Universe conspires for those who dream and work towards it

From a psychological standpoint it definitely seems that way. When you desperately want something you focus on that particular thing a lot more. Your mind fires more electrical impulses in that direction making your subconscious passively take more actions towards it. You’ll talk about it more, research it more, and think about it more, all passively. Over time this actually changes your brain patterns as more connections are formed surrounding your desires, allowing for easier and more frequent access. But what really makes a difference is what happens beyond that. A snowball effect turns into what is known as a “self-fulfilling prophecy”, which basically means that as you pay way more attention to the things that are in line with what you want, and ignore things that are not, you create more chances to actually get what you want.

Your brain cannot relay every little bit of information to the conscious mind, so it chooses to relay the important pieces, namely the ones you have thought about the most. Think of your brain as a highway system. While you consciously can use every road, even the unused dirt roads, subconsciously your brain will tend to use the pathways that have been more frequently used and turned into highways. When you focus on what you want, whenever you see something that is in line with what you want, that information gets transferred to your conscious mind.

Your mind starts to view it as important enough to bring it from dealing with it subconsciously to dealing with it consciously. You see this and add it as another piece of proof that the universe conspires to make it happen for you. This leaves you with a very skewed perspective in this regard because in your own reality it really appears that the universe conspires to make things happen for you when all you did was shift your perspective. Suddenly you only see proof supporting that you can get what you want and even if a piece of information comes through that could disprove this, your mind either leaves it in your subconscious or ignores it completely.

In Psychology this is known as “Confirmation Bias”. That doesn’t mean that the universe actually does or does not conspire to make your dream a reality. The truth is: We think it does because that is what we see, but we cannot know. It’s like we are looking at a car from only one side and are asked whether or not it is a beautiful car. From our side: Yes. But the objective truth may be that the half we are looking at is new, while the other half is a complete wreck. We cannot know.

Maybe you get more opportunities or maybe you just are aware of the opportunities you receive and unaware of the ones that pass you by. Maybe people around you actually do help you to get you to your goal or maybe your mind just interprets it as such. One cannot be sure which one is real and which one is not. But since you cannot know for certain what is true and what isn’t ask yourself this: What would you rather believe? I like to believe that the universe does conspire to make my dreams a reality. This makes me more confident, I feel generally a lot more energetic and motivated and I believe that will make me more likely to actually see my dreams become a reality.

Over time this will change it into a Confirmation Bias where I will see more proof of it, and that will then become a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. I do not know if the universe truly does conspire to make things happen for me, but I chose to believe it because it does a lot more for me than to believe otherwise. Therefore such a massive object such as the universe conspiring to make an event happen for a single person seems unfathomable! Anyway I believe what you meant is : “ When someone wants something to happen very much, does the environment around him conspire to help him achieve his goal?”

This answer is slightly different from the other answers written about this topic. While most of the answers talk about religion and philosophy, there is a rather simple explanation for this phenomenon. Philosophers reason their arguments based on the “law of attraction”. Basically this law states that by focusing one’s positive or negative thoughts, a person can bring positive or negative experiences into their life. Thinking from a rationalist’s point of view, this argument seems a little far-fetched . How can thoughts turn into experiences?

This is where behavioral psychology comes in. It tells us that the thoughts that we have daily contribute to our actions and those actions becomes experiences. For example, let’s look at certain experiences that most of us have faced in our lives. If suppose a boys likes a girl, then he will try to impress her in various ways. If he eventually gets his girl, then it’s because he has changed himself to impress the girl. His friends may help him a little, but eventually it’s the boy’s character and appearance that impresses the girl. So in short, it is not the universe or your environment that helps to get what you desperately want, it is your decisions and change of attitude that’s contributing to your success.

APJ Abdul Kalam’s famous quote will summarize this in one sentence. “Dream,dream, dream.. Dreams results into thoughts and thoughts transform into action.” If you desperately want to get good marks in your exam, then it not God or any supernatural being that helps you reach that target. It is the person himself who works more in order to reach there. You put in more hours, use social media to the minimum and all this contributes to the goal. You are changing the environment, not the other way around. Cheers!