h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A few years ago we went on a family holiday to Scotland. On the day we left, I was quite ill with a fever which was making me have really bad dreams. As the holiday progressed, all the other members of my family came down with the same fever, except my brother. My dad was reading "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett at the time and had some very vivid and unpleasant dreams about being trapped in the plot of the book. Anyway, the holiday was awful as a result.
A few years later, my brother borrowed a copy of "Guards! Guards!" from our local library. The next day, he came down with exactly the same fever we'd all had (but he hadn't) in Scotland three years before.

How do you know it was the same fever...did you have the virus analysed?? It is this sort of generalism that causes all this guff about coincidence. As for happening when the same book was being read..well that's just coincidental...WHOOPS

How do you know it was the same fever...did you have the virus analysed?? It is this sort of generalism that causes all this guff about coincidence. As for happening when the same book was being read..well that's just coincidental...WHOOPS

Okay, so we didn't have it analysed. But it showed the same symptoms - the same sweating, sickness, headache and nightmares. I'm not claiming it was anything but coincidence, but then the topic *was* "Coincidences"...