For what it's worth I watch the "Long Island Medium" TV show. For those who don't know she can communicate with dead people. While reading a number of people she has said that when they see 11:11 (or similar) on their clocks, it's because a close person (dead of course) has it put into their mind to look at the clock at that time as a way of saying "I'm still here with you".
Don't know about you, but if I get an inkling about something, I feel it might be a spirit putting a thought into my head and I usually go with it.
I believe we can be influenced by loved ones who have passed away.