How did I end up in the sync-stream anyway?

I wasn't always a sync magnet. As Bruce Charlton wrote in early 2024:

William James Tychonievich

Once blogged on matters Mormonish

But since his dreams achieved lucidity

It's 24/7 "synchronicity".

I've always taken note of striking coincidences when they come my way, but until a few years ago I experienced far, far fewer of them. I've never experienced an actual lucid dream, but taken somewhat less literally, Bruce's clerihew is accurate. At some point, a psychological switch was flipped -- metaphorically, my "dreams achieved lucidity" -- and since then I've been experiencing striking coincidences pretty much nonstop. This blog is now essentially a sync blog, with only occasional posts on other topics.

I remember that back in 2009 and 2010, during they heyday of Internet synchromysticism, I followed several sync blogs with a mixture of interest and a certain envy. I wanted to experience sync, too, but despite a concerted effort to keep my eyes open for any and all coincidences, I just almost never did experience it. It's hard to imagine now, but not that long ago I was frustrated by the lack of synchronicity in my life.

What happened between then and now, and when exactly did it happen, and why? I'm going to be going through my old notes and blog posts to try to figure that out.