Similar to Jessie’s experience, and yet infinitely more disturbing, I have glanced at a clock and noticed the time at 11:42 five times in the last three days. Five times. My own subconscious mind is no doubt to blame, but that makes it no less weird. The fact is, two people — one across the continent, the other across the globe — can effect my subconscious in this way, just through their writing on webpages.

After much gnashing of teeth, I still can’t decide whether this means I’m spending too much time on the internet, or if this sort of thing must just be endemic to the weblog/journal/diary set. So solve my problem for me: have you, personally noticed this or related phenomena in your own life? Have you ever belatedly realized that the seed of some action you’ve taken lay in a webpage you had read? Am I just losing all pretense of a grip on reality?
Discuss.