Is "dj vu" what you're looking for?

Coincedence

Aims wrote Is "dj vu" what you're looking for?

I thought that was where you go to a place for the first time and get a feeling of being there previously lol

It's called the Baader Meinhof effect or frequency illusion.

It's when you are exposed to something in a prominent way, a number, for example, and then you start to see that number 'everywhere' because your mind is more attuned to looking for it than other numbers.

For example, you're probably quite interested in reading this so if I put the number combinations 26 on the screen in bold you are likely to start seeing 26 more often than you would recognise other numbers as standing out.

When I say 'everywhere' I obviously don't mean literally everywhere. It will just seem to pop up more in general, but it will fade after a while.

Crosby wrote Coincedence

Happens waaaay too often to be a coincidence

Cioran wrote It's called the Baader Meinhof effect or frequency illusion.

It's when you are exposed to something in a prominent way, a number, for example, and then you start to see that number everywhere because your mind is more attuned to looking for it than other numbers.

For example, you're probably quite interested in reading this so if I put the number combinations 26 on the screen in bold you are likely to start seeing 26 more often than you would recognise other numbers as standing out.

I get what you're saying but the other night I was on GTA while my mom was talking on the phone and I thought of a certain word I use maybe once every 6 months and my mom used it in a sentence on the phone seconds later

201 wrote

Aims wrote Is "dj vu" what you're looking for?

I thought that was where you go to a place for the first time and get a feeling of being there previously lol

Well yes, that's one aspect of it but it doesn't necessarily have to be of physical presence of being somewhere to feel it. It overall means a feeling of recollection or as something being "relived". I'm assuming that what you described in your post was making you have a feeling of this type of recollection, yes? If not then I apologize lol But yes, dej vu was my guess

It's called: BAADER-MEINHOF PHENOMENON

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201 wrote

Cioran wrote It's called the Baader Meinhof effect or frequency illusion.

It's when you are exposed to something in a prominent way, a number, for example, and then you start to see that number everywhere because your mind is more attuned to looking for it than other numbers.

For example, you're probably quite interested in reading this so if I put the number combinations 26 on the screen in bold you are likely to start seeing 26 more often than you would recognise other numbers as standing out.

I get what you're saying but the other night I was on GTA while my mom was talking on the phone and I thought of a certain word I use maybe once every 6 months and my mom used it in a sentence on the phone seconds later

I don't believe in anything supernatural so I would have to go with Crosby on this one.
It could be that these types of things happen to everyone more than they realise, but because you have realised it your mind is now trying to attribute a cause to it which doesn't exist.

Of all the time we spend experiencing the world these coincidences are going to crop up and there is no reason why they couldn't crop up in large numbers over a short period of time.