Duncan Trussell characterizes pronoia as the opposite of paranoia, where one believes the universe is conspiring to assist them.

“It's where you think the universe is conspiring to help you, whereas you know, paranoia, you think everyone's trying to get you.”

Christina P asserts that pronoia, the belief that the universe is conspiring to help you, is a state of mind one can induce through synchronicity and confirmation bias.

“It's like basically where you can use confirmation bias to induce pronoia. >> Yeah, that's what I have. Yeah, me too.”