My experience with the clock

I've never really been superstitious about anything, but lately I have been questioning something that has been happening to me 4-5 times a week.

I normally never check what time of day it is because I am unemployed and spend a lot of my time away from my clock. The time of day isn't as important to me as it would be if I were employed or playing the stock market


However, for the past year or so, I have been glancing at the clock at exactly the right time. 9:11 pm. or 9:11 am.

Now, I would not give any significance to this if it were happening once every couple months or years. This seems to happen 4-5 times per week. Whether it be morning or night, for some odd reason my eyes are fixed on my clock at just the right time.

Am I being warned about something? Should I be paying attention here?

Now, normally I wouldn't put any stock in this but when I was about 19 a few friends and I were out one night and we were discussing the fact that we had just looked at the clock at exactly 9:11pm and my friends told me something bad was about to happen. I brushed this off as nothing.

Later that night my friend got into his car, drove off away from his house, stopped at a stop sign, turned left and ran right into the back of a parked car. Bad driving? Of course it was. But I started to think about what they had mentioned about the clock. Again, I don't put much stock in this kind of thing, but how can I ignore it now when it's happening so frequently?

What I am worried about is that I am supposed to be taking a flight to Boston this May to see an old friend from high school. I'm wondering if I should skip the flight and just drive or am I being paranoid?

Has anyone else experienced this type of thing? Am I being ridiculous?

I don't have any experience with this sort of thing, but I'm also not discounting it. My only parallel might be that I seem to wake up nearly every night about 3:00 a.m.

I'm interested in this phenomenon, and I want to ask you a question. This isn't a challenge or a debunk attempt, just a question.

Do you get any sense of enjoyment or satisfaction from the repetitions of this phenomenon? What I'm wondering is if it gives you a sense of meaning or intrigue or perhaps excitement. I'm not inferring your life is dull, honestly, just wondering if you think you might be "juicing" yourself psychologically.

Interesting thread, either way. I think in your place, I'd be trying to figure out a way of testing it as a measurable phenomenon. Some sort of clock deprivation or something, where you didn't know the passage of time yourself, but others could observe and see when you chose to ask for the time.

Of course, in the above situation, that might be somewhat like quantum mechanics -- you observe it, and thus change the outcome.

Originally posted by argentus
I don't have any experience with this sort of thing, but I'm also not discounting it. My only parallel might be that I seem to wake up nearly every night about 3:00 a.m.

I'm interested in this phenomenon, and I want to ask you a question. This isn't a challenge or a debunk attempt, just a question.

Do you get any sense of enjoyment or satisfaction from the repetitions of this phenomenon? What I'm wondering is if it gives you a sense of meaning or intrigue or perhaps excitement. I'm not inferring your life is dull, honestly, just wondering if you think you might be "juicing" yourself psychologically.

Interesting thread, either way. I think in your place, I'd be trying to figure out a way of testing it as a measurable phenomenon. Some sort of clock deprivation or something, where you didn't know the passage of time yourself, but others could observe and see when you chose to ask for the time.

Of course, in the above situation, that might be somewhat like quantum mechanics -- you observe it, and thus change the outcome.

Actually this is very interesting to me. Would you perhaps suggest I start to document each time this happens to me?

I do not remember if I feel any enjoyment or satisfaction from it. From my past experience when my friend hit that other car that night I have always associated the time 9:11pm or am as a bad event. Especially since we are all taught at a young age to call 911 in the event of an emergency.

I have to admit that it does give me a sense of intrigue. I am not one to try and put meaning behind strange things, but this one has been happening so often that it has caught my interest.

My life is in fact very dull. Being unemployed is not exactly the best time in anyones life. So, I would say that my life is dull, yes. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but it sure might. I won't rule that out as a possibility.

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Thanks for your very candid reply Semus.

I have a nasty habit of perceiving patterns. That propensity was beneficial for my job long ago, but now it's just a novelty, and sometimes an irritation. Sometimes they are actual patterns (or so I think), and at other times, I wonder if I'm forcing the edges of the "experiment" to fit into a pattern I want.

That probably didn't make much sense. I tend to believe in certain synchronicities, and ....... believing in them, I wonder sometimes if I tend to place an undue amount of importance on an otherwise ordinary event.

I don't know how a person would isolate themselves from the experiment to measure it....... I think it'd probably be a good start to do as you said -- to take notes, as long as that didn't reinforce a behavior that was somehow detrimental to you. Please note that I have no idea what I'm talking about ....... none of this relates to any specialization that I might've learned....... I'm no psychologist -- not even close.

Okay. I thought about it more. What would happen if you were light-deprived for a period, say a weekend in which you didn't have any obligations. I wonder if you were unaware of the changes in the day signalled by the light if you'd still feel a pull to check the time at 9:11.

Who knows? Perhaps it is a message of sorts. I personally would be ticked off at any entity that would tantalize me without further clue as to the culmination of the message, but then I'm somewhat of a wingnut.

I'd be interested in reading any further information you might glean from this process. I've certainly read others here that had similar time/temporal phenomenon happen to them -- similar to yours, only different timestamps.

Try researching "time prompts synchronicity". You'll find a lot of stuff but will recognize what resonates with you. I had the 11:11 thing going on, like really BIG time. There was no doubt that something unusual was going on. Good luck in your search.

In my experience. Sometimes random, isn't so random.

sounds like a pattern to me. i'd keep your eyes open for more.

I have had 4:44 happening for years. It used to be so bad I would wake up and lie in bed for as long as I could stand it, hoping to avoid 4:44, then look at the clock. The time would be 4:44, and not one minute different.

Somewhere I heard that 444 is a bad number in Chinese superstition. It means death, or something. Well, 4:44 has been going on since about '93 and I'm still here. If someone is trying to send me a message, I'm not getting the meaning!

Times been a really weird thing for me too recently, although my new job basically requires almost constant attention to the time. I've noticed though, I dont need to look at the clock most of the time, I think "what time is it" then a time comes up like say 12:58pm I look at my watch and its 12:58:00 exactly (which happens a lot surprisingly, it almost disgusts me). Most the time i'm either on or a couple min give or take off, i've made some horrible guesses but its getting more and more accurate which is weird.

I hear the pineal gland is suggested to function also as your bio-clock? Oh and also sometimes the combinations are so ironic, once it was 1:23:45, and @Lookingup one of them I remember was definitely 4:44:44, lol, which then makes me walk around work contemplating if these numbers might mean anything. Most likely striving after wind though, I don't see the significants and I suppose if I ever need to I will.

I just thought that was odd, then seeing this post.

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I am going to visit a friend of mine that I've known since high school. She expressed to me that she has woken up at exactly 1:55 a few nights per week. I find this sort of behavior very fascinating.

I am definitely going to work out an experiment. But, I wonder if my very involvement in this experiment and the knowledge of it always being in my subconscious might somehow skew the results. The best way to describe what I mean is when you know you are being watched and you behave differently than if you didn't know.

The human brain has always been intriguing to me. I had heard that human beings only use about 10% of it's total capability, perhaps even less and this has always baffled me. I tend to wonder what life would be like if we used even 50% or god forbid even 100% of our potential!

Ok, from now on I will be marking down the dates when this occurs, and whether it is am or pm. Are there anymore things that come to mind that I should record? Should I make a note of anything else? Examples would be what I ate that night, or what I watched on TV or something of that nature. I suppose when it happens I could mark down how I felt at the time, was I thinking about someone or something.

I haven't had a science project since I was in 8th grade so this will definitely be fun. What I really want to know is if there is some pattern to this chaos. I just hope that no harm comes to me or anyone else I know. That is my only real concern here.

Your noticing it more because the numbers have significance, and as such your bodys internal clock reminds you to check at that same time, reinforcing your paranoia. Don't worry- its likely insignificant, but if it makes you feel better thinking is something above and beyond- then by all means think so

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Is it the same clock... or different clocks in different places? And if it's the same clock... I might have a theory.

Just out of curiosity have you tried looking at the clock at different times in the day?

It could be that its battery has stopped and you only happen to look at it around the right time rather than bang on it.

Just need to expel all rationale possibilities first.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

-m0r

Originally posted by xynephadyn
Your noticing it more because the numbers have significance, and as such your bodys internal clock reminds you to check at that same time, reinforcing your paranoia. Don't worry- its likely insignificant, but if it makes you feel better thinking is something above and beyond- then by all means think so

I'm not sure if I would call it paranoia, but rather an extreme interest. The idea of an internal clock is something I hadn't given much thought to. To be quite honest I didn't know that the body had this "internal clock". You learn something new every day right?

Well, all I can say is that these events have sparked an interest in the significance surrounding these occurrences. I might be paranoid as you say, but nevertheless I still want to see if I can come up with another explanation, or even find out something about myself that I otherwise wouldn't have known. Finding out more and more about yourself is part of life and the overall growth as a human being. That is why I am simply fascinated by these events.

Originally posted by Hedera Helix
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Is it the same clock... or different clocks in different places? And if it's the same clock... I might have a theory.

To be honest I would have to say that it is mostly the same clock. I do remember looking at my alarm clock a couple of times and it also said 9:11, but it's usually the same exact clock. It's the clock that my cable box uses. It's in such a place where I can see it in the room no matter where I am standing or laying down.

Are you thinking that it could be just a force of habit? Something I do unconsciously? I'd like to here your theory.

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It's the clock that my cable box uses.

I'm not sure what you mean. How does a cable box use a clock? Can you elaborate a little more?

Originally posted by Semus

The human brain has always been intriguing to me. I had heard that human beings only use about 10% of it's total capability, perhaps even less and this has always baffled me. I tend to wonder what life would be like if we used even 50% or god forbid even 100% of our potential!

Don't know about the time thing-but my brain wakes me up every morning at 4:00-so i can sleepwalk to the bathroom while using about 1 percent of it.

But, the 10 percent is a myth. You use 100 percent of your brain. You just might not use all of it at the same time.
www.scientificamerican.com...

Originally posted by Hedera Helix
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It's the clock that my cable box uses.

I'm not sure what you mean. How does a cable box use a clock? Can you elaborate a little more?

My cable box has a digital readout and it's readout shows what channel I am currently on, and when there is no activity ie: changing the channel, it shows the current time. Basically it's what I use for a clock 99% of the time. Hope that clarifies it for you.

[edit on 8-3-2010 by Semus]

Originally posted by Pauligirl

Originally posted by Semus

The human brain has always been intriguing to me. I had heard that human beings only use about 10% of it's total capability, perhaps even less and this has always baffled me. I tend to wonder what life would be like if we used even 50% or god forbid even 100% of our potential!

Don't know about the time thing-but my brain wakes me up every morning at 4:00-so i can sleepwalk to the bathroom while using about 1 percent of it.

But, the 10 percent is a myth. You use 100 percent of your brain. You just might not use all of it at the same time.
www.scientificamerican.com...

I see. Thanks for that info. I had often wondered the same thing myself.

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I have an older solar calculator that I keep on my entry table that was (and still is) being influenced by rogue environmental frequencies. I used to document these numerical displays and dedicated an entire blog to it's antics for a few months... but finally quit. I also have cats that seem to be behaviorally influenced by an outside source, too.

This clock business that you're experiencing is most likely a subconscious directive coming from an outside influence. Just a wild guess.

I used to have the 11:11 thing going on. I didn't really think much of it, but then my girlfriend put the clock 14 minutes ahead...and just as i read this thread, i realized i have not been seeing the 11:11 thing anymore. Might be worth trying.