Am I A Medium? How Can I Communicate With Spirits Better?

I forgot this in my story but I also see double numbers on everything often. By this I mean that I look at a clock and it's 11:11 or 12:12. It usually happens right after I think of a specific number or think of a double number. But it's not just on clocks. I see it on license plates, random books or magezines, and many other things. Do you know what this is called? Am I a medium? How can I strenghthen my ability? Advice?

Thank you for the comments. Rach-81 thank you and I have begun to research. Helpingmydaughter05, thank you. That is some story. I recently talked to my parents and you were right. They were scared and were hoping that it was my imagination. Now that I told them again, they believe me and are working with me. Thanks for the advice. Any future advice from anyone is welcomed.

Hi Connor,
My daughter started actually telling me she was seeing things when she was about 14 but she had actually been seeing things since she was very little. I have to admit when she told me at 14 that she sees a little man that crawles behind her. At that time that was all she said. It scared me and I did not know what to do so I told her she had an overactive I'm imagination. We never talked about it again. She is 21 now and on Sat. We decided to take a digital voice recorder to an abandoned facility called Boyd's Sanatorium, it's in Radium Springs NM if you want to look it up. (http://www.sgha.net/nm/lascruces/boyds.html) Her brother has been watching some show about ghost hunting so he wanted to see if he could pick up anything. I won't go into too much detail but she wiggled her way into the care takers house and for 4 minute picked up a lot of talking. We were not aware of any of this when my son (19) asked me if I was going to listen to the recording. When Jackie was alone in the house many voices were recorded, when Kyle went back to check on her the activity still recorded, when Jackie left the house, it stopped. Needless to say this freaked us all out. I did ask Jackie before telling her what I heard on the recording all the questions I thought would explain what I heard. I thought her brother was with her and she was talking to him. There were some that were very clear like "Stop, be quite." and Quite Did you hear that?" That's why I thought she was talking to him in a whisper.
Any way this would take a long time to explain, long story short, we had dinner with my mom the next night and she told Jackie her mom (jackies grand mom) had the exact same things happen to her even the little man.
I feel so bad but fear is a strong emotion. Sometimes when parents are afraid of things their children do or say they laugh it off or ignore it. Take drug use as an example. They may not know how to deal so they would rather pretend its not there. I do think Jackie has some way to attract spirits (mind you I'm 44 years old and am probably over educated) but it is what it is.
I'm going to show this to Jackie today and have her write to you. Maybe she can help you deal w the parent side of this if that's ok.

Im really sorry to hear that your family have laughed your gift off, at least you have one person to talk to at the moment about it all:) I would seek out a spiritual church (these are medium based) or a psychic development teacher (find a psychic/ medium in your local area and they will know someone I'm sure) once working with someone who knows what they are doing you should then be able to try and work with the spirits you see rather than just see them.
Research, the following as this will help your development and your protection (!) ... 'opening up' and 'closing down' this includes your chakras (energy centres), your angels and guides (working with these is imperative and can only help you if you ASK them) and white light.
Hope this helps you on your journey:) x