Hi all,

I live in Egypt, me and many people realized something strange.
I dont know if many people around the world realized it or no !!

But here i would like to know your opinions about it.

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When there are a big group of people in the same place and everyone of them is talking in the same time ,, you can say that each two are talking 2 each other ,, .... so people are still talking and talking without any silent .....no silence in this area !! he he..... Sunddenly all people stop talking and there are nothing except silence in that place ,,,without any reason,,,, people dont know what is the reason that made them stop talking suddeny in the same time !!!
We found that this always happen in any time in the minute 40.
01:40 ,, 02:40 ,, 03:40 ,,,anything like that.

I hope u can understand what i mean.

I would like 2 know what do u think about that.

thank u

never known that to happen... but sometimes everyone in class is yelling across the room and wotnot and they all of a sudden just stop and shut up...

a beleif has it thats when an angel passes by but i have my doubts

that happens all the time in my classes, except sometimes there is one group of kids who stop a few seconds after everyone else, so that group thinks they are the center of attention, and say some stupid remark like, "why did everyone get quiet?", or they get quiet themselves, thinking the class is listening in on their gossip exchange.

I know what you are talking about, but never noticed the time when it happens.

Im gonna check this out tomorrow in class

But it would be hard, because almost everyone his watch shows different times. (don't know how to say that in good english, hope you understand)

Was your time the same with the atomic clock?

yeah i understand what u mean ..
i think u mean that,, in my watch, it can be 3:40 for example and in the watch of freind of mine with me in the class can be 3:42 for example.

yes i know

but all of it will be around --:40

Could the clock in the room be the true time and thats when the people shut it? I think it depends on what the clock says in the room...


ain't that the truth...

That's interesting that it happend every hour.

Since it happens in my school all the time, I'll look into it and see if there's a pattern.

A 1948 book about superstitions said:


Sudden silence — it must be twenty after
The most popular superstition on this subject, however, is the belief that when, for no apparent cause, everyone in a group suddenly seems at a loss for something to say, it must be twenty minutes after the hour. This idea is generally accepted by superstitious Americans, and is purely American in origin, going back to a legend which has grown around Abraham Lincoln's death.

For those who believe that the Great Emancipator died at 8:20 o'clock, a sudden silence is supposed to occur automatically ever since, through some supernatural agency. By the same token, there are those who believe that it is also a special reminder that the moment is of great significance and should never be forgotten. This superstitious belief has grown into a national tradition among all classes of society.

Source: Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/spoons/oldwives/silence.htm

That happens all the time in my class but I'll have to check the time everytime it happens

When it happens I'm usually the only one that says NEthing, usually something like "silence", meh

i guess everyone realizes, at the same time, that everyone is talking at the same time...

Hmmmm?
It may be we can only find things to say(sober) for periods of 20 minutes?After this our brains get bored of chit chat? Strange though???

Yeah, but it may happen at the exact same time for everyone...

...has anyone experimented with this phenomenon? I forgot when I was in math class, seemed like a good time to do it there... .

If it does happen, i'll try to see what time it did happen and maybe the phenomenon would rather revolve around that time...

It only happened once today at my school. It was at something:25

It has happened, I'm usually the one who says something like "quiet... too quiet" me no like silence, me only like silence if their aren't enough people in the room to talk

Ive read about this.There was this one time when a grandfather, who didn't live with his family,died.The family stopped talking in the middle of dinner.All of them.
At the same time.
Creepy

would this have anything to do with a band member or am i just a hippie girl???????

I'm a band member and to :40 Phenomenon never happens cause my teacher is always screwing around and the class screws around and then the teacher gets pissed(he started it) .

I think it should happen to all classes though, at least. The class first should have the free will to go chatter while the teacher does something on the board or is sitting on the desk. And while (s)he is doing that, your class chatters and in :40 after, it happens...

Does it normally happen in those situations? Well, happens to me...but I haven't tested the :40 phenomenon.