I’ve seen the pattern for the last 3 years, usually only once or twice a day, but the last three days, I’ve had more incidents than I can count. Today I started taking notes of how and when it happened. And for those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, it is the phenomena of seeing the numbers 11:11 on a digital clock, or a similar pattern (10:01, 13:13, 09:09 etc) occurring at such rates of coincidence that it can no longer be thought of as coincidence. Example: Let’s say you look at your watch 6 times every day. What are the chances that every time you do look at your watch, by some chance, you get the same digit in the hour as you get in the minute.
Some people think that this some kind of divine intervention, angelic entities, or pink unicorns or even aliens. I will not even try to comment on what people think it is. What I do know, however, is that I find the phenomena interesting. Something is going on. It may just be self-suggestion, but what puzzles me is how the last 24 hours, with only two exceptions, I got the following list.
4. Feb : 12:12
5. Feb : 13:31
5. Feb : 13:38 (miss)
5. Feb : 14:14
5. Feb : 20:02
5. Feb : 20:18 (miss)
5. Feb : 21:21
5. Feb : 22:22
6. Feb : 03:33 (just now).
Optimistically, the answer would be something like this.
I’m updating my own post as a comment. The list goes on:
6. Feb : 15:15
6. Feb : 20:02
6. Feb : 20:22
6. Feb : 21:12
6. Feb : 22:11
6. Feb : 22:33
6. Feb : 23:32
7. Feb : 09:09
7. Feb : 21:12
7. Feb : 21:21
7. Feb : 23:32
8. Feb : 01:10
These times I’ve written down in the notes of my iPhone which is always nearby. What qualify for the list is each time I’ve not intentionally looked at the watch, then noticed what time it is. What doesn’t count is if I force myself to look or somehow look on purpose.
The statistics for the past 24 hours is mind-boggling. Of the numbers above, I recorded only 5 misses, i.e. intentionally looking at the clock.
When is a look intentional and not?
Intentional: I think about looking at the clock before looking at the clock, then looking.
Not intentional: I don’t think about looking at the clock, then look at the clock, then realise what time it is. The last 24 hours have been 100% concistent with the 11:11 syndrome, which is seeing 11:11 or 12:12 etc. i.e. some form of pattern in the digits.
I have a last comment to my own post. I’ve recorded atleast 4 pages in my iPhones notepad of the same, and I see the 11:11 phenomena atleast three times every day, sometimes more. It’s getting to a point where it’s almost ridiculous to record further incidents. I’ve decided to conclude that so far, it’s an interesting phenomena that to me IS a spiritual guide or queue, which emanates from an unknown source. I’ve now gathered subjective evidence that points in this direction to sufficiently satisfy my curiosity in this matter. Unless anyone wishes to comment or bring my attention to this again in a new light, I’ve finished pondering this fascinating phenomena for now.
Brother, I would like to share something with you , I have also been experiencing a similar phenomena but slightly different to your experience. Although I see the minutes and hours being the same number it has also been happening for some time that no matter the hour that I look at the time, the minutes have been 11 or a multiple of eleven e.g 13:11 and when I look next (not deliberately of course) 13:33 . This has happened far too often for coincidence and I have also accepted it as an interesting phenomena and left it as such, however I cannot escape the sense of purpose behind it.
Ironically just glancing at the time now it was 15:44 :). A very Exciting and Intriguing phenomena.
It certainly is 🙂 Thanks for commenting again, I will post a follow-up to this phenomena in the same category. Lately I’ve seen what I think is a very humourous variation, namely 23:32, 23:11, 11:23, and all possible variations of the numbers 1, 2 and 3.