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Starting from age 10 when I choked and had a stranger save my life. There's been 5 instances and they all dressed like this:

Gold chain necklace

Gold earrings

Tracksuit top + tracksuit bottoms that match in colour

High end trainers

Baseball cap

They come out of nowhere to just help me. One time I was feeling unwell and one came up to me out of nowhere to ask if I needed an ambulance. I had no phone on me, and sure enough I was close to fainting (am diabetic)

I live in the UK in case there might be some spiritual/psychic significance to this

In the UK that style/combination is considered unusual/specific

All of them were white

They all looked like different/individual people

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[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 41 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I mean there are four possibilities:

  1. you're making this up
  2. you genuinely think this happened, but it didn't somehow.
  3. this did happen but it was a really odd coincidence, which can happen, we're 9 billion people after all
  4. there is a cabal of time travelers who saved you specifically. Which would be cool.

Not that weird all things considered. Don't worry about it.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

5. This is a reflection of the tendency of this particular social group (chavs? Not a Brit spotting expert) to spot and act immediately in response to emergencies rather than ignoring it, waiting for others to act, or pulling out a phone to film

6. Something else we haven’t thought of

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

we're 9 billion people

Either you're a time traveller, you like heavy rounding up or you know something the easily accessible parts of the Internet don't. Averaging the first three sites* that turned up in a search puts it around 8.25 billion at the time of writing

* Worldometer ~8.26b, The World Counts ~8.11b and Country Meters ~8.34b

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly thank you. Probably would happen all the time at 9 billion.

But 8.26 billion? Fuck outta here never going to happen, just too small of a group

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 11 hours ago

Hey man, the line's gotta be somewhere, right? :p

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

future proofing the comment for the next decade or so?