He had suddenly noticed Volvos everywhere he looked. [fact]
He had suddenly noticed Volvos everywhere he looked. But that had been an illusion, he said, a trick of the mind. There really weren’t a lot of new Volvos around; he’d simply become more aware of them. He suggested to Anne that she was experiencing the same sort of phenomenon with leukemia.
Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 84