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The Digital Clock Coincidence


Digital Clock Coincidence

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What is the weird Digital Clock Coincidence? I'll come on to that very shortly.

Coincidences occur by chance far more often than we think plausible. It is very common for we mortals to overestimate the randomness of random, if you see what I mean. When people are asked to write a stream of random numbers they generally write down fewer repeating numbers (e.g. a six immediately followed by another six) than occur in a typical real random sequence. Most people too often chose the next number to be deliberately different from the previous one. This is because people think of having numbers repeating in a random sequence as a coincidence and underestimate its likelihood. Such "coincidence" groupings of numbers happen by chance far more often than people think.

It is the same with chance meetings. You are more likely to bump into someone you know at a foreign airport than you might imagine - purely by chance. The human mind tends to see patterns where none exist. Our brains evolved such a foible because pattern matching is useful when trying to discern the pattern of a predator hiding in long grass. A false alarm is much less costly than not spotting that sneaky beast with huge teeth and an appetite to match.

That is why we see faces in curtains and clouds and why many of us believe that coincidences are somehow supernatural when they happen to us. Once a fortnight on average someone somewhere in Britain has a dreams that their best friend died, only to learn the next day that it really did happen. This is purely by chance. There are millions of dreams dreamt each night, and many deaths each day. Combine the two and you see that such coincidences are inevitable by chance alone. But if it happened to YOU, what would be your interpretation of such a freaky happening? Would you consider it a meaningless chance happening or a tragic premonition? Someone experiences that every fortnight or so.

Back to the Digital Clock Coincidence! One morning an email landed in my metaphorical lap that contained this riddle:


"I was wondering if maybe you can give me an idea of why, every time I look at the digital clock, I always see for example 12:34 as in 1 2 3 4 , also 13:13 or 15:15 , 11:11 and so on. Is there any coincidence or are the numbers significant in anyway or am I totally just reacting over nothing!"


It's a great question! (I remember being obsessed with the display of my digital watch when I was a kid). One possibility is that a pattern (like 11:11) is always more memorable than a non-pattern (like 14:53). So we end up cumulatively remembering the patterns and forgetting the non-patterns and over time we think to ourselves how weird it is that we tend to see patterns all the time!

There may be another effect here too. I conjecture that if you look at the clock at random then the digits are far more likely to contain a pattern then we imagine. This is because a higher proportion of possible combinations of times contain a pattern than we think. This effect is magnified because for digital time displays low digits are much more common than high numbers. (Hours digits only count up to 23 and minutes digits only count to 59). Indeed this effect is borne out by the examples in that email. Notice how in all of the examples - 12:34, 13:13, 15:15, 11;11 - the digits are small: there are many 1's but not a single 6, 7, 8 or 9. If most of the time the digital display features only small digits, then patterns are much more likely to occur.

There could be an even weirder effect at play here. We have many body clocks of different shapes and sizes, ranging from timing circuits within our brains to molecular clocks in each cell of our bodies. There is at least one autistic person known to science that can tell you the time accurate to within a second, let alone a minute! So it is possible the brain can decipher time better than we think, and in a few of us, the brain might subconsciously trigger a peek at a clock at exactly the "right" moment. to see a "coincidence".

On a related subject - date coincidences, I was shopping recently, and the girl at the till blurted, "1984". At first I thought she was alluding to the increasingly Orwellian world we live in. I was rather impressed, as girls at tills are hardly renounced for erudite conversation. But real life soon intruded. She was requesting nineteen pounds and eighty four pence. I don't think she appreciated my Orwell joke either. From the funny look she gave me, I expect she's reported me to the Ministry Of Love.

Thanks,

Jim E.

P.S. Abel has below submitted three workings-of-the-brain type explanations for why many of us experience seemingly uncanny clock and number coincidences. Also there are a bumper collection of digital clock coincidences stories you have submitted, keep them coming :)

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digital clock coincidence stories: leave them in the comments!

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Update: February 2011  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidences

[Sorry for the delayed update since last time - Eadon]

Coincidence: I see number sequences on my digital clock too, but I also see things like 4:48 (4+4=8) 9:45 etc. Sometimes it's the current date (12:01 up to 12:31 is easy to see) but it happens so frequently! I'm glad I found this site..I thought I was the only one it happened to - didn't even know what to call it. - Maggie

Coincidence: Hi Jim, I just wanted to comment on the 12:34 clock coincidence. I always thought I was the only one but I know with myself that it's much more than a coincidence. I know when I haven't looked at a clock for a few hours so it isn't selective memory and waking up from a dead sleep to see it on my alarm clock on a daily basis (I work nights) isn't selective memory either. No other numbers have ever done this, it's always 12:34. I get back from running to the bank or store, walk in the house, look at the clock on our stove...12:34 Driving through town, look up at the huge clock in front of a bank...12:34. These things happen to me on a daily basis and I cannot with good judgment explain them away as selective memory and it's extremely frustrating because it's something that I want to understand. Thanks for your time, - Brock - Brock

Coincidence: YEAH!! I'm not crazy and I'm not alone after all. For the last several years (since I retired) I have had "urges" to glance at one of our several clocks around the house and all too frequently the time has been one of the possible triplets or quadruplets ... 1:11, 2:22, 3:33, 4:44, ...11:11. I have even refrained from looking at times when I got the urge and instead asked my wife what the exact time was at that moment ... and very often it was another of these triplets. I also still don't know what the meaning is for this series of synchronous events, but I definitely feel that it is some kind of message being sent from my higher self, guides, angels or whatever. I just wish the message was clearer than what I currently understand. In any case, It's very interesting to know that other's are having similar experiences. - Ron

Coincidence: the global conciousness project: I've just discover this and I think it is amazing. As far as I can tell, a lot of smart people in Princeton, NJ, on a hunch, decided to start an international array of random number generators, record all of the data sets that flowed from the sources, and analyze all of the data to look for statistical anomalies, such as deviation from pure mathematical randomness. Then they noticed that when world events occurred that attracted lots of international attention, there were the most significant deviations from pure randomness. Before I go any further, I have to say, as a point of pride, I am a man of science and one hell of a skeptic, but this discovery has been truly mind-blowing. The researchers involved are extremely skeptical themselves, and go great lengths to assure the objectivity of their data. Their website has as much information on the project and its mechanisms of analysis as they can cram onto it. They really explain it best:
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A description of the technical implementation is given under procedures. - Josh

Coincidence: everytime i look at a digital clock the last 3 numbers are the same it doesnt matter if its day or night this always happens an as soon as i came on this website you said about 12.34 guess what the time was when i looked at the clock in the corner of my pc you guessed it 12.34 this is starting to drive me insane lol? - syreete

Coincidence: I've been randomly seeing triple digits on all the clocks I look at? - chrystal

Coincidence: 01:01 to 23:23 - Well i stumbled on this site today while i was at my wits ends as this so called digital clock phenomenon won't end. it was 22:22 when i glanced at my watch, and then i started searching if this thing had any name. I've been having this experience since some time know, i even told my friends about it and gave them a demo too. i looked at the watch and there it was 04:04; we went strolling i take it out my pocket n dere its 05:05. i wake up at night and it shows 3:33. i have seen all the nos. from 01:01 to 23:23. kind of freaky.and it happens all day unless i'm trying to get it consciously. any explanations? - Pat

Coincidence: 3.33am - Every now and then over the last few years I wake up at 3.33am. Something triggers me to wake up. Only two nights ago I actually heard a voice that woke me up and when I looked at the clock the time was 3.33. This I have to say did spook me and I would like to know why this keeps happening. I wondered whether someone may have passed away at this time. I did know the people who lived in my house for the last 50 years and that the last person living here did pass away in the early hours but am not sure of the time. Could this just be a coincidence? - Jill

Coincidence: Hi there, thanks for your article on the digital clock coincidence - i'm totally fascinated by it as it always seems to happen to me. I was just wondering, you mention an autistic boy who can tell the time precisely - do you have any more information on him or can point me in some direction to find out more about that. Many thanks and best wishes, - james

Coincidence: 10:11 - Eadon, Im in NYC and I will randomly look at the clock and it is 10:11. It has been happening to me before 9/11 and I have never been sure why, I have seen this since high school and I am now 34 so quite a long time. It does not happen every day but usually in the evening and about 4 times per week in random places.
I am really not sure the coincidence or what it means but it is a little strange and probably, statisticly, improbable. I am sure that this time will me something to me some day but I do not know now... - Jeffrey

Coincidence: This is the oddest thing I wish I could understand more. It started about 5 yrs ago I started at night noticing 10:10 after about a couple years I started to notice 10:10 am as well. Now everyday and everynight w/out fail I look at the clock at 10:10. I can't remembber the last time I haven't. I used to say 10:10 make a wish and now when someone else is in the room they just say "yeah i know 10':10. Why do I do this? - Michele

Coincidence: hey how are you going? for quite a few years i have been having this problem,when ever i look at a clock-from mobile,microwave,oven,clocks and even me computer-,i seem to get the same thing-1.11 to 23.23,and i mean all of those numbers that have a coincidens, to say something,even before my mild stroke [7yrs ago] i have had this thing,seems a bit stronger now-still cannot win on the horses though-but it seems to happen upto 8-10 times a day. my birthday is 01-02-1962 i hope you can explain - adrian

Coincidence: I have an occuring coincidence in my life, in the fact that most nights I will look at the clock and the time is always 22:22 it started happening about 4 years ago and it happened every night for a long time! Then all of a sudden I stopped noticing it, then about 6 months ago I started seeing it again! I look at the clock almost every night and it is always 22:22, coincidence? The other weird thing about it is that my brother sees it as well and we have seen it together many times.
Another weird story is that I was round a mates playing poker one night, when the person shuffling dropped a single card that landed face up on the floor, it was the 3 of diamonds, and throughout the entire game that card appeared in every hand, whether it be on the table on in someones hand. It was a bit trippy I have to say! - Sam

Coincidence: Seeing 911 on the clock - It started about 2 years ago when one day I happened to look at the clock on our microwave and it read 9:11. I thought hmm that was odd but gave no other thought about it. It then occured again I would say a few days later. Then again and again. I told my wife at the time, whats up with this and we both passed it off as just no big thing. To make a long story short, one night about 1.5 years ago me and my wife were in an altercation. she assulted me, my first response was to dial 911. I wasn't evening thinking about the clock event at that time. She went to jail for 3 days, no we are not trashy people..lol. Anyway, once she was out she filed for divorce...a longer story short, we have a little girl and she was trying to gain full custody and move to Texas away from me with no valid justification. I faught very hard and ultimately won the fair 50/50 custody resolve. I'm a believe in God, so tell me how you read this. I hired a team of family psychlogists to evaluate me and my wife as parents to see what would be best for our daughter. At the first meeting, I was late by 10 minutes. It was to he held at 9:00AM. I got out of my car, forgot something went back in to get it, hit the clock to see how late I was and it read, 9:11AM. I was like hmm weird again. Then weeks went on still seeing the 9:11 occurance weekly. Then came time for our last meeting with the psychologists however it would be in the same room with my soon to be ex wife. As I was called by the doctor of this team, he said the only date we have available to meet and your wife agreed was on Sept. 11th (9/11) All out of my control..In all their report, truth prevailed and I won. - Matt

Coincidence: 12:34 - For years I would see 12:34 all the time. On my clock, computer, and even when cooking with a microwave. It drove me crazy. I was told I was actually looking for it or I had programmed my brain to check the time routinely.
My life was chaotic. A bad relationship, worked many hours and got no where, smoked cigarettes and drank coffee constantly. Then one day I left the relationship, got laid off, moved back in with my parents and quit smoking. I still saw 12:34 but not as much as I did. I decided not to take life too seriously and moved to the beach. Got a job bartending and just enjoyed the simple life. I met someone special and have been so happy ever since. I now no longer see 12:34.
I was on line one day and googled 12:34. I saw many people had the same experiences with seeing numbers constantly. I researched this phenom and read an article about angel numbers. We all have gardian angels that watch over us. They communicate to us with signs such as numbers. I found that 1234 was a message from my angel to simplify my life, leave all that is hectic and center my attention on my needs and desires. When I read this I realized that is just what I did and now believe this is why I no longer see this number.
I have read several other articles regarding the digital clock coinsidences and other explainations. Angel Numbers was the one that made the most sence to me. - John

Coincidence: From 1 to 20 times a day, when I randomly look at a digital clock on the wall, cell phone, computer or clock radio it is at the exact instant when the minute changes to the next such as 4:54 to 4:55. This has been happening for several years. - Gerry C.

Coincidence: Hi I know you have had a lot of emails about time coicidences, I am now 42 years of age & ever since I can remember I have been looking at digital clocks & seeing 20:20/19:19/17:17 ect. then I didn't see anything for years? Now last year three members of my close family died one of my Aunties, my favourate Uncle & my Dad died & ever since these numbers have started to reacure only more numbers have started to appear ie. 10:10/11:11/12:12/13:13. I hope you can help me with this situation as it is FREAKING me out a little. Kindest Regards, Jason - Jason Webster

Coincidence: 9:11 ,11:11, 12:11, all 11 - honestly i dont think any of the first numbers on clocks have anything to do with it but since like december or november i keep seeing the number 11 on my digital clock i see it almost every were though on my stove clock and the big clock in the city. sometimes im doing laundry and the digital timer ends up on 11 when i turn to look at it... i looked in the bible for the times i saw 11 next to a nuber but i had no luck... but what really bothers me the most is when i see 9:11 its the most common out of all of them for sum reason. - Alix

Coincidence: clock time and birthdate - Many, many times when I look at a ditigal clock it shows the month and day of my birth. It happens so often I wonder if there is any meaning to this. Recently I even glanced at the tv and a show was on and the clock on the show had the month and day. Do you have any ideas? - Marci

Coincidence: 10:31 - For me it started right after a string of unexpected deaths occured around me. The last of the 3 in a row was my grandmother. Soon after she died I started seeing 10:31 ALL the time!! It was really starting to freak me out. Of course who do you tell about it, people would think your crazy. So for a long time I was convinced that something bad was going to happen on Halloween(10-31). But when the date came and went,nothing happened, but I still kept seeing it on the clock. So I entered 10:31 on the computer, and do you know what came up?!? A quote from the Bible. "In everything you do,do in the name of the Lord" Imagine my surprise when I happened upon this website, and saw someone else (Matt) who saw the same numbers! - Alisha

Coincidence: I find it odd how I manage to see the same numbers on the clock as well... this happens at least four times a day. I could go for hours not checking the time, but when I do, it happens to be the same digits. 1:11, 3:33, 12:12, etc. Even when attaining transfers from the subway, the majority of them state the same time (5:55, 11:11, etc.) Infact, a little while ago when I arrived home, I threw the door open and gazed at the clock only to see 3:33pm. It`s been occuring so often that i`m beginning to dismiss the simple explaination of a 'coincidence'. - Leighton

Coincidence: i see the number 24 at least 10 to 15 times a day..does that mean anything you think? - playa

Coincidence: Birthdays n such - I am now 32, soon to be 33. On the day I was born I also had a cousin born. March 15th. That same day, two of our great aunts and a great uncle passed away. My husbands Grandmother also shares that date. My grandmother had 10 kids, two that are born on the same day. My brother, his wife and his son all have birthdays on the 6th day of the month...666 and their daughters name Cassandra(which means daughter of doom) was born on my mothers birthday September 12th. I have several close relatives born on the same day as inlaws as well, and my children have two uncle Josh's.
As for myself, I have four children. My oldest daughter and my youngest daughter are exactly 8 yrs apart(which the oldest daughter has never forgiven me for...lol), my eldest son, second born, was born January 15th, and my youngest son (and the baby) missed the mark by only 3 days, being born on February 3rd.
And as I stated, my husbands family shares several birthdays with my family, so much so that every one of his family members has birthdays on either the same day or same month within days as my immediate family members. It makes remembering birthdays a whole lot easier! ;) - Autumn

Coincidence: all most every mornig when i wake up i see the num 9:11am i was just wondering what that means or if anyone else sees the same num that i do...... - colleen

Coincidence: I was reading your article on digital clock phenomina and while reading the part where you are more likely to glance over at the clock and see corresponding numbers, I took a peak to see what my clock read. It was 5:55, now I find myself wondering what are the odds that I would be reading about how frequently these numbers occur whilst actually observing this oddity myself. - t angus

Coincidence: I see 11:11 everyday no matter what time noon or night. No matter what im doing I always look at the same time. For abput 5 years now - T King

Coincidence: really scary digital clock - Hi my story is this am 55 yrs old female good health, mentally sound! for months now often in the night I will wake up and look at the clock (digital) to see that all the numbers are the same example 22.22 or 4.44, it wa starting to worry me as I fell that it has to have some signification. The worst night was around 3 days ago went to bed early, first wake up was at 23.23, then midnight 00.00 then it carried on 2.22. I missed 3 but woke again at 4.44, I am getting scared now to look at the clock as almost always the digitas are the same? Can anyone tell me if it has some meaning or where I could surch for it. many thanks freda - freda roberts

Coincidence: clock phenomenon - Hi , after searching on the internet, i came on this site. I have the same thing for a month now!. by me its always on 13.33. and i dont think it has to do with an intern clock. cause i dont live in a straight pattern. also i work in shifts. and always happens unconcioussnes. waking up before an alarmclock does ring, that is the internclock. but the time thing? i dont know for sure - Roopesh

Coincidence: In a 24 hour day, how many ones (1s) will appear on the face of a digital clock? Examples 11:11 (4), 12:05 (1). - Bob
[That 1's appear a lot is explained by Benford's law, which says that 1 will appear more than 2, 2 more than 3 and so on. This is true of many phenomena, not just clocks. For instance - house numbers. This isn't magic. If you think about it, to give an example, the digit 1 appears in more than half of the first 20 numbers. - Eadon]


Coincidence: 14:54 - This may be nothing, but I was watching a movie on my computer and I suddently stopped without having a real reason, probably I was going to check something on internet, but I dont really remember what. However instantly after I stopped it (14:54), I looked at the length of the movie. It says 1:45:45. Then I thought on the coincidence of having stopped at the minute 14:54 and the lenght of the movie 1:45:45 = 14545 =14 54 5. Then I looked at the digital watch of the computer and it was 14:54. This coincidence happend in a matter of seconds. So I do find it weird to get this number. I had some other coincidences like seeing 1451 with 1514, however I never experienced the number coincidence at the same time.
[next message] - Weird, following my last email. 14:54:43, in the time of the last person who wrote on your wall. I have however seen this like half an hour later. - Juuso

Coincidence: hey man every time ii look into my clock its something eleven ex:9:11 4:11 etc - john

Coincidence: 4 4 4 - As far back as i can remember i see 4:44 on the clock. Only here recently has it been happening practically every day. But also, like your other comments from those effected is is also 3:33 and 5:55 etc. Happens all the time. After reading the data stated by those effected yah know there really is no answer here other than opinion and coincidence is all is can see. GOD is in my body and travels with me everyday, he does not need a number to speak to me as he does this all day. Angels speaking to me are nice to think about, but again, GOD is in my heart and Angels are wonderful. As care as "chance" nothing happens purely by "chance", while everything, everything happens for a reason. That said, is there a reason why I see 444 all the time, I have no idea, nothing has been revealed to anyone yet, so it seems, so, just have fun with it and laugh about it, say a prayer as a reminder for those who need them. Hey that's it, it is a reminder to say a little prayer for those who need it. Done! - Ricky

Coincidence: Whenever I check the time, morning or night I am always able to catch the time on 9h11 (911) - Jacques Allison

Coincidence: always i see time having same digits....... it started last 10-13 months and after that i had a very bad experiance with my life....i lost my happiness ....i always be in stress....every thing goes in wrong dirention....anything you consider to be happen will never happen .....my life is totallymessed up....mostly i see repeated same digits...i joined collage this year and my roll nois....14/4044/09(4044) is main which have only 4....and these happens all time....and give a new bad experiance.... - vijay

Coincidence: Odd (but even) - Sense I was was a small child, I have had a mild compulsion to repeat the number four in my head, over and over and over. I haven't done it in several years, and haven't really givin it any thought until recently (the last 5 months). I moved into a flat that is attached to what used to be a sanitarium. My work hours are on a second shift, so I usually don't go to bed until about 5am to 6am. Almost every mourning sense my moving in here, I have glanced at the Digital clock at exactly 4:44am. It didn't really bother me until about 3 weeks ago. I decided to change the time on the clock by moving it ahead 25 minutes. It still happened almost daily. So I decided to unplug the clock and use the one on my laptop or cell phone to tell time. It is still happening on an almost daily basis. I forgot to mention also that my birthday is on 4 Nov. I have goggled this number with no success. I have also started keeping a journal to see if it was happening with other times. It is not. Not even one repeat time other then 4:44..???? - Kenn

Coincidence: 911 clock time freaking us out! - ok we are not freaks...just a normal family married 17 years and we have 3 kids together. we have nothing to do with 911 but... ever since 911 happend we see the time morning and night more then we want to, hes the deal every time we look at a clock, get change back from buying things, exc.. we see the number 911!! now not all the time but alot! and now the kids are seeing it. its getting so out of hand its really freaking us out!! we are thinking we may need to see a pastor at a church to see what he or she can think of. im not messing around, its been years now, so im looking around to see if others out there are going through the same thing, and the thing is...we dont even look for it, its when we least exspect it. look we are no drama queens,freaks or what ever else...we dont even tell our family and friends due to them thinking were nuts. im getting tired of it (really) Big question...do u know of anyone that has been seeing this number 911 more then they should? we need answers, we need help!!!! write me back when u get the time...ty 4 ur time...connie and dan - connie and dan adams

Coincidence: Repitive time on clocks - Did you get any results asking for feedback on your digital clock situation? For the past 10-15 years, when I look at a clock (analog,digital,wristwatch,wall clock,etc.) it will be exactly 12:00 o'clock (either am or pm). This will happen on the average, at least a dozen times a month. Do you have any idea what this means, or where I might look for some answers? It feels like I'm supposed to be somewhere or supposed to do something, but where? when? why? I feel like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. thanks. - Wesley Wong

Coincidence: 7 27 - i see the numbers 727 almost daily. Ill see it on the clock, prices of items, experation dates, and more. i find this very odd and somewhat freaky. My birthday is July 27th, any ideas? - Lexus

Coincidence: I have the EXACT same problem. It seems that whenever I turn to look at the time it seems to be 11.11. It has happened countless times now and it feels like not a coincidence but something more than this. It really freaks me out! - Emily

Coincidence: hi i was wondering if you could help, for the past 2 weeks every single day i have been looking at any clock, watch, computer time anything that reads the time really, and without fail it always reads 13minutes past what ever, its really freaking me out now, this must mean something? what do you think? this has happend befor roughly 6months ago every time i looked at the time it always read 13min past. is this a bad thing as 13 is bad luck? there is no way this could be a coincidence, this happens roughly 7times a day every time i look its 13min past :( please can you try and give me a reasonable explination thanks ever so much regards - gemma winstone

Coincidence: mystery with 3:33 - It starts about 6 monthes ago i begone evry night weak up at 3:33 i dont know what it means. Some times i sleep agen and i wake up 4:44 end then at 5:55 and the difference betwin this times is 1:11. First i thought that is a coincidence but it hapens to often to be a coincidence. Now it hapen at my work too i look at the clok at noon and i realise that its 3:33 all this starts bothering me. Sorry for my English. I am from Greece. - Philipp [Prince Philip, you again? - Eadon]

Coincidence: hello im fredrik and i have this weird thing in my head where i look at the clock at 11.11 12.12 13.13 12.21 16.19 etc) the weirdest part is that im in norway where the clock is different as in england.. i see the number all over the place like its hunting me.. i normaly see them on my iphone but a little while ago i chanced my clock to the pm and am instead of the normal ones example i normaly see 18.18 wich is 6 pm but when i chanced the clock i now see 06.18 and 06.06 14.14 is now 14.14 but now its 02.02 i dont know if you understand.. my english is might not the best cuz im from norway. i see that u allso see this numbers if there is annyyhing you know that u could tell me i would be greatful :) - fredrik

Coincidence: This started as just a comment in your guestbook but it got longer so I thought this might be the better route to go... Wow... I found myself here because it was 12:34 and I thought "hey, self, since you are sitting here with a computer in front of you why don't you see how many other people have over-analyzed the '1234' thing", and I was impressively surprised. Mostly that you can so eloquently keep track of your thoughts on paper as you weave from subject to subject... - Anon [Thank you, you're too kind! *blush* :-) Eadon]

Coincidence: upside down / same time - As well as frequently seeing same digits on digital claock and purchace totals...i also see alot of numbers and time that are the same upside down...ie the year 1961 time 609 916 1001 - olive - [Bravo! That's an impressive digital clock coincidence symmetrical phenomenom! - Eadon]
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I found myself here by chance, but I appreciate the opportunity to voice my own experiences for one last time - and perhaps even get an answer. (Why for the last time? Because I am simply tired of explaining this, very clearly and precisely, only to have people who don't even know my name, let alone ME, come up with flippant "explanations". So there. ;))
For the past six months or so I have been noticing a repetitive numerical pattern appearing on my digital clock. I don't look at it often, maybe once every few hours, at totally random times (I don't have a fixed daily routine, far from it), but every time I do, there it is: 1:11, 3:33, 22:22, 5:55, 19:19, 16:16 etc.
Here are the basics, so that there are no misunderstandings:
* This happens practically EVERY TIME I look at my digital clock. (Out of, say, 10 instances, 7 or 8 will be as described above.)
* NONE of those numbers has any special "meaning" to me. (Certainly none that I can think of.)
* I am a mindful person, always aware of my own actions and thoughts. If there WERE other numbers appearing, I would have noticed it. It is not that I am focusing on these numbers, or even "seeking" them for some reason. (As I said, they have no special meaning to me. Besides, ALL of them occur, any number within the range 00:00 - 24:00.)
* This phenomenon started in the year 2008, in late summer or early autumn. There were no changes to speak of in my daily life. The frequency of my looking at the clock hasn't increased or decreased in comparison to earlier years. Nor has my conscious attention shifted in any way, not to my knowledge. - VV

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Update: January 2009  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidences

Coincidence: 10:31: Alright, please listen to this bizarreness. I am born on October 31 (10/11) and usually once a day, for a couple of months, whether it be AM or PM, the time is 10:31. It doesn't end there. I live with my friend in a dorm at college and we order food a lot for delivery. One night we ordered dominoes and the price came to $10.31. I freaked out. Also, the night before, my cousin sent me a message on Facebook. What time did she send the message? 10:31. I honestly have reason to believe it is more than a coincidence. My grandmother passed away years ago and since then, my parents have been finding quarters everywhere they go. My grandfather passed away a few years back and now i am seeing my birth date everywhere. Call me insane, but i wish some of you can experience what situation i'm going through. Am i receiving a sign of some sort? I don't know, all i know is that the next day i will look at the clock and it will be 10:31. Is there anything other than coincidence? - Matt

Coincidence: Hi, I became interested in this phenomenon after reading Colin Wilson's autobiography 'Dreaming to some purpose'. When he was writing a book called 'Alien Dawn' he would look at his digital clock during the night and repeatedly saw that the clock showed 1:11 2:22 3:33 4:44 etc. He said the chances of this happening by chance are 1 in 60. Is he right? I'm no great mathetician but this sounds wrong to me. Can you help? - Laurence Breedon U.K.

Coincidence: My Gran was born on the 11th of August 1946, she then had a son (my Dad) who was born on the 11th of August 1968 and then I was born on the 11th of August 1991. This may not seem too unusual but we were also all born on a Sunday morning which is weird as the days change every year. Anyway i thought it was weird!!! - Jess

Coincidence: since 2005 i start to take off my watch..it iritate me to use watch in my hand. so..i start to check time in my handphone..hence i saw digital number. since end of 2007...i start coincidentally saw twin number in my handphone. i just wondering why. at that time..i lost my lover. i didnt saw him for almost 6 months without any trace. some people say..if i saw twin number..it means that someone think of me as i think of him. i believe its true - agus

Coincidence: When the repeated digits of 11:11 began to appear to me, I followed them! I was led to an ancient Knights Templar church in Spain. Read the story. It's all true. My book The 11:11 Code is available on Amazon. Kind Regards, - Hilary Carter

Coincidence: hi, i know someones already mentioned this, but i'd like to find out more. the last month, litrally EVERY time i look at a clock its the same numbers, e.g 12:12, 21:21, 17:17,etc.. and if its not that, the other times i look at a clock its just about to be that, eg. 15:13, so its just about to be 15:15. theres rarley a time i look at my clock were somthing like that doesnt happen. i was wondering if it is just coincidence, or its a sign or somthing. just incase you need to know for more information, im not an adult, im a teenager. thanks, and im realy interested in finding out so please get back to me. thanks very much. - ellie

Coincidence: I have been seeing frequent triple, quadruple combinations of numbers on digital equipment such as clocks, cell phones, and the crosstrainer readout at the gym. This has been happening to me for about eight years. I did research on 1111, and there a half ton (.5555) of information out there, mostly metaphysical. During the last few years, I started seeing 911 a lot but didn't pay much attention at first. My curiousity about this is what led me to this website. I admit I am a numbers freak. My first name adds up to 11, and so does my last name. My first, middle and last names combined add up to 11. So...maybe I just notice these things more than other people. After reading the information here, I am tempted to do a semi-scientific study and record every single number I notice to see if it is a real pattern or just a perception thing. - Susan

Coincidence: My friend told me about how she's always seeing 11:11, and she also told me that she did some research. I shied it off, because I thought the idea of 11:11 being an awakening for guardian angels was ridiculous. What my problem is now I keep see 12:07. Everytime I look at the clock I see 12:07. What's weird about it is my birthday is 12/07. What could this possibly mean? At first I thought it was a coincidence, and it was kinda of funny, but now it's bugging me. It's too frequent, and not at all random. It's asif I know when it will be 12:07 and I look at the clock, which is impossible. I hardly keep track of time, unless if I'm waiting for a show. Thanks in advance, and thoughts/ideas would be appreciated. Sincerely, x - Kemisha

Coincidence: Today was the final straw for me. Let me explain. The hospital I was born at in 1970..(hope that's not a weird number for you) :) used to provide these frames surrounded by zodiacs signs and on the paper was all your specifics including what time you were born. At some point in my childhood I noticed this and for whatever reason had that time burned to memory. The time is 9:52 am. In recent years and more recent months, weeks, I find myself looking at clocks am and pm when it is exactly 9:52! Last night for example, I called my wife in the car using bluetooth command, when I looked at the screen...9:52. This am, called a consultant, looked at my ip phone, 9:52! I see 9:52 at least once a day, usually at night. Is it possible it is my internal clock or maybe something out there is trying to tell me something?? I thought you might find my story interesting. It is certainly starting to freak me out a bit! Penny for your thoughts? - Tim Leblanc

Coincidence: I too have seen the numbers 1111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 1010, as I randomly look at the clock. It started in May and continues to this day. I've yet to see 111, maybe then the viewing game is over. It happens quite frequently. I am in retail and always on the run. But when I stop to see what time it is, the 3 exact numbers show up. The probable ones. It is now showing up in the change I give back or the totals of a sale. So do you still think it's the mind wanting to see these numbers? Trust me I have a whole lot of other things on my mind, than numbers. - Syl

Coincidence: I have never has an experiance like this. every time i look at the digital clock it always ends with a one .. but it didnt start happening until i met a very unique person .. i told him about it to just strike up convo. and he said his daughter sees 7 his wife sees double digits and he also told me that people that get close to him like relatives really good friends always seem to tell him they will see the same numbers over agian. mabey this is very unusual? could you get back to me thanks !! - tawnya

Coincidence: I look at clocks and many more times than chance it happens to be 11:19 or 23:19. A significant percentage of the time someone has asked me what time it is, it has been 11:19. WTF?? It must be psychological, but seems strange. - Nick

Coincidence: I have been seeing this number for well over 20 years. This was from when I was a kid in school to now. I see it at night and day time. I am not sure why but I too would like to know why. It is not everyday but it is often enough to make me wonder why - Jen

Coincidence: hey great website by the way. im starting to worry as i see the number 11 every where recently every time i look at the time there is a 11 in it usually 11 minutes past . i was in liverpool town the otherday in traffic i was behind taxi number 1111 ? the time was 2:43 , 2 x 4 + 3 = 11 ha then i go the shop and recieve 1.11 chang all in the space of like 10 minutes ( or maybe 11 ha ) but the thing is the 11th of november is rapidly approaching and one cannot be slighlty worried your site has soothed the worry a little i had taken coincidence into view as i do know a little about number randomness and groups of certain numbers that ofeten appear several times . now is it coincedince or is something telling me 11 11 i do always look at the time with 11 in it at least 5 times a day no exxagration please help??? - kyle rowley

Coincidence: I thought this was an interesting digital clock coincidence. I was thinking about what numbers could be sequential on a digital clock. Of course there's 1 2 3 as in 1:23. Then there's 2 3 4, 3 4 5 and 4 5 6. That's as high as you can go because there's no such time as 5:67. So 4:56 or 6:54 are the highest sequential numbers that can be displayed in digital time. I then noticed the structure of the numbers as most digital clocks display them. The number 1 is not a single line but made up of two vertical dashes, one on top of the other. Counting how many dashes make up each individual number, here's what I found. The number 0 is made up of 6 dashes, 1=2, 3=5, 4=4, 5=5, 6=6, 7=3, 8=7, 9=6 Once again 4 5 6 came up. They are the highest sequential numbers that can be displayed and the only three numbers that are made up of the same number of dashes as the number they represents. Not sure what it means, if anything, but I thought it was interesting. - Bruce Siegel



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Aug 2006  
Submitted by Abel
Clock Coincidences: three ideas to explain this phenomenon

Coincidence explanation 1) Number pattern:
The concept of an easily recognized number pattern (e.g. 1234) is already explained in the website. All I have to add about this is a Psychology 101 jargon, called “chucking”. Basically, our brain could only hold “x” number of items in our short-term memory; from the idiot to the genius, it’s about 5 to 9 items, respectively, which is not a whole lot. So, to increase our brain capacity for storing things, we tend to use this mechanism called “chunking”, which basically means putting like items together. The perfect everyday example is our phone numbering system; a typical phone number (in Canada) with area code, if we remember it, would make us look like geniuses! For e.g. a hypothetical phone number, 6134789890, by itself would exceed our 5 to 9 items of maximum capacity, since there are 10 digits all together. Of course, any idiot can remember a phone number once in a while especially if it's from some hot chic or guy! The reason is because we “chunk” the numbers by area code and then by 3 digits dash 4 digits together. So, visually we see 613-478-9890. In essence, the total number of items we are remembering is only 3 items. Similar explanation can be applied to things like acronyms (i.e. CIA, FBI, FEMA, etc.) to help people remember useless things, like government agencies. 12:34 or 11:11 displayed in a digital clock is instinctively chunked as 1 item, while more randomized times like 11:56 or 3:48 etc. has no real obvious pattern, so it is not being chunked by our brain, which makes it about 3 to 4 items. Obviously, the fewer the items the easier it is to remember.

Coincidence explanation 2) Significance of number series:
The second explanation is basically an extension of the first explanation. Some numbers simply in appearance resemble something meaningful to the person, like 911 or 666 or 111 or a number that resemble your birth date or the date your boyfriend passed away or whatever number that is tie to a significant event or a traumatising event like 9/11. This is like the “chunking” concept because you no longer see the numbers as individual digits, you seeing it as a whole; hence, again reducing the number of items that your brain can hold, which increases your ability to remember it. This is classical “gestalt” psychology, where the saying goes, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. E.g. the digits 9-1-1 are not seen as 3 individual items but as 1 item with a special meaning.

Of course, the 666 million dollar question is, “How does improving the memory of a number causes the number to be seen more often???” Well, it’s attention. Before you noticed 9-1-1 like a million times a day, you have to first pay attention to that particular series of number, registered it in your head that you saw it once in order for you to say that you saw it again, and again… For all you know, you might have saw 348 repeatedly, but if don’t even pay attention to it once, then you can’t keep track of the number of times you saw it. A number series of significance or a recognized number pattern provides that initial attention!

Coincidence explanation 3) Conditioned response:
The everyday example for this explanation is when you seem to know, without looking at your watch, that it’s lunchtime, which almost always is about the same time each day (for me is about noon). You are biologically conditioned to have lunch or feel the sensation of hunger around the same time each day. In relation to the digital clock phenomenon, it is very possible that you are conditioned to look at your watch or clock around the same time each day! Seriously, who actually thinks the chance of looking at your clock is the same during the middle of the night as during the daytime! Now, add on your conditioned clock viewing habit during certain time of the day, you basically only have a certain window of opportunity to look at your clock. This explanation kills any calculations trying to explain how unlikely you are to see the same digits because it doesn’t take into account this limited window of clock viewing opportunity. Of course, the window is different for each individual, but there are certain digits that should in theory be seen more often due to the similar pressures in life that drives the clock viewing habit, consider the following:

- During the morning at around 9-ish when you try to get to work on time, and when you actually get settle down and the monitor on your computer displays a 9:11!!! - Around 12-ish or 1-ish depending on when your boss let you take your lunch, and depending on how long you lunch is. For e.g. if it’s a ulcer inducing 30 minute lunch, you noticed you better hurry because you’re already a few minutes late at about 12:34 or if you have the luxury of an hour lunch, yet you could still be late with the chit-chatting, so you’re looking at 1:11 or 13:13 or 1:23 depending on when you start lunch.
- When you’re about to leave work at about 5-ish and wondering how long the last few minutes is going to take at 4:56. Or if you just plain lazy, at about 4:44!
- Now, depending on when you go to bed at night or the TV show that signals it’s time for bed. Some e.g., at about 10-ish or 22:22 (at about the last commercial break), or 11-ish or 23:23 or 11:11 (at about the first commercial break), at about 12-ish again 12:34 or 12:12 or 0:00:00 on your VCR.

Basically, the point is this; you are a human animal with routines, from your morning “exercise” routines (which lasts about 3 minutes and supposedly would improve your health), to your night routines (which might or might not involve sex in certain days of the week); routines is a type of conditioned response, and so it appears, your clock viewing habit as well.



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Update: January 2008  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidences

Coincidence: Some digital numbers used on clock faces form symetrical patterns that are quite pleasing.For example: 2:52 5:25. There are others. These ould be used in an artistic arrangement Other arrangements are interesting :4:44 and 2:22 Look like ballet dancers Has this been used by any artist? The contrasting colours of yellow against a black background would be quite dramatic. I often notice these patterns when I awake at night and glance at the bedside clock to note the time. Some have come to be "favourites" and reassure me to encourage a return to sleep. Am I strange? - Max Henman

Hi, i have been experiencing the same happenings much like the other person that wrote to you, this doesnt only happen with my digital alarm clock but also my mobile phone and watch. When consulting my friends about these coincidences they looked to their mobile clocks and the time was 19:19, when remembering the coincidence from the previous night the next day i looked to the clock spookily it was 12:12. Now here is the weird one, the other night i randomly woke up in the middle of the night and looked to my clock (which was face down) and thought nahh it cant be, but strangely enough when pulling it up to see the time it was 2:22 i think your theory may be correct about an internal body clock because sometimes i just think of a time i wil get up and i'll wake up a minute before it, however sometimes the coincidences get too frequent and unexplainable, thats what made me search for a meaning to them. Anways just thought i'd let you know, glad i wasnt the only one, thought i had some strange power lol - Steven

March 2006 my Mother and I visited New York City, and after a good night's sleep, our first night in the city, my Mother woke up suddenly - she doesn't know what startled her but it was 9:11 on the clock, she wanted to wake me but didn't, and just told me about it later instead. On our last day, we went to lower Manhattan and whilst down there next to the Courthouse, I got a call from my Boyfriend asking, as he would be at work when I arrived home the following morning, if he should give the house keys to my Father. As I'm from the UK it costs me money not only to make but also to receive calls (89p to receive and 1.49 to make a call). During this call my talk-time ran out, so my Mother and I took a seat on a bench whilst I 'topped-up' my phone. With a zero balance in my phone I put 10 on it, then made a call to my Boyfriend. It appeared to be calling him when all of a sudden I got this really loud grinding sort of noise that made me pull the phone back from my ear. So I looked at the screen and the call appeared to end, and my balance came up on screen - you guessed it, 9.11. Now sorry to state the obvious but, I made the call, it should have deducted 1.49 so the balance should have been 8.51. Anyone out there believe this isn't just a coincidence as I dont know what to think? - Karen

I've seen the number sequence 1234 and 234 for a long time now my mom notice it to. If I dont see it she does vice versa. Ive tried to count them use date etc and can make no sense of it. Sometimes i make sure i keep my eyes closed to make sure i dont look. Its on the clock, microwave computer where ever i am. Sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night look up and it clicks to 1234 or 234. LOL going insane is someone trying to tell me something is it a sign? Saw a web site that said it was an angel whispering in your ear to make you look up and 1234 mean to go forward....But from what? Help.... - Diana Garrett

For years I've always looked at the clock at 12:34 and 11:11. Mostly 11:11. I just now did a search and found out I'm not the only one. My brother has different numbers. My father has mentioned the same thing but different times. Have you heard any more? Very curious - Julie

I too have been noticing the digital clock coincidence so its with interest that I read your suggestions re: low number pattern formation (subconscious pattern creation I guess?). Its been happening so much for me lately though that everyone who knows me well knows about it now and I even decided to check it out online just to see if I was alone here. Anyway it started happening when I was living out in Sydney last year and now I am back in Ireland it continues. I also thought... "I wonder if some part of my brain has seen the time on this clock, registered it and now prompts me to get up and move to the kitchen when it will be symmetric? as in a totally subconscious act. But to see it 5 times consecutively in one evening (19:19, 20:20, 21:21, 22:22 and 23:23) was when it started and now its a daily occurrence. Anyway Id be keen to hear of other people who have experienced this particular phenomenon as it has gone from mildly amusing to somewhat unsettling when it happens in sequence or I havent checked the time (however nonchalantly) in a while - Graham

Um...aside from the fact that I DO get weird coincidences from Digital Clocks AS WELL AS Regular Clocks, it seems we both own clocks...isn't that a bit subtle these days? Ill tell you, there's nothing like having something like that in common. And when it's 4:20 my clock stops for like an hour. Talk about weird! Yours truly, - Fermin

I have recently noticed that whenever i look at a digital clock i tend to look at it when it is 2 minutes to the next hour (58 Minutes past). Im chinese and the number 58 means never rich and im not too sure if this is related in anyway. i am really freaked out by this and can get really annoyed. can you tell me why? - Tim

Very strange this one... I was born at 11:12am on the 13th. (may 1981). When I was born my mother said she thought I was "born under a lucky star" because of the number pattern.. 11, 12, 13! Virtually everytime I look to see what the time is, it is twelve minutes past the hour. Weirder than that, the clock in my room stopped at twelve minutes past the hour! I haven't wound it back up yet, I quite like it stopped as it is!! - Viki

in the last few years i've began to notice that numbers in my cell phone clock/computer clock/watch. i always see the time with the same digits like 1:11, 2:22 and so on. i dont know what it is but i feel that there is something more. i think that it is something related to the univese like in "the secret". - Life

For the last couple of weeks I have noticed that When I happen to look at a digital clock it is always someting:40. I have no idea why and it is starting to scare me. For instance, just to today I looked at my cell phone to see if i have missed any calls. And the time said 12:40 or i will happen to look at the clock at home and it is something:40 Almost every time I "happen" to look at a clock. I'm starting to wonder what does 40 mean to me. But it is happening to much to be just a coincidence. Any thoughts for Me? - April Davis

I can't offer any answers to the digital clock, However, I can personally attest to this coincidence. It started or at least I was aware of it about November 2007. It continues to this very day, but I find myself disregarding it, although I have to say it intriques me. I would literally wake up in the middle of the night, turn over and the clock would read 1:11 or 2:22. I'd be busy on a project and glance up at the clock on the microwave and it would read 2:22 or another time with all three digits the same. This happens so often I thought it was some crazy message, but since I haven't received any clues, I'll chalk it up to coincidence. - Glenn Mccarthy

My Mother died recently. Prior to her nursing home experience I had always considered 22 my lucky number. We had a very difficult time getting her into a nursing home. When she went into the nursing home her first room was #22. About a month later she was moved into room #222. Since she died Sept. 27th I have woke up to see my digital clocks at 2:22 a.m. more than a dozen times. I also will look up in the daytime and see them at 2:22 p.m. Even further - I almost always see the time on my watch at exactly 2:22 as well as look at a clock at work at the same 2:22 time. I've been driving down different streets several times and looked up at bank digital clocks to see the same 2:22 time - both in the a.m. and p.m. I've filled my gas tank twice where the last 3 numbers were 2.22 ($42.22 and $32.22). I also bought groceries where the total was $122.22. I've been buying lottery tickets with 222 hoping maybe some of the luck will work there!!! - randy

for some odd reason every time i take a look at my clock it always has 43 minutes ... i have been seeing this for quite a while now ...and ive alwayz woundered what that number exacly means i do believe i am always viewing it for a reason. at first it was freaking me out but now its jus normal. i do catch 11:11, 4:44, 5:55 also but those numbers r common with the others that i see mentioned but my numbers really dnt make sence... p.s. after watching that movie 27 i was freakin out - bananas



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Update: August 2006  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidences

Coincidence: I've been seeing my birthday, 727 in everything I look at. digital clocks, license plates, air plane flights, EVERYTHING...for years..almost every day. My birthday is this 7/27 and I will be 27...a little freaked over this...can you give me an explanation of any kind. I am happy to have found you site. Maybe you can help or refer me to any info yo may have. Thanks. - Ron

Coincidence: 10 to 10 (9;50) repeated time. Hi there. thank you for allowing me to share my story with you. my mum died in 1998. we were very close and we spoke about life after death. she said she would find a way to get in touch with me from the other side. ever since her death, i keep repeatedly seeing the same time when i look at the clock. it is always ten to ten. i just look randomly, whether it be just looking up from my computer and putting on the kettle or whatever, morning or night, i am always aware of the same time. my mum didn't pass away at this time and i cannot connect anything else to it in my life. i have spent nearly 8 years trying to work this out, but to no avail. i am very frustrated about this as i just know there is a message in there somewhere, but i am not seeing it ! if i could see the meaning, i could research it and work it out, deal with and move on. what does this mean ? please help me? I need to know. thank you. from a very frustrated Lainy. - Lainy

9:11 digital clock coincidence: Hi. Ok, I'm gonna sound like many other people here. In the last while (few months) I have been seeing 911 on every clock I look at - car, home, office, computer. I dont get it. Has anyone shed any new light on this?? I believe in the possibility of external influences, but to what end I dont know. "Why the numbers 911" I keep asking myself. I was curious to see if anyone else out there has had the same experiences and apparently there are many. I dont think its a subconscious effort, but I guess its possible. Anyway, if nothing else, thanks for the website and entries. - Chip

Coincidence: It's interesting to discover that I'm not the only one that this is happening to. For about a month now it seems like everytime I look at the clock it's 9:11. kind freaky!! - Rachael

Coincidence explanation: Alright heres my story, the last year or so ive been constantly seeing the reaccuring numbers and i think ive finally figured it out. when i was constantly seeing the same digits my life i was always the same routine same bullshit. ive changed things and now no more numbers things aint the same no more ya kno. - anon

Coincidence: You obviously do not see these numbers as often as we do...your argument for coincidence and randomness is a lie...for 5+ years...3 to 6 times a day? 11:11, 12:34, 1:11, 2:22, 4:44, 5:55...until you have lived it...stop knocking it...what does it mean? I dunno...but for you to sit and argue it is randomness? Join my wife in the uh-huh every time I point it out to you...I appeciate the site, but I gotta give feed-back from someone who has actually lived it to the point it is driving me crazy! O.K...I'll shut up! - Bryan

Coincidence: Ok, that's it! I said the next time i see the numbers 848 I will scream! Thank god for this website! I thought I was going crazy! I always see the numbers 848 everytime I look at the clock thinking I will see it..It just happened a few minutes ago, and that was the last straw..this has been happening to me for the past 4 yrs and i'm wondering, do the numbers have a menaing? i looked in the bible there is no chp/verse combination, i played in the lotto,no luck there, and the only other thing i can think about is......ok this is wierd...u know what a palindrome is, right? i was thinking that this is a number palindrome, something that repeats itself over and over and over again. My life is kinda in the same condition, each year i take a new step forward, it seems as if i go through the same things over and over and over again! Please hekp me solve my crazy mystery, or atleast give me the right to have ownership of it..... noone else would understand...... -confused and freaked out - kristy

Coincidence: My partner first pointed out the 11:11 syndrome to me, once I was aware of her exeperiences with the number that was it, strange events began happenning, adverts, newspaper articles and more all contained the number. I began digging through the internet. What I found was unbelievable. It appears that 11:11 is linked with Atlantis and other lost civilisations, crystal skulls, Zionism and much much more. We have been fooled by many lies and deceptions throughout history, we are now coming towards the aquarian age and these secrets should be revealed. If you'd like to discuss these topics further please mail me. lilley_1982 [at] yahoo.co.uk Best wishes - Justin Lilley

Coincidence: For years, I have though that I had gone absolutely mad!! I see the time 9:11 every day of my life, for years. No one has any idea what it means or what it stands for. After finding this site while traveling my never-ending search for an answer to this phenomenon, I am actually onto something. The fact that others have experienced this "coincidence" absolutely amazes me. All I can say is thank you for the site and for all the posts, bring this to light. - Jennifer

Coincidence: Whenever I retire for the night, my digital clock has a 9 at the end of the string... ie: 10:39; or 10:54 in which 5 and 4 add to 9; or it might read 11:43 where the whole string adds to 9. But it goes further than this. When I was in Los Angeles I stayed at the Starlight Motel on Olive ave and the owner put me upstairs in room 18. When I went back to Chicago, I stayed at a Motel in Oak Lawn, IL. and he put me in room 18. I thought it was just me. There are more coincidences if you're interested. Thanks for your interest. - Michael O'Connor

Subject: double numbers on the digital clock. Coincidence or not, even when iu read your page on "digital clock coincidences" i glanced at the clock on my desktop and it was 6.33. i always, ALWAYS see a no. like this. it will eithe be 2.11 or 5.55 or 4.44 or 3.33 or 7.44 etc. but this happens only when i unconsiously lo0k. one more wierd thing is, this has been happeneing to me for a year, and every since it started, ive been sick. ive been hospitilized twice last year due to different reasons. plus now, i have some unexplained muscular pains that make me ache all day long. coincidence or not, its beginning to piss me off when befoe it used to facinate me. if u have any answers plz help!!! Thanks for your interest. - nida

Mother coincidence: My 14 year old daughter has a counter on her website which is at the 3227 mark for hits. I check it about every two days to see her updates and on this particular day her counter read "711". I asked her why it had changed to 711 and she said she had no idea. It then occured to me that my mother (who passed away 3 weeks ago) - her birthday is July 11. I checked it again later that evening and the counter was back to 3227. Coincidence? I dunno...a little spooky. - Michael O'Connor

Coincidence: Whenever I retire for the night, my digital clock has a 9 at the end of the string... ie: 10:39; or 10:54 in which 5 and 4 add to 9; or it might read 11:43 where the whole string adds to 9. But it goes further than this. When I was in Los Angeles I stayed at the Starlight Motel on Olive ave and the owner put me upstairs in room 18. When I went back to Chicago, I stayed at a Motel in Oak Lawn, IL. and he put me in room 18. I thought it was just me. There are more coincidences if you're interested. - blueriver

Coincidence: everytime i look at the clock, i've been seeing 11:11.. well not always 11:11, sometimes 1:11, 3:11, etc. There's always an 11. However, the most common times i see are 11:11 and 1:11. Lately, i've been seeing the time 1:23 on the clock in room. I just realized that the clock in my room is faster than the clocks in the rest of my house. So the other day I glanced at my clock and i noticed the time 1:23. I decided to change it to match the clocks in the rest of my house. So i went into my parents room to see what time it really was.. and it was 1:11. So i've been seeing 1:23, when really it should have been 1:11 all along. So once again, it comes around to everytime I look at the clock, I see 1:11 in one way or another. Freaky:|. - Karlee

Coincidence: When I visited this site, I got confirmed that I am not the one who sees the digital clock time, at 11:11, 09:09. This was not the case before. But now it is so often that trice or 4 times I see the time in this format. From past one month I am facing the same. Some times I get frightened, sometime I convince my self as it is just a co-incidence. But is it really a co-incidence or something different, I would like to know. - Sumana

Coincidence: over the last few years I have visited BBC Weather maybe twice. Today I noted the sunrise time for the UK would be 5.36am monday. I glanced up at he clock which was 5.36 I then remembered landing on your site some time ago Regards - Steve

Coincidence: My story is about time. See I know its a coincidence when something happens so ramdomly but it doesn't happen everyday. What if it happens to you everyday though. See for the last three months everyday I look at the clock at 1:11am/pm no matter what I always look at the clock right on the dot. Even once I was on the phone and I looked at the time and how long I was on the phone for and both times were 1:11 it was so amazing. How is it that I look at the clock at the same time everyday no matter night or day I always look at the exact time without even thinking about it. Once again I just looked at it that is why I am on here I need answers. Is it a sign or is it a really weird coincidence. I don't know but if this continue's to happen then I am going to go crazy. Why am I looking at the time 1:11 and is it a sign? - Beth

I admit this is very weird and strange. I'm 15 and since the beginning of 2006 I have realised that I have been seeing times such as 11:11, 12:11, 1:11 etc. First of all it started off as 9:11. Then every week for about a month I saw the clock at 9:11. I never spoke to anyone about it. I knew it was weird but then it changed to other numbers, like 10:11, 11:11, 12:11, etc. But it was always 11 past. and I've had these weird occurances for about 6months or so. I mentioned it to my brother when I was at the microwave once, because it was 11 past something (eg 2:11, i cant really remember) and he said I was weird, but then I asked if he had ever seen it. He replied that he didnt get 2:11, 3:11 etc. He got 1:23, 2:34, 3:45, 4:56 etc. Also its only on digital clocks for both of us. It's everywhere. Microwaves, mobiles, computers, mums car, dads car, my friend daniel's car/eddy's car/brothers car, radios, TV's (news in the morning), you name it - its strange as. This one time I just got out of the shower, and I was in the kitchen luckily enough. My bro came in yelling at me telling me to call my mother which was at work at the time. I looked at the time it was 11:49am - unusual, i never saw that time often, and why wasn't it 11 past? I wasnt freaked out until I finally realised wat had happened. He was in the garage on his motorbike and he hit his little finger onto the bricks, which scraped out all of his flesh. I could see the bone. A tendon was hanging out of his finger. There were little bits of brick shoved between his nuckel and in the wound. He had cut an artery and was taken to hospital. He had plastic surgeory and requires physiotherapy every week. As I said it was exactly 11:49, that means -11 minutes to 12, at 11am- I need some explainations! Has anyone else something happen like this at a weird time? I started searching for it and came to this site because just then on my computer O looked at the time and it was 1:11pm. I thought maybe other people get weird things like this, and they do! I'm glad I'm not the only one. - Kerst

Consecutive numbers coincidence: I found your website quite interesting. After reading some of your comments, I happened to see one comment that really caught my eye, as it was almost exactly what has been happening to me. Funny part is the person who wrote the comment has the same name as my wife (Tia). For years, I have been looking at the clock exactly at 9:11 am or pm on my cell phone, clock in my car, at home and at work etc. It kind of freaks me out!!! I started noticing a few months before 9/11, and it has continued ever since. Is it just a coincidence? I see it all the time. Sometimes one or more times a day and it makes me think that this could be a warning....any scientific/biological explanations to this? - Paul

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July 2005  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidences

Coincidence: Whenever my boyfriend checks a clock it will read somethings like...1:23 12:34 4:56 6:54, 5:43 3:21 2:34 etc...without fail...the first couple of times I told him it was in his mind...but it just keeps happening! He said it's been happening for awhile and it happens at every clock...we'll walk by the microwave, get into the car, look at the vcr, check it on tv...look at a watch...does it mean anything? I was interested in finding out thanks... - Cat

Consecutive numbers: For years i've been looking at the clock exactly at 9:11 am or pm. It freaks me out. I started noticing it way before 9/11, and continue to see it since. Is it just a coincidence? I feel funny telling people sometimes cuz they might think i'm loony, but I had to share it since it makes me very uneasy. It happens at least 3-4 times a week....any scientific/biological explanations to this? I know 9:11 is a number that sticks in ur head, i tried testing to see if i look at other numbers repeatedly, and nothing..... - Tia

9:11 digital clock coincidence: I too have been seeing "9:11" both day and night on my digital clocks: cell phone clock, car clock, microwave clock. Back to the cell phone: Sometimes it "lights up" automatically, like it would if you were to dial the numbers or if a call was to come in; it's sort of an ," all system's check" type thing. Anyway last night I was reading and it lit up. I looked over to see if someone was calling but it was just in a random system-check cycle. (Also, it's rare that I do see it cycle through lighting up on it's own -- I can only recal several times seeing it do this.) Well, almost as a slap in the face, the cell phone read in bold numbers: "9:11" Tell me that's a coincidence. It was like some force was screaming out to me, "9:11". I'm highly educated and scientific, and do not believe in the supernatural, but I do admit that this IS weird. Maybe it's post-traumatic from our nation's tragidy, but I doubt it. I've been seeing it for the past three years (since 9/11 I'd guess....) It sparked me into doing research about "who else" has been seeing this. It freaks my girlfriend out so I don't talk about it anymore... Another big pattern people are seeing (not me) is "11:11." Some say it's a supernatural presence at work, something just beyond our reality and sight.... whatever it is, I must say I feel somewhat haunted at my 9:11 sightings. [Shiver] - Brock Adams

Coincidence: Many people have noticed the triple set of 4. I know that it is how God really got my attention about 7 months before I was visited by a Mighty Angel. The number 4 has always been a favorite of mine. It is the day of the month that I was born on and it is the number of children that my husband and I have together. It is the number of books that contain much of the life of Jesus Christ while he lived upon the earth. The number 444 is what I see frequently even while learning from God?s written Holy Word. I will eventually have a collection of verses revealed with 4:44 or something close to that like 24:44. For now It is just good to tell you that God has gotten my attention with being woken up at 4:44 AM over and over many months ago before I was visited the Angel that came to be with me. If you are interested in a great knowledge then email me soon or look for a new site that will be running soon. It will be a site that has 444thebride in the address. - Christine

Coincidence: hi, just wondering if u can explain the following number coincidence that took place in my life a couple of years ago. a very dear friend of mine has same group of phone numbers following them as me, we met only a couple of years ago however we ended up having the same mobile pre paid phone numbers in a slightly different order him: 0431 772 987 Mine: 0431 227 987 & also his house phone number was the same as my old one where I lived in the same area only the same thing his being 9546 4417 mine being 9546 7714, his best friend's phone number ends in 3849. My phone number now ends in 3849........Please help me to explain why these number coincidences have occurred? - ness

Coincidence: My daughter, now 3 months old was born at 4:44 am. Ever since then I have glanced at the clock and it is always even, 3:33, 4:44, 10:10, etc. I am not sure if this means anything. I just can't figure out why it started after my baby was born, and how crazy that she was born at 4:44. A lot of people say it's my deceased mother trying to tell me she is with me...I don't really believe that. I don't know what this all means.... - Starla Evans

Coincidence: i was twenty third abirthday i gave birth to my son at cottage hospital. my daughter is twenty three and could give birth to my grandson at cottage hospital on march 30 which is mine and my sons birthday.what are the odds on that ? - doty

Coincidence: My sister and I, born New Years and the day after Valentines Day, respectively, were both born at 4:34 AM. - Annie Martin

Coincidence: Ive seen this number so much over the last 15 years or so that I used to keep a log of how often and where! Just to make shure it was not an obsession Ive quit the log. but I still see 4:44 on clocks and very often they are way off the right time !!!! I would love to hear anything on this or a possible meaning of 444 or 4:44. It happens way too often and randomly. - Terrence

Coincidence: I was mildly startled to note, several years ago, that quite often when glancing at the time the digits were all the same numerals (11:11, 3:33, etc.). My perception is that the frequency of the occurrence has increased over time (no pun intended). My perspective is that I look at the clock both randomly and sometimes with purpose, but not that I have increased the number of times I look (i.e. trying to increase the possibility of success). In fact, it has happened enough (twice today) that I actually googled my way to this website in an effort explore possible hows and whys (mathematics, psychology, etc.) to this remarkable event. - Anonymous

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October 2004  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidence My wife and I routinely notice it's 9:11 (am or pm) when we look at clocks. This has continued without pause since the tragic day 9/11. We have wondered whether this is sheer coincidence. We are both highly educated and not prone to superstitions. To test sheer randomness we tried "adopting" other random times during the day (that we would also be awake) and recording whether we noticed the clock at that time. None of the times we have tried have been noticed even once in the past 3 months. Are any other persons experiencing the same pattern?
- anonymous

Coincidence: Hey jim, I had this for over 10 years, always same time both morning and night. I just wanted to mention that it's not a digital thing side-effect, i see that time on non-digital clocks too, also my numbers are 11:37 which are not like 11:11 that obvious. It also cant be the brain coz I have seen this on the clocks that later i found out they were like 10 minutes off. It's like years I've been searching for a description to that...
- Richard

Coincidence: Hello Eadon. I find this topic to be extremely weird and intimate. For as far back as I can recall I have always caught the time 11:11 -truly- Even if the clock is set wrong I will still catch ll:ll. I always took it as being the either date or time that I was going to die. My father took it as being my "lucky lottery numbers". I too considered the pattern theory. However, I still consider it weird regardless. I NEED to know. Thank you!
- Nicholas Combs

Coincidence: it seems that everytime i look at any clock, it reads xx:13 so weird that i am now looking for an answer. - David
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August 2004  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidences For the past couple of years or so I will out of the blue look at the clock (digital of course) and it is 4:44. It could be that I woke up at 4:44 am, or driving in my car & I see 4:44 or at work on my phone clock I see 4:44. I have recently started logging it when I see it in my diary. I wish someone could shed some light --- everyone has their story, but I have not seen any explanations...on this site. I would say I see this 2-3 times a week. - Lisa

144 & 44: For the past 9 years now I have seen this number everywhere for example license plates, addresses, clocks, phone numbers, it even comes up on purchases. Once, I added up everytime I saw this number in one day. The results was 9 times. Just last week, I had an interview for a job and when I asked for the address etc. it turned out to be 144, right after the interview I was in the car on the way home (I had a good feeling about the job) and saw 444 and 44 twice in less then 5 minutes. I do not see other number combinations like this? It is not my birthday and has no real link to anything other numbers in my life. When I try to ignore it, I find it shows up even more! - Juliet

Wow, in reading these, I was reminded of another coincidence with dates and times. Last year, on March 3, 2003, at 3pm I had a dentist appointment to have a root canal on tooth #3 and it cost me $300. So, let me rewrite that numerically: 03/03/03 3:00pm root canal on tooth #3 for $300. Too weird. - Nicole

Over the past few weeks I have been noticing everytime I look at the clock, no matter where I am, there is always an 11. It is creeping me out, at first it began with 9:11, because that had happened to a friend of mine, but now it happens to me all the time. I cannot not look at a clock without an 11 being involved. I have no idea what it is, a coincedence or simply random. - Kaitlin Murray

My boss at work lost her grandma a few years ago on 5-22 the next in her family to pass was an uncle who was on 1-22 then just a few months later her father passed away on 4-22 the family was baffled by this i was fascinated by it. Thanks for letting me share the story - Cori
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July 2003  
Submitted by Frederick
Clock Coincidence There certainly seems to be a lot of coincidence experience in many areas of our environment. Perception plays a significant part; When something is brought to your attention you recognize it more frequently without outside help. I can spot four leaf clovers. Without bending down or purposely stopping to search, I spot four leaf clovers as I walk by them. It's digital in that I recognize groups of more than three. This probably is an acquired ability with some kind of training involved. In military I learned to wake without using an alarm clock, and even became able to adjust the time of waking simply by determining before going to sleep what time I wished to awaken. Processes similar to the personal training involved in the above two experiences must go on in most fields of endeavor. People develop something like intuitive reasoning. It becomes a habit, an internalized process we use without purposely being aware of the conscious effort. All of our external senses go through a filtering process, in that something has to translate the signals sent by our sense organs into meaning for our mental processes. This device, this location or this portion of our brain (section of programming) does some incredible work for us. So far we haven't been able to 'download the source code' for it. But we can hack our way into programming it in some simple ways. I think that there are quirks in this code that can make it easy for some people to do what others think of as really incredible stuff. It also could be blibs in this code that cause what we interpret as dislexia, learning disorders, autism and other labels for extraordinary individual features, including prodigies.
Jim adds Exactly! We are unconscious of the processes that give rise to our conscious conceptions. Apparent coincidences may be no such thing, just the artefacts of what we are aware of after the morass of non-coincidence events have been filtered out without our being aware of it.
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July 2004  
Submitted by Various
Clock Coincidences Almost every day hands down I look at a clock at 3:26. Whether it be a.m. or p.m. I litterally laugh out loud sometimes because it happens so often. March 26th is my birthday. Why do you think this happens? It seriously happens enough that it's become commical. Actually, when I wake up in the middle of the night at 3:26 a.m. it freaks me out a bit. HELP! - Melani

Digital/non digital clocks b-day signs - Hello everybody, I was starting to freak out when I kept seeing my birthday 9-19 everywhere I go, and everytime I see my clock. I know it is by pure coincidence, but i'ts really scaring me. I'm turning 25 this 9-19 and started thinking maybe something bad was happening, or as if faith was trying to tell me something or to do something befor or by my birthday. Mind you i'm not very superstitious, but I have seen it so many times that it just really freaks me out, I can't even believe that there is a website about it. I would really appreciate any kind of input or relief from my paranoia. - jesse

Lately ive began to see the clock at 11:11, 12:12,10:10, and so on, and sometimes it happens twice a day. Ive even begun to notice it on totals, licence plates,a cd beginning to skip, and its not as if i look at the clock many times a day either.I will just happen to get in my car and notice the clock reading 1:11. Or i wake up in the middle of the morning and i look at the clock and it sais 4:44. I thin it happens at almost every hour except 6,7,8, or 9. Ive noticed it happening right during a really dificult time in my life. .i dont know if thar has any corrolation with this. But lately it has become most frequent, and right now things are beginning to improve. I dont now how to explain this if you have any info or explanations, i would great5ly appreciate the feeback - Amity

I'm amazed to find a site about this! For the past 12-13 years I've been looking at the clock at 9:11. It used to freak me out when I was young, because I thought it meant something bad was gonna happen at that time. After Sept. 11 I got kind of freaked out when I thought about it, so did my fiance. I drive him crazy because I announce to him or whoever's around every time I see that time. I never mean to do it. I just always look at the clock at that time. Usually it happens at least three times a week. My fiance says I should play that number in the lottery. Any ideas would be appreciated! At least I know I'm not alone. - Angel
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May 2004  
Submitted by Eloni
Clock Coincidence Birthday Numbers: Everyone in my mother's immediate family line has been born with either an eight a five or a zero as the last number of their birth year - even all my pets. My great Grandfather-1895 Great Grandma-1905 Grandma and Grandpa -1925 Mom and Dad- 1950 Mom's Brother- 1945 Grandmom's brothers- 1940 and 1928 My Dog Jack- 1988 First Dog Yokie- 1975 My Cousins- 1970 and 1975 Me 1978. Cousin's son- 1995 Coincidentally 8+5+0 ='s 13 I wad born on 4/9 (4+9) at 11:47pm 1+1+4+7=13. There are more people who fit this pattern and not a single person directlsy related to my Mom or in my Mom's immediate family are different from this pattern. My Dad's parents have a slightly different pattern. His Mom was born 1911 and his dad was born 1922. They were 11 years apart in age. She died in 1977 and he died in 1988. They both died at age 66, eleven years apart from eachother. The mutliples of eleven are frightening.
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May 2004  
Submitted by Gilberto Tan
Clock Coincidence Repeated Timing Comment Hi All, Like Stephanie Sullivan (March 2004). I recently kept seeing repeated timings like 1411. 1444, 1333 1211 etc. And like Stephanie, its beginning to freak me out. If someone out there knows a deeper reasoning behind or can reason that its simply coincidence, do share the thoughts and findings. (m_gilberto@hotmail.com).
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March 2004  
Submitted by Kam
Clock Coincidence There's to much to go into when it comes to coincidences. Its as though there is a mechanics or physics behind coincidences. I think we check the time so many times a day that we gain a concept of how long a second minute or hour is. For example if I'm waiting at the bus stop i could roughly calculate without looking at my watch that ive been waiting for about 15 minutes. I feel there is a clock which ticks in us all without us thinking and through checking the time each day we contribute to its accuracy. If you was to choose any time in the day and set your alarm for it for a week eventually when u stop setting your alarm you;ll find yourself looking at the clock. I find myself looking at the clock at 12:34 and 23:45 once i looked at the clock and it was 12:34:56. i think our "clock within" which continually ticks and sends subconscious triggers which draw your attention to the clock at particular times. I bet the people who are drawn to the digital clock coincidence are naturally good at guessing the time. I think these people are coming to terms with there internal clock, either that or a being beyond any rational conceivability is trying to possess but that's another story.
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March 2004  
Submitted by Stephanie Sullivan
Clock Coincidence I am glad to see that I'm not the only one experiencing these coincidences. But still would like to know what they mean, because I am sure that there is something hiding behind this!! Since more than 1 year, everytime I look at the digital time on my cellular phone, it is 11h11, 12h12,17h17, 23h23, and so on. (any double digit number) More of it: people phone me when it is 21h21 or 22h22, etc; or send me sms at 21h21 etc. A few of my friends have been witnesses of these coincidences, because when I received phone calls when they were around, I showed them the time - they thought I was crazy, but believed me after seeing this.
I receive emails from friends on my PC, and the time they sent it is 13h13 or another double digit. I would like to have an explanation please. Because I am starting to freak out!!! Thank you very much.
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February 2004  
Submitted by Laurie P
Clock Coincidence I was very glad to stumble upon this website. for about 4 months now i have been seeing digital clocks at something 11. ie: 4:11, 6:11... you name it.. i usually end up seeing 11 from 4-10 times a day.. i read in a book somewhere that 11 means a time of new beginnings, or a new start.. its always random too.. I never sit and stare at a clock until a 11 pops up.. I also see 1:23, and 2:34.. its really cool to find that this happens to other people too. ive related it to digital encoding too like.. 10010101101.. and that whole computer whatever.. maybe we are in a matrix?
One more conicidence.. 9/11/02 my grandfather died. 5/11/03 my great uncle died. 10/11/03 my grandfathers dog died.. facing a statue of St. Joseph in their backyard. Also, my aunts birthday is on 6/11, and she happens to see 6:11 on the clock all the time..
Its strange to think that this all may lead to something more in life.. Peace Love Unity Respect
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December 2003  
Submitted by Jeremy Dolan
Clock Coincidence Here's my big clock coincidence story: Shortly after the events of September 11th, I was visiting friends in Detroit, Michigan. We crossed over the border to have dinner in Canada, and on the way back got stuck in a massive line of cars trying to get into the States. Everyone of course realized the delay was due to increased security post-9/11.
As my friend happened to have the same make of car I had at the time, I was familiar with the layout of her stereo. I double-tapped (out of habit) the button that changes the display from radio frequency to time (and, in the case, back again), and everyone in the car watches it flash to 9:11 for a fraction of a second. We all look at each other in silence for a second. I hit the button once more, and the time is now 9:12.
Someone else wrote in about coincidences at the gas pump. I have a story there too:
I went to see a play (the name escapes me) based on Orwell's 1984, but set in a high school, with the principal as Big Brother, and so on. Actually, it may have been a staunch republican president as Big Brother, but that's no matter. On the way home from the play, I stopped to get gas. Set the pump to do its eponymous thing, and got back in the car. A minute or so later, I hear the pump stop, get out, look at the meter, and, you guessed it, $19.84. Calmly got back in the car, and asked my then-girlfriend to go tell me what the meter said.
Ever since then, I routinely and purposely stop the pump at $19.84. I like getting my credit card bill in the mail and seeing row after row of nineteen-dollar and fifty-eight-cent charges.
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December 2003  
Submitted by A Friend
Clock Coincidence Hey Eadon. Recently my friend has been saying that everytime he looks at the clock he sees his birthdate. In the middle of the night and during the day he sees these numbers. He believes it means something horrible but I tell it isn't. Do you know any reasons why he sees his birthdate 2:12 on the digital clock? I want to help him out.
Jim adds Well, apart from the psychological explanations I mention in the main page above, it's a mystery to me. Mind you, I'm not sure why seeing your birth date should be a portent of doom or be unpleasant any other way. Now if he kept seeing the date of his death, that would be different ;-)~
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December 2003  
Submitted by John Garlington
Clock Coincidence Paul McCartney's house: In August this year, 2003, the family went on the National Trust visits to the Beatle homes from Speke Hall. When the tour was finished and the curator was handing back our bags I said that I thought that the clock in Paul's bedroom was a nice touch. He did not know what I meant. I told him it said quarter to three. He still did not understand. I said "You know, "if I've been out till quarter to three" "(from "When I'm 64"). He said "Oh no, it tells the right time... it is quarter to three!"
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November 2003  
Submitted by Cheryl
Clock Coincidence I have been experiencing these weird Digital Clock coincidences that have really been making me question HOW or WHY these are happening to me. Almost as if my inner-self or "something else" is trying to send me a message of some sort.
I have been noticing LATELY, that I will randomly look at the clock, which of course, is digital, and catching ON THE NOSE the following sequences: 7:09, and 11:16. And it happens quite frequently. These two numbers are very significant in my life. The number "709" represents the area code of where my parents AND my boyfriend are from. The "11:16" represents me AND my boyfriends birthdays. (November 16th).
Am I reading into this or is this and taking it for what it's not? I'm thinking its a sign that something (or someone from another place) is telling me that I'm meant to be with this person. Can you please shed some light on it for me? I feel really weird doing this, but this is the whole reason why I punched in "Coincidence by numbers" in the search engine in the first place. Thank you very very much!

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October 2003  
Submitted by Alex
Clock Coincidence Hello, I just wanted to put my experiences and feelings into what I believe is a strange phenomenon. It seems like recently (9-12 months) every time, or atleast 8 or 9 times outta 10, I will look at a clock just as it turns a specific minute of the day. I have found that, if I try to look @ the clock at a certain time, it never happens. It will only occur when I am going about my day, not even thinking of what time it is. I have contemplated many hours and talked to many friends about my experiences. Most of them either dont care or just dont understand. I said to myself many time that maybe it is my 'lucky numbers' for the lottery. LOL. Honestly, I love the fact that I have experienced such a 'weird' occurrence. And to know that others feel the same gives me much euphoria. Whatever the case, such experiences always reinforce my love for life and what great feelings it can bring and that we as humans must understand that EVERYTHING happens for a reason, we just have to figure out what it means. Peace!

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October 2003  
Submitted by Scott Kane
Clock Coincidence Lately , I have been seeing the 9:11 on the clock along with 11:11 and 4:11 . Now I have been tempted to read into these experiences more than it deserves.If its a warning or a sign to predict a misfortune , then the only comfort in this situation is that you can anticipate but not let yourself go crazy about it. If its going to happen , then it will happen and that's fine.The point of this life is to have trials and tribulations to gain spiritual elevation. Accept the challenges God throws at you and thank Him after your performance.On the other hand if this warning is about something good that's gonna happen , then you got no worries. Thank God anyway.It could be that we are looking for patterns unintentionally. We play out our own mental weaknesses through these mind games , who knows. The number 9:11 now is more distinct than it was ever before , how many times have you in your life looked at the clock and the time was 7:26...that doesn't bother us does it? so why does 11:11 , its just a number.

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September 2003  
Submitted by Robert
Clock Coincidence After the Sept 11th tragedy, I have experienced an ongoing, seemingly incessant coincidence where I look up at a digital clocks at my home,office or vehicle @ 11 minutes past the hour. The experience is not limited to clocks, as I have had random "ll's" pop out at me from other devices, television, etc. Countless, countless, countless times since Sep 11th this has occurred. It's happened so many times that it freaks me out a bit. Am I being warned about something? Is this some kind of sign, from somewhere? What makes me happen to look up at a clock , after not checking the time for a prolonged period, and there it is, 11 past the hour again? Or wake up in the middle of the night and there it is. Often the experience is so random that it just stops me down in my tracks, and makes me ask out loud-What the f*** is going on? Writing this down and sending it to you is weird enough. I mean, how do you even begin to talk to someone about this?

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August 2003  
Submitted by Connie Adkins
Clock Coincidence I cannot shed light on the digital clock thing but I can tell you that I get thrown for a loop with 13's quite often. Everything will be going along fine and I will be on an errand and if I see a 13, whether on the clock, a licence plate or what, the errand goes all awry. It makes me feel like some evil is out to get me. And the whole purpose is so that i will feel this way. I can be starting out on a trip and see a thirteen on the clock as soon as i get in the car as if it was planned that way. And the trip will not go well. It's driving me crazy!

[Jim E. adds] 13 is lucky in some cultures and for some people, it all depends on which insane culture's twisted myths you choose to believe :-)

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August 2003  
Submitted by Jake
Clock Coincidence Hi I'm jake fenton im 14 i live in arizona, my problem is I ALWAYS look at the clock at 11:11 its soo freakin weird its been going on for about a year and i told my friend and coincidentally he has the same exact problem this is weird before i noticed my "number problem" i noticed during the summer i had my alarm clock set to 11:11 i have no idea why i don't remember doing it but i did and i just want to know what the heck is going on this is messed up send me back an e-mail at cashmake@sbcglobal.net
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August 2003  
Submitted by Diane
Clock Coincidence Interesting take you have on the clock numbers. There are many others who see 11:11, 2:22, 4:44 etc. I too see the numbers on digital clocks, receipts, odometers, license plates etc. etc. and so do many others.
There's a group on yahoo; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/11-11
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April 2003  
Submitted by kman
Clock Coincidence For over 10 years or so I have had an unknown association with the time 11:11 - I would always happen to look at the clock at 11:11. This happens almost daily (often twice a day), no matter where I am or what I am doing. There have been many times when I have woken up from sleeping to look at the clock at 11:11. I have come to the conclusion that the time must symbolize something, because I've noticed it far too often (1000's of times over the span of at least 10 years) for it to be any kind of coincidence.
I'm not a spiritual or religious guy and I think most phenomenon can be explained through scientific means, however, I cannot explain why I always see 11:11. I obviously I check the clock at other times throughout course of a day, but why always at 11:11? I can't deny the fact that it must mean something to me. I always kind of joked that it must be the time I'm going to die or win the lottery, or something big. All I can say for sure is that it is more than just a coincidence.
Because of 11:11, my lucky number has long been 11. I have come to learn that Hitler's lucky number was also 11 - this has to be a coincidence because there's no way I have anything in common with him - but I can't help but wonder why he chose 11. Remembrance Day is November 11 (11/11). Anything else?
I've never researched the time 11:11 to try to determine its meaning, until today. When I stepped into the kitchen and glanced at the clock, it was 11:11 and it occurred to me to search the web to see if there happened to be an information at all on it. This is how I obtained your email address. What is your theory on why I've been checking the time at 11:11 for years?
If you have any answers for me, please get back to me
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April 2003  
Submitted by Jacob
Clock Coincidence Hey I was so happy to find your website about the 12:34 phenomenon, you don't understand how I felt everyday walking into a room or car or anywhere there were digital clocks I would see 12:34, I started thinking about what it could mean so I drew 1 2 3 4 and it came up to be some weird symbol which meant nothing to me, then I started translating the numbers into letters and that if read backwards reads "hesi" h=4 e=3 s=2 i=1 and hesi in my language (Bukharian) means GET UP and im thinking maybe this is a message from God telling me to get up and do something with your life, it also could be a count down to something, I really don't know what to do about this, this has been going on for several months now and I find it more and more amazing each time I see it.
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Feb 2003  
Submitted by Paige A.
Clock Coincidence I once read that noticing the same time on a clock more than "often" was an indication that you are on your life path - ie. living correctly and successfully fulfilling your goals in life at the correct time and place.

I also read in another place that the phenomenon is the souls way of gauging its final moment. If you look up to see... for instance 12:34 (my particular number)... then you know 1) You are on the right track in your life or 2) you have made it through another day without facing your physical mortality.

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Dec 2002  
Submitted by Christian
Clock Coincidence Your viewpoint and insight to explaining this coincidence is interesting indeed but I have had this phenomenon for years. I first remember it when my Mother used to say "look at the clock, it's 12:34" I didn't think much of it until a few years later I too began noticing the clock totally random twice a day at 12:34.

Now I work in the restaurant business and it's not uncommon to be coming home from work at that time. My girl friend also experiences this too to the point that she has randomly stopped the gas pump at $12.34 many a times. Now this for me works weather a clock is on the correct time or not. I have been in one room where a clock maybe 10 min. fast then hit it in another room. I even hit 12:34 in Paris in a different time zone when I reached the top of the Eiffel tower after climbing the steps to get to the top in lieu of the elevator. This is so powerful in my life.

Most recently I have been hitting all the x:34's as well; like 10:34, 6:34, 2:34 Etc. Just the other day I was test driving a car and the salesman watched read 12:34 as I glanced over to view some paper work. This is just not only on digital clocks mind you. About a year ago I went to a physic/numerologist to try and gain an understanding of why this was happening everyday. He had some interesting things to say that basically I interpreted as each number representing portions of my life and when I had those in order or needed to improve, I would see these number configurations. To me it was like Johari's Window stuff. I like your take on it, but it happens far too often too randomly to be ignored.

Christian

[Jim E. Adds: In England the equivalent of $12:34 of gas would not get you very far, heh. I agree that these coincidences are not random. Do these curious time coincidences become a self-fulfilling prophesy? Perhaps you start to look at the clock more at midday? Perhaps this is a subconscious habit. Just a guess. Pay me $1234 and I'll give you a psychic explanation :) Maybe I am too cynical! Thanks for your story.]
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