Thread: 11:11

Originally Posted by nzguy

I guess I can kinda relate to what you're saying. For example, whenever I look at the clock at work it is always 13:37, which used to really creep me out. I don't mean just once or twice a week, I mean every day, without fail. The more I thought about it though, the more I realized it was most likely just confirmation bias... unless the 'universe' is trying to tell me that I'm 'leet'

I was just about to make a joke of some sort about that. Creepy

Originally Posted by redclay92

Clicked on this looked up at the time and was exctly 11:11.

Same! It gave me shivers

Its funny how most of the posts about checking the thread in 11:11 are not even close to xx:11 .

I saw it the night before and posted it a day after...

I came to the conclusion that 11:11 demonstates our willingness to believe in the paranormal.

the reason you keep looking at the clock at 11:11 is becuase if your brains seen that time more than twice with you relizing, it saves into your brain, so whenever its that time somthing makes you click to look at the clock. ive been in hypnosis for 12 years and can set a time in my head to wake up from sleep(without an alarm clock) just by using my head. same with all the othe times. its a well known # that goes way back in history and everyone knows about it so it saves into your brain making you look at that time more than anyother time. your unconsiouse brain knows what time it is all the time. you have a non stop counting clock in your head. but your consouse mind doesnt which is why you have to check the time. if you have more questions pm me

Originally Posted by lukekendry90

the reason you keep looking at the clock at 11:11 is becuase if your brains seen that time more than twice with you relizing, it saves into your brain, so whenever its that time somthing makes you click to look at the clock. ive been in hypnosis for 12 years and can set a time in my head to wake up from sleep(without an alarm clock) just by using my head. same with all the othe times. its a well known # that goes way back in history and everyone knows about it so it saves into your brain making you look at that time more than anyother time. your unconsiouse brain knows what time it is all the time. you have a non stop counting clock in your head. but your consouse mind doesnt which is why you have to check the time. if you have more questions pm me

i can sort of vouch for this, as after that number always being around me(mainly in time) in the past,which really bugged me for quite a while and wondered what and if it ment something.and then it just disappearing and not noticing it at all or even think about seeing it.then i came across this thread and posted and read the discussion and now i seem to be checking the time 11:11 everyday without fail without consciously realising.

Originally Posted by LUCIDlizard

i can sort of vouch for this, as after that number always being around me(mainly in time) in the past,which really bugged me for quite a while and wondered what and if it ment something.and then it just disappearing and not noticing it at all or even think about seeing it.then i came across this thread and posted and read the discussion and now i seem to be checking the time 11:11 everyday without fail without consciously realising.

yea its just all in the brain. After learning time well your subconsiouse keeps a ticking clock and always knows the time.

It doesn't mean anything. 11:11 looks more unique than say 12:58 so whenever you see it the time happens to stand out a bit more in your brain. You probably glance at clocks without even giving it a bit of a second thought unless you see an odd time.

You see a lot of people every day and generally you only pay attention to the ones that stand out. The rest end up becoming a blur. Same thing with all of the other times you see they get lost in the haze but 11:11 stands out for being unique.

The number 13 follows me everywhere.

I see 11:11 quite often on my digital clock.

Originally Posted by DotheDishes

Ah man its 11:11 all over again. It will eventually quit I had the same problem.

ok, if you havent realized I've been going through all of your threads, and when i got to this one, to the right where it says how many replies..was the number 111

my mind is blown, i do not have an infactuation with 111 but do with 743

There are loads of factors in noticing the 11:11 time.
First as has been pointed out is the role of self hypnosis and body clock.

Another which is often overlooked is that a lot of clocks arn't EXACTLY the same time, they are off by a few minutes, sometimes even more, so the chances of seeing 11:11 arn't just twice in one day, they are actually quite a bit more because you can be pretty sure, even if your clock says 11:15, one near by is probably reading 11:11... (does your watch read the same time as your computers clock for example? how about your mobile phone?)

There is also the point that it is a number that is very obvious. How many times do you actually check the time in a day? Try and keep a record of it, you'd be suprised just how often you do. Then once you've done this, choose ANY of the random times you look, and see how often that one starts popping up.

Thing is we tend to remember memorable events, and discard boring ones. So a nice memorable number like 11:11 is obviously going to stand out.

Also... and this is a REALLY important point: 11:11, is a really prime time to be looking at your clock. It's either around about lunchtime ( and how many of us check our clocks to see how long till lunch?) or the kind of time you'd be out in the evening (the sort of time you may be checking if its getting late, or you're starting to feel sleepy... "oh i'll just check the time, im feeling sleepy, maybe its almost time to go"). If for example it was 5:55 that was the "magical number", you'd see it a lot less, because most people would still be asleep in bed the first time it occurs and probably busy getting back from work the second time.

Isn't it very convinient that 11:11 is both memorable in how it looks, and also at a convinient time for us to be likely to look at the time?

and that's why 12 hour time is silly.

Originally Posted by spaceexplorer

There are loads of factors in noticing the 11:11 time.

K kool info, but I have this thing with the numbers 7, 4, and 3. Not neccessarilly in that order either. It's obvious how its combinations all run into eachother but have you ever heard of that....that some people have a certain number that they are in line with or something, I read something a while back but don't remember where and exactly what it said but it had to do with the fact that if you are one of these people that has a number thing and I don't mean OCD people (or maybe that's what i got ) but anyway it's for your soul to always know, and that's why someone may make note of it b/c the soul knows, not the mindddd

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Originally Posted by love2dream

K kool info, but I have this thing with the numbers 7, 4, and 3. Not neccessarilly in that order either. It's obvious how its combinations all run into eachother but have you ever heard of that....that some people have a certain number that they are in line with or something, I read something a while back but don't remember where and exactly what it said but it had to do with the fact that if you are one of these people that has a number thing and I don't mean OCD people (or maybe that's what i got ) but anyway it's for your soul to always know, and that's why someone may make note of it b/c the soul knows, not the mindddd

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Well, these things would be nice to believe. But I think the real answer is much simpler, and is mostly confirmation bias and a few other quirks of human psychology http://skepdic.com/confirmbias.html

Originally Posted by spaceexplorer

Well, these things would be nice to believe. But I think the real answer is much simpler, and is mostly confirmation bias and a few other quirks of human psychology http://skepdic.com/confirmbias.html

That's an interesting article.

Originally Posted by spaceexplorer

quirks of human psychology http://skepdic.com/confirmbias.html

yea, then i guess that explains my obsession with ufo's around the time of blossom goodchild's prediction on oct.14

we are all just wak, our brains our koo koo, nah

I was dropping my friend back off at his house a few moments ago, and I hadn't looked at the clock in a while. And the one time I look at it, it reads 11:11. I said, "Holy shit, man."

I just looked at the clock and it says 3:11. Holy sh-- man you guys are a curse! D:<

Just been pondering the 11:11 thing a little more,
and realised, the more I think about it, the harder I find it to believe that people take this seriously.

The thought struck me, that it's a purely modern phenomena, (The first digital watch - which came before the digital clock, was invented in 1972. Clocks that display the time in a similar fashion have been around longer (not digital) but still are a reasonably recent invention such as the St Marks clock in venice which has been around since 1857)

I say purely modern, as the impact of seeing 11:11 on the old style clock display is much less apparent, and in many cases just not precise enough (at a glance) to be sure. I'd guess that most people spot 11:11 on digital clocks right?

Also another passing point, is how many of these digital clocks people are noticing the time at, show the seconds? Is it always exactly 11:11:00 or 11:11:11 even? I suspect not.

I suppose my point is obvious really, if as some do, you believe that seeing 11:11 is a "message from Angels" or "Spirit Guardians" (which is a very common belief). Then isn't it really a bit of a lame way for them to contact us? Wouldn't appearing in a flames, or a burning bush... or something, be much more, um, convincing? (those biblical angels were so much more dramatic than the 11:11 ones wouldn't you say? lol)
What about our ancestors, those prior to the digital clock?
How did angels contact them? through them seeing the same constellation or tree?

It is all very related to the concept of street lights going off or on, when you walk under them. Another purely modern phenomena. What is it with these Spirits and thier choice to interfer in the most mundane electrical ways?
The street lamp thing, by the way, also happens to everyone, of course (and again) you don't put much thought to the hundred of streetlights that don't turn off or on when you walk under them every night, but you do notice the faulty one thats looping on and off every 5 minutes or so (and ironicaly, just long enough for you to be far enough away, most of the time, to not notice it come back on as someone else walks under it).

Essentially both are modern phenomena, caused by the design of the devices we use. With the clock, it's the handy fact that 11:11 now looks very apparent, more so than it did on the older spherical displays, and is at a time that occurs during waking hours (on both occasions), when you are likely to be checking the time.
The street lights, well that's just something called "cycling" which is what happens to street lamps when they start to need replacing.
Both are noticed due to Confirmation Bias, and a combination of coincidence and wishful thinking.

I'd be more likely to be convinced that someone is in touch with "the spirits" or "in tune with the cosmos" if everytime they walked through a park all the birds flew around them, or they had a trail of butterflys behind them. Street lamps and digital clocks, seem to me... hugely mundane, specifically modern and, well it happens to all of us... more so if you look for it.

Originally Posted by spaceexplorer

even if your clock says 11:15, one near by is probably reading 11:11... (does your watch read the same time as your computers clock for example? how about your mobile phone?)

That doesn't matter at all. Of course a clock can be off, but the discussion here isn't about setting your clock up right, it's about seeing 11:11 one way or another.

Originally Posted by De-lousedInTheComatorium

That doesn't matter at all. Of course a clock can be off, but the discussion here isn't about setting your clock up right, it's about seeing 11:11 one way or another.

That wasnt my point.
The point is that it's not nearly as rare as people think.
It's not a twice a day event.
You probably have at least 10 chances of seeing it a day, because so many clocks will show slightly different times. This fact should make us realise that what we are experiencing isn't really all that special.

Just trying to demystify something, that really dosn't deserve to be mysterious, as it's so mundane. Personally I think that if you classify seeing 11:11 on your clock often as some kind of meaningful event, then your prioritys are a bit skewed (not you in particular, i'm just making a point). Go lay on your back and look at the stars in the evening, or watch the new flowers grow in springtime... or wonder in the power of the human mind through lucid dreaming!
These are truely magical, awe inspiring events. Mysterys, that although science can begin to understand, loose none of there wonder, in fact, become more wonderful through knowledge.
Noticing a digital clock doing what it's designed to do, and setting up your psychology to keep noticing it, isn't really very special is it? when you put it into perspective with far more magical and beautiful events that are happening to us daily.

I just think we're better off using our billions-of-years evolved minds to experience the true wonder of life, rather than get caught up in trivial quirks of psychology and trying to rationalise them as something meaningful.

I find the 11:11 thing interesting, don't get me wrong, in the same way i find a clever magic trick interesting. It's a puzzle, and there is a simple solution. However, I find watching the sunrise or set, blows my mind completely, or seeing the planets move across the night sky... these things, and things like these, are the true wonders of the gift of human existence. Surely?

Originally Posted by spaceexplorer

That wasnt my point.
The point is that it's not nearly as rare as people think.
It's not a twice a day event.
You probably have at least 10 chances of seeing it a day, because so many clocks will show slightly different times. This fact should make us realise that what we are experiencing isn't really all that special.

Just trying to demystify something, that really dosn't deserve to be mysterious, as it's so mundane. Personally I think that if you classify seeing 11:11 on your clock often as some kind of meaningful event, then your prioritys are a bit skewed (not you in particular, i'm just making a point). Go lay on your back and look at the stars in the evening, or watch the new flowers grow in springtime... or wonder in the power of the human mind through lucid dreaming!
These are truely magical, awe inspiring events. Mysterys, that although science can begin to understand, loose none of there wonder, in fact, become more wonderful through knowledge.
Noticing a digital clock doing what it's designed to do, and setting up your psychology to keep noticing it, isn't really very special is it? when you put it into perspective with far more magical and beautiful events that are happening to us daily.

I just think we're better off using our billions-of-years evolved minds to experience the true wonder of life, rather than get caught up in trivial quirks of psychology and trying to rationalise them as something meaningful.

I find the 11:11 thing interesting, don't get me wrong, in the same way i find a clever magic trick interesting. It's a puzzle, and there is a simple solution. However, I find watching the sunrise or set, blows my mind completely, or seeing the planets move across the night sky... these things, and things like these, are the true wonders of the gift of human existence. Surely?

Yeah, I don't think it's mystical in the least bit. I think it's a strange coincidence that it happens with several people with this certain time. I don't think it's anything more than that. Though people can believe what they want, I think it's silly to take it any further.