That hour of the day is strange ... I joke about this meme and make fun of it ... I don't smoke weed but I make fun of the culture around it ... I also don't judge people for it, people can do what they like.

But at least every second or third day, I'll glance at my watch, or the clock on the wall and for whatever reason ... it's 4:20 or 4:19 or 4:21 ... and I'll think to myself that I must be doing it to myself. And about four or five times in the past few months, I'd wake in the middle of the night and look over at my clock .... and it's freakin 4:20

I don't consciously think about it but it seems to happen more often than it should.

[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

You wake up multiple times every night, everyone does. You just don't remember it in the morning.
Unless you see something that is memorable.

[–] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That might be a case of frequency illusion. A common example is how when someone gets a new car, they might start noticing that car model more often on the streets, and it happens because of the cognitive biases related to selective attention and/or memory.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe ... but just this afternoon, I was cooking and turned on a bunch of timers for different dishes I was making ... I went to turn off the timer for my main dish on the stove ... when the timer cleared and showed the time of day .... it was 4:20pm

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

wild. I've always heard it as selective attention

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selective_attention&redirect=no

I guess we're not so different you and I.