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Once you've learned a thing, or "studied it" much more, you are more swift in perceiving it, processing, and storing that encounter. Be it an idea, name, combination of low frequency words... Otherwise, many things go in one ear and out the other.

What really gives me the goose bumps is if you're, say, listening to a recording of a lecture while looking out the window watching a leaf tumble through the wind - and then the professor uses a leaf blowing in the wind analogy. It's not something you do very frequently; watch and listen to two independent events.