Synchronism

Over the years i've recorded in a little black book the many times when i've had the interesting simultaneous occurance whereby, when reading something, i hear the exact same word or phrase being spoken on the radio or TV. I began to to call them synchronisms and have recorded so many i've stopped doing so. A mathemitician from the Chronicle Herald told me that it was just a trick of the mind whereby, we percieve what appears to be a novel occurance of something in the midst of millions of random unnoticed events. Since i like to read while listening to CBC talk radio i seem to notice these events more frequently. What i also notice is that when discussing these synchronistic events with friends and family, that they too began to report noticing them.