I don't watch Law and Order usually I turn to another program when its on. One night I chose a book to read during commercials, that's a nasty habit, but that's what I do I read during commercials. This particular book had been in my garage in a box, I don't know how long but I noticed it several times, and intended to read it, someday. Then one I day I brought it into the house, where it laid around again for some time. So that night I began to read it and was so interested in it I didn't notice Law and Order had begun, until suddenly the words on my television intruded into my mind. Suddenly I heard: "Do you recognize anyone?" I looked up and saw a picture and a name below it that I recognized. This happened in the briefest glance, because the scene was only a couple of seconds duration, I recognized immediately a name: Andrew Samuels.
That was the name of the author of the book I had in my hand, The Plural Psyche by Jungian author, Andrew Samuels. A book I'd owned for some time, I don't remember how long, just happened to have a picture on a page from a year book that was part of a fictional drama, that I recognized when the television spoke the words: "Do you recognize anyone?" The script was asking a question about a character in the drama, Fiona Reid (Reed) but in my first glance I did recognize someone, but it was not Fiona Reid. It was the name under the picture next to hers in the year book that I saw in that first glance. I thought I was imagining it until this episode seemed to repeat so often when I flipped through channels that I copied it on my camcorder.
What kind of coincidence is that? It seems to me at my age and with my history (one radio in the house was a miracle) very odd that a search on the name Fiona Reid, a fictional character in a TV show can be done! Jungian author Andrew Samuels' name may have been accidentally selected, or another person had the same name in that year book. But to me it was an almost unbelievable precisely timed coincidence. I don't know how anyone can explain that, but sometimes watch Law and Order now, and I own that season on DVD now.