DATE: <$BlogItemDate$> 2/09/2007 09:25:00 AM
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    TITLE:Green flash
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    <div style="clear:both;"></div>There was a trailer for something on TV a couple of days ago. I think it might have been an advert for one of these free film DVDs  you get with weekend papers. Anyway, there was a clip of a sunset, and as the sun went down over the horizon, it flashed bright green, just before it disappeared.

How strange. I thought that maybe it was some weird video artifact, or maybe it was an arty film in which the green sun was some kind of meaningful symbol.

This morning though, I was reading my book on the bus as I usually do and it started talking about the sun's 'green flash'. Sure enough, it's a <a href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/redsun.html">real effect</a>.

I was vaguely disquieted by this coincidence, as I am by all proper coincidences. Was it really possible that the green flash I'd noticed on the screen, and then soon after read about was a simple coincidence, or was there more to it? I have a bad habit of flicking through books to see what develops later on. Maybe I'd picked up on the 'green flash' without realising and had become 'primed' to notice the green flash on the TV trailer.

Either way, it's vaguely disquieting. Recently I started humming "Honey to the Bee" by Billie Piper. I was doing the dishes at the time, and hadn't heard it anywhere for it to pop into my head. I couldn't work out why I was suddenly humming this tune.

Later on I went back into the kitchen and noticed a jar of honey on the window sill. It was a small terracotta pot with the words 'Bee Honey' painted on it in white. It seems that my unconscious mind was paying more attention than I was.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div>
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