Eldon has a question and I've been unable to answer it. I thought this might be a good time to tap the collective intelligence of the internet and post it here:
Do you know the term for when you become suddenly aware of something and start seeing it everywhere?
For example: "I had never heard of this band, XYZ. Today I read about them in the paper, and then my
friends told me about them. Then I saw a poster for them..."
Another example: "I'd never heard of the book ABC, but today everywhere I went I saw it for sale and
people seemed ot have it"
Yet another example: "I only recently heard the word 'blog' for the first time, but I've heard it in so many conversations this week."
He's looking for the term that describes this phenomenon: learning
about something and then suddenly seeing instances of it everywhere. I
vaguely remember hearing that there was such a word. Any ideas?For example: "I had never heard of this band, XYZ. Today I read about them in the paper, and then my
friends told me about them. Then I saw a poster for them..."
Another example: "I'd never heard of the book ABC, but today everywhere I went I saw it for sale and
people seemed ot have it"
Yet another example: "I only recently heard the word 'blog' for the first time, but I've heard it in so many conversations this week."
Office phone:
Google Talk:
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/List_of_cognitive_biases
--bridget
Eric (with the help of Google)
The theory being that when 100 monkeys do something, other monkeys all start doing the same thing.
It almost makes you not feel guilty about buying that Britney Spears CD.
The other word that leaps to mind despite seeming not quite correct is synchronicity.
I know the phenomenon well, it's what landed me in Austin, TX in 1994.