I frequently have experiences where I’ll think something and it’ll happen, like “I haven’t heard from x in a while” and a few minutes later an email from them a

I frequently have experiences where I’ll think something and it’ll happen, like “I haven’t heard from x in a while” and a few minutes later an email from them arrives. There’s lots of rational explanations (like, if I was thinking about them then whatever inspired my thinking could have inspired theirs) but it’s to the point where it happens so frequently that if one day it’s plausibly demonstrated that we are in a simulation or there’s some mystical way that we can influence the universe, I’d believe it. The more this happens, the more I understand how people end up believing in manifestation and the like. Obviously it’s not true, but my dumb lizard brain cannot help but believe the pattern has some meaning.