Totally wierd if you ask me - I'm always having this stuff happening albeit I'm more in tune with radio rather than TV . I can't remember the amount of times I've thought if a tune, and 2 minutes later it's blaring out the radio. Even wierder is when I change the radio station and that tune is already playing.... Stranger still is that my nose grows when I lie....?.
regarding the radio, the tunes that radios usually play are the same ones over and over again, so they can penetrate people's heads and make them like the tune. the same song will be played at least 10 times within the same day on any given station. The reason that you might have "hummed" a tune, is because subconsiously you heard the song so many times, and it was time for the song to be played again. I hum punk/punk rock tunes, but I ll be damned if I ever hear those on most radio stations. The "luckiest" thing that has happened to me, music-wise, and quite often, is to get a specific song to come up in my ipod/winamp etc, although there's something like 30 gb of songs Another thing I find VERY odd is that I tend to listen to the SAME track at the same locations I heard them last time. eg: Near the cathedral (ipod on shuffle) song A might be played, almost everyday, so I skip it. Moments later, near the Building Y , song B might be playing, as it was yesterday, and the day before etc.
It might be cognitive dissonance. Thats a condition we covered in Psychology class where someone would COMPLETELY forget who they were, where they lived, and other things, for no apparant reason at all. Some of them can retain other pieces of info, like how to play a piano, but other than that, they get turned into completely different people. I'm not sure if Cognitive Dissonance is reversible or not, but it is EXTREMELY rare.
Yeah it is all statistics and probabilities. People think of the few times where they've predicted the future, but they aren't weighing it against the millions of other times when random thoughts and events didn't match up at all. Today I thought about a joke in the Simpsons but it wasn't on the Simpson's show I saw. I thought about a friend but I didn't run into him. I thought about a song that I didn't hear on the radio. Etc....
Maybe its the Wayne Dyer in me (If you haven't, I recommend checkin out his readings, I found them to be very good), but I think these so-called coincedences are not really coincedences at all. I think this is just another example of how the universe works and how interconnected the people and everything else of this planet is. I really no longer believe in luck or coincedences. I've found that things always find a way to work themselves out and that the more I've been aware of this concept, the more instances that come up that most would label as "luck" or a "coincedence". Its really quite neat. And another fascinating point I have is that the more I try to focus on others and giving back to the community (even if its something small, like a donation, or holding the door for someone), the more it seems to flow back to me. Its really quite intriguing. And for those that don't exactly agree, I highly urge you to go out, and for a few weeks try focusing more on doing good for others, you'll see how it pours back to you. Although, your focus should not be on receiving something in return, it just happens to be a by-product of how the world works. Plus, then your negating the purpose of doing something good...