This ever happen to you and does it have a name?

This seems to happen to me often.

I'll hear or read some obscure bit of information somewhere in the news, a forum, etc... Within the next day or so I hear about it again, and then sometimes a third or fourth time.

Example:

A few days ago I was watching Modern Marvels and the program was on hot peppers. They talked about the hottest pepper in the world, the Bhut Jolokia pepper from India.

The next day I was reading the news and saw a news link about how the Indian Army developed a grenade that showers people with hot pepper dust. Without even opening the link I knew they were talking about the same pepper.

This happens often. I think it's strange, but I learn a lot that way.

Everytime I hear about a crazy hideous crime, it seems to be a "Law and Order" episode three weeks later.

andysim said:

Everytime I commit about a crazy hideous crime, it seems to be a "Law and Order" episode three weeks later.

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It's like they're watching me.

dwarven_stout said:

It's like they're watching me.

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they are.

From black helicopters.

At night.

With radar.

don't forget the tinfoil hat.

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It's like when someone you know dies and then tv show that week is about someone dying and every song on the radio too.

dwarven_stout said:

It's like they're watching me.

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I said every time I hear about a crime, not commit a crime.

The crimes I commit can only be shown on HBO.

It's called "deja voodoo"...aka "coincidence"...

Perhaps just a heightened sensitivity to that subject after hearing about it?

I think the word you are looking for is "meme".

Carl Jung, Synchronicity.

It's like after you buy a used car and then suddenly you notice that same make of car ALL OVER THE PLACE, where you never noticed it before.

So who's going to be the first on HBT to use that pepper in a beer?

or if your fighting with your SWMBO and every song you hear seems to be agreeing with her. That's why I switched to classic rock, those songs seem to take my side of the story.

More common for me is to learn about something obscure, then I somehow shoehorn it into every conversation I have for the next week.

"Check out that woman over there; DAMN, she's hot."
"She's hot, but not as hot as this chili pepper I was reading about."

Homercidal said:

It's like after you buy a used car and then suddenly you notice that same make of car ALL OVER THE PLACE, where you never noticed it before.

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It has happened every since I bought my Jeep

3 of my friends just happened to hear about sous-vide within a couple of days of each other. That was odd.

Of course, the internet works this way, too. I can't see something pop up here that won't be on other forums later...it spreads like the plague.

As an example: One person could be talking about peppers and then the next person will be talking about pepper spray and then all the sudden the writers think that pepper grenades is newsworthy. Sometimes I think it's more connected than we realize.

I have no idea what this thread is about, and I don't care to read it. I just saw this image in a closed thread and I'm putting it here for safekeeping......I just don't want to lose it!

Good call. BTW, since that president thread was deleted, you get to use EF again, and not the EF you're thinking of!

Laughing_Gnome_Invisible said:

I have no idea what this thread is about, and I don't care to read it. I just saw this image in a closed thread and I'm putting it here for safekeeping......I just don't want to lose it!

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Funny, I was just thinking about ass a little bit ago, and here it is in a totally different place. I told you there was something to this.

Shrimp, Plate, Plate of Shrimp... Lattice of Coincidence.

Does anyone have flash forwards? It's kind of like deja vu but instead of just feeling like you had the experience before you do a real fast flash forward of what's to come.

What I see in the flash forward never really happens though, not psychic, must just be a brain trick.

That's Scottievu, as in "It's like nothing I've ever seen before, Captain."

TxBrew said:

Does anyone have flash forwards? It's kind of like deja vu but instead of just feeling like you had the experience before you do a real fast flash forward of what's to come.

What I see in the flash forward never really happens though, not psychic, must just be a brain trick.

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Like in a paradoxal type universe where what you see COULD have happened if one crazy small detail was different???




No. That doesnt happen to me

What an odd group of people we are.

We just don't drink enough.

...and Yes, it used to happen to me and my buddies all the time. We'd be talking about some random thing, and then it was all over the place within a short period of time. Weird.

You should watch the movie, Pi.

BBKing said:

Like in a paradoxal type universe where what you see COULD have happened if one crazy small detail was different???

No. That doesnt happen to me

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It's hard to explain but almost always the "vision" has an ominous aspect to it. Nothing ever comes true and it's not always clear. Brain glitching.

I realize that this is an old thread, but I just found it. So I thought I'd tell you about something that happened to me a couple of years ago.

One day, I heard that Charleton Heston had died. That night we watched the movie I am Legend with my brother & his wife. As we are watching it, I realized it was a remake of The Omega Man, a movie my brother & I had seen years ago, which starred Charleton Heston. I remark on the coincidence.

The next day, my brother & I were riding in my truck and I see on the XM Radio (trial version; I'm way to cheap to pay for radio) that we are listening to the soundtrack from The Omega Man. Now, that just seemed weird. In retrospect, I suppose that Charleton Heston's death being mentioned so recently in the news may have had something to do with this. After all, I could see a dj saying, "Wow, Heston died. I remember him in The Omega Man. Don't we have that soundtrack around here? Let's play it." But, at the time, my brother & I marveled at the coincidence.

Then, after coming home from the visit with my brother, the wife & I pop in a Netflix DVD to watch: Bowling for Columbine, which, unbeknownst to us, included an interview with, you guessed it, Charleton Heston.

No, I don't know of a term for this phenomenon, but it seemed related to the experience the OP described...

Here's a video of a dude eating the above-mentioned pepper.

The "seeing the same car just after you buy one" thing has a name. Just Google "reticular activator".

Kind of like hearing the Intel "bum-bum-bum-BUM" makes you think of Intel.

"bum-bum-bum-BUM" makes you think of Intel.

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Actually, it makes me think of a$$