Thread: Is there anything significant about the number 12?

I'm not really a superstitious person or anything, but in the past week I've had a few dreams containing the number 12.

The first dream I remember was on Tuesday morning. I was standing in a public phone booth, and for some reason the person I was talking to needed to know my location. So I looked at the street sign. I was standing on 12th St.

Then on Thursday morning, I dreamed that I was at home on my own. For some reason, I looked at my alarm clock. The time was 12:12.

Then this morning, I had a false awakening where I woke up feeling really groggy - almost hungover. I noticed I had a tattoo on my forearm of the number 12.


I know a lot of people belive that 11:11 has special meanings, I was just wondering if anything like this existed for 12.

If you don't think there is special about 12 then there won't be in your dreams, it's just wierd luck I guess

Well, the number 12 probably has some significance to you, or to some problem you are facing, or to your worldview.

In cultural terms, 12 is significant. The 24 hours of our day are divided, in most households, into blocks of 12. Jesus, in whom most Americans profess religious devotion, supposedly had 12 Apostles. The Zodiac has 12 signs.

Whether these and other cultural instances of 12--rather than some unknowable (to me) person meaning you have for it--are causing your dreams, I couldn't say. Naturally, I am very doubtful that the meaning is prophetic, mystical, or otherwise supernatural.

There are simply far too many more mundane explanations available to take the metaphysical ones seriously.

EDIT: Also, the more you convince yourself that 12 is tied to your "destiny," or "karma," or what have you, the more important the number will seem to you, and the more you can expect to see it appear in your dreams.

I'm not saying you have convinced yourself of these things. I'm just pointing out what one might expect from that.

Twelve denotes spiritual strength and divine perfection. It also represents cycles and repetition.

One stands for individuality, individuality solitude, the ego, leadership, originality, beginnings, and a winner. It also stands for a higher spiritual force.

Two stands for balance, diversity, partnership, soul, or receptivity. It can also symbolize double weakness or double strength. There is a duality as in male and female, mother and father, yin and yang, etc.


Numbers in dreams may sometimes not appear directly. Sometimes, numbers can be presented in the number of characters, number of objects, or an action that is repeated a certain number of times. Usually, you want to stick with the basic numbers (1 through 9) when trying to decipher the meaning to multiple digit numbers. For example, the number "1965" could mean the year 1965. But you can also add up the digits until you get one number. Thus 1965 --> 1+9+6+5 = 21 --> 2+1 = 3. However, we have listed some additional "master" or "karmic" numbers which carry their own significance.

Also worth noting is that odd numbers are considered more aggressive then even numbers, while even numbers are considered to be more tranquil.


The number 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Consider the context the number is used in, ie the tattoo: (To dream that you have tattoos, represent individuality and the desire to stand out in a crowd. You want to be unique and different from everybody else, particularly if you do not have any tattoos in real life.)

Hope this helps

You're just guessing. You could not possibly know any of those things with any confidence, without know far more about nzguy than you reasonably could.

Originally Posted by RCLefty

You're just guessing. You could not possibly know any of those things with any confidence, without know far more about nzguy than you reasonably could.

The information provided come from studies based on dreams. It is provided through a generalized resource of a dream encyclopedia, based again directly on studies of generalized dreams. It may or may not be accurate for the dreamer, since it is generalized, but usually the symbols I refer to in the dream may have several different meanings depending on the context they are used.

I will not take kindly to criticism on this website. My goal is to simply give an analysis of dreams and provide this information to people so that it would further help them understand the possible meaning behind them. It is up to the dreamer to take the information provided and apply it in the context of thier dream to understand what it means. Sometimes I will give my own personal opinion, sometimes not. In this case, I did not.

I am here to help people, not defend myself.

Originally Posted by RCLefty

You're just guessing. You could not possibly know any of those things with any confidence, without know far more about nzguy than you reasonably could.

That's what I was talking about as far as false accusations.

I am done with this debate/conversation or whatever you want to call it.
I simply want to help someone else, I don't benefit whatsoever in talking about this with you.

Originally Posted by RCLefty

Well, the number 12 probably has some significance to you, or to some problem you are facing, or to your worldview.

In cultural terms, 12 is significant. The 24 hours of our day are divided, in most households, into blocks of 12. Jesus, in whom most Americans profess religious devotion, supposedly had 12 Apostles. The Zodiac has 12 signs.

Yes, and(seriously) I was born in Oklahoma(which I recently found out was in District Twelve) in room number 112 at 12:12 on April 12th, and my dad told me that OSU won a football game against OU at 12 to 0.Now, if that isn't freaky, I dunno what is.