Lately in my practice or, more precisely, in my daily life around fairly regular and intensive practice, I am observing weird little synchronicities around time. Maybe "synchronicity" is not quite the right word, but it all kind of revolves around the mind seemingly knowing what time it is. Shaun, on his thread, often reports looking at a clock and it will have some freaky "magic" time value (like "12:12", or whatever). In my case, it is more focused on knowing the time before I look. Many, many times I have wanted to look at my meditation timer, for example, only to find the bell will be ringing within the next 30-60 seconds. Or, I will wake up and look at my clock, to discover that the alarm will be going off within the next five minutes. What makes me think this is not just habit is the fact that from day to day, my alarm is set to different times depending on whether my wife has to get to train a client or not. And my sitting times vary based on how much time I have available. Then there is the thing I have reported lately of me often getting strong contractions at roughly the same time in longer sits.
How does the mind do that? Not really expecting an answer, it would be interesting to hear other experiences, and thoughts on what is going on.