Dabai wrote:

So yesterday I was helping my Chinese student pick an English name ( I live in China). I have recently been on a video game fix so I thought about Mario. Then I told hom how cool this guy was he has a dinosaur pet. And then the thought came to me how about Yoshi? Before I could even express it in speech my coworker said the exact same sentence. However, being oblivious to videogames , he was referencing the name of my ex who had the English name Yoshi ( I know its actually JPNese but whatever.) i sat there in total surprise. In two different complete contexts a coworker and I had come to the same thought.

 
Very cool story! Did you manifest a few extra lives as well?