Is synchronicity real?

Today an 80s song I was listening to on my iPod triggered a whole influx of emotions that led me to call an old friend. To our surprise, it turns out she'd been listening to that band's other hit just a few days ago. Synchronicity?

I have a very simple explanation to that recurring but unexplained phenomenon. Reality is a connected network of information, behaving according to a certain logic. In other words, every event has a certain meaning when considered alongside any other set of events. Our limited minds are able to grasp but an infinitesimal fraction of the whole network. What we call causality is the manifestation of this connectedness between events that are related by short chains, whose intermediate nodes are all understood by us. But when the chains get longer, we lose our ability to track the whole graph. However, there is no reason to suppose (beyond mere presumption) that causality stops at the threshold of our cognition. Thus, synchronicity refers to our sudden awareness of two or more events that are obviously linked (they have meaning together) although the complete chain is beyond the grasp of our minds. Furthermore, *any* two or more events are linked, but we most often can't even see their meaning, let alone the logical chain that binds them.

So relax, we live in a synchronous world. It's better that way.