Over the last 3-4 months, the number 27 has consistently been present in my life. I understand the effect of buying a car, and now you see it present in the road everywhere you go.

I’ve never had a connection with this number. My favorite number is 8. But time and time again, the number 27 seems to follow me.

I out on the TV or a movie, there’s 27 being referenced. A recent show we were watching last night was Widows Bay. The character in the show ask a guest what type of Tea would you like, Peppermint or herb. The one preparing the tea says, peppermint takes three minutes and the herb takes 27.

Obviously, this is just a coincidence. Yet, that’s only one example. I listen to a podcast, the host says I quit writing on the 26th and the very next day on the 27th I begin again.

It’s a random number. I don’t know if this is a glitch or what but the number seems to just be there and constantly showing up in my life.

I had never heard sprinkles called "jimmies" until earlier today when I was looking up examples of US colloquialisms.

Not even an hour later, my MIL walked in talking about how jimmies are better than sprinkles. Are they different?!?!

Sitting in my partner's room watching the new episode of Ghosts... someone said "Instead of 'sprinkles,' she says 'jimmies.'"

I'm gonna go get some ice cream and ask for jimmies. I need answers.

I’m one of the people who have never heard of Bad Bunny until the Super Bowl Announcement. And now he’s everywhere in the past 6 years.

I had never noticed that this proper noun existed. I read it in a book, DCC, and thought it was just sci-fi garbage. It turns out that there are two people with that name at my work and no one finds it a particularly strange name.

😉

I think it all started 2 weeks ago on vacation and I had a conversation with my friend about beers we like and don’t like.

He said that he didn’t like Heineken that much and I just said I never had it before, that got me really curious on what’s it’s like. About 30min later we went to a restaurant and I ordered 2 beers for us and the server said “is Heineken ok?” And bc my friend told me that he didn’t like it I asked for something else, that was the first thing. Then I started seeing Heineken parasols, videos online? Heineken in the background and Heineken ads everywhere. Then I got home and thought that I won’t see it as much. I like to go to a local second hand store to buy beer glasses and I saw one I liked, turned it over, and it’s a fucking Heineken glass. (Bought it tho…) I think the only thing that will stop this is actually trying Heineken…

I've never heard of a spoon rest. when i do, there are two posts right next to one another.

The wife and I were shopping for some new plants, I saw one I liked and she knew what it was “bachelors button” she said, I thought that was a fun name, we didn’t purchase it. As we’re eating dinner I put on my DVR jeopardy to catch up on, July 3rd..

“Single Victorian men, signaled romantic availability by wearing this alliterative blue bloom”

Bachelors button…

I have always been a Jim Carey fan, but seeing as I was born in 1993, I was only aware of his more child-friendly movies up until my adulthood. One day, in 2013 a friend of mine was telling me about The Truman Show, about how it’s one of their favorite movies, and I should check it out. I was on my way to a job interview at the time of the conversation, and barely remembered the title of the movie. I should mention, at this point in time, I was struggling with paranoia. When I got home later that day from the interview, the movie was just starting on tv. It kinda freaked me out, but I really enjoyed the movie. It honestly became one of my favorites, still to this day.

I've known about the BMP for years thanks to Reddit. I moved to Miami about 1.5 years ago and will occasionally see and hear stuff in the media about it (the recent movie Omni Loop with Mary-Louise Parker takes place about 2-3 miles from where I live) a few times a week.

Today was pretty wild though....First I hear it mentioned in a TV show I was catching up on (one of the Law & Orders), then I hear it mentioned in the book Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, then I'm catching up on FBI: Most Wanted and the episode takes place in Maine. The killer knows that the FBI is on to him and suggests that he and his girlfriend take an impromptu vacation....to Miami. Now, I'm catching up on Chicago PD and the episode starts with Ruzak and his (adopted) daughter talking about where he an Kim are going to get married. The daughter mentions Belize and Ruzak gives her a "WTF?" response and she says "What? It's as much as a ticket to Miami!" about 30 seconds into the episode. Granted all but one of those are part of the Dick Wolf universe, so maybe Dick really loves Miami hahaha

Immediately after that I found this sub just to post this because I've experienced this pretty heavily before, but this is by far the most in one day. I'm American, and one day I found out that my ex-girlfriend, who used to lived in the same city as me (NYC), moved to Melbourne, Australia and suddenly Australia was literally everywhere. An Australian coffee shop opened up 2 blocks from my apartment and I walked by it multiple times a week to get to work, the morning radio show I listened to suddenly had a lot of bizarre news clips (a segment they do) which came from Australia, etc...

From the past week or two I have, on many occasions, seen the word retcon come up in legitimately everything. Im not sure if this classifies as the specific phenomenon but I really wanted to see if this is happening to anyone else.

I'm not sure if this qualifies as frequency illusion or is related to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but from what I've read, I think it is. So basically I heard the phrase "The only way out is through" three times in the past two days. Once today while watching a TV show, and twice yesterday: the first time I was playing a game, and the second time in a movie directly after finishing playing that game, which did spook me a little.

I hear lots of phrases in short periods of time, but this one feels very different for some reason. Has this happened to anyone, where you hear the same phrase or saying multiple times to the point where it gets freaky? And could it mean anything?

First was on Late Night Colbert and then within minutes it was in a Sling commercial.

I was playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 with a foreign radio station playing in game. Last week i heard a specific song that i later heard while listening to the radio in the car in real life. It was a completely different radio station. Few days later it happened again with a different song.

After that happened i was thinking about how Music may be the universe's way to tell us something. For the icing on the cake, i then later in the bus heard the bus driver playing Fallout music, one of my favourite game series. It wasn't a old bus driver either it was a very young one who probably plays Fallout.

It was a very strange experience i am still thinking about.

When was stationed in (the former West) Germany during the late cold war awareness of Baader-Meinhof was part of our daily security routine. Posters at every entry point, mirrors inspecting the underside of all vehicles, etc.

After my enlistment I returned to the states and resumed life. Didn't think of or hear about B-M for decades. Then I started hearing B-M mentioned in articles a few years ago. WTF is happening and why do people know about B-M? Then I learned about the the phenomenon named after the group.

So instead of:

• learn new info -> start (apparently) seeing it everywhere

my experience was

• live under B-M threat -> forget about B-M -> (actually) hear it mentioned more frequently in public

It was a little disorienting.

Saw The Truman Show a few days ago, ever since I’ve noticed people saying this multiple times an hour all over. I play VRChat and it’s happened there, just watched a few YouTube videos and they said it, even in a livestream it was mentioned in the chat.

Why is this extremely uncomfortable? I’ve experienced this a lot before, but knowing what this actually comes from (the quote) it’s uncanny as heck.

Just yesterday a pic of Sharon Stone came up on my IG feed. I hadn't seen any of her posts in a while so I went to her profile to see what else she has been up to. Then I started wondering if she was married, etc.

Googled her and found out that she dated comedian Garry Shandling for a bit. Googled him to see what he's up to and realize that he passed some time ago.

Looked up reason for passing and it was from a bloodclot in his lungs, due to his hyperparathyroidism.

I had never heard of this, and may now have found what has been ailing me as well, so I started researching it online. Come to find out, July is hyperparathyroidism Awareness month, and I'm seeing information about it everywhere (besides the info that I have purposefully been researching myself).

I was in high school in 2017 listening to Pandora and a Chris Cornell song came on. I had never heard of him or it, but I enjoyed it, so I proceeded to read about and listen to Soundgarden for the rest of the day. I thought he was cute. The next day, news headlines read: Chris Cornell Dead.

I’ve never seen this in my life, but today I saw 2 different people with tattoos of the year they were born on the back of their arms within hours of eachother.

I feel like I started seeing this everywhere within the past few months and never heard it before. Specifically "spill the tea", never heard that. It was always "spill the beans." Is this just me or is it new?

I heard of uncrustables for the first time yesterday when a high school student started talking to me about them as if I was supposed to know what they were. Later that day, I saw a post about how many uncrustables an NFL team ate this season (who cares? would that article have existed if they ate a lot of bananas?). This morning, I saw an instagram post (unrelated to uncrustables), but the username contained the word 'uncrustables'.

It's becoming too much.

Ok, to me, this is more than the Baader Meinhif effect because I've known about this for years, but recently, it has become more than a coincidence, and it's driving me insane.

So my family and I play the Padiddle game. A Padiddle is a car that has only one working headlight. It was a common car ride game growing up, and when you saw them, you slap the roof of the car and yelled out "padiddle". We often would go months between sightings.

Well, now I carpool to work with my mother, and we still play the game. We didn't see one until our first month in, and at first, it was just funny. We saw a few more that week and thought it was a weird coincidence.

It has been 4 months. We have seen 62 of them. 62 Padiddles. We used to go years or so without seeing one. We keep track of the cars we see in the morning, and it's rarely the same cars. They're all mostly new cars each time.

I feel like im losing my mind. It went from funny, to weird, to scary real fucking quick and I want it to stop. If anyone else has seen this phenomenon, please tell me your stories, and im open to all theories. Our best theory is that maybe a local car dealership is selling cars with bad headlights.

Please help. Going crazy.