Why You See Certain Numbers All the Time

It seems to some people that they see certain numbers all the time. Because that is the way it seems, that is the way it is — for them.

Further, they may assume there is an inherent purpose when they see a number again and again.

But the reason is simple.

When a person sees a certain number all the time, it is because they give it extra attention when they see it. Of all the numbers the person sees during the course of a day, the numbers they give extra attention to are the ones that are remembered.

It is a memory trick.

There is more to it, of course.

There are three reasons a person might give extra attention to certain numbers.

Numbers are all around us — signs, clocks, battery levels, bank accounts, sales receipts, follower counts, calendars, internet speed, credit cards, and a slew of other things with numbers and number sources.

When a number is given extra attention, it may be remembered as having been seen. Most other numbers are quickly discarded from active memory.

The three reasons a person gives a certain number extra attention are:

1. Personal Meaning —

   The number is imbued with a personal meaning.

   Examples: Your birthday numbers. Your current age.

2. Emotional Significance —

   The number has an emotional significance.

   Examples: The address of the restaurant where you got engaged. Wondering if seeing a certain number means there is a personal message you are supposed to recognize.

3. Interesting Digit Arrangement —

   An aspect of the number attracts your attention.

   Examples are 1234 and 1221

Let's talk about each of those reasons.

Personal Meaning

Personal meaning numbers are numbers that are part of a person's life. The birthday and current age have personal meaning to most people, generally without emotional significance. The numbers in a person's numerology chart may also contain personal meaning — when the person knows what those numbers are.

At the numerology questions and answers website, there are more questions about seeing birthday numbers than about any other category of numbers being seen.

When a number with personal meaning is seen, and the number is recognized as having personal meaning, an instant of extra mental attention is given to the event. The extra attention makes the number more likely to be remembered.

Emotional Significance

A number with emotional significance means the number is a reminder of, or directly connected to, an emotional event or idea.

Any number or numbers associated with emotion can have emotional significance. As an example, emotion-laden dates, such as a marriage proposal accepted (or rejected), can have sufficient emotional significance to always be a reminder when one of the date numbers is noticed.

An emotional significance can be formed with a number that had first been given extra attention because it had personal meaning, when the person wonders why they keep seeing the number. Wondering why attaches emotion.

Numbers with emotional significance are predisposed to being recognized and remembered.

Interesting Digit Arrangement

Something about the number interests you. The reason is likely to be that you see an interesting digit arrangement.

The digit arrangement might be identical (1:11), sequential (4567), a mirror sequence (23.32), all odd numbers (11:37), reverse sequence (4321), … .

When a number interests you, your mental attention is temporarily focused on that number. It makes the number more likely to be remembered.

Accelerated Seeing of Certain Numbers

When a certain number or numbers are remembered day after day, and the other numbers the person sees are not remembered, then it can seem to the person that they see that certain number all the time.

It is at that point when a person might assume there must be a purpose behind repeatedly seeing that particular number — perhaps an esoteric message they are supposed to understand.

That's when the acceleration starts.

Let's take a birth date as an example. Let's say, June 14.

Let's further say the person wonders why they're seeing the time 6:14 so often, the numbers of their birth date. They wonder if there's personal meaning attached to it, thinking there surely must be a reason they're seeing the time so often.

The act of wondering if there's meaning attaches mystery to the seeing. It becomes emotionally significant.

The subconscious mind is compelled to solve mysteries, especially mysteries that may have personal meaning.

The more often 6:14 is seen (without being accompanied by a satisfactory meaning), the more the person wonders if there is personal meaning, the more emotionally significant the numbers become, and the more powerful becomes the urge to solve the mystery.

The more emotionally significant that seeing 6:14 becomes, the more likely it is that the person will remember seeing it.

It's all a memory trick.

Starting to See Certain Numbers Again and Again has information about ways a person may start seeing (remembering as having seen) certain numbers.