Is it normal that we were talking about this exact painting in art class today? Those things happen to me all the time. Seeing something somewhere, and it pops up somewhere else like the devil.

amizur142 said:

Is it normal that we were talking about this exact painting in art class today? Those things happen to me all the time. Seeing something somewhere, and it pops up somewhere else like the devil.

Yup! There's even a term for it: the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. (Also known in psychological circles as frequency illusion. It's a combination of selective attention and confirmation bias.)