The Coincidental Flutes

I hesitated to write about this topic because it’s just so strange. Back in the middle of November, on Sunday and Monday November 12th and 13th to be exact, I had recurring daydreams about a rather odd image: I pictured myself playing a flute. The flute was sort of a bamboo style, the kind you would imagine a monk from an old kung fu movie would play. This was a little weird but seemed harmless, I thought it was kind of amusing but just random. I could not understand why I was thinking about it.

The strange thing is: later that week I visited Seth Godin’s blog, and saw that earlier on Sunday and Monday he had posted a couple of items about flutes. He was puzzled by having seen two separate commuters in traffic that day, who were both playing the flute while driving. Later someone sent him a painting that depicted a man playing the flute in his car. He was a little disturbed about this and half-jokingly speculated that there was some worldwide underground movement of flute-playing drivers.

Even weirder, is that lately I have been listening to Seth Godin’s marketing audiobooks “Small is the New Big” and “All Marketers are Liars” very often. I really like his way of looking at the world. He does his own reading in the audiobooks, and his voice doesn’t have the generic professional voiceover person tone that can put me to sleep.

I wonder if listening to his voice through my iPod for hours on end, and getting in tune with his way of thinking, somehow enabled a transfer of this bizarre flute motif into my mind? Yes, I know that sounds pretty wacky, but come on: how often would you expect to be thinking about a subject like flute playing while at the same time an author you listen to is writing about recurring flutes in his daily life?

If (and I do say IF) some sort of telepathy is the explanation, I just wish that something more practical would have been the subject. :)

Written by Parker on December 3rd, 2006 with comments disabled.
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