Should symbolism be taken much more seriously, or am I nuts?

I confess
I'm involved with symbolism. I see symbols everywhere. I see patterns and symbols in everyday life, where ever I look. Often I see long strings of coincidences. Or weird opposites or strange parallels.
I've been this way since I was a kid.

Other people don't seem to make such a big deal out of coincidence and I'm starting to wonder:
a) Am I seeing something they're not? (which sounds a bit delusional)
or
b) Are the magority of people, including scientists, ignoring something terribly important that's right under our noses?

Here's an example.

A mate was acting like an idiot and knocked another mate down a flight of concrete steps going into a club. Bill was banged up a bit and suffered a blow to the mouth which left him with a chipped tooth. He had to go to an emergancy dentist and everyone was slightly pissed at Al for ruining the night.

The following evening, Al tripped over an uneven pavingstone and bang!
Down he went. And guess what? He'd chipped the same tooth.
Everyone said something like, 'Wooo...weird. How strange.'
We talked (and sort of laughed) about it for a few days. Someone mentioned Karma. Then we never spoke of it again.

Now, I see coincidences like that all the time. (Maybe not such dramatic ones, but still as intruiging). I feel that <Don't laugh> 'something is trying to tell us something (in us?/from nature?) and something else is trying to tell us something else (I suspect something mind-blowing) and we poor unevolved humans haven't the foggiest notion of what's really going on.
Except that deep deep down, buried far back in the mazed brain, we DO know - we just can't grasp it.

Am I odd/strange/weird/insane/stupid/?

I know I'm not a well educated man. Maybe someone can explain to me why the phenomena I'm talking of is not looked at more seriously - by scientists.

I sometimes feel that when we (humans) don't know the right path to take, we give ourselves the answers through symbolism.
I was thinking of Piccasso's 'Guernica' - the depiction of brutality in war, and how it's copy was covered over when Powell gave his speech about going to war with Iraq while standing infront of it.

Do we notice coincidences/symbols more when we get older or are they seeming to be getting more regular. Am I the only one asking myself what the F is going on?

Is symbolism only superstition, or is it the clue to something much bigger and more powerful than we can fully understand?
Is what I'm saying irrational? Feel free to speak honestly.
I don't think you can onfuse me any more than I am now.

Endy.