Anyone Else Having 9/11 Flashbacks?

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Author Message   mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 6606 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 3:46 pm:        These days I get very desolate this time of year, and last night I was changing channels and the documentaries are starting - showing the planes crashing, etc. This will never go away.   greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 9069 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 3:56 pm:        No, I'm afraid that it won't. This is an excellent time of year to limit your TV watching to Comedy Central, TV Land, Mick at Nite, TMC and AMC. I also enjoy What Not to Wear quite a bit.   dano Citizen Username: Dano Post Number: 255 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 4:10 pm:        Mem, I hate this time of year as well. I was in mid-town that horrible day and still have a hard time with it. Now the movies are begining to show up as well. Just know that lots of us feel the same way you do.   Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 8130 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 5:02 pm:        Mem: You had such a personal loss on 9/11. The hype we are seeing now as the anniverary of the event comes closer makes those memories even more vivid than they are at other times of the year. My best advice to you would be to focus on the good pre-9/11 memories to the extent you can and continue to show the terrorists that they have not won and hopefully never will. Personally, I don't have the flash backs I used to have and I am now able to look at an airplane flying overhead without cringing but things will never quite be the same again.   buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 5652 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 5:03 pm:        I have been staying away from the news and trying not to get caught up in discussions about the movie and such. It really has not gone away for me. But I have gotten better. There was a time 3-4 years ago nice fall days gave me the jitters...... Had a few pretty sweet panic attacks on the PATH train back then too. Got stuck underground in a blacked out PATH train for a while that day - after seeing what happened and running like mad to the train. Anyway. Strength in numbers. I am sure there are a lot of people going through the same feelings. Here's to peace of mind.....   red Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 6870 Registered: 2-2003 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 5:37 pm:        I just find it so odd how many shows, movies, just everything is coming out now. I think people who didn't live through it so vividly, they just don't understand how difficult something as small as a commercial can be.   melicious Citizen Username: Melicious Post Number: 728 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 5:48 pm:        i'm with you guys. i was downtown that day and still have a hard time. i just wish ours was a more tasteful society that would acknowledge, but not relive, every moment of the tragedy.   newone Citizen Username: Newone Post Number: 430 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 7:16 pm:        I'm with all of you - it seems every night on History channel is another 9/11 type show, the news brings it up again, etc. I was in NY 2 weeks ago and had to take the PATH to the WTC stop. My first time down there in a few years and it is still distressing. Also, it really bothered me seeing everyone in front of the "footprints" taking photos (I understand in some ways why tourists would take pictures but it still bothered me).   peteglider Citizen Username: Peteglider Post Number: 2171 Registered: 8-2002 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 7:37 pm:        Yep, way too much on tv (and movies) right now. Anyone else dread Sept 11 or wonder where they will be that day? Its a Monday this year and I can't imagine being in the city at work. /p   Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 8131 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 7:49 pm:        Pete: I start jury duty in Newark on September 11. Usually, I would dread that but this year it seems a better alternative than making my usual weekday trip to the PATH WTC stop and then walking to my office in lower Manhattan.   Dogbert Citizen Username: Dogbert Post Number: 131 Registered: 1-2006 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 7:52 pm:        Actually I thought of it this morning, as I do every day that the sky is totally clear.   mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 6609 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 7:52 pm:        Thank you Joan. This weather and the way the light falls in the morning is definitely a trigger. It should have been raining and hailing that day at the very least. I used to love NYC, working there, staying overnight, even the commute. Now it can be almost dreadful at times when I have to go back - very hollow and strange. First time I have admitted this. To top it off I am recovering from tuleremia, and my car radiator hose just blew. I almost wish we could fast forward to Thanksgiving or something. Well wishes to all who feel this way.   joy Citizen Username: Joy Post Number: 581 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 8:40 pm:        It took a year for the nightmares to stop - I dreamt (sp?) I was stuck on the 86th floor in a conference room. Today was my first offical day back in the city - we're across the street - so there's no escaping it. I was in NY for the 1 year anniversary - my company was marking/remembering - so I had alot to do - but have been on vacation for all the others. Just thinking about it all starts everything flooding back again.   anotherkittie Citizen Username: Anotherkittie Post Number: 135 Registered: 4-2006 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 9:18 pm:        It's like Christmas. It starts earlier each year. I was downtown too on that morning. Two years ago, I went to a wedding on September 11 which has definitely helped in the "moving on" process. It's actually getting to the point where I watch some of these shows on tv and I can't believe it actually happened and that I saw it, heard it, smelled it and lived it. It's our (my) generation's Kennedy's assassination. Where were you on September 11?   bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 23890 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 9:46 pm:        I'll never forget that day and also feel the emotion building as the anniversary approaches. Though I wasn't in the city that day, I did end up staying home after getting the phone call that "a small plane hit one of the towers." Ugh. Mem, I remember so vividly your posts about Paul, and especially the picture of you all with your heads in a circle. What's kind of freaking me out is that the Giants are playing the late game on Sept. 10, as they did in 2001 on Monday Night Football. It has been suggested that the Giants playing MNF caused some to go to work later than usual, thereby saving their lives. Unfortunately, firemen don't get to go in late. I'm still so sorry for your loss.   Flying_char Citizen Username: Flying_char Post Number: 237 Registered: 8-2005 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 10:08 pm:        Just reading this, brings tears to my eyes. That day will be forever imprinted in my mind. My mother was here from Europe and she left on one of the first planes out a week later. I have been avoiding flying on this day, but I think I am picking up a trip on Monday Sept. 11. out of Newark. It's been 5 years. One day the tears will stop, won't they???   Just The Aunt Supporter Username: Auntof13 Post Number: 6003 Registered: 1-2004 Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 11:01 pm:        I think this will be a hard time of the year for many. As someone has alread said, there is strength in numbers. I think with so many of us effected by 9.11 we should make sure we look out for each other. Sadly, it's not right after an incident, but 3-5 years or more later the incidents of suicide increase. If we notice someone sems to be having a difficult time, please reach out to them. If for nothing more to let them know you're willing to lend an ear if they need to talk. I'm a little surprised the BOT have a meeting this 11 September.   CFA Citizen Username: Cfa Post Number: 1688 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 4:09 am:        Have any of you sought professional help? I believe a little therapy would make you're life somewhat easier this time of year. Why would you not do things or go places? Live your life to the fullest. Go see a therapist.   Hamandeggs Citizen Username: Hamandeggs Post Number: 370 Registered: 8-2005 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 6:10 am:        What I find difficult is that the date appears suddenly as a deadline or a day when supermarket specials begin or end...it just pops out of nowhere looking like a regular date and then it takes my breath away. I think that, looking back thus far and then as we age, we will each see some of our actions as reactions to that day. I had another child...   greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 9076 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 6:49 am:        In 2002, a bunch of us had a meeting in Amsterdam on September 10. My company was "understanding" in that they allowed anyone who didn't want to fly home on the 11th to fly out on the 12th instead, paying for the extra hotel night. I choose to fly home on the 11th, figuring that it would help break the spell. It did. Besides which, I figure that the anniversary is probably the safest day to fly, since sercurity is so tight and there are probably air marshalls on many overseas planes.   Project 37 Citizen Username: Project37 Post Number: 281 Registered: 3-2006 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 7:48 am:        I'm sorry that it continues to be so hard. Some days are bound to be tougher than others. None of us have to be alone in this. We're still here, and we can make that count for a lot. take good care, p37   Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 8136 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 7:57 am:        CFA wrote: "Have any of you sought professional help? I believe a little therapy would make you're life somewhat easier this time of year. Why would you not do things or go places? Live your life to the fullest. Go see a therapist." I'm glad this thread was started and I hope this thread or something similar will still be around as September 11 draws closer. It really does help to discuss our feelings about 9/11 in the privacy of our own keyboards and to internalize the understanding that many of us have similar feelings and shared experiences going back to that day. The MOL threads in the days following 9/11 really helped me to come to grips with my feelings back then as did the very frequent face to face gatherings we had then. It was a wonderful support group to be able to rely on as the world seemed to unravel around us. Anyone up for a simple gathering on the weekend of September 9 - 10 in which we could draw strength from one another?   juju's petals Citizen Username: Jujus_petals Post Number: 317 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 8:42 am:        Among my memories of 9/11 is the early morning before anything happened. I slept in that day until about 8am because I was working from home. The babysitter hadn't arrived yet and my daughter, who celebrated her first birthday the prior week, climbed into bed with me and we snuggled for a while. Then we went into the sunny kitchen for breakfast and enjoyed the breeze through the big kichen window. She sat in her high chair and I sat the kitchen table. Minutes later we heard the news on NPR about a fire. I don't know why I remember this early part so clearly. Probably because for the rest of the day, and those that followed, I wanted that part back so badly.   Michael K. McKell Citizen Username: Mckellconst Post Number: 87 Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 8:58 am:        I quit my job and never went back.   MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 4350 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 9:30 am:        Juju, sounds like you and I had a similar morning, and I still remember every detail leading up to the phone call I got from my husband saying a plane had crashed in to the WTC. We were in the kitchen, my oldest was a month shy of his 3rd birthday, my middle was two months shy of his first. Baby was in the high chair, the other sitting at the table and I was making breakfast. The sun was sparkling, the sky was beautifully blue with puffy, white clouds, a breeze was blowing and the window was open. I was reaching to set the timer on the stove for some reason, and the phone rang. The rest of the day was sheer hell. Watching everything happen on T.V. it seemed as if the world was coming to an end, and here I was with two small children. What kind of world was I bringing them in to! Waiting for my husband to make it home, getting in touch with friends and making sure their husband's were coming home. When I worked in the city and lived in Jersey City, I communted through the WTC every day for years. And they were an integral part of my life, as a part of the skyline view I had every day. It's still utterly incomprehensible to me that those two gigantic towers actually completely evaporated. Doesn't help, either, that my birthday is at the end of September, only a couple of weeks after the 11th. And that year was a "milestone" birthday and my mother and sister gave me a gift of a long weekend at a poor man's spa just outside of Stroudsburg, PA. I had to leave my family in the midst of all that uncertainty, wondering if they would be blown to smithereens while I was away. I almost didn't go. I was so stressed out about it. Actually, I was pretty much stressed out just about every moment of the intervening weeks. But we came up with an "emergency plan" should the worst actually happen. I think it was the best thing to go away, and see that everything was still O.K. when I came back. Lowered the stress level a bit. I do remember driving out Route 80 to the The Gap, and passing several huge cranes that were going in the other direction, obviously on their way to assist in the recovery and clean up at ground zero. Seems this "anniversary" will be an important and emotional one for many, many people, probably forever. I wonder how old my kids will be when they ask me if I remember and where I was. Just like Pearl Harbor and JFK's assasination (and for me, Princess Diana's death and JFK Jr.'s).   MeAndTheBoys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 4351 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 9:34 am:        Generally, when the sun is shining in a particularly sparkley way, and the breeze is blowing and the temperature is perfect (a bit like right now) and the sky is particularly clear and blue, I have flashbacks to that day. I even remember the smell of the air. Sometimes when I hear the sound of jet engines over my house, descending to Newark, I have flashbacks.   mim Citizen Username: Mim Post Number: 685 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 9:44 am:        Never do I take note of a perfect, blue-sky day now without thinking, 'it was like this on 9/11.' Tall buildings and airplane noise still make me shudder. It will forever be with us.   blackcat Citizen Username: Blackcat Post Number: 731 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 1:09 pm:        mim-I think that all of the time. I remember saying to myself that morning that it was such a beautiful clear day. There was a bad thunderstorm later in the week very early in the morning. I was jumping every time I heard the booming thunder. And I also thought of the people working down there and how I wished that it wouldn't rain until it was all cleaned up.   ajc Citizen Username: Ajc Post Number: 5432 Registered: 9-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 2:12 pm:        ...it never seems to leave us alone. As suggested by CFA, I suspect the idea of professional help is needed for some of us... I think I'm a big strong minded guy, and I feel I can deal with anything. However, some how those numbers and that day are always there. Sometimes it happens twice in a day where I look at the clock as it turns to 911, and for a split second there is an interruption of thought. The reminders to call 911 for an emergency seem to be everywhere. Even similar numbers take on new meanings, like 111, 211, 311 and so on. Do I feel like I have a problem? NO, hell no!!! But, these numbers and the thoughts keep happening anyway, and I'm sure I'm not alone. I know those FN bastards planned it this way. You're right Mem, "This will never go away."   Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 1610 Registered: 2-2006 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 3:58 pm:        Amanpour: Bin Laden still deadly relevant Ex-CIA official says cleric sets cap of 10 million U.S. deaths By Christiane Amanpour CNN Tuesday, August 22, 2006; Posted: 12:15 p.m. EDT (16:15 GMT) Editor's note: CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has reported on crises from many of the world's hotspots. Here, Amanpour shares her analysis with CNN.com on the hunt for Osama bin Laden. ...... exerpt: Michael Scheuer, who once headed the CIA's bin Laden unit, says bin Laden has been given permission by a young cleric in Saudi Arabia authorizing al Qaeda to "use nuclear weapons against the United States ... capping the casualties at 10 million." "He's had an approval, a religious approval for 10 million deaths?" I asked him. "Yes," Scheuer responded. Working on the "CNN Presents" documentary, "In the Footsteps of bin Laden," we traced bin Laden's metamorphosis from a shy, well-educated, wealthy young Saudi Arabian boy to the hate-filled man he became. We were struck by his steady and relentless pursuit of his goals. Full article Excerpt from http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/amanpour.binladen/index.html Think about that when you fill your gas tanks. Saudi Arabia is our problem and Iran is our nightmare.   tjohn Supporter Username: Tjohn Post Number: 4718 Registered: 12-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 4:09 pm:        This is sad at so many levels. But sad in this case because a nuclear attack on us, whether it kills 10,000 or 10,000,000 will result in the death of 100 million Arab Muslims. And then, the madness will stop for a while. Yet somehow, our enemies seem to think us sufficiently soft that we wouldn't do this.   Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 1612 Registered: 2-2006 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 4:23 pm:        I will never forget... As a person who used to fly for Lufthansa and worked several years at the airport I never really paid attention to planes flying overhead once I went into banking. Hey I was done with that job. On 9/11 I deboarded my train in Hoboken on Track 16 seconds after the first plane hit the towers. On the ferry we watched mesmorized as the first tower burn. When I saw the second plane flying over the city, I nudged my friend Jerry, pointed out the plane and said "There is something wrong with this one too". He asked me why I would think that and I told him that there is no way that this plane would fly over a major city and not have been diverted to fly over the ocean away from the activity. He told me not to worry... We watched it fly over us and draw it's circle touching the NJ shoreline gently and then it disappeared out in the ocean. It disappeared behind the trade center..and then it hit. I worked in that building for 8 years for Commerzbank Capital Markets Corp. and we moved to the Financial Center after the 1993 bomb. I ran down 42 stairs in 1993 but for some reason the memories from that cold day were easily put away unlike my memories from 9/11. To my friend mem...I am glad you made it home (thanks to you know who, who didn't) No I will never forget..!   pcs81632 Citizen Username: Pcs81632 Post Number: 119 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 7:36 pm:        I think we all know this is now, for us, the worst time of the year. Reminders seem to be everywhere we turn. And for some, this weekend is the anniversary of Katrina. I was at work in Manhattan on 9/11, and I was stranded in New Orleans a year ago this coming weekend and unable to get out. Can we fast forward to October 1st, please?   Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 8145 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 8:25 pm:        After October comes November, December, January ... and before you know it August and then September are back again. Fast forwarding forever sounds attractive but it just doesn't work. We need to find a better way of dealing with this if we can.   doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 1747 Registered: 3-2002 Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 9:14 pm:        I remember that storm, Blackcat - I was having bad dreams & kept waking up I wish I had somehow protected myself & my family by snapping out of it & turning off the TV sooner. ...and I wasn't even there on that day...I was right here & turned on the news to watch while pumping breastmilk, as I had a meeting in the city...saw that there was a fire & thought "good thing I have plenty of time - that's probably going to cause delays" & then I saw the live feed of the second plane & it just wouldn't compute. My family was all safe at home - I'd asked my husband to go in late so that he could take our kid for a checkup...But then I started thinking of all the people I know who were there & also about how my husband & I used to walk through WTC everyday...as the first tower fell all I could think was how weird the skyline would look with just one...it just would not compute - the enormity. I remember so much of that day - the quiet outside because the planes were grounded. Leaning out my open window & talking to my neighbor, who hadn't yet reached her daughter in the city. The woman in the grocery store who seemed to be in shock, not knowing what to buy. Seeing LAS on the street outside Kings after buying provisions for all the strangers she had brought home because they had no where to go. My Red Cross card is now dated 9/11/2001. That number does seem to come up a lot. I still have dreams. I think about it everytime a plane flies over. My children ask about loud noises in the tunnel or when we board a plane whether we will crash into a building. Someone, an adult, told one of my kids recently that "Sadam" had tried to blow up America & still wanted to. And these beautiful days we are having now... My parents are coming soon & everytime they visit my mom wants to visit ground zero - I'll tell her, like I have before, to go ahead but I don't want to. All this & I wasn't even there. I can't imagine and I'm glad about that for myself but so sorry for everyone who was personally touched by this.   doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 1756 Registered: 3-2002 Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 9:03 am:        Talk about a thread-killer - sorry guys   Bob K Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 12485 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 10:09 am:        I was in WTC2 for 9/11, luckily working for a company that would pay for the address, but not the view. We were on the 23rd and 24th floors, so everyone got out before the building collapsed, although I had several business friends who worked on higher floors who weren't so lucky. While, I think last year, I posted my memories of the day, which are mostly fragments, since I have never really been able to come up with a complete synopsies of my actions and reactions to the absolute horror I felt. I remember watching people from WTC1 jumping to their deaths, going down the stairs after our building was hit and feeling it shift when we were half way down (a precursor of what was to come) and the worry and guilt of having told our two disabled employees it was OK to take the elevator (luckily they were out before our building was hit) not to mention not being able to get in touch with my family until around 11:00am. This was my second terrorist attack, having been in WTC2 for the 1993 bombing as well. The one really weird incident for me was that nine out of ten mornings I went down at quarter to nine to have a smoke and usually went out on the plaza. For some reason I didn't do this on 9/11 and this may have saved my life. There was an awful lot of debris blown out of WTC1 when the plane hit. Having been through this twice I am probably a little more vigilant than many people and not at all afraid to make a fool out of myself when I see an unattended bag on the train or the ferry and a few other things. Mostly, I think I am OK, but do worry about being in a third attack. Sometimes I would kinda like to move to Montana!   Paddy Citizen Username: Paddy Post Number: 213 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 11:19 am:        Am with you Mem. My school had a internship program with one of the financial firms over there. I'm sure I would not be around had I actually made the cut, Am sure I would still be working there. People ask, and I personally knew and were good friends with about 15 people. Lots of funerals in 01. If you grew up in the NYC area, I don't think anyone didn't lose someone they were close to--I think that's the kicker.   Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 1636 Registered: 2-2006 Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 9:24 pm:        Dear Bob K: Glad to have you with us. We tend to focus only on the people that were lost that day but in reality the number of victims would have been much higher if it wasn't the first day of school in NJ and a voting day in NY. Many people came in late for those two reasons. To know how many people, like you, were able to get out should make us consider ourselves and the nation as a whole lucky. We need to look at our friends and family every day like it's 9/10, the day before our world was turned upside down. Consider yourself hugged by a fellow commuter! PS and I so hear you about Montana   Ima Perplecks Citizen Username: Victor Post Number: 80 Registered: 6-2005 Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 7:33 am:        Wow, I made myself remember this one. You had to be there..was clutching the cat and running from room to room trying to hide from a small plane that was looking for me. It was going to slam into me if it could find me. Why? Remnants of something went with me to sleep a few nights ago. Whew!   Psychomom Citizen Username: Psychomom Post Number: 648 Registered: 5-2005 Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 11:49 am:        TIME OF REMEMBRANCE and PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE Monday, September 11, 2006 8:30 PM St. Joseph Church For those of us who lived through that terrible day, the recollections of it remain achingly vivid, and the sorrow that we feel for the loved ones, neighbors, and friends we lost remains etched in our hearts. The anniversary is a time for prayer and requiem, and it is also an occasion to recommit ourselves to the unwavering spirit that carried us through those fearful days of our lives. By continuing to show that spirit of solidarity - by continuing to embrace our freedoms, live with courage, and make this an even better city for all our children – we honor the memory of all those we lost every day of the year. On the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, we will again gather in sorrow and in remembrance to ensure we never forget the magnitude of what happened that fateful day and each and every one of the heroes we lost. However, we are deeply aware of the tragic cycle of continuing violence around the world. As we each find our own way through the complex maze in finding solution to war and hatred, it is useful to know that we are not alone in our struggles or in our hopes. Even as tragedy and suffering have occurred to so many people now and throughout history, there have also been passionate insightful voices calling for peace and healing. Following the celebration at the Maplewood town hall, we would like to invite you to come at this time of remembrance and pray for world peace on Monday, September 11, 2006 at 8:30 in the evening at St. Joseph Church, 767 Prospect St. Maplewood, NJ. There will be songs, prayers, Scripture readings and silent reflections. Highlight of the event will be “Path of Peace” with candle lighting ceremony and the recitation of prayers for peace. For details, please contact Rev. JM Manolo A. Punzalan at 973-761-5933.   S.L.K. 2.0 Citizen Username: Scrotisloknows Post Number: 1913 Registered: 10-2005 Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 12:16 pm:        I think the only I ever told this to was my wife but I noticed something weird happening in my life. It seems like more often than not, when I glance down at clock (the one in the bottom right hand corner) on my home CPU it says 9:11 (AM/PM). The first few times this happened I thought it was pure coincidence but it happened many more times after that. And no my clock is not stuck/dead! I don't know what it means, but I think it is bizarre how many times I have noticed this. -SLK   Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 10619 Registered: 4-1997 Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 1:03 pm:        Same thing here. I think it has to do with peripheral vision.   Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 1666 Registered: 2-2006 Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 6:23 pm:        You glance at the clock probably 10 times more but 9/11 you notice. I have the same thing with planes. Everytime I see a plane it looks like it's flying into something. A tree, a building, a bridge, I always seem to be a the inopportune angle so it looks like it did that day on the ferry. Before 9/11 all planes seemed to fly high up in the sky. Strange isn't it.