I mean oddities mostly. I corelate the area code of my highschool love, and often the birthday of another. It has no significance beyond a few pleasant memories, but it is just one of life’s oddities for me. Do you experience similar oddities?

  • deranger@lemmy.world
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    What do you mean by correlate, could you provide an example?

    I like to make wishes at 11:11 and 12:34 but they “won’t come true” if I look at the clock again on the same time (eg. see it’s 11:11, make a wish, can’t look until 11:12 at least).

    • Jake [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Like at 7:04 you might think of July 4th. All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock (e: if you’re using mmdd). I’m asking if your pattern recognition software is picking up on such a meaningless correlation and giving it some pleasant side effect or if that is not a very common mental connection.

      • QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        3 months ago

        All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock.

        Only if you use mmdd date format. The majority of the world uses ddmm.

        • Jake [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, but neither makes sense any more. I use yymmdd in my default file naming for natural sorting hierarchy. I just don’t think in that context. I guess that makes this post an interesting reflection from a couple of extra angles.

          Our US 3 digit area codes for phone number regions are likely not really paralleled elsewhere in the world either. It’s interesting all the little cultural subtleties that shape the mind.