A coincidence with a denominator

The number that follows you

Miss · Any city · Traffic

DiagramHits are easy to keep. Misses require a notebook.

How often could this have happened?

A pattern needs a denominator. How often could this occur? Why did this catch attention? Were you already primed? What is actually documented? Why did it matter? What are you saying follows from it?

The Field includes what did not connect.

Felt

The feeling of being addressed can be real as a feeling. That is not the same claim as an addresser.

Concordance

The thing
Seeing a personally meaningful number on a plate, a receipt, a clock, then seeing it again.
Seen
A number in public. A second sighting. A feeling of being addressed.
Sourced
Frequency illusion (Baader–Meinhof) is well described in cognitive psychology: once primed, a common stimulus is noticed more.
Miss
All the plates that did not match. All the minutes that were not 2:42. The unrecorded denominator.
One question remains
What did we not record?

Provenance

THE FIELD. Frequency illusion. A pattern that feels personal and is often unsurprising.

  • Frequency illusion. A cognitive description, not a dismissal of meaning. Use it to sharpen the claim.