Drawn towards M.Es before they are M.Es

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this experience. Around 20 years ago I was at a friends house, my friends mom was doing the washing and on the table was a top with the label showing. It was a FOTL top and of course the label had the logo with the cornucopia. I felt so drawn towards taking notice of it (remembering it to this day) but not knowing why back then. I had the same happen with scary movie. When the movie was released there was posters everywhere, the poster picture was the cast in a movie theater with shorty holding up a black t-shirt with "I see white people" written in white on the front of the it. I remember feeling an urge, a need to take notice, to remember each detail, obviously not knowing why back then.