There’s a thing called blue car syndrome (also known as “frequency illusion”). Who knew?! It’s the phenomenon where you don’t notice how many blue cars there are out there until you decide you want to buy one — and then all of a sudden they’re everywhere.
I remember when I was first pregnant — with a pregnancy I lost a short time later — and it seemed like every single woman on the street was pregnant.
My Awareness of Gestating Women Had Increased Exponentially So it is with blue car syndrome. There are no more blue cars on the road than before, but we simply become a lot more tuned in to something when it is on our radar.
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