https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_of_reference_and_delusions_of_reference

“Many people suffer from a relatively delusional relationship with patterns in phenomenon. Some of these associate metaphysical significance with these creative misrelations, and some of that… goes on to become psychosis.

Coincidence is unlike our common imaginings and absurd projections. It is not merely the existence of a pattern, and our own minds and orientations are profoundly involved whether it is something authentic or invented.”

— an a i