Originally posted by firefly
Does anyone think that the 11:11 has anything to do with my lucid dreams? I started experiencing 11:11 around the same time I started lucid dreaming on almost a daily basis.
How do you "experience" a number or a measurement?

Consider the statement, "I am experiencing 55º Fahrenheit." Does that mean I am outside where the air temperature is 55º, or that I'm in a room where the air temperature is 55º? Could it mean that I am in a 70º room with my hand dipped in 55º water? Perhaps I am outside in 90º weather but in a 55º pool? Or maybe I am simply anywhere, looking at a piece of paper that says "55º Fahrenheit" on it. Or even that I am in a math class and I solved a geometical equation for 55º, and then went to science class where we measured our experiments using the Fahrenheit scale instead of Kelvin.

I hope it seems like I've belabored the utter ambiguity of your statement, so that I've exposed it's underlying meaninglessness. This should help you detach yourself from the need to look at numbers for meaning and find more fruitful and empowering means of understanding.


kimpossible illuminated an extremely important point, which is that modern new age mystics (the types that make 11:11 theories) are actually not at all comfortable with mystery. It may even be that they are very scared of it, for they move so quickly to try and escape uncertainty, abandoning the slow process of critical thinking and resorting to simple solutions. "Yes, yes, I, uh... things are going on and I don't know what they mean... well, it's a eleven o'clock... so that must be it," and then proceed to ignore everything that does not confirm that suspiscion - lest it provoke another mystery.

I highly recommend that everyone, if they haven't already done so, read this editorial in the Skeptical Inquirer, written by a former New Age author. The SI can often be very antagonistic, but this one is very much the opposite.

Bridging the Chasm between Two Cultures

And it seems to me that a lot of people could stop being offended by Leo if they simply give his posts another read.