Digital clock synchronicity

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The time 11:11 has been displayed many, many times when I look at the clock while in bed and I cannot explain it. I can be reading a book for ages and then decide to see what the time is, and it is 11:11. I have gone to sleep really early and roll over in my sleep only to open my eyes and it says 11:11! But not so long ago I had a really weird happening. I always wake up two or three times a night - I am 62 YO - but this night was different. The first time I awoke the clock read 2:22 and I went back to sleep. The next time I woke up the clock read 3:33! I thought that was cool! The third time I awoke the clock read 4:44! No way, I said to myself, this is really creepy! It took me a while to get back to sleep after that. But the next time I awoke and looked to see if it was time to get up the clock read 5:55!!!! I was really shocked by this and not a little rattled. I felt really uneasy for a long while after that occurred and could not get it out of my mind. What could possibly account for that? I thought something must have been waking me up at those precise times. It has never happened again.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:33:35 +0000Coincidence ID:4996

Comments

Gary O

Mon, 16/01/2012 - 12:50pm

I to have a number that has followed me for years, it first reared it's head as my clock number at work, 126, and has cropped up in what seems like scores of time since, so much so that all my family comment on it when I may have missed something that is relevant to it. Like the poster above i to awoke one morning to check the time but I could not see the clock as it was obstructed by the book I had put down on my dressing table before gong to sleep, on moving the book I could see the time was 6:21 the book was titled "Backwards" by Grant Naylor.