How To Explain This Phenomenon?

[Pelin]

Okay, so if you've had this feeling before you'll get what I mean.

16 years ago there was a giant earthquake in Turkey and luckily my hometown was not so near. It killed thousands of people.

That night two minutes before the earthquake my mum wakes up to drink some water. She never wakes up in the middle of the night. She feels the earthquake only subtly, wakes my dad but he doesn't care. When she wakes up in the morning she turns on the TV and sees massive destruction. 

Or last night I went to bed at 11. I was waiting for my husband to call me at 12 from abroad but I fell asleep. I woke up from a nightmare at around 3, and my husband called me a minute later.

What is this? Sixth sense? Or collective consciousness? Communication on a subconscious level? Or just pure luck? 

[HereNowThisMoment]

People like patterns and telling ourselves that everything happens for a reason. We try to escape from not-knowing by quickly coming up with a story to "know" what is going on. So synchronicity may be a real phenomenon or it may just be us looking back and connecting dots (I lean more towards the latter belief because it keeps me from forming stories in my head, but even that is still only a belief).