Have you ever noticed that when you talk (or even been thinking) about something you like (or even don’t like), and then you start noticing songs, quotes or even strangers talking about that particular thing; it could be flowers, perfume or even an electronic device.

Let’s take another example, you talk about moving to a certain city, and then articles, ads or people mentioning the name of the city, billboards showing the name and even the newspapers headlines just appear to have the same city name in them. This and so many other coincidences make you feel like the world is somehow conspiring around the thing you liked (or disliked).

But in reality, it was all always there — you just weren’t paying attention. The difference is that now your brain has decided it matters, so suddenly it starts noticing it everywhere.

This real and pretty cool psychological quirk is called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon — weird........

© Dawn Young Magazine