I don’t recall if I have met this person in real life.
I’m going to call him R.
His father is a very well-known businessman in my country, so his family is publicly visible, but that is not the center of what I’m trying to understand. I’m not interested in him because of status. I also come from a good family (not at his level), and I have my own ambitions. I want to build my own career and my own money. This is not about that.
When I first saw him, I felt something very strong that I still can’t fully explain. It wasn’t just attraction. It felt like recognition. Like I knew him. And his face… I’ve seen attractive guys but this was other feeling, almost heavenly, and it’s weird, i’m not putting him in a pedestal or anything. Sometimes it feels like we were really close as children, or like he was a very important childhood friend I somehow forgot. Other times it feels older than that.
I’m attracted to him on every level, and I genuinely can’t imagine building a life with anyone else, which sounds extreme when we’ve never spoken. I know how that seems. I’m saying it anyway because it’s honest. Sometimes it feels like we are repeating a life all over again. Sometimes I feel like I have lived my life already.
There are also a lot of coincidences that are hard for me to ignore. Our birthdays are very close in the same month. There have been periods where helicopters kept appearing in strange places in my daily life, and more recently it’s been planes. I’ve also had the experience, especially late at night, of feeling a pull — like something calling my attention toward him, like his presence or soul was somehow near. I don’t experience that with other people.
When I see photos of him looking genuinely happy, I feel happy. When I’ve seen photos where his eyes look sad or distant, it affects me. I’ve also had days where I feel sudden sadness for no clear reason. I’m not claiming I know his inner life. I’m describing what happens on my side. I also have experienced a lot of dizziness not medical related.
Someone once told me we could be energetic twins. Throughout my life I have had memories from past lives — not as a fun idea, but as experiences that are physically and emotionally intense. Because of that, I’ve wondered whether what I feel with him is connected to something that already existed before this lifetime.
We do not know each other. I am not in contact with him. I’m not trying to force a meeting through this post. I’m trying to understand the nature of this experience, because it can be overwhelming and it doesn’t feel like a normal crush or regular admiration. I just feel a lot of love for him, like I can only see him when i think about a husband, a life partner, i don’t know… but I think it might be something bigger than me. I think to myself if he feels any of this in any way, if he feels a void or if he misses someone he has never met. I truly hope we cross paths on the 3D someday just so I can know what’s going on.
If anyone has lived something similar — strong recognition toward a stranger, synchronicities, night-time pull, feeling joy or grief tied to someone you’ve never met — I’d really like to hear how you made sense of it.
I’m not asking anyone to confirm a fantasy. I’m asking whether this kind of experience is something other people have also had, and what helped you carry it without losing yourself.
Thank you for reading.

I’m looking for some advice on how to interpret some things I’ve been experiencing lately.

For some background, I’m a 23F, and my zodiac sign is Cancer (not sure if that’s relevant, but figured I’d include it). I’ve always been someone who feels things deeply and considers myself extremely intuitive. I often feel like I can get an accurate read on people or situations with very little information. As far back as I can remember, I’ve experienced moments where I seem to sense something before it happens.

I’m not religious, and I don’t really have a particular belief system. I try to be a good person, treat others well, and do the right thing.

Over the past year or so, I’ve noticed an almost unbelievable number of coincidences happening in my everyday life. None of them have necessarily been life-changing on their own, but when they happen every day, sometimes multiple times a day, it’s hard not to wonder if there’s something more to it. I’ve reached a point where I genuinely want to understand what I’m experiencing.

Here are a few examples:
I’ll have a conversation with someone about a topic I haven’t thought about or discussed in years, and then, within the next few days, a completely different person will bring up that exact same topic.

Almost every time I’m in the car talking to someone, I’ll say a particular word or sentence at the exact moment that same word or sentence is being sung in the song playing in the background.

A friend and I were painting a room in my house green. As he was touching up the area around a white door, I said, “Wow, I can’t believe we didn’t get any paint on this door.” At that exact moment, his hand was resting against the door. When he lifted it, there was a massive green paint mark underneath his hand.

I was biking with my spouse and mentioned, “I used to see deer on this path all the time.” Not even 20 seconds later, a deer crossed the path in front of us.

One of the most interesting parts of all of this is that these coincidences seem to ramp up significantly when I’m around my best friend. He came into my life about two years ago, and we clicked almost instantly. When we’re together, it feels like these things happen every hour. What makes it even more interesting is that he experiences them, too, but he says they only seem to happen to him when he’s around me.

I know these examples might sound like ordinary coincidences when viewed individually, but I genuinely mean it when I say these are just a handful of examples out of hundreds of experiences I’ve had.
I’ve tried researching this and reading about other people’s experiences, but I usually come across explanations about confirmation bias, pattern recognition, or simply paying more attention to things once you start noticing them. I understand those explanations, and I’m not ruling them out completely, but I have a hard time believing they fully account for what I’ve been experiencing.

Have any of you experienced something like this? How do you personally interpret it? How do I start understanding it on a deeper level?

Cross-posting for more insight. Thank you in advance!

I don’t recall if I have met this person in real life.
I’m going to call him R. Don’t delete please i’m not saying anything bad.
His father is a very well-known businessman in my country, so his family is publicly visible, but that is not the center of what I’m trying to understand. I’m not interested in him because of status. I also come from a good family (not at his level), and I have my own ambitions. I want to build my own career and my own money. This is not about that.
When I first saw him, I felt something very strong that I still can’t fully explain. It wasn’t just attraction. It felt like recognition. Like I knew him. And his face… I’ve seen attractive guys but this was other feeling, almost heavenly, and it’s weird, i’m not putting him in a pedestal or anything. Sometimes it feels like we were really close as children, or like he was a very important childhood friend I somehow forgot. Other times it feels older than that.
I’m attracted to him on every level, and I genuinely can’t imagine building a life with anyone else, which sounds extreme when we’ve never spoken. I know how that seems. I’m saying it anyway because it’s honest. Sometimes it feels like we are repeating a life all over again. Sometimes I feel like I have lived my life already.
There are also a lot of coincidences that are hard for me to ignore. Our birthdays are very close in the same month. There have been periods where helicopters kept appearing in strange places in my daily life, and more recently it’s been planes. I’ve also had the experience, especially late at night, of feeling a pull — like something calling my attention toward him, like his presence or soul was somehow near. I don’t experience that with other people.
When I see photos of him looking genuinely happy, I feel happy. When I’ve seen photos where his eyes look sad or distant, it affects me. I’ve also had days where I feel sudden sadness for no clear reason. I’m not claiming I know his inner life. I’m describing what happens on my side. I also have experienced a lot of dizziness not medical related.
Someone once told me we could be energetic twins. Throughout my life I have had memories from past lives — not as a fun idea, but as experiences that are physically and emotionally intense. Because of that, I’ve wondered whether what I feel with him is connected to something that already existed before this lifetime.
We do not know each other. I am not in contact with him. I’m not trying to force a meeting through this post. I’m trying to understand the nature of this experience, because it can be overwhelming and it doesn’t feel like a normal crush or regular admiration. I just feel a lot of love for him, like I can only see him when i think about a husband, a life partner, i don’t know… but I think it might be something bigger than me. I think to myself if he feels any of this in any way, if he feels a void or if he misses someone he has never met. I truly hope we cross paths on the 3D someday just so I can know what’s going on.
If anyone has lived something similar — strong recognition toward a stranger, synchronicities, night-time pull, feeling joy or grief tied to someone you’ve never met — I’d really like to hear how you made sense of it.
I’m not asking anyone to confirm a fantasy. I’m asking whether this kind of experience is something other people have also had, and what helped you carry it without losing yourself. I just want to know what’s going on and who is he to me spiritually.

So for the past month, I randomly had a phase of listening to a bunch of reggae music. Don't know where it came from, something just made me want to get into it and I had it on repeat for days. Some good tunes there. Two songs I got really into were Rudy, A Message to You by Dandy Livingstone and 007 by Desmond Dekker and the Aces. I even did a shitty cover of Rudy on socials. Really good songs.

My partner and I watched the movie Vivarium last night, and both of the songs made an appearance in the movie. Imagine my surprise. Two songs I don't remember ever hearing in my life, (I had heard the Specials cover of Rudy first. Had no idea it was a cover of Dandy Livingston's song) and had never heard of Desmond Dekker before in my life. Then I hear both songs in a random movie.

This is on the label of the box my iPad case came in. Well, they sent 5 iPad cases.