Because everyone sometimes talks about the same, Part I

Has it ever happened to you that you have searched for a random word that you did not know in the dictionary and from that moment on you have begun to listen to it everywhere, as if it did not exist before and now that you know it is everywhere?

Is the universe playing with you?

We have to get used to stop blaming the "universe" for all the strange and inexplicable things that happen to us, because the vast majority of these phenomena occur because of the way the only part of the universe works that you can really be sure of. that exists, your brain.

A new word is colloquially called an illusion of frequency, although its scientific name is that of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. Why does this happen?

Why does discovering a new word begin to appear everywhere? Well, precisely because of being new.

Put yourself in the role of the brain, you have just learned a new concept that until recently you did not know, therefore, you feel like you are unprotected, you do not know very well in which context to use that new word, you can not fill it with meaning, since the have used. For this reason your brain prioritizes this word above all the "noise" that you hear in your day to day and becomes, in a certain way, selective, you are much more interested in this word than the rest, it becomes your number one priority, since he is learning how to use it.

That's why you seem to listen to her so much. Of the hundreds of thousands of words you hear and read in a week, your brain will go crazy when you hear, for example, "spyglass" you will only remember that word, giving you the impression that you are listening a lot, when you will simply be living a deception of your brain that simply gets very happy when listening to spyglass.

It could be seen as a variant of déjá vú, has not it happened to you? but there is also the opposite effect ...

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