11:11 (Blog)

[Jamie Lee]

First time in the forum ... this 11:11 post grabbed my attention.

I've always noticed 11:11, but never knew what it meant. I had a vague notion that it might have something to do with good luck, but wasn't even sure where I'd gotten that idea.

I am intrigued by the ideas put forth in the blog post - particularly those about synchronicity. I believe strongly that the universe has ways of communicating with us and guiding us if we can just be open enough to listen.

My parents and I are fond of saying that the universe will give you what you ask for. For instance, if you keep saying, "I'm so tired!" ... guess what? You'll be tired. If, on the other hand, you constantly say something like, "I'm so in my groove these days!" - well ... you get the idea.

I've recently been lamenting my lack of time to work on some personal Web projects. I absentmindedly kept pining away with comments like, "I just wish I had some time to work on these projects." After only a couple months repeating this mantra, I got my wish. My billable work dried up (temporarily) and I was left with plenty of time on my hands. Not exactly what I'd hoped for ... but I got what I'd asked for.

The thing about the universe, like 11:11, is that you don't always get to understand the logic (if there actually is any). The best you can do is put your best intentions out there and then be observant enough to catch the guideposts as they present themselves.

Good luck to each of you in your journey!

[bluedragon]

Originally Posted by symmetry

Steve, how would you test your theories about 11:11? Is there any way at all? Or are your claims completely shielded from being falsified because of your comments like this:

YES, they ARE! If you believe reality is objective, and IF (AND ONLY IF) reality was actually subjective, then your reality would actually be objective because it would conform with YOUR beliefs (a subjective reality conforms with someone's beliefs), and your beliefs would be that reality was objective.

Originally Posted by symmetry

"As long as you linger in the doorway, you can never see proof of what lies beyond it. If you were provided such proof, it would violate your freedom to choose your beliefs, and that’s a huge cosmic no-no."

You cited the right thing. But do you understand it?

Originally Posted by symmetry

If your claims can't be tested or falsified, then why should we believe you?

When did Steve EVER said that someone should believe him?

Originally Posted by nickynoodles

Personally, I'd flip that around and say that if you hold a belief system open to pseudoscience this will seem significant.

This 'phenomenon' can be explained by Benford's Law and Confirmation Bias

So:

- Statistically more 1's are present in sets of 'real life' numbers
- If you start looking for 1's you'll see more 1's

I didn't see a single statement in the article that explains why these two infinitely more likely explanations are invalid.

Exactly, everything is exactly as you say it is. Because IF reality is subjective, than reality is exactly as YOU believe it is, so if you believe these scientific explanation are the answer, then they ARE.
Even more, in a subjective reality, Benford's law exists ONLY in your awareness. If you weren't aware of it, it wouldn't exist. Therefore, it exists because you create it by acknowledging its existence.
You say you don't like objectionable theories. The theory that reality is objective, isn't it objectionable? Can you prove that the affirmation "reality conforms to people's beliefs" is false, when your belief is that it is false from the beginning? How can you prove that an affirmation is false, when your initial hypothesis is that it is false already? Cause if your hypothesis was that it was true, then everything you would do, everything you would try to prove, would turn out exactly as you believe it will turn out (because you started from the premise that reality conforms to your beliefs).

[Klamachpin]

I think that while 11:11 is one of the more insideous methods to the madness, per say, it certainly isn't the only way reality will try to get your attention.

For myself, a less insideous doorway was chosen, because I was willing to see it in my environment. It started with Douglas Adams and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I totally latched on to the whole 42 conspiracy thing, and started to see 42s everywhere, much like how Steve describes the initial 11:11 phenomenon.

This little access point has its own tricks to get someone through the experience. Not only was I unaware of Bedford's Law at the time (though I had been slowly working it out on my own) but I was completely willing to "spread" the implied conspiracy as it was described in the book. My friends at the time were either familiar with or were reading the book, and were willing to play along. It was fun for a while; friends then started to become interested in other games, perhaps ignoring the synchonisities, perhaps not, but I still clung to it as I was still seeing 42s everywhere.

At some point, I realized something was horribly off, because 42 is not a statistically probable number to show up as often as I saw it. As more synchonisities arose, I became a bit obsessed with finding out what was going on, and I had the blessing (?) of having friends whom were completely willing to tell me I was insane. I started to find explanations, like cognitive suggestion, but something in my gut urged me to keep exploring, as the explatations didn't "feel" right.

Fast forward few years, and I've seen multiple access points that have clicked with me. Improble events that happen with disturbing frequency, like running into two people seperately that aren't related but due to their appearance and mannerisms could be twins, or finding that a number of my childhood homes, hangouts, and schools lay on a straight line drawn on a county map. It really wasn't until I was hit with a cosmic 2x4 and became aware that I became willing to see reality through a non-empiric evidence lens. Perhaps I was peering through a doorway and someone slammed the door in my face, causing me to stumble forward . Of course, I had unknowingly surrounded myself with folks whom were already aware, so that may have been what was considered necessary but gentle.

I guess my point in all of this is to say that 11:11 is certainly one way to gain access to seeing reality for what it is, rather than what you believe it to be. However, it's not the only doorway. If 11:11 doesn't work for you, it may be another way that the universe tries to get your attention. And if you're particularly stubborn, you might get "nudged" (shoved, slammed, what have you) in the right direction .

[azzyboo]

Originally Posted by Klamachpin

I think that while 11:11 is one of the more insideous methods to the madness, per say, it certainly isn't the only way reality will try to get your attention.

For myself, a less insideous doorway was chosen, because I was willing to see it in my environment. It started with Douglas Adams and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I totally latched on to the whole 42 conspiracy thing, and started to see 42s everywhere, much like how Steve describes the initial 11:11 phenomenon.

This little access point has its own tricks to get someone through the experience. Not only was I unaware of Bedford's Law at the time (though I had been slowly working it out on my own) but I was completely willing to "spread" the implied conspiracy as it was described in the book. My friends at the time were either familiar with or were reading the book, and were willing to play along. It was fun for a while; friends then started to become interested in other games, perhaps ignoring the synchonisities, perhaps not, but I still clung to it as I was still seeing 42s everywhere.

At some point, I realized something was horribly off, because 42 is not a statistically probable number to show up as often as I saw it. As more synchonisities arose, I became a bit obsessed with finding out what was going on, and I had the blessing (?) of having friends whom were completely willing to tell me I was insane. I started to find explanations, like cognitive suggestion, but something in my gut urged me to keep exploring, as the explatations didn't "feel" right.

Fast forward few years, and I've seen multiple access points that have clicked with me. Improble events that happen with disturbing frequency, like running into two people seperately that aren't related but due to their appearance and mannerisms could be twins, or finding that a number of my childhood homes, hangouts, and schools lay on a straight line drawn on a county map. It really wasn't until I was hit with a cosmic 2x4 and became aware that I became willing to see reality through a non-empiric evidence lens. Perhaps I was peering through a doorway and someone slammed the door in my face, causing me to stumble forward . Of course, I had unknowingly surrounded myself with folks whom were already aware, so that may have been what was considered necessary but gentle.

I guess my point in all of this is to say that 11:11 is certainly one way to gain access to seeing reality for what it is, rather than what you believe it to be. However, it's not the only doorway. If 11:11 doesn't work for you, it may be another way that the universe tries to get your attention. And if you're particularly stubborn, you might get "nudged" (shoved, slammed, what have you) in the right direction .

Ok, this is just getting weird now, only last night I was discussing something with someone and someone happened to say something along the lines of Oh like all the mice and the answer being 42 now not wanting to appear stupid I just kept quiet as tbh I was not quite sure what it meant, so anyway so early hours of this morning I jumped on line to try an find out what mice and the answer 42 was all about, found out obviously to those of you who know that its referenced to Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, so now I know.

So how weird is it that I am an avid seeer of 11.11, with a daughter born on 11.11, join this debate today only to have you reference 42 and HitchHikers in this post athough I had never heard of it until yesterday, come on someone what is the Universe trying to tell me.

[azzyboo]

See there I go again above post is No 65 6+5 = 11

[Angela]

I'm a 22 girl, and I have a host* of 22 friends (not 22 of them).

*get it?

[staceyterry]

Steve mentioned that the indicators do not necessarily have to come from numbers.

I have this thing about street lights. Sometimes it's on a daily basis... sometimes weekly, but I notice quite often at night that a street light will go out when I pass underneath. The frequency is such that it's become quite significant to me. I'd developed a somewhat unusual interpretation of its significance... sort of like my spirit guides saying hello. I'm wondering now if it might be the same sort of thing?

I'll definitely try to take note of my thoughts the next time it happens!

[Developer]

At first, when I read the article, I was thinking, "Benford's law, whatever". I decided to write some computer simulations to test my ideas. I was mostly interested in the process where you recursively add numbers, modulus 11. What I found was very interesting; it turns out that 11 is equally or less likely to come up than other numbers, depending on the length of the number string. This holds both for uniformly distributed numbers, and for Benford-distributed numbers.

To sum up, I'm not sure that Benford's law is relevant here.

Very interesting article, thanks Steve.

[Uzma]

Hey

Would be nice if someone could explain what other such synchronicities mean. I see 23:23 or 18:18 and lots of numbers in such sequence. However they always appear as time, i.e on a clock , on my phone clock etc. What would that mean?

[Savage]

Originally Posted by nickynoodles

I didn't see a single statement in the article that explains why these two infinitely more likely explanations are invalid.

Your explanations are perfectly valid. And choosing the blue pill, as you mentioned, is a valid choice as well.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by brixxyx

seriously steve, is this some joke?
and why would you post your phone number?
can we all call you at 11:11 just for shits and giggles?

My phone number has been listed on the contact page of my website for maybe 10 years (4+ years on this site, several years on my games site before that).

[staceyterry]

So... curiosity drove me to do a little searching. I looked back through Steve's forum pages, back 23 pages to be exact, until I found a page with 1111 views. I knew there would be one. And there was.

Not surprisingly, at least for me, there were 13 replies for this thread, which has always been an ironically lucky number for me.

Anyway... the title of the thread was "Steve must be tired, he's been running through my mind all day". There are a few ideas within this thread that I think I'll ponder for awhile.

Interesting!

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Klamachpin

I guess my point in all of this is to say that 11:11 is certainly one way to gain access to seeing reality for what it is, rather than what you believe it to be. However, it's not the only doorway. If 11:11 doesn't work for you, it may be another way that the universe tries to get your attention. And if you're particularly stubborn, you might get "nudged" (shoved, slammed, what have you) in the right direction .

Absolutely. There are many doorways. 11:11 is only one of them.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by staceyterry

Steve mentioned that the indicators do not necessarily have to come from numbers.

I have this thing about street lights. Sometimes it's on a daily basis... sometimes weekly, but I notice quite often at night that a street light will go out when I pass underneath. The frequency is such that it's become quite significant to me. I'd developed a somewhat unusual interpretation of its significance... sort of like my spirit guides saying hello. I'm wondering now if it might be the same sort of thing?

I'll definitely try to take note of my thoughts the next time it happens!

I get this one a lot too. I'll just be walking down the street having a thought, and the nearest street light will pop, and the bulb goes out.

Erin is really good at getting messages from car license plates. She'll have an idea and then she'll see a custom license plate on a car with the exact confirmation she needs.

Overall our lives are swimming in synchronicities these days. It takes a while to get used to them happening with such high frequency. Sometimes I have to ask them to slow down because I can't follow all the synchronous leads fast enough.

With practice you can tune in and get more detailed messages instead of relying only on synchronicities.

Erin is doing psychic readings today because of a message I channeled for her one day: "Go to the haunted house." We thought it was some kind of symbolic message, but a few days later she got a call to be a guest on the Criss Angel show. They wanted her to go to a haunted house and see what she could pick up, along with a team of paranormal investigators. The fact they found Erin at all was very odd because Erin hadn't publicly outed herself as a psychic medium. Erin did the show, and shortly after that she started doing readings professionally, which has worked out incredibly well for her and her clients.

[Monique7nuns]

Try coming in to this life on
11/11/70 at 7:31

the math:
11/11/70 - 1+1+1+1+7=11
7:31 - 7+3+1=11
I don't know what else there is.. I haven't noticed it or been looking for it.

I've heard a little about how 11:11 manifests intentions (but is hasn't for me) and I recognize it a lot as the time rolls around, but I didn't know as much as this post informs. It's very interesting and eye opening to say the least..

Now can I adapt a tag line like this?

"If you're having trouble dealing with me it's because I'm a 11/11."

[Hagerup]

I'm a believer of subjective reality but this 11:11 reminds me of christians pointing out that you can encode a lot of 'evil' words (like 'Witchcraft', 'Hitler', 'Eroticism') into 666 if you use the right coding key. People can convince themselves of anything when they want to believe it.

My own 'awakening' to subjective reality happened enitrely without numerological references (even if my birthday adds up to 11 in two ways I really don't care about it - would that mean that people born then are predestined to see the truth?) and since then such things never occured to me either.

Isn't the world as objective people perceive it crazy enough to make us wonder? For example, scientifically its impossible to believe that human free will can exist within a purely physical system such as our brains. Some people may like that idea but in a lot of people it should start some doubts about the reliability of empirical science (and so doubt objective reality). What gave me the knockout was how different religious belief systems I've adhered to would each create their own, very genuine world around me..

[jayh]

For the past month or so, I have seen the number 11 so many times. I've seen so many different combinations (11:11, 7:11, 1:11, etc...) I knew it meant something, but I didn't quite know what until now. I think I've already taken the blue pill, since I've been manifesting the most unusual things, and am really starting to believe in a subjective reality. I'm also at a turning point in my life right now - I'm about to quit my job and start my own business.

I've been putting a lot of thought into what the right thing is for me to do, and I've been seeing a lot of 11:12 and 11:10 - Now I know what that can mean to me...

To all the skeptics, this post is brilliant, and I believe Steve is speaking the truth! Oh, and it's 11:11 right now!

[Plato]

What I don't get is why we would shut out reality? Is it because we couldn't handle it, or what?

[Speedbump]

I have been seeing 11:11 more and more as I have woken up over the last couple of years. In fact, just now, I saw a typo in my blog at another forum and as I got the edit window up this appeared over the text block:

Message originally posted by Speedbump on February 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 PM:



At first I didn't know what it meant either and I had to look it up. I was shocked when I found out thousands of people have been seeing 11:11 consistently for quite some time. Except for clocks and the computer, 11 really has not appeared in my life in the form of phone numbers, ZIP codes, etc. The number that does appear most often that way is 5, which is also my lifepath number in numerology.

11:11 has certainly helped me break out of my old thinking. I really like the virus metaphor; it perfectly describes how 11:11 has behaved in my own little version of reality.

[cnwoods]

OK, I'm going to get blasted for this one, but I read somewhere (a couple of decades ago) that 11:11 was used by entities from the Pleiades as a means of establishing a connection for communicating to us. I'm not sure if I believe it, personally, but nobody else raised this yet, so I thought I'd throw it in and watch how it stirred the pot.

PS I'm a frequent 11:11'er too, and my recurring number is 53. Also my recurring tarot card is the Goddess, and my birthday is 3/1/70 (I'm in Australia - that's January 3rd).

PPS Steve, you mention that asking for a flying human as confirmation is unlikely to happen - then several people in here mention the Matrix movie, so there's at least one way you could get that confirmation.

There are No limits.

Oh, and for the Douglas Adams fans, I love his work too. I got to a signing once, in a mad rush because my room-mate at college (an even madder fan than I am, who introduced me to his Dirk Gently series) had given up on an all-nighter exam study session & gone to sleep, so despite the 'one autograph only' sign and ten million people behind me I blurted out the story and asked for one for her too.
She got hers, and my autograph book then got signed with 'Don't Panic' in capitals through the middle of it. I still smile when I think of it.
I recently realised that his last book would have been 'Last Chance to See' - sad, really.

For a really mind-bending numerical exercise, I'll turn 42 (the age at which I'll apparently know the answers to life, the universe, and everything) in 2012 - the year the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it.
Personally I suspect that's just when humanity is going to go through a paradigm shift and finally reach the 99th monkey about taking responsibility for creating our world, but then, that could just be me...

Anyone else noticed that after decades of disaster movies, there seems to be more natural disasters happening???

[Jumanji]

I am very skeptical of this sort of hocus pocus stuff as a rule. By a remarkable co-incidence though, I was totalling money I've made from selling unwanted stuff on eBay I set myself a target over a certain period of time to keep me interested. It came to £1111.71. I was just thinking wow look at that, and I hadn't even seen this thread till later in the day. Still not convinced though

[Erin Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Plato

What I don't get is why we would shut out reality? Is it because we couldn't handle it, or what?

to me it's like being a character in a play. We agree to play a certain role much like an actor plays his role in a stage play. What would happen if you were watching a play and the actors broke character and addressed the audience, "Hey mates, you're really going to love this next scene. Pay close attention," and then went back to their characters. it could be oddly disconcerting for everyone involved. ARe you the actor or a member of the audience though?

[cbthiess]

When you see a number, you might want to consider how many times you'd expect to see an 11, according to statistics, if they appeared randomly.

Times, from 1:00 to 12:59 will contain an 11 once every 9 times, will sum to 11 once every 11.1 times, and will do at least one of those two things once every 5.3 times. Of course, you can greatly increase your odds of seeing these 11's with just a little training.

5 digit numbers (like Zip codes) will contain an 11 once every 26.4 times, will sum to 11 once every 18.0 times, and will do at least one of those two things once every 10.9 times.

7-digit numbers (e.g. telephone numbers) will contain an 11 once every 18.0 times, will sum to 11 once every 10.5 times, and will do at least one of those two things once every 6.8 times.

10-digit numbers (e.g. telephone numbers) will contain an 11 once every 12.3 times, will sum to 11 once every 9.1 times, and will do at least one of those two things once every 5.5 times.

When it comes to money, forensic accounting has shown that smaller amounts occur more often than larger amounts. So with amounts between $10 and $20, for example, you'd see more $10 and $11 amounts than $19 and $20 amounts. So you should expect to see more 11's in money than you might otherwise expect.

Note: not every 5 digit number is a valid zip code, and not every 7/10 digit number is a valid telephone number. This probably effects the statistics in some way.

[jdmrv2420]

S-19
T-20
E-5
V-22
E-5
P-16
A-1
V-22
L-12
I-9
N-14
A-1

Total = 146

1+4+6 = 11

[dwixi]

Steve is cool
I love u Steve
Smarty pants
Good article
Xxxxxxxxxxx

[jdmrv2420]

A=1, B=2......Z=26:

S-19
T-20
E-5
V-22
E-5

P-16
A-1
V-22
L-12
I-9
N-14
A-1

TOTAL = 146

1+4+6=11

[magi13]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

11:11

^^, it's just a number. Do not over analyze it. ^,^

besides if you are to add 11 it'll still end up as 1plus 1 = 2

[jdmrv2420]

Steve,

I run the website 5QuickQuestions...we ask cool people the same 5 questions. So far we've featured some of todays's best authors, bloggers, musicians and artists. If you'd like to participate, just answer these questions:

1) What was your favorite day, ever?
2) What is your favorite season?
3) Have you read War and Peace yet? If not, what is your favorite book?
4) What is one piece of advice that you want to share with the world?
5) What mood are you in RIGHT NOW.

THANKS

[DMF]

Originally Posted by KJR

Steve I've followed your blog for years now but never really used the forums. This article practically forced me to register just so I could respond.

Hi, this is precisely my case. I've been experiencing this for years now. I'm a programmer so I see a lot of numbers, calculations, time etc.

I've told coleagues and friends about it, sometimes repeatedly showed them when I saw it again. But they "can't hear the music" and even I thought at many points that I was going crazy.
Periodically it dims, but after a while it comes back stronger so there's no way to ignore it.

It's been in my life for a couple of years now, I've noted them, written a program that marked symetric time or sequential numbers that can occur. As you wrote, I tried to explain it in an objective manner.

"For example, if you were considering an idea, that would be a good and productive idea to act on." -> I've been doing this and I've been giving thanks when I see them.

I didn't expect to read this article, and it has made clear to me, that I have to step beyond the opened door.
many thanks

[Savage]

Originally Posted by jdmrv2420

1) What was your favorite day, ever?
2) What is your favorite season?
3) Have you read War and Peace yet? If not, what is your favorite book?
4) What is one piece of advice that you want to share with the world?
5) What mood are you in RIGHT NOW.

You'd have a better shot if you'd ask me 5 really fascinating questions. These are too tame for my tastes... and a bit overdone as well.

I like to answer questions where the answers are likely to benefit people, not just amuse or entertain them.

Here's my question for you: What are the BEST 5 questions you can possibly ask?

In any event... today, fall, no & The Prophet, live consciously, and excited.