Psychology: Apophenia Vs. Synchronicity

[OsirianDawn]

So what's the difference between apophenia and synchronicity?

"Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data." - Wikipedia

"Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events, that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner." - Wikipedia

Metaphysical Assumptions of Science - there is no meaning outside of the human perception of meaning
Metaphysical Assumptions of Spiritualism (and it's many forms) - everything has implicit meaning, the world speaks in symbols

So is the concept of synchronicity just a jazzed up version of apophenia? Or is apophenia the beta version of synchronicity? Or are they completely different types of experience? ... Or something else?

 

[Sticki]

I think Apophenia is applied more so to the individual and is more to do with finding hidden codes or meanings in the geometry of shells or stones or anything else for that matter really. Something like a code breaker would see the corrolation between repeditive lines to understand the key.

Synchronicity is more to do with events and can some times effect groups rather then individuals. One some what famous synchronicity is the "11:11" on a digital clock is supposedly linked with the spiritual awakening. Goodness knows where it came from but the Synchronicity aspect is it happens every day or every few days at the same time.