“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. When you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” — Frank Ocean

The quote above describes the phenomena when you hear the lyrics of a song for the first time even though you've already heard it thousands of times before. That can be classified as a synchronous event, particularly if it provides you with insight you either consciously or even unconsciously needed. Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychiatrist, observed that as his patients began to heal, they would experience more synchronicity in their lives. He more specifically defined them as an “acausal connecting principle” or “meaningful coincidences” because they are connected by meaning rather than cause and effect. One explanation for this is that as you're healing, you're likely slowing down and therefore have more highly attuned sensory awareness providing guidance for your true path. There's actually a neurological explanation for this, and may even potentially involve quantum physics. Jung believed the merging of an internal state with an external event was a positive sign on the journey towards wholeness. He went even further calling this “unus mundus” suggesting that mind and matter are one, and that synchronicities occur when the illusory boundary between the two dissolves.

One personal experience I had which was very impactful occurred in the waiting room of a doctor's office after seeking answers for almost two years. At the time I thought it signified I had finally been directed to the correct specialty and would finally get a diagnosis. As it turned out, I was right on the first account, but the answers did not come that day. It would in fact be more than two years later. Nevertheless, I had a deep reassurance of the nature of the problem even if I didn't yet have a name or explanation for it. While I didn't share my experience with physicians as the basis to push my belief, I did hold on to it to maintain resolve along the way.