Coincidence or spooky?

[Bananacloud]

For a good 12-15 years, approx 4x out the week whenever I look at a digital clock the time is 22:22. I mean, what could it really mean?
Anyone can give me any insight on this?

DH and I both have 11.11 - there seem to be a lot of us!!

Strange perhaps but not spooky....( as that would suggest some kind of paranormal reasons and as that’s about as factual as Harry Potter, I’d stick with the former description)

13:13 for me. Freaks me out.

Yeah, I had my phone under my pillow and I took it out to text my husband and noticed the time.
It’s happened nearly every day for more than a week now.
But yeah, overall it’s been happening for years.

Maybe you’ve programmed yourself to look at the clock at this exact time.

Omg! I had this as a child at night on an old radio clock that would also randomly switch on. Except it wasn’t a particular hour but always 13mins past. I would wake up with a jolt it would be 1.13 a few hours later the same jolt awake and it would be 4.13. different hours on different days but always 13mins past. I hated that house.

23:05 here, happens all the time!

Neither - it's confirmation bias, surely?

I mean, digital clocks are so omnipresent that it'd be pretty hard to avoid having one in your field of vision for 23 hours and 59 minutes each day, I reckon?

I had this when my kids were babies, sleep patterns disturbed, regularly waking up during the night

It would seem that the clock was always 1.11 2.22, 3.33 and so on. Used to scare the shit out of me and I'd hold my breath until the minute passed and the number changed. This went on for ages, and seemed to keep happening. I'd glance at my computer clock during the day and it would say 11.11, 13.13 and so on. Then I realised two things.

Firstly, nothing bad every happened and secondly, how many times did I glance at the clock and it wasn't registering a 'spooky' time? So I began to take note of how many times I looked at the clock and how many times it was a 13.13 or whatever. The truth is that the majority of times it was just 13.06 or 12.41 or a 'normal' time, but you just don't register those. You only register the occasional 'spooky' ones and tell yourself it happens all the time.

It doesn't mean anything. It's just that sometimes when you look at the clock it says 11.11.

Something similar happened to me five years ago this month. For the entire month of March, it seemed that every time I looked at a clock, it was 9:11. In the morning at work, I'd happen to glance at a clock and it would be 9:11. In the evening, I'd glance at the microwave clock or the clock in our den and it would be 9:11. I wasn't consciously looking, either, thinking, "O.k., let's see if I can catch 9:11." I'd look at the clock and there it was. It got to the point that it was happening so often that I became a little panicky.

After a month, it stopped. No more 9:11 on the regular. Weird.

Confirmation bias!

I see 22:22 most nights too! I was thinking it was a bit weird that it happens so often, but now I’ve read all these messages, I’m inclined to think that all you sensible folks are right, it’s just that 22:17 (or whatever other times I see) doesn’t have the same memorable ring to it.

Also, the amount of times I look at my watch and then, a second later, someone asks me what time it is and I have to look again, makes me realise that I’m not actually taking in the time at all.

I always see 12:34.
Generally because I’m hungry and checking it’s lunch time!

As PP said, confirmation bias. It would register if you saw 22:17 or some other “non meaningful” number.
Just like when you get a new car - you notice how many others there are of your make and model on the road. It’s not because there ARE suddenly more, just that suddenly you’re noticing them

Hi OP, I've been seeing mirrored numbers on our 24hr clocks (3 in our house) for several years - at least once a day - any combination though - I glance up and check the time, or grab my phone to check and there's always mirrored numbers - I used to find it spooky but have got used to it now.

Me and smallest Dd have a special celebration dance we do for matching numbers on a clock. Extra special celebration for 08.08!

I always get 23:19 then sirens go off in the scream factory

“Individuals with schizotypal personality disorder often have ideas of reference (e.g., they have incorrect interpretations of casual incidents and external events as having a particular and unusual meaning specifically for the person).”

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(Not really)

I get that with 10:24 - it's really weird

13:13 for me too Shinjirarenai

I wake up almost every morning at 5.10am and as far as I can make out there is nothing that is causing this. I go back to sleep as no need to be awake at that time for me.

My more bizarre coincidence type of situaton is when I can be reading something in a newspaper or magazine/looking on my laptop with the television on at the same time and I read the word eg. "elephants" at the exact second someone on the tv says it. Often it is if I am looking at some website or other on my screen and the newsreader on the tv will utter the same word or even couple of words that I am reading at exactly that second.

It has happened more than just a few times in my life, not earth shattering but flipping weird. It can not just be me. Out of all you other posters here there must be another one who knows what the hell I am talking about.

Our brains are programmed to notice patterns. 22.22 is more noticeable that 22.17.

11.11 for me too!!

You probably look at the time more often than you realize, your brain just doesn't have a "woah" moment when the display says 10:17.

I get 22:22 quite a lot as well, because I aim to go to bed at 11 so I start looking at the time a lot more after 10pm.

I've recently used the "moment" app which helps reduce phone usage. Apparently the average number of times a moment user picks up their phone a day is 43, this doesn't include the times you glance at your phone for the time.

So 43 x7 is 301, o if you've noticed 22.22 twice in a week then there's 299 times the phone didn't say 22.22 but you're not remembering all those other clock times.

This also doesn't account for being in your phone longer than a minute each time. If you are in the phone for just 3 minutes each time then that's 903 minutes, so 901 times it DIDNT say 22.22

Mine is always 15:36. No idea why!