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mavjop said: CleverScreenName said:

It's an interesting psychological phenomenon. A barely-conscious sneaking suspicion can be remembered as an ironclad precognitive certainty after it comes true. And it it doesn't come true, it's disregarded and forgotten. In retrospect, hits look like amazing feats of prescience, while misses simply don't exist.

Well put. :) That's exactly what I was trying to say in the first paragraph of my last comment, but communicated really nicely.

It's reminiscent of the "things come in threes" phenomenon. You don't notice the times it didn't happen. You keep counting until you hit three, and then you stop. If you believed good/bad things came in twos, or fours, you'd be equally able to "prove" it by the same erroneous methods.