Do you notice numbers?

[Que]

For example your post count, phone numbers with repeating digits, interesting patterns in the serial numbers on currency?

I am mildly Aspey so I am Rain-man with numbers.

I collect currency with interesting (to me) numbers.

Anyone else do that?

 

[Aquagal]

No, that doesn't even cross my mind.

Certain numbers have relevance though. Like when I see 3:15 a.m. on the clock I think of Amityville Horror and hope I don't wake up then.

Or kill the family.

 

[Libsam]

On long interstate road-trips I find myself multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting license plates digits until I get a number ending in zero.
Letters are thrown out.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Sometimes they piss me off.

 

[Que]

On long interstate road-trips I find myself multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting license plates digits until I get a number ending in zero.
Letters are thrown out.

Is it weird that reading that gave me a partial erection and a desire to distract you with road head?

 

[MNGuy]

Usually with regards to mileage, bank balances, and time before the alarm goes off.

Plus, most importantly football scores and stats.

 

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[snugglestruggle]

I'm always seeing 11:11

 

[Que]

I'm always seeing 11:11

Make a wish! Dunno why that is make a wish and not 2:22. I once lived at 222 Any St.

I also lived in a house where the house number could be expressed as three individual cubed roots.

I am always seeing the number that corresponded with the piece of equipment I was assigned to operate. It was a palindrome as well.

No, that doesn't even cross my mind.

Certain numbers have relevance though. Like when I see 3:15 a.m. on the clock I think of Amityville Horror and hope I don't wake up then.

Or kill the family.

A number as a trigger for mayhem.

Sometimes they piss me off.

Another vote for numerical homicidal triggering.

Usually with regards to mileage, bank balances, and time before the alarm goes off.

Plus, most importantly football scores and stats.

If I had any interest in sports I would be one of those sports encyclopedia guys. I'm losing the thought but there is some field that I am like that in but I can't think of it at the moment. Maybe I was a bookie in another life and the wool gathering is just deja vue.

I notice patterns in numbers all the time, and I see the same numbers with some frequency. I like to play with numbers in my head.

I do that too, and the number is always something that isn't special to me for any reason, but once I see it once I see it everywhere. One of my daughters likes 23 for some odd reason and was very excited when a movie came out with that in the title.

I suspect there is a psychological reason for this. (Beyond autism) I think it is the same dynamic that causes you to see Volkswagens everywhere as a child playing slug-bug, and noticing cars ALL THE TIME that are just like yours, when you never noticed them before.

 

[Noor]

Of course, doesn't everyone? Byron did LOL!
I also remember times and dates which drives some people insane.
For instance 4 months, 10 days and approx. 8 hrs ago I lost Byron, give or take a few minutes.
Our last conversation was 3.55 hrs long with a 3 min break while he watched a George Carlin youtube.
I may be a tinch more than mildy aspie.

 

[Aquagal]

When I see my moms birthday on the clock, I think of her. It's the only birthday that does that though.

 

[Ishmael]

For example your post count, phone numbers with repeating digits, interesting patterns in the serial numbers on currency?

I am mildly Aspey so I am Rain-man with numbers.

I collect currency with interesting (to me) numbers.

Anyone else do that?

Not really, but some do.

I remember reading a booklet by one of those '60's radicals who saw the hand of the government in everything. (He's probably an elected official somewhere now.) He saw ominous signs in the observation that almost all of his friends telephone numbers were divisible by 3 with no remainder. I doubt that it dawned on him that 33% of all phone numbers were divisible by three with no remainder.

Ishmael

 

[Mike_Yates]

If you stare at static on a television for too long, you eventually start to see code.

This vision is visible only in your head and not with your eyes.

http://transmissionsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/206868-binary-code-hacking.jpg

 

[Jennifer]

I notice patterns in numbers all the time, and I see the same numbers with some frequency. I like to play with numbers in my head.

Ditto and I have a strange memory for remembering long numbers like patient IDs and such. It's weird.

 

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[Que]

Of course, doesn't everyone? Byron did LOL!
I also remember times and dates which drives some people insane.
For instance 4 months, 10 days and approx. 8 hrs ago I lost Byron, give or take a few minutes.
Our last conversation was 3.55 hrs long with a 3 min break while he watched a George Carlin youtube.
I may be a tinch more than mildy aspie.

You and I need to hit Vegas or Atlantic City sometime.

When I see my moms birthday on the clock, I think if her. It's the only birthday that does that though.

Has she passed? Or is it just something that stands out? does her birthday make another pattern of some sort?

Not really, but some do.

I remember reading a booklet by one of those '60's radicals who saw the hand of the government in everything. (He's probably an elected official somewhere now.) He saw ominous signs in the observation that almost all of his friends telephone numbers were divisible by 3 with no remainder. I doubt that it dawned on him that 33% of all phone numbers were divisible by three with no remainder.

Ishmael

My ex was a new years baby. Every time she had to give DOB people are incredulous. There are slightly less than 1/365 of the population born on that day because no one schedules a c-section on a holiday, but pretty close.

All my kids should have been born on the 20th of some month. 3 of them were. Just a really regular cycle I would think.

If you stare at static on a television for too long, you eventually start to see code.

This vision is visible only in your head and not with your eyes.

Why did I suspect you might notice numbers, mike? Thanks for contributing.

 

[KingOrfeo]

BEAVIS: I'm, like, mad at numbers.

BUTTHEAD: There's, like, too many of 'em and stuff.

 

[Que]

BEAVIS: I'm, like, mad at numbers.

BUTTHEAD: There's, like, too many of 'em and stuff.

Heh. Heheheh...heheheheh...snort.

 

[Mike_Yates]

wonders if I'm the only one thinking of trying this...

Deciphering the numbers and figuring out what they mean is a very daunting task.

If you have a little kid who sits in front of a static television writing down binary code onto paper while staring at the ceiling with his eyes rolled back and in a trance-like state, then you've got a problem.

 

[Que]

wonders if I'm the only one thinking of trying this...

I have a couple of tvs in storage capable of producing static, maybe.

 

[Aquagal]

You and I need to hit Vegas or Atlantic City sometime.



Has she passed? Or is it just something that stands out? does her birthday make another pattern of some sort?



My ex was a new years baby. Every time she had to give DOB people are incredulous. There are slightly less than 1/365 of the population born on that day because no one schedules a c-section on a holiday, but pretty close.

All my kids should have been born on the 20th of some month. 3 of them were. Just a really regular cycle I would think.



Why did I suspect you might notice numbers, mike? Thanks for contributing.

Yes, my mom has died, but I saw her birthday even before that. It's just so obvious at that time for me.

 

[Jennifer]

wonders if I'm the only one thinking of trying this...

Nope. But I remember Poltergeist and get scared.

 

[Mike_Yates]

I think they did an episode of the X-Files about this once..

 

[marshalt]

I'm pretty good at remembering dates, but remembering a random string of numbers like a phone number or something like that? I'm number-dyslexic or something. I will ALWAYS fuck it up. Either I transpose numbers or I just forget them completely.