Term for: Simultaneous rare experience/occurrence
I'm talking about a situation where I hear a word, phrase, or telling of an actual experience from one source (e.g., a friend's mouth), and almost immediately hear the exact same word or phrase from a different source such as the radio or TV.
For example, while driving and listening to the radio I might drive around a round-about and at the same time the word round-about comes on the radio in a song. But the word round-about is extremely rare in either fashion.
Is there a term for this experience?
synchronicity:
the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.
(Oxford Dictionaries)
I think the term is coincidence:
an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time, especially in a way that is unlikely and surprising:
Is it just a coincidence that the wife of the man who ran the competition won first prize?
It was a coincidence that she was wearing a jersey like Laura’s
(Cambridge Dictionary)
This may not be the answer you're looking for, but oftentimes it FEELS like a coincidence or serendipity when in fact you are experiencing a form of confirmation bias known as the frequency illusion:
The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards (not to be confused with the recency illusion or selection bias).[40] Colloquially, this illusion is known as the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
(Wikipedia)
If it is pleasant, and gives a good feeling, then I suggest serendipity:
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way
(Oxford Dictionaries)