Then when we got to the last question, a different student said, "Four four is a spider!"
"Why is four four a spider?"
"Because a spider has six legs and --"
"Are you sure a spider has six legs?"
"Sorry, I mean a spider has eight legs, and four plus four is eight."
It's such an unlikely mistake to make, particularly in this context. The fact that a spider has eight legs was the whole point, the whole reason spiders were brought up at all, and yet she still said "six."
More subconscious telepathy? Or just the sync fairies trying to drive home the six-legged spider symbol?
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One thing I don't get about these syncs is why sync faries would be allowed to manipulate what someone else says just for your benefit. Drawing your attention to things, sure. Making a kid mess up their numbers? Why?
Also, I can think of plenty of times when a small child has messed up their numbers. It's quite common in my experience. Maybe the kid was counting by twos and spoke just before getting to eight.
-Lucas
Messing up numbers is common enough, but making that specific mistake — saying a spider has six legs — is quite a coincidence.
I tend to think it’s more subconscious telepathy than direct sync-fairy intervention. Search my blog for “whiteboard telepathy” for more examples.
Previously I've set up my Prime Video account for Mum to use via her dinky streaming box. Today she wanted me to poke at it because "it wasn't working earlier" (temporary poor connection, I think) and she wanted to start rewatching a series called Daisy Jones and the Six.
William,
Short and simple:
Maybe the sync fairies wants you to know ; We got your six. ;-)))
I'll leave this here as it seems to most relevant, maybe.
I left some comments about Big Trouble in Little China on your other more recent post. As I mentioned, I have never seen the movie, and when I woke up I was under the belief that it was Patrick Swayze who starred in it. I was wrong, though, as it was Kurt Russell.
That was interesting given Russell's name (with another Red reference) as well as his casting in other relevant movies. Santa and Kris Kringle have come up, for example, and Russell recently played Santa in Christmas Chronicles. On the surface, it seems a strange casting, but my kids over the last several years have enjoyed the the Christmas Chronicles movies - it was probably their most watched holiday movie - and he does a good job as Santa, I have to admit.
However, the Kurt Russell connection strangely took me to another movie. The 1982 movie, The Thing. I thought of it, and remembered that, giving our metamorphosis themes, didn't that movie have men transforming into other things? It does, and I pulled up a clip which involved a 6 legged spider. To add to this, the spider, in story canon called Head Spider, features a head that is upside down, which called to mind the inversion wow/ mom theme.
Here is the clip. It is a bit gross, honestly, but it was interesting with the spider. You can jump to around 2:20 to skip to the spider. Russell's choice of weapon, the Flame Thrower, also caught my attention based on all of the fire symbolism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKH8VjR6muA
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