, person who catches the King gets a free drink".

I caught the King. It was the King of hearts.

I sat down at the table, all my friends with their girls and whatnot, and felt alone. Haha. I licked the card, and stuck it to my forehead, everyone laughed. As I did this, 1979 by smashing pumpkins came on, me and my ex's "song". So I messaged her, about how I missed her and thought about her, and winning the king of hearts.

Next morning, I get a reply, asking me to explain about this King of hearts card, so I told her how I caught it and that the drink didn't even matter, I just wanted to keep the card for the symbolism of it, as 1979 came on etc. Then sent her a pic of it.

She said creepy.. Last weekend when I woke up after the party, I had the Queen of hearts card... For some reason I decided to keep it instead of return it. And sent me a pic of it against her wall

Then we got into an argument, and she told me that its been 3 years to the day since the day she left... She's coming back soon tho I can't wait

Always on the lookout for synchronicities. I think the last one i had was a chance meeting of girl via the internet that lives very close to me, we had met on the sidewalk a couple weeks prior, a swarm of synch associated with her. Not working out though, on to the next event.

What I find interesting about synchronicities is that I can never get custommed to them. In other words, they always surprise me anew. There is always the same intensity of "wow..." after a new ´non-causal´ connection within the complexity of my life/world is revealed to me...

My mom and my dad's mothers both met in WWII before my parents met in Argentina and fell in love many years later. They only found out that fact after they were already married. They have a letter framed in their house that show their moms communicating to each other during the war... What are the chances?!

Synchronicities seem to have been an integral part of my life for most of my life. So much so that I kind of find it odd when others seem to not have any idea of such things (but then I am no doubt equally lacking in knowledge of many things so no judgement or negativity meant).

DMT has opened up that can of worms to the Nth degree however, no doubt about that. If I said I believed before I feel like I have something more than that now. Not "knowing" but something more than just faith/belief.

To claim "knowing" feels like I am claiming some expert authority over such knowledge when I am hurtling through life guessing as much as any other mindful guy or gal.

I wouldn't say it is a singular reality and that anyone who disagrees is wrong either.. It is the reality that suits myself as it fits my perceptions over the course of my current mode of existence (and that of course is always subject to change).

Just a bit o' rambling...

Probably for the best, Michal.

One thing I'd like to state in addition to shaneduddy and global, is that thinking in terms of synchronicities, connecting the dots can be an exercise in psychotic thinking, when overdone, at least. I feel it's worth putting a gentle warning against overestimating and overemphasising significance in case one falls into patterns of behaviour or thought that are unhealthy. It can lead you to irrationality and at worst, madness. I'm not saying there's nothing to it. The universe is mysterious; I don't claim to know absolute truths. It's just that I've seen people, eg. on other psychedelic boards like the shroomery in particular for instance, who put far too much stock into the patterns they see, and so they start to sound crazy. People on this board, are for the most part, pretty level headed, thankfully.

As for personal experiences, I tend to view such events as a positive wink from the universe or cosmic intelligence, at best, tending to the motto 'maybe divine, maybe mundane'. For sanity's sake I prefer to not go any deeper.

Perfectly on point (imo) and something I feel should be adapted into more aspects of ones perspectives and psyche, rather than just be applied to the more fringe aspects (such as synchronicity).

Edit: I couldn't resist...


I have met some people who would act like this regarding synchronicity (well, not far off). Also some who think anyone who mentions the term automatically thinks in such a way..

All in all a comedic example of why I totally agree with Shenzi.

Okay here's a couple that I can remember off the top of my head.......

The other day I was over at moms and we were having a discussion with my daughter about cleaning products and how you should never mix bleach with ammonia and that you should never put bleach into a spray bottle. That same evening I'm at the bookstore reading a magazine....... And lo and behold here's a picture of a guy holding a spray bottle with bleach in it with the skull and cross bones and everything. I was like... holy shit.

Here's another one just last night I was reading a forum post on the Nexus about someone having a trip where it felt like his eyeballs were getting pricked by a needle and at the same time I was listening to a podcast with David Wilcock of all people and five seconds after I read the forum post he mentions something feeling like being pricked by a needle I swear to fucking God.

Oh and for double duty synchronicity the podcast was about synchronicity and enlightenment LOL

I'm a cake artist and a few weeks back I was doing a cake that was a replica of Taylor Swift's guitar. We were to deliver the cake to a place called Tanglewood. Well guess what brand guitar Taylor Swift has? Tanglewood. Was right on my cake. WTF

These are the kinds of things I'm talking about!!! It seems at least one happens every day!

I've heard that having these synchronicities means your on the right path?

God (me) I hope so!

Namaste

Everyday, although not nearly as much these days as when i was taking aya 1-2 times a week and harmalas daily

A lot of times its hard for me to tell the difference between synchronicity, precognition, and telepathy, since they all sort of melt together and are different words for similar facets of the same general reality to me. For example, yesterday i found myself thinking about my cousin while sitting outside, just sort of watching my thoughts. He never, ever, just shows up at the house out of the blue and rarely ever comes over at all. Maybe twice a year. But just then as i'm thinking about him he pulls in the driveway randomly to say hello and give us some plants. That could be interpreted as being any one of either of those things; a synch, precognition, telepathy, coincidence, etc..

Similarly the day before that i decided to email a biologist a question about one of his books. Less than an hour later, i turned on the TV (something i never do ) and was surprised to see him on a show. It was the first time i'd ever seen or heard of him on the tele. This sort of thing would be more easily classified as a synchronicity, but when compared with the first example, you can see they are very similar in nature and that particular label isn't such a tight fit as it seemed.

In my experience, these sorts of things are almost like a muscle. Once you start paying more attention to the cosmic coincidence control center (CCCC, as john lilly said), it pays more attention to you. If i had to make a crazy guess, i'd say its some sort of non-local field phenomena going on in the more dormant right hemisphere, that plays a part in weaving our consciousness into this interconnected web of reality/energy in ways we hadn't anticipated. My advice would be to keep a journal (+ dream journal) for years while doing deep work with psychedelics. You'll probably have them coming out of your ears after a while.

I can understand the need for a warning here, as other members have remarked, since it can contribute to delusions while in the throes of a heavy psychedelic experience. Like RAW would say, its good to try and remain as open and agnostic about it as possible.

Pattern recognition does obviously play a role in noticing synchronicities (or coincidences). But that said, to chalk it all up to "pattern recognition"- which effectively means we're just emphasizing funny chance coincidences - is an attempt to explain it away, and not explain it IMO..despite it being accountable for some instances. When considering how prevalent they have been in peoples current lives and throughout history, the notion that its all due to chance seems to lay far outside that of statistical probabilities i think.

If anyone is interested in this topic and hasn't read it yet, memories, dreams, and reflections by carl jung (who coined the term) is a great book

It's next in line for me, i can't wait to read it. I love carl jung. He is an amazingly interesting person.

I dig the warning to be watchful, you don't want to overemphasize their significance. At some point you start seeing connections that aren't there. We've all had our crazy periods. Whenever i would take mushies there would be so many things that are all related. I am dancing within the narrow confines of real and illusory. Pink floyd songs narrating my immediate observable reality downtown as if they where both one and the same.

Which they did. It still amazes me how these songs would describe perfectly what i am looking at. if i put my mp3 on random, i can recall 30 minutes of absolute weirdness. At some point i could even predict what song would be coming up next.

Now, i've kind of grown out of that stuff. I don't walk around downtown by myself anymore. But i recall Terence Mckenna saying that if you take this stuff out in the world. You are prone to all sorts of weirdness.

These days i'm having more what you could coin as telepathy or mind reading. It happens on a daily basis. Just today i was standing in line at the supermarket and a hot girl was in line in front of me. She was kind of dulled, not moving or looking around, just staring at the counter with an absent mind. I thought to myself. "Wow, sexy" and at that same exact instant she startled. looked around as if she was looking for the pervert who thought she was sexy . I feel kind of bad for her because i pretented to look somewhere else, and she might have thought she's going crazy.

I lie in bed, listening to thoughts enter my mind. When suddenly i hear the thoughts in the sound of my roommate. "Hmm, i'm going to knock on his door". Lo and behold my roommate knocks on the door and i invite him in.

I will have hypnagogic images of my dad texting me on the phone. And 5 seconds later he will call me. I am thinking about my mother in a dream and she calls me awake on the phone. I don't record these events because there are so many of them. And some are so arbitary they don't even add much to my experience except spur some curiousity.

I've had blatant experiences of pure telepathy. Back and forth conversations. Having psychic sex. But i'm trailing off, these aren't quite the same as the synchronisity that BoyPony (funny nick) is talking about. And i admit some of the stuff i am describing is a bit immature. But it happened. I can't just throw it off on the pile of.. Meh, i'll ignore this. It didn't happen. Because it did and it is great fun

I really like this example which is from the Wiki entry on synchronicity:



If I could add that my wife made me a plum pudding this evening that really would be something...but it would also be a lie

"Meaningful coincidences" became quite common when I was in my late teens. I would think of someone and feel they were about to ring me and the phone would ring and it would be that person. A normal reaction is to get excited and rave about how weird it is. I took a view that although it is weird it is also normal and raving about how weird it is takes away from accepting it as normal.

I find it still happens to me but less so now....possibly because I am a family man and social circles are not as wide as they once were...but even now, striking synchronistic events occur...and I just smile, inwardly.

P.S. I have recognised though that distinguishing coincidence from synchronicity is as stick as a plum pudding!

The mp3 thing reminded me of what happened on my last lsd trip. Theres over 1500 songs on mine and in the middle of the trip i turned it on, hit shuffle, and the first song was LSD - by Hallucinogen ^___^

The hypnagogic images that you mention is something that became an everyday occurrence back when i was taking harmalas daily for a year and a half. Some were mundane, some were a bit more freaky (like images of japan tsunami the day before it hit)

Great Stuff Guys!
I'll be willing to bet the synchronicity percentage is WAYYYYY higher with those of us with entheogen experience.....

the plum pudding is a great example and there is something more to that story than just a freaky food coincidence. Jung describes synchronicity as extremely powerful and life changing moments that don't happen often. Not to say that we aren't bombarded by little ones all the time but i am looking for the 'oooh so thats path i am should be on' moments.

Like the dream & archetypal energies it all follows the dramatic structure seen in music and plays. With the path of energy clear at the end.

In my late teens when I started doing psychedelics, I read the Celestine prophecy, that helped trigger a long episode of synchronicities. I was just aware of them all the time. Along with the interesting stuff that comes with it, like telepathy, strange coincidences, Deja vu.

To me it seems that the use of psychedelics triggered this in me years ago, its awesome when I am in the flow of it, its fascinating. But it comes and goes.

When I younger and went to a lot of raves, I would get fully loaded and weird stuff would happen. When I would be standing behind people I would tell them to "turn around" in my head. And 9 times out of 10 it would happen, and I got some weird looks.
My friends and I would come up with ideas to try and test this stuff, like a game.

I had times when I thought I was turning lights on and off with my mind on mushrooms, a group seen it as I was telling them, it was street lights at a car wash, so strange.
It was to real to be a delusion.

The smaller everyday ones haven't been happening to me that much lately. Except the other day, I was scribbling in my journal, and wrote down, Crave new world, as a blog topic idea, with the connection to Brave new world by Adious Huxley.
A co worker walks over and drops here bag on the surface I am writing on, and the book falls out of here bag.

When stuff like this happens it makes me feel like I am on the right path at that moment.


I always see falling stars when important moments are happening in my life or I'm feeling in the flow. I feel the connection to synchronicites through music, as well as body movement. Like through dancing or yoga.

whatever it is, seems psychedelics magnify it.

Been having these a lot lately. The weirdest one was me having a dream about someone telling me I had a flat tire. The following days I remembered I had to check the pressure of my tires since it was a few months ago already. Then two days ago I went straght to the gas station to add pressure and one of my tires was flat... I couldn't believe it.

On one hand it felt like I should've taken my dream more seriously and checked them earlier, but on the other hand it seems as if the dream led me to the gas station to add the pressure leading me to notice the flat tire...

Strange things. Deepak Chopra has a good book on this topic: The Spontaneous Fulfillment Of Desire.