11:11 Blog

[private101]

Hi Steve I've been following your site for a while and always find something interesting to read

Just wanting to comment on your 11:11 post.

I think it is important to also mention that some people think the phenomenon of 11:11 is simply "confirmation bias". This is where you see things because you're looking for them. "11:11" is easy to see and remember. Once you start looking you see it everywhere and it becomes self reinforcing.

But you don't see it everywhere because there is something special about it. You see it everywhere because you ignore or discard anything that doesn't fit. For example, say you had an important meeting, and your partner was exactly 8 minutes late. Would that be important? What if they were exactly 11 minutes late? Suddenly that is important. Why not the 8 minutes late also? This is the problem with not having a criteria of what can be included and counted as "important and relevant to the 11:11 phenomenon".

However it would be just as easy to see / find the number "12" everywhere. You just have to look for it. (or 18, or 23232 or any other series of numbers).

If you start to follow this pattern, I think you'll see what I mean. How about you do a test and start to look for "12" everywhere. I'm sure you'll start to find it. eg "Steve Pavlina" is 12 letters long . Try it for a few weeks see what happens.

Hope this adds some insights for you. You can read more about it here:
law of truly large numbers - coincidence - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com

Regards,
Mark

[magic1]

there's a lot more too it than you have written, if you do not experience it, you will never grasp it and continue to explain it out of your very limited belief system...that's fine, I'm not trying to convince, it dosnt not matter to me...its pointless...but for the record, what you have written could not be further from the truth...

[private101]

Originally Posted by magic1

there's a lot more too it than you have written, if you do not experience it, you will never grasp it and continue to explain it out of your very limited belief system...that's fine, I'm not trying to convince, it dosnt not matter to me...its pointless...but for the record, what you have written could not be further from the truth...

All I'm saying is that there is a possible explanation for it, without reverting to meta-physical explanations.

It's just a different way of looking at it.

Are you saying you are closed to the possibility of there being a non-metaphysical explanation? To me that sounds closed-minded.

I am open to the possibility of there being a meta physical reason behind your phenomenon. But as this website's motto is "Self Development for Smart People" then I have to explore all possibilities. Maybe it is just confirmation bias and there is nothing special?

M

[private101]

Anybody care to disagree that 11:11 is just confirmation bias?

Or are we just happy to keep looking for the 11's and not the 12's?

M

[magic1]

I have had it for years and I know you will never understand what has happened to me with it, as your belief system has already made up its mind....and golden rule, you will not see would you do not believe...and its gone past a number..its syncs, magic, insane crazy reality that surpasses me even doubting, IT FACT

anyway, I don't do the whole spiritual debate thing, this is not something that I even enjoy debating anymore......I'm simply saying expand your mind maybe, and you may be able to receive some of it...

[private101]

Originally Posted by magic1

I have had it for years and I know you will never understand what has happened to me with it, as your belief system has already made up its mind....and golden rule, you will not see would you do not believe...and its gone past a number..its syncs, magic, insane crazy reality that surpasses me even doubting, IT FACT

anyway, I don't do the whole spiritual debate thing, this is not something that I even enjoy debating anymore......I'm simply saying expand your mind maybe, and you may be able to receive some of it...

If you think the world of 11's is magical, Look closely around you. You will find 12's everywhere. And that is mind blowing.

Once you start looking for the 12's you will see what I mean.

For example at the instant I write this post, it is 10:47 = 12. Amazing.

M

[magic1]

that's what I am talking about...you mind cannot accept what I am even speaking of...I'm not just talking about 11s, Im talking about pure magic...that surpasses just seeing an 11...there is sooooooo much more than you can comprehend, and I know even writing this you still will not know...how can you know what you have not experienced..this stuff is outside your consciousness as it stands in this moment

[Remiel]

I have to agree with Magic1 though I don't peg it as "Magic" per say .

What I've found are oddities that are beyond a mere number. I'll have thoughts and come to certain conclusions and immediately following that notice an 11 somewhere. Is there a confirmation bias? Sure, at the same time randomly noticing 5:11, 6:11, 9:11 1:11 and beyond is more than just a mere confirmation bias to me.

Like Magic1 though I am not going to debate this. I have my own personal experiences and am happy with what I believe. I am more than willing to change my beliefs which is how I came to experience this in the first place. If my mind is making good thoughts end on an 11 then so be it. I know it is a good thought .

What's your biggest problem with viewing it as more than a mere number?

[chrisrushton]

the times i've noticed that it's been 7 minutes past midnight (007) or 14 minutes past 3 (first 3 digits of pi) are quite amazing. However, given the ammount of times i check the time it'd be pure madness to think I wouldn't occasionally see this time every now and then. Doesn't mean I should be james bond or a mathematician (or physicist )

[RubberDuck]

I've been seeing 11:11 and 1:11 quite a bit for some time, coincidence or not

A funny thing though, last night last time I looked at the clock it was 2:22, next time I looked it was 5:55 first package on the postal weight this morning was 666 gram....

RD

[RubberDuck]

Woke up briefly this this morning, looked at the clock it was 5:55... Strange..

RD

[magic1]

Originally Posted by Remiel

I have to agree with Magic1 though I don't peg it as "Magic" per say .

What I've found are oddities that are beyond a mere number. I'll have thoughts and come to certain conclusions and immediately following that notice an 11 somewhere. Is there a confirmation bias? Sure, at the same time randomly noticing 5:11, 6:11, 9:11 1:11 and beyond is more than just a mere confirmation bias to me.

Like Magic1 though I am not going to debate this. I have my own personal experiences and am happy with what I believe. I am more than willing to change my beliefs which is how I came to experience this in the first place. If my mind is making good thoughts end on an 11 then so be it. I know it is a good thought .

What's your biggest problem with viewing it as more than a mere number?

fair enough...but in all seriousness, it becomes magic if you let it...or choose it more to the point...

[Virny]

Just wanted to say that every single article I have chosen to read from your page, resonates with me and my circumsatnces, I visit your page almost every day for guidance and spiritual support.. It has been so helpful, but more than that It has been and inspiration to become a better person.

[magic1]

what page is that??

[Ender22]

Hi Magic1

I have had it for years and I know you will never understand what has happened to me with it, as your belief system has already made up its mind....and golden rule, you will not see would you do not believe...and its gone past a number..its syncs, magic, insane crazy reality that surpasses me even doubting

Magic, is there anything you can suggest to help me start to experience these sort of things? I'm very open minded and I find this so interesting, I want to experience more!

*EDIT*

Or anyone else!

[Savage]

Confirmation bias is the whole point.

You just added more 11s to my life. The part you still have yet to grasp is why you so obediently confirmed it for me... and no doubt will continue to do so.

[nikki]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Confirmation bias is the whole point.

You just added more 11s to my life. The part you still have yet to grasp is why you so obediently confirmed it for me... and no doubt will continue to do so.

lol

[YourHumbleNarrator]

Originally Posted by Ender22

I want to experience more!

If you know what I mean.

I'm... sorry. I couldn't resist.

Please return to the topic at hand, everyone.

[magic1]

Originally Posted by Ender22

Hi Magic1



Magic, is there anything you can suggest to help me start to experience these sort of things? I'm very open minded and I find this so interesting, I want to experience more!

*EDIT*

Or anyone else!

well opened mindedness is critical! its the first step....so ask for it from that place......ask deeply for it, with belief of receiving if you can muster some of that......and do not give up if it does not happen in the time you were expecting it....you may have a lot of limitation to get through...

this stuff is not hidden from us, its just that, we have hidden it from ourselves....

[cedric smeets]

Originally Posted by private101

All I'm saying is that there is a possible explanation for it, without reverting to meta-physical explanations.

It's just a different way of looking at it.

Are you saying you are closed to the possibility of there being a non-metaphysical explanation? To me that sounds closed-minded.

I am open to the possibility of there being a meta physical reason behind your phenomenon. But as this website's motto is "Self Development for Smart People" then I have to explore all possibilities. Maybe it is just confirmation bias and there is nothing special?

M

My personal experience with the 11:11 sightings is that ever sinds it started about 10 years ago, i never looked them up. The seeing of 11:11 was always kind of out of my control. It was like something made me look up at the clock without anny aparent reason at that moment. What i mean is that it was not my intention to know how late it was at that point. There was however a inner feeling that kind of urged me to think or be aware of what i was doing or thinking while seeing the 11:11 on the clock. Trust me that i did go into the matter,and also cheked up on the way the mind can repeat things like seeing the same cars or other things once you put the mind into it.This was more out of my hands,and always leaves me with a push or answer in the right direction.

[Nayon]

I would confirm what Cedric wrote. Those are not numbers we are looking for, they come to us, and in various forms. I've been experiencing this for over 20 years, and with our awareness of it, it diversifies. How would I explain waking up 3 nights in a row at 3:33, and a month later 3 nights in a row at 2:22? Most intelligent people would see a phenomenon out of the ordinary here. Yesterday, I went to the grocery store for a couple of items and the bill came to $11,33, and at night, I emerged from meditation at 11:33. Would'nt most people find that odd?

I get the same thing sometimes with license plates. I don't look at them, they grab my attention. One day on a 90 minutes drive, I've looked at 4 plates; 777,444,333 and 777 again. What are the mathematical odds of that? In my opinion, this has to do with subjective reality and those numbers and our reaction to them are programmed in this matrix most people call objective reality. You can look one of Steve's article on it:
Subjective Reality Simplified

Why are some people drawn into that and others not? Maybe those who don't are simulated characters and the ones who do are real living beings? Would a simulation know it is one? If you have seen ''The thirteenth floor'', you know the question has been rased before.

[Sentient]

I think you're giving the OP a hard time. If you want to help him, give him an exercise or a resource and then allow him his first hand experience. Don't just tell him he's closed minded. Most of the time when I see people do that they're trying to feel better about themselves, or they're trying to get the other guy to feel worse. Every single one of us has chosen methods for feeling significant, and there are way better vehicles for that. Just help him out if you can think of a way. I wouldn't know how, so I won't!

For the record, I have woken up at 3:33:33 (to the second) out of nowhere in the middle of the night on several occasions. If I shoot a friend an encouragng text with some advice, a new perspective I often find I do so at 11:11 or 1:11. I chuckle every time I see it and I think it's interesting, but I'm not going to draw conclusions.

I mean, look at photoreading. You skim a book and suddenly you know the answers because your eyes are taking in way more subconsciously than you can process consciously. And what does he say in the course? You have to have a focused question before you do it. You have to have a reason for finding the answer and why it matters to you otherwise you can skim all you want and you'll get nothing. Could be similar to the process of finding numbers.

You probably see 100 license plates on a drive and then because you know that repeating numbers are significant you're "drawn" to consciously fixate on the special ones. In addition to waking up at 3:33:33 I also wake up at 7:00 on the dot every day regardless of whether my alarm is set or not.

Finally, maybe 11:11 is a very real and complete phenomena. I would still expect that under those circumstances a % of people running into it would be legitimate and a healthy % would be due to confirmation bias. haha, which one am I?

Maybe there's something to it, maybe there isn't. There are also plenty of other ways to discover pretty confusing phenomena in the world too. Take Erin's readings which people seem to think are pretty good. You're not just limited to numbers. Of course, you won't be able to prove any of those either. If you could (in a way that would overcome the majority of skeptics), someone would've done it by now.

[MYogurt]

What about the usage of other numbers? I have been inundated recently with the time and number 9:11. Granted, 9+1+1=11, but I'm wondering if this phenom can happen with any grouping of numbers? Up until reading this forum, I thought I was going crazy. I kept constantly seeing this number combination occurring, but could not explain it. I also know about the power of suggestion, but I had not intentionally started looking for it because it was creeping me out! I kept trying to avoid it but still kept seeing it. This just started happening in the past 3 to 4 months. I tried to make sure it wasn't a post 9/11 reaction, but it has not been happening that long. If I read this post correctly, I should be paying close attention to what I'm thinking or pondering about when this occurs, correct? I'm probably making some kind of possible life changing decision and this is my cue to follow my current thought, right?

BTW, I would DEFINATELY have taken the RED pill!!!

[jpletting]

I used to think like you, OP, so I chose a different number. You're right: it's really easy to see 11s everywhere.

3:39 is the time I was born. It's really easy to see 3s everywhere, too. But not really 339. Maybe when you're walking through the grocery store and something is $3.39 (which has happened to me). Or maybe you're helping a third-grader do multiplication and you've got 3x3=9. But for the most part, this isn't a number that's going to jump out at you the way 11:11 would with all those 1s.

Now, 339 has no other meaning for me other than simply being the time I was born, but the number itself is kind of interesting on its own: 3X113, and 113 has some sweet properties (look at all those 3s and 1s!). I said what the hell and asked my guides, if they existed, to use this number to get my attention. I wasn't expecting anything, but wouldn't you know it, they started showing up EVERYWHERE. On the clock all the time, and no, I wasn't looking for it. (I avoided the clock if I happened to look at it at all during the 3 o'clock hour and it wasn't exactly 3:39, to be sure that wasn't the case.) But the 339s found me anyway. They found me! And ALL the time! The neatest one was while reading a blog about funny holidays in the middle of this 339 madness, the article mentioned that this year contained Square Root Day, 3/3/09. I turned to my roommate to mention this to him and then glanced at the clock: it was 11:11.

Needless to say, I think my guides were noogie-ing me like Biff: HELLO MCFLY! ANYBODY HOME? So I said hey hey, okay, I believe you already, stop it, you're freaking me out. And they laughed and cooled it. Was all of this real? Was it truly my guides? I have no idea. But I believe anyway, because what harm does it do? I just had some big changes happen in my life and after a lapse, the 339s are turning up again. I choose to believe it's someone's way of letting me know I'm doing something right, even if I'm not sure what that is yet. It was kind of lonely without them for a while! Like your best friend going on summer vacation overseas and she's having such a good time she forgets to write, and when she does the letters are really short.

Incidentally MYogurt, 9-11 is my birthday, so I think that one counts for both of us.

[Update 3:09am] My car was broken into tonight. I felt it happen and woke up and went outside. Ended up finding my wallet (that had little of value in it besides my ID), which I'd accidentally left in the glove compartment, down the street, across from address 9339.

[jonbeebe]

I haven't thought too much or researched it a whole lot, but when I first started reading Steve's website and getting into it, I noticed the small 11:11 at the bottom.

My birthday is on 11/11 so I thought ... hey maybe I'm supposed to be here?

And what's even more interesting is the fact that the article that brought me to Steve's website was "How to Make Money With Your Blog" and was a huge source of motivation and inspiration for me--I've since quit my job to work "full time" online (thanks a lot Steve!)

Back to 11:11, I do find it to be very interesting though. Without sharing it with eachother, my wife and I were both noticing the numbers 11 and the time 11:11 all over the place when we first got together... we shared that detail later on though.

All in all the 11:11 sequence is very interesting, and I do like Steve's "interpretation" of the whole thing, it makes a lot of sense.

[SmartAlx]

Y'all, there's really nothing that mystical here, especially with regards to the clock. If someone puts the thought into your head that you are going to see 11:11 a lot, you are going to see it. Not because you are a lightworker, but because your subconscious mind is an excellent timekeeper and it knows when it's 11:11. Nothing mystical about it.

Originally Posted by cedric smeets

My personal experience with the 11:11 sightings is that ever sinds it started about 10 years ago, i never looked them up. The seeing of 11:11 was always kind of out of my control. It was like something made me look up at the clock without anny aparent reason at that moment.

Just about every single time I decide to look at the clock it comes at the spur of the moment, even when the time is 4:17. I'm sure the same is true for you. Next time you look at the clock and it's not 11:11, ask yourself, "what made me look at the clock?" Whatever caused you to look at the clock at 4:17 is the same thing that caused you to look at the clock at 11:11. Maybe something does make you look up at the clock at 11:11, but that thing is nothing more strange than your subconscious mind.

Originally Posted by Nayon

I would confirm what Cedric wrote. Those are not numbers we are looking for,

Not your conscious mind, but your subconscoius mind is looking for them.

they come to us, and in various forms. I've been experiencing this for over 20 years, and with our awareness of it, it diversifies. How would I explain waking up 3 nights in a row at 3:33, and a month later 3 nights in a row at 2:22? Most intelligent people would see a phenomenon out of the ordinary here.

Not really. It's actually quite simple to think about your subconscious mind (which is EXCELLENT at keeping time) reminding your conscious mind that it's 11:11, especially if the conscious mind told the subconscious mind that 11:11 is significant. This is why I asked you guys in the other 11 post to start looking for sequential numbers: 1:23, 12:34, 3:45, etc. and why I support the OP's request to try to find 12s. If you ask yourself to find 1:23 on the clock, you are going to start to see it. Not because of some mysical force, but because your subconscious mind is alerted to it.

Yesterday, I went to the grocery store for a couple of items and the bill came to $11,33, and at night, I emerged from meditation at 11:33. Would'nt most people find that odd?

I get the same thing sometimes with license plates. I don't look at them, they grab my attention. One day on a 90 minutes drive, I've looked at 4 plates; 777,444,333 and 777 again. What are the mathematical odds of that?

Pretty darned good actually. Your subconscious mind at work again. It sees things much quicker than your conscious mind does. You scan traffic constantly and whenever a 777 or a 333 comes up your subconscious mind simply taps your conscious mind on the shoulder and says, "hey! Check that out. Isn't that cool?" Your subconscious mind is easily impressed it seems.

Why are some people drawn into that and others not? Maybe those who don't are simulated characters and the ones who do are real living beings? Would a simulation know it is one? If you have seen ''The thirteenth floor'', you know the question has been rased before.

Some people are drawn to it because it's interesting to them. Other people aren't drawn to it because it's not interesting to them.

Originally Posted by Sentient

I think you're giving the OP a hard time.

I agree.

For the record, I have woken up at 3:33:33 (to the second) out of nowhere in the middle of the night on several occasions. If I shoot a friend an encouragng text with some advice, a new perspective I often find I do so at 11:11 or 1:11. I chuckle every time I see it and I think it's interesting, but I'm not going to draw conclusions.

I mean, look at photoreading. You skim a book and suddenly you know the answers because your eyes are taking in way more subconsciously than you can process consciously. And what does he say in the course? You have to have a focused question before you do it. You have to have a reason for finding the answer and why it matters to you otherwise you can skim all you want and you'll get nothing. Could be similar to the process of finding numbers.

Absolutely.

You probably see 100 license plates on a drive and then because you know that repeating numbers are significant you're "drawn" to consciously fixate on the special ones. In addition to waking up at 3:33:33 I also wake up at 7:00 on the dot every day regardless of whether my alarm is set or not.

When I was in college I didn't use an alarm clock, even when it was important that I wake up at a set time, like before exams. I looked at the time before I went to sleep and said that I was going to wake up at a certain time, and that's when I would wake up, generally right on the dot. Some people have this ability. Other people don't. Nothing that amazing if you ask me.

About other occurrences of repeating numbers... it's just as the OP said: confirmation bias.

[TimothyTang]

The 11:11 phenomenon is due to the quantum coherence effect. Parallel energy wave harmonics of the 11:11 2D parallel digits can easily be amplified by resident electromagnetic fields to interfere with individuals whose brainwave harmonics are in synchronized phase, adding together to create larger waves(constructive interference) that eventually leads to the triggering of consciousness to the source interference.

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[TimothyTang]

The 11:11 phenomenon is due to the quantum coherence effect. Parallel energy wave harmonics of the 11:11 2D parallel digits can easily be amplified by resident electromagnetic fields to interfere with individuals whose brainwave harmonics are in synchronized phase, adding together to create larger waves(constructive interference) that eventually leads to the triggering of consciousness to the source interference.

[DerekH]

I haven't seen 11:11 in a few days.

Thanks

[SmartAlx]

Originally Posted by TimothyTang

The 11:11 phenomenon is due to the quantum coherence effect. Parallel energy wave harmonics of the 11:11 2D parallel digits can easily be amplified by resident electromagnetic fields to interfere with individuals whose brainwave harmonics are in synchronized phase, adding together to create larger waves(constructive interference) that eventually leads to the triggering of consciousness to the source interference.

So in other words, when a clock strikes 11:11, people who are thinking about 11:11 will look at the clock.

And how do you explain people who see 2:22 and 3:33 and 4:44? Those digits aren't parallel.