What is the name for this phenomenon regarding coincidences?

Question

I read somewhere last week the name of a phenomenon along the lines of when you experience an unusual term, name, or event for the first time in your life you seem to experience it again shortly afterwards, sometimes 2 or 3 times. For instance it could be the name of a foreign country that you had never heard and once you hear it you seem to hear it again shortly afterwards.

The name of the phenomenon was something like a double barrelled person's name or something....

Help!

Jay

Answer 1

Biffins bridges ballcrack?

Answer 2

Synchronicity?

Answer 3

Maybe you mean "deja vu?"

Answer 4

Carl Jung a contemporary of Sigmund Freud Coined a term synchronicity. The story goes when he was describing this phenomenon he related how a patient was describing a dream of a beetle when a beetle flew into the room. Meaningful coincidence.

Answer 5

Google Search Link - phenomenon of coincidences

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=na...

Answer 6

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (see link)

Answer 7

I usually call them Godincidences :)