Coincidence or Eye-Opening?
 

Right bare with me guys, I'm not too sure how best to describe this.

But have you ever say; learned a new word or brought a t-shirt and then realised that so many other people are saying that word or are wearing that t-shirt after you've learned/brought it?

For example, I learnt what the word 'vignette' meant the other day and I have heard so many people say it since, when I had previously never heard it spoken before!

Another example is the word 'bespoke' I had only learnt what it meant late last year and I keep seeing it everywhere written in books, on signs and people keep saying it! :shocked:

And another example, when I got my first car, which was a very rusty piece of poo (that I loved), I had never seen one before on the roads - or at least that's what I thought! But since driving it, I've seen so many on the road!

Obviously you like to think it's coincidence, but it can't be! :p It's as if your eyes are now open to these things and your mind accommodates/identifies these new things more often.

Has this ever happened to you? If so what with? :spin2:

Coincidence.

Can remember hearing 'banter' for the first time a couple years back and ever since it gets used all the time

Yes, and it's true. I never really noticed before, but as soon as I fell pregnant with my son, all of a sudden there were pregnant women or women with new babies in prams EVERYWHERE. I think when it's something relevant to yourself you suddenly become far more aware of it.

Kate is that because you went to a cresh? :laugh:

Lol, no Marc. Just walking around town, or even at the local shops. There suddenly seemed to be an epidemic of pregnant women everywhere. And there were programmes on the telly about related stuff, hormones, diet etc. It's crazy :D

Well vignette and bespoke aren't everyday words..you may have heard them before but not really 'registered' them..now..because you have...you're noticing them for the first time.
The same with the car..if you haven't got a certain type of car and it isn't in any way 'striking'..you wouldn't notice it...but now you do
...no dark magic forces at work here Marc..but....LOL

They just had a question about this on University Challenge. Quite a coincidence...

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-b...of-phenomenon/

i'm quite sure i did a bit of that when i did psychology at 6th

It's St. Helens, most teenagers are pregnant. :hugesmile:

I can't open the link Livia..my *cough* therapist...explained about the links in the mind and how you don't think you 'notice' things until they become familiar...and more prominent in your thoughts
...like in Kate's case...obviously, being pregnant she was thinking 'babies'...so suddenly they were popping up everywhere...but they'd always been there
...sort of makes sense...to me anyway

Can't open the link? Google Baader Meinhof Complex - not the film. Or paste this:
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-b...of-phenomenon/

Got it...I think that's what I said...with a lot more words
...we'll let Marc carry on thinking it's black magic

I know exactly what you mean Marc :joker:

I think its because the word/item means something to you so that when its said/seen you are more aware of it.

Okay, okay... that IS what you said, smart arse.

Marc should wear a hat fashioned out of aluminium foil to stop this phenomenon happenning to him. One of us should suggest it to him and insist on a pic.

This isn't the same at all but not new-thread worthy..anyone heard of that phenomenon where people always happen to look at the clock at a specific time? I rememer seeing a facebook group with over a thousand members of people who always happen to look at a clock randomly at 11:11 or something. It's probably just a routine engrained into their head but the specific time everyone is a bit freaky

-is now going to keep hearing about the Baader-Meinhof complex- :laugh:

But no I suppose it's just because everytime you notice something new, you'll recognise it elsewhere. I'm like that with music a lot of the time - I'll discover an artist I wasn't familiar with and then suddenly notice him/her/them in TV shows, films or adverts.

Its strange, sometimes i'll think of a film or something that i aint seen in ages then the next night its on tv. (I did that with "The exorcism of Emily Rose" last week)

And i cant tell you how many times ive looked at my clock aka my mobile phone and the times been 9/11 :o

But I'm certain I would have asked what they had meant the first time I heard them, I'm very inquisitive

I always see 11:11

And if it's not that it's 11:12

AHHHHHH!!!! D:

:sad:

Baader-Meinhof interesting

yea that happens to me too. It's just because you are more aware of it i think.

I had forgotten about this...and this is maybe the wrong thread..
When I was around 14/15 I used to visit an elderly lady who lived in my road..she would tell me great stories about when she was young and we spent lots of time together.
..one night..I had a dream about her..that she was asking me to come and see her..which she often did..but I had never dreamt about her before.
The next day I was told that she had died during the night...and her family, who were with her at the time, told my mum that she had been asking to see me....
I haven't thought about it for a long time....but it bothered me a lot at the time

:shocked: that's just freaky. and sad obviously :(

..yes..she was my best friend LOL