coincidence

There's nothing quite like a good old AskReddit thread that's filled with just the kind of crazy coincidences that can lead you to question the very fabric of reality. Life is far stranger than we regularly give it credit for. Maybe you've already experienced your own moment of synchronicity where things lined up in such a manner that it almost felt like the whole thing was planned all along by an unseen force. 

We're supposed to believe that every weird occurrence has a totally logical explanation. However, sometimes we find ourselves in insane coincidences, rare and unlikely moments, or have some strange, unexplainable life moment that just freaks us out so much that it's impossible to find a satisfactory explanation. Sometimes things just happen and we have to deal with that.

Sometimes everyday life gets altered in a way that makes us think we're living in a simulation. Sometimes it's just a creepy moment, sometimes it's a strange coincidence. Either way, sometimes something so strange or unlikely happens that we just have to wonder if we're living in a boring, crappy matrix.

We like to think we're in control of our own lives, but that's not always the case. We do our best to stay out of trouble, but sometimes it's just up to chance, or someone else's intervention that we don't end up stepping into a pit of snakes. One missed bus or the decision to have cake instead of pie can lead to some missed bullets or crazy butterfly effect situations.

People have done stupid things for a long time and it doesn't seem like we're gonna stop anytime soon. History lets us see some of humanity's highlights when it comes to making irreparable mistakes, doing weird garbage, and getting killed in idiotic ways. Here are some history memes to feel smart about as well as some of the great trollings of history.

There are a lot of moments from history that not only sound unbelievably coincidental, incredible and stupid, but also so contrived that if it were to happen in fiction you wouldn't be able to suspend your disbelief. There were baboon railway controllers, great molasses floods and foulmouthed parrots. Here are some more history things, like the importance of mundane people in history, the spikey insanity of the lantern shield, and crazy "I'll do it myself" moments in history.

Sometimes it's too hard to fight your brain, and you just have to accept that you thought the top some lady's head looks like Oscar the grouch. These and other double-take-inducing photos of skewed perspective are enough to make you think about whether or not your eyes are actually on your side.

A combination of intriguing coincidences and also a whole lot of horrible crap happening on the same day or even at the same moment. For fans of chance, here are some incredibly unlikely moments that went against all odds. For fans of terrible crap happening, here are times misfortune threw folks for a loop.

These unlikely moments vary in their likelihood as well as their severity. Sure, a guy amazingly surviving an explosion and a picture of four dogs all taking a dump at the same time are on different levels completely, but you can't say they're not both rare. There's just something so cool-feeling about unlikely moments that go against all odds.

Statistics don't lie. Even though it's super unlikely, some some super unlikely stuff is just bound to happen. Whether it's stuff falling in a weird pattern, simultaneous lightnings strikes, or strange personal connections, there will be moments that go against all odds. Call it luck, faith, destiny, the will of the universe or whatever, the world is big and a lot of interesting things happen in it.

Life is doling out bad hands, but luckily your number doesn't come up every day. Here's some highly varied "bad times" other people are having.

You don't get a lot of opportunities to take photos like these. Whether it's just a rare thing, a type of perspective you never see, or just sheer coincidence, all you can say is "cool." Here are some wonderful photos taken at the exact moment of failure.

Just because something is statistically improbable doesn't mean there's no way of it happening. When you consider how many people there are living their own individual lives, the possibility of something improbable happening between them, at least once, becomes a near certainty. Chance is a real mofo. And in case you wanted to see how unlucky people can get, here are some more stories.

As bad as things get, which they do very often, we're still impressed by incredible coincidences that just seem to happen all the time. It's not every day that you meet someone who played such an important role in your past. This is the stuff that hearts were warmed from. If you're in the market for some more wholesome stuff, here's a guy realizing his neighbor Gene is cooler than he expected.

Surprisingly, a few of these people actually got real, concrete answers to the strange things they witnessed. The rest are just left to imagine why they saw some crazy unexplainable phenomenon. Most of the time the world makes sense. Then there's the other times.

Most wrong numbers end in a very awkward "sorry" or a "you're not my son!" But sometimes, the stars line up just right and some stranger magic happens. Good thing these people didn't pay attention to their dialing, because without their mistake we wouldn't have these wonderful gems right here.