Thread: 11:11

Does anyone know anything about the number sequence 11:11?

It just keeps randomly popping up in my life and when I'm in school, not even keeping track of time, I would just turn my head to check the clock and there it is, 11:11.

It happens all the time and I'm not quite sure what it means yet....I have come across a couple different answers but I'm really not sure what to believe....

You should make a movie!

The Number 22

xP

the same thing happens to me, except w/the number 949. It always pops up like you mentioned, and I always look at the clock at exactly 9:49. its weird

I've heard of this. 11 has been following my mom around...

I don't have a number like that to my knowledge, however.

11:11 for me aswell, have no idea why

After looking at this thread I did a Google search on "11:11" I was surprised at how many relevant results appeared. Apparently this happens to a lot of people.

Originally Posted by Mini Man56

You should make a movie!

The Number 22

xP

lol...


It happens to me...But 4:20...not a stoner..anymore...and I look at the clock when ever and it always the 13th minute.

Weird.

11:11 seems to be common for me too. I've never really thought of it much until now though.

Maybe you just check the clock a lot, but only notice and remember when it is a noteworthy number combination?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Maybe you just check the clock a lot, but only notice and remember when it is a noteworthy number combination?

Not really man I rarely ever check the time, makes the day go by faster.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Maybe you just check the clock a lot, but only notice and remember when it is a noteworthy number combination?

I used to think the same thing as the majority in this thread. I always see the numbers 9:11, but to be honest you look at the clock every day, alot. You dont even realize you do it most of the time.

Robot Butler had the best answer, and this is the answer that i got alot when i posted this. You look alot, but only remember significant numbers. Such as if you wanted it to be 8:30 then when it was 8:30 you would see that.

So your numbers 11:11 and everything else that appear on a clock strike you as odd to see them, and then when you do see them your brain tells you that you are looking at the clock and yada yada, you see the numbers.

Hope that made sense?

This number has been associated with my family for at least 70 years, if not more. My mother and her sister are 11 years apart. My sister and I are 11 years apart. My daughter and son are 11 years apart. My grandmother's birthday is June 11th. She died at 11:11 in November, on my mother's birthday (the 11th month). My grandfather died on Sept 11th. His room number in the ICU at the hospital was 311. I could go on and on, but basically wierd stuff happens on the 11's of the hour, and sometimes, you just get that feeling, look at the clock, & it's something-11 on the clock.

Hmm

1/1/11

Interesting theories abound

when/ if i wake up in the night its always something like 1:11 or 2:22 or 3:33 or 4:44 or its either 4:00 3:00 2:00 you get the picture werid stuff though

Originally Posted by oOReverieOo

This number has been associated with my family for at least 70 years, if not more. My mother and her sister are 11 years apart. My sister and I are 11 years apart. My daughter and son are 11 years apart. My grandmother's birthday is June 11th. She died at 11:11 in November, on my mother's birthday (the 11th month). My grandfather died on Sept 11th. His room number in the ICU at the hospital was 311. I could go on and on, but basically wierd stuff happens on the 11's of the hour, and sometimes, you just get that feeling, look at the clock, & it's something-11 on the clock.

And if you add up the digits of the month and day on which you joined this site, you get 11!

I frequently find myself looking at the clock at 7:11, 8:08, 9:11, and 11:11. I find it strange, but I've never paid too much attention to it.

Originally Posted by Dodopod

And if you add up the digits of the month and day on which you joined this site, you get 11!

Oh my Gosh! You're right! Wierd...

haha, the same thing happens to me, and it's been happening for over 3 years now. my number is 4:44 though LMAO. i don't believe there's anything significant about it though, other than the fact that i keep seeing it.

I very frequently glance at the clock when it happens to be all the same digit or a pair of the same two-digit sequence (5:55, 12:12, etc.)

It happens enough to unnerve me a bit (spoooky).

EDIT: Holy shit I just looked at the time and it was 10:11, I only overshot 10:10 by a few seconds. It nearly got me again! *heart racing*

I heard a numbers lady off of coast to coast AM with george norey say that the number 1:11 or 11:11 means what ever you was just thinking about is quite possible to happen. Its like some form of a precoginated state of mind or something like that.

I had this for a while, around this time last year,
it started to get silly, but i decided to try and work out hy it was happening.

Everytime i looked at the clock it would seem to be something like 11:11, 12:12, 13:13 etc. etc.

I think the simplest answer is that our brains are essentially pattern detection devices. That's what we do best, it's also why we see animals in clouds, people in shadows, faces in cracked paint etc.
So when we are made aware of the 11:11 phenomena, suddenly it's a new pattern for our brains to latch onto.

Then there is the other factor.
You may think that 11:11 only happens twice a day, but that's not technically true. Go have a look at the clocks and watches in your house... how many of them are set to EXACTLY the same time? very few i expect.
They will all be almost the same time, maybe a few minutes out either way.
You may even have a clock that is as much as 10 minutes fast compared to the others. So what this does is obvious, it creates a whole load of extra chances to see 11:11.
If you have 5 timepieces in your house, all of slightly different time setting,
and two chances of seeing 11:11 in a day, then you've got 10 chances a day of seeing 11:11 in your house. Then think about all the clocks in the wider world that will be set slightly different from yours.

Also think about your own body clock... if you start checking the time at a specific time of day (around 11:11) then it becomes a habit and you'll start to get the urge to check at this same time tommorow, and the day after etc.
So your body become triggered to check when it expects to see it.

Then there is the wider phenomena of seeing 5:55, 12:12, 13:13, 14:14 etc.
There are lots of times on a digital clock that will duplicate like this.
And then if you think of how each clock is set to a slightly different time to the next.... it actually ends up that you'll see a duplicate time, if not 11:11 itself, many many times in a day.

It's nothing magical, it's just pattern recognition, habit, and something that is statistically more likely to happen that it seems at first glance.

My question are you in the military or something what's with 14:14 -.-

Mainly North America is the one's who rely solely on the 12 hour clock most of the rest of the world uses a 24 hour clock.

Originally Posted by redclay92

Mainly North America is the one's who rely solely on the 12 hour clock most of the rest of the world uses a 24 hour clock.

Good to know.

when you look at a clock it doesnt strike you as unusual when its something boring or unappealing like 3:19 or 12:40. 11:11, or 9:11, or 5:55 or whatever pairing of digits you happen across are significant because they're noticeable. so you remember the last time you saw the time being 4:44.

numbers arent following you.
you're stalking them!

I just came to the tread and it was 8:40 and then it ticked over to 8:41!

I have seen these numbers before on my clock, maybe it's something evil or magic!

Also I keep seeing and hearing the words lucid dream everywhere for some reason.. maybe that's evil too and we are going to all die in our dream.



Good thread, not. It's a known fact that if you are looking for a number or something you are going to notice yourself noticing it more often. If you were to go out in a day and look for the number 52 you might see it a lot. There could be radio stations with the number in it, the radio might announce something with the number in it. There could be house numbers, street signs, signs on buildings and shops. The number could be on your favourite food's wrapper and yes you could tell yourself "oh maybe its a sign for something special" but no, it's not.

The number 11:11 is only noticed because people take time out to try and notice it. If the numbers were changed to 10:10 you would get the same result.

We all look at the clock more often than we even notice, it's only if you are looking for a certain time that your brain actually takes note and allows you to intake the information.