[kirklancaster]

I had another 'weird' experience of 'synchronicity' on New Years Eve day, which I wasn't going to post because of much heated controversy when I posted similar incredible but perfectly true phenomena in an earlier thread, but because this incident was followed by an equally weird example of 'Deja Vu' yesterday morning, I cannot resist posting for your comments.

The first example of 'synchronicity' was witnessed by 6 people, and the second of 'Deja Vu' was witnessed by my wife and her sister.

On the morning of the 31st of December, I was 'chilling' at home with my wife and two other couples, and at around 12.30 I switched the T.V. to the racing channel for me Dean and Ben to watch while our three partners went into the kitchen to make coffee and snacks where they remained to carry on chatting.

Dean had already placed horseracing bets that morning at his home via his online bookies account, but none on any races at Punchestown in Ireland, and I had not even looked at horseracing for weeks.

Then the 1.45 race at Punchestown came on and my attention was immediately drawn to the rank outsider in the field - a horse called; 'He'llberemembered' at odds of 33/1. I had a persistent strong intuition that this horse was going to win and I told Dean to back it.

I have had these inexplicable strong intuitions many times before and I immediately went onto my own online account and placed an each way bet on the horse at 33/1 even though there was a strong 7/4 favourite in the field and despite there being only 2 places.

Dean knows all about my 'intuition' as he's been my friend for years, so he used my laptop to place a sizable win bet on the horse as he never backs each way.

And here comes the really weird part; just before the race was due to be off Dean went to the downstairs cloaks which was through the kitchen and through the utility room, and as he walked past the women who were seated chatting over coffee, he overheard his own girlfriend saying; "yeah, but he'll be remembered for all the right reasons".

Now, Dean knows all about 'synchronicity' from me and has witnessed many occasions when it has happened, so he immediately doubled back and told us about what had happened as he hurriedly placed another win bet on the horse. He then continued to the toilet.

(It later transpired that the women had been discussing Cliff Richard and the damage the sex allegation had on his image.)

Dean returned as the runners were off and he jokingly warned me that I'd better be right with my 'intuition' and my theories on 'synchronicity'.

The race was quite eventful; the strong favourite fell, and our 33/1 rank outsider was in a thrilling finish with 'Sadler's Risk' - a strongly fancied 7/2 shot - only to lose by a 'head' in a photo finish and come second.

I was OK each way, but Dean had lost, and though he was quite philosophical about it and blamed himself for not backing it each way at those huge odds, he did 'rib' me about my intuition that the horse would 'win'.

Now here's the perfectly true, really weirdest part of all - later that day, it was announced that the horse who had won the race; Sadler's Risk, was disqualified due to having carried 4lb less weight than he should have, and the runner up, 'He'llbe remembered' was promoted to winner.

The ensuing cheering from my front room could have been heard a mile away, and the girls came in to see what the fuss was about. Marie - Dean's girlfriend - was so pleased that she had played a part in this win that she immediately commandeered most of his winnings.

Here's the result copied and pasted from the Racing Post:

Race Result Punchestown Wed, 31st Dec, 2014
2m. 4f. Hurdle.

1st hd He'llberemembered (IRE) 11-9 (Mrs Mary Lett)
SP 33/1
P G Fahey
J J Burke(3)

settled behind leaders, slight mistake 3rd, left 3rd at 5th, mistake 4 out, slight mistake 3 out, ridden into 2nd entering straight, challenged last, disputed run-in and kept on well, just held home (promoted to 1st)

Now, I wasn't going to relate the above true incident, because of being called everything from a liar to an over imaginative dreamer in my last genuine post on synchronicity, but Dean, Marie, Ben, Hayley and my wife all say that they will join TIBB just to confirm this - and other weird occurrences they've witnessed with me and synchronicity (for want of a better term), then a very real incident of 'Deja Vu' which occurred yesterday determined me to 'post and be damned'.

My wife Tracy, and Marie and me, were sprawled (on separate sofas) watching a film - 'Con Air' with Nicolas Cage - when Tracy made a remark about John Malkovich who plays 'Cyrus The Virus. I immediately had that strange sensation which we call 'Deja Vu' and told them so, adding that the postman comes and pushes a huge amount of mail through the door, and within a minute that's exactly what happened; the postman came and huge amounts of mail thudded onto the hall floor through the letterbox.

Synchronicity and Deja Vu. Reasonable, non-aggressive responses please, especially from anyone who has also experienced these phenomena too.