Co-incidence.
What you're not remembering are perhaps the nights when you've woken up fearing for M (or anyone else) and nothing was wrong with them.

The fact that M is troubled made it more likely that he'd be the one in your mind when you randomly fear for him.

Or, if it's less random, perhaps you had subconciously picked up some clues from him or elsewhere that he was feeling worse than usual, and your subconcious was brewing some fear that you weren't aware of, and it happened to hit your concious mind on that night by complete chance. Because let's think about it; if you'd had that thought the day before, you'd still call it amazing that you got worried before he hurt himself...and had it happened the day after, you wouldn't have been amazed at all; duh, subconcious, you'd have thought; of course something's wrong, it's just happened.

So if you think of it like that, if you'd got some hint of him being more troubled than usual, the only probability at work is a: whether you'd get a worried realisation and b: whether it'd fall on or before the day he does something. When you think of it like that, the odds aren't magical, and it's bound to happen to someone somewhere quite often. This time, it happened to you.
(Musuko, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 19:33, Reply)