Is there a word for...
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- Jaline
when you discover/learn more about something, and then you start seeing/hearing about it everywhere around you?
ex. you're buying a certain car, and you start to notice that certain car being driven by random people on the streets.
- 8eleven0
whatthafuk
- ethios0
coincidence
- gruntt0
i know exactly what you're talking about jaline.
coincidence doesn't quite cut it... because you just know that "thing" was/is probably mentioned often but it is only after you've learned about it that you "hear" it.
- ethios0
i was trying to be witty, ahaha, totally failed. but yeah, i do know exactly what you're talking about, happens to me all the time
- gruntt0
ethios - coincidence is the 1st word that came to my mind too.
i think we should call it "nowiknowdat"
- Rand0
I've even read an article on this phenomenon, but I don't think there is a single word to descrobe it
- _salisae_0
awareness
- jdcomba0
played out
- _salisae_0
obsession
- ethios0
I get some werid thing where something happens in the day, and it feels like I have already dreampt it the night before. Maybe I am beginning to show precognitive abilities...
- ThreeSevenFive0
"Meme"
"Phenomenology"?
- fullerc0
Sting taught me this....
syn·chro·nic·i·ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sngkr-ns-t, sn-)
n. pl. syn·chro·nic·i·ties
The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.
- pablito0
it happened to me first time i smoked pot......, i didnt have any friends who smoked it or that i knew about, the all of a sudden most of my friends were pot heads. I had never realized that until i smoked one day with one of them.
- Nairn0
There is a word for this, and it isn't synchronisity. 'sFunny - I was just wondering about the same thing amongst friends yesterday.
I first noticed it when I learned of concrete brieze blocks being used to dampen vibrations in tumble dryers.
banal, I know.
- spendogg0
Unconscience Recognition
- lyrek0
when we were kids someone could "curse" you with a number. It's a pretty basic example of what you're talking about Jaline.
Someone would come up to you and say "32". And you'd be like "wtf?" and they'd say, "You're now cursed with the number '32'. For the rest of your life, you will start to see '32' everywhere."
And you'd start to see and recognize it everywhere and, again, think 'wtf?'...but it's just because you're more alert to see this number and attribute it to the curse.
I read somewhere that Americans see an average of 2 billion numbers a day and only register about 1,000. Alarm clocks, microwave settings, traffic signs, etc.
This sophomoric curse is just a way of attuning your mind to a specific set of those 2 billion numbers. 32 was always there.
Stoopid, I know, but attribute it to your post, Jaline, and it works.
You see a word in a book that you don't know, say, "paraselene" and look it up. Then you see that word in a dozen different places the following month. Why is it there more often?
Someone mentions a principal or phrase, say, 'simple harmonic motion' and it's relevant again and again and again. Before you know it, you're seeing that phrase everywhere.
32 was always there.
paraselenes always existed.
Simple harmonic motion is everywhere.There is no spoon. :)
- ethios0
what a response...
- lyrek0
lol, but i still wasn't able to answer her question.
...and i just just 'paraselene' because the NT user of the same name told us the etymology of his name and I started seeing it everyhwere. there even was a moon-dog this weekend. :)
It's part of pattern recognition and connectionism. Pretty interesting stuff, especially relating to infants:
http://www.jsmf.org/grants/bmb/e…
http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/…
- anzelina0
i love this thread
- Jaline0
Nice responses!
I'm so proud.
*sheds a tear