*click* turn on radio

“HOLY SHIT!!! It’s on three stations at once!”

-tc

Please, do tell…

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/02/12/music/

If you believe in telepathy

I not only believe in it, I’ve experienced it.

then the song on the radio you could be picking up telepathically from someone who is listening to the same station.

I hate when people bring up Occam’s razor, but which one is a simpler explanation - that you’re brain can interpret radio waves directly, or that your brain can pick up other people’s brains who are hearing those radio waves converted by a radio?

Dottie’s comment: that is like Jung’s theory of collective conscious (I think that’s what it was called), also reminds me a bit of the 100th Monkey Phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_Monkey

One thing to note, as I realize how little I actually listen to the ‘radio’ anymore - this happens a lot when I’m listening to my mp3 collection on shuffle, so the radio signal idea - though it makes sense and could be part of what’s happening - doesn’t account for all cases.

Another very common experience of similar nature happens when I’m in the same room with someone. I’ll thinkof “the next thing I’m gonna say,” toss the idea/wording/thoughts around in my head for a few moments, and then BAM — just when I open my mouth to say it, they beat me to it.

These instnaces remind me of what Rupert Sheldrake calls “morphic resonance” — which is the exact same phenomenon described in Waking Life (first comment posted).

My personal interpretation, perhaps borrowed from Sheldrake’s idea, has to do with these “ideas” existing in (what I think SHeldrake calls) “the field” — from where we pull these thoughts/ideas, consciously or unconsiously.

I like how this can work on a small level (two people talking) or a huge level (an entire society/culture). In Stephen Pressfield’s book “The War of Art,” he describes how the Muses are whispering in all of our ears all the time. The ideas they whisper may often be the same… but for the most part none of us are consciously able to “hear.” Here is the excerpt:

The timeless communicating to the timebound.

By Blake’s model, as I understand it, it’s as though the Fifth Symphony existed already in that higher sphere, before Beethoven sat down and played dah-dah-dah-DUM. The catch was this: the work only existed as potential — without a body, so to speak. It wasn’t music yet. You couldn’t play it. You couldn’t hear it.

It needed someone. It needed a corporeal being, a human, an artist (or more precisely a genius, in the Latin sense of “soul” or “animating spirit”) to bring it into being on this material plane. So the Muse whispered in Beethoven’s ear. Maybe she hummed a few bars into a million other ears. But no one else heard her. Only Beethoven got it.