Synchronicity?

I’m fascinated by numbers. I have been for most of my life — at least as long as I can remember — and patterns in numbers, like the Fibonacci sequence tie in to my interest in unusual coincidence or synchronicity.

Wikipedia defines synchronicity as…

“…the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.”

Carl Gustav Jung is credited with the first professional studies of synchronicity in his work on the dynamics of the psyche in the 1920s but, no doubt, people have observed and wondered about the phenomenon since first becoming aware of cause and effect.

Lora and I have discussed an interesting relationship in numbers we noticed not long after first meeting. If you consider a simple number line displaying whole numbers from zero to nine:

If you select number pairs starting with zero and skipping the next number, then one, etc, like this:

02, 13, 24, and on to 79,

and then reverse the digits in the pairs, like this:

20, 31, 42, and on to 97,

you will find the difference between the respective pairs in each of the two lists is 18.

The interesting bit in all of this, to Lora and I at least, is that is the number of years between us. When she was 2 I was 20. When she was 24 I was 42. She will be 46 when I am 64.

How we stumbled upon this concept is as much a mystery as the numbers themselves and it has held our attention for nearly ten years now. We do know that the number line doesn’t work this way for everyone — for almost no one — so what, if anything, does this mean? Your comments, ideas, and suggestions will be appreciated.