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Frequently Recurring Number?
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by mass_gamer
on 2010-04-08 14:08:10
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Recently, I have gotten curious about this. I noticed that often, the number 28 keeps popping up all the time. When I look at the clock, it's usually XX:28. When I delete things out of my recycle bin, it usually asks "Are you sure you want to delete these 28 items?". Many places I go, I keep seeing the number 28. I can't figure out why. I was wondering... Do you have a recurring number like this?   |
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Re: Frequently Recurring Number?
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on 2010-04-08 14:13:40 (edited 2010-04-08 14:14:29)
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YES For me it ALWAYS seems to be seven Whenever I look at the clock the majority of the time it is _:07 or _:17 and so on I was also born on the 7th And I have been seeing that I am #7 on a few peoples stalker lists (fb) I though I was the only one ._. |
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Re: Frequently Recurring Number?
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on 2010-04-08 14:16:46 |
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Hmm... now that you mention it, I experience, shall we call it... phenomenon? Well for me, it's usually a number ending in the digit 8. Whether I look at the song and has 8 seconds left, or my dinner has 8 minutes left. It varies, it can also be XX:X8. Maybe it's just our internal clocks that tell us to look when this number occurs. There's probably a number of explanations having to do with the human mind. 
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Re: Frequently Recurring Number?
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on 2010-04-08 14:38:03 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias 
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Re: Frequently Recurring Number?
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on 2010-04-08 14:47:40 |
gonna have to go with gendou on this one. yea it only seems that its all 28 all the time but thats probably the only time you have noticed it. its probably a selective memory. yea it may seem like its 28 all the time you look at it but how many times out of the 365 days of the year does it happen? its probably something about the number 28 that attracts you so you only notice the time or wherever you see the number. try noticing any other numbers and then you will notice that all of the numbers recurr because they do. if that makes any sense  
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Re: Frequently Recurring Number?
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by mass_gamer
on 2010-04-08 18:39:52
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I see what you're saying Gendou, but I still think it's rather interesting, seeing if other's pay attention to a single number for any reason. |