synchronicity;

"a woman with a very strong power complex, and a "devouring attitude toward people, dreamt of seeing three tigers seated threateningly in front of her. her analyst pointed out the meaning of the dream and through casual arguments tried to make her understand the devouring attitude she thus displayed. later in the day the patient and her friend, while strolling along lake zurich, noticed a crowd gazing at three tigers in a barn - most unusual inhabitants for a swiss barn!

the three tigers were in the barn because a circus was spending the night in town. however, as franz points out, 'the highly improbable coincidence of the inner and outer tigers in this woman's life...inevitably struck her as more than mere chance and somehow as meaningful.' that is, a synchronicity."