The More You Know
Have you ever read about something completely new and then heard about that very thing right out of the blue the next day? Or maybe an old song you’ve never heard comes on the radio, and then that very song appears in your favorite television show. Well, it turns out that there’s a name for this little experience, and it’s called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. This happens to me ALL of the time, but I never knew there was an actual term for it. It seems that the brain has an amazing ability to recognize patterns, even though you thought they were insignificant at the time. It’s not a coincidence at all….it’s selective memory. Read more about it here. It is, in fact, a damn interesting little read.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
This sounds like my earworm songs. 🙂