[Happy Camper]

Do you ever find that a string of coincidences can trigger or worsen a mania or psychosis, or even eventually cause you to see coincidences everywhere that no one else see's, at which point you no longer think they're coincidences and that you're special because only you can perceive them or the logic behind them?

I spent a decent chunk of change not long ago, and the cashier asked me if I wanted to donate. I gave $5 to some charity and soon after ended up winning a $5 prize elsewhere. I also received a penny back with my first initial on it and made the year I was born, and later I saw a movie where a character with my first name says "big things have small beginnings". Then, sure enough, small investments I made began returning profit quite nicely.

I could go on, but I don't know how much more I take. If this doesn't stop I'll be at the point described above in no time. Cold weather only energizes me.
Maybe I'll write another 1000 pages of nonsense before winter is over!

[Dontfeellikeme]

I get the coincidences thing, mine are often to do with time or spending! I get "themes" of things that I must buy and it gets out of hand. Oops x

[IndieVisible]

Oh hell yea! Coincidences has delusion written all over them and that's exactly what happens to me

[Dontfeellikeme]

I always just thought this was just me !

[Alokin]

It's not just you…..

[thickntired]

Oh yeah. Once like 15 yrs ago I filled my tank with gas. The total stopped at $7.11 and I was at a freaking 7-eleven. I never forgot that haha

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[IndieVisible]

Originally Posted by thickntired

Oh yeah. Once like 15 yrs ago I filled my tank with gas. The total stopped at $7.11 and I was at a freaking 7-eleven. I never forgot that haha

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you got me going now, everyone knows 1's are extremely holy any combination, if you look at your watch at 1:11 or 11:11, an angel is trying to communicate with you when ever you see any combination of 1. 11 being a holy one on one. And the number 7 is also interesting, as it stands for completion, rest, and more in combinations with other numbers or with more sevens, 77, 777.

so, 7.11 can only mean you need a one on one for completion. See that's the kind of stuff that drives some of us crazy. What if you looked at your watch at the pump and it was 11:11pm, yea I know, sure laugh now but wait until it happens to you

I really am intrigued now, after I read my post after posting it I noticed the time on my laptop was 1:11am.

[Happy Camper]

Originally Posted by IndieVisible

you got me going now, everyone knows 1's are extremely holy any combination

12:11pm, when I read your post.

Yes, numbers were very important to me earlier this year. Not so much 1's, but the number eleven itself drove me wild. I saw it as the gateway to life, and to pass through you had to go between the 1's to reach the other side. Eleven also sounds a lot like
"the livin'"

I theorized that the white light some people report near death was actually the result of their mind/soul going into an infant right at birth. So in my mind, 11 was closely related to a certain part of anatomy of the opposite gender.

Multi digit numbers I just added together, so 13=4, 88=16=7

11=2 because it takes two to contrast the difference between life and death.

Finding meaning through numbers, those were wild times. It's even more trippy finding meaning through the sound and shape of words and letters.

bed looks like a bed.

3 is E is M is W don't twirl me bro.

[1776]

There is no such thing as coincidence.

[CastlesInTheAir]

All I can say is yikes....its how the universe works ...trying to to tell you, us something....I get a lot of these types of moments...

[hamster-bamster]

I get a lot of that. It is a result of bias - 99% of the time, you do not notice randomness around you, and thus are oblivious to the fact of its existence. 1% of the time when it does not appear to be random, you notice, blind to the 99% of randomness because you did not pay attention. One does not notice the number when one gets gas UNLESS the number is special. One only notices special numbers, and that creates an impression numbers deliver special messages to us. If you set out to record every number ever outputted to you by the counter at the gas station, you will get a whole lot of numbers, and 7.11 would be one of them. It only seems special because your mind, unless you try, would not record 7.12, 7.13, etc.

[Happy Camper]

But what if you're only noticing the numbers when they become important, and only when they cease to be important will you stop noticing them?

[1776]

I always experience loss when I have to remind myself that I am not in any way special and that numbers aren't talking to me. It's ridiculous because I really, really want these things to be talking only to me.

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by Happy Camper

But what if you're only noticing the numbers when they become important, and only when they cease to be important will you stop noticing them?

That is exactly what creates the bias.

[IndieVisible]

Originally Posted by Happy Camper

But what if you're only noticing the numbers when they become important, and only when they cease to be important will you stop noticing them?

They are always important, to some one. But if you stop noticing the significance then you miss out. Ironically everything is about numbers. The significance of numbers can never be under estimated. The big bang, our universe are all based on mathematical equations! Unbreakable. How we get the laws of physics. For example, if during the big bang, one of the elements present were off even by a millionth of a measure, the universe would not be what it is today. EVERYTHING is based on mathematical formulas. There is no room for chance, or randomness. It's all about cause and effect, based on numbers!

[Happy Camper]

Originally Posted by IndieVisible

They are always important, to some one. But if you stop noticing the significance then you miss out. Ironically everything is about numbers. The significance of numbers can never be under estimated. The big bang, our universe are all based on mathematical equations! Unbreakable. How we get the laws of physics. For example, if during the big bang, one of the elements present were off even by a millionth of a measure, the universe would not be what it is today. EVERYTHING is based on mathematical formulas. There is no room for chance, or randomness. It's all about cause and effect, based on numbers!

Unrelated, but isn't the "big bang" theory being phased out since singularities are holding back our understanding of quantum gravity?

[IndieVisible]

Originally Posted by Happy Camper

Unrelated, but isn't the "big bang" theory being phased out since singularities are holding back our understanding of quantum gravity?

Not to my understand. Stephen Hawking has discussed this. All the laws of physics would have broken down under singularity. Cause and effect would not exist. As for quantum mechanics, it is still pretty much up in the air to bring the two together in a everything theory.

However I would definitely be interested in reading where you got this perspective from! If you have time and or can remember. This is so up my alley. Thanks.

[Alokin]

Originally Posted by IndieVisible

Not to my understand. Stephen Hawking has discussed this. All the laws of physics would have broken down under singularity. Cause and effect would not exist. As for quantum mechanics, it is still pretty much up in the air to bring the two together in a everything theory.

However I would definitely be interested in reading where you got this perspective from! If you have time and or can remember. This is so up my alley. Thanks.

Check out Through the Wormhole and Beyond the Wormhole if you have not yet, they discuss these things a length. I love it!!!

[Happy Camper]

Originally Posted by IndieVisible

If you have time and or can remember. This is so up my alley. Thanks.

I'm not sure exactly.

Logically, I just don't like it when people talk about the big bang theory as if it were fact, and not just a reasonably good placeholder theory. I think we're too observationally limited to be doing that; it's irresponsible and possibly even hindering people from looking at the universe differently.

When I was manic, I preferred not to read much if at all about the things I was obsessed about. I wanted to eventually see how off base I was and how close my conclusions were to what noted scientists/physicists have made. Essentially I wanted to give myself space for original thought.

You could google "biocentrism" and "the universe isn't expanding". Biocentrism was interesting as it states that observing the universe creates it.

This has basis in quantum mechanics when considering wave-particle duality in that merely observing certain particles changes their behavior. Maybe the universe is a particle and exist in it's current state because something outside of it is observing it? Maybe looking at the universe explodes it, and looking away shrinks it, and we can only exist during an infinitely small period during this phase change.

One of my themes during the mania was that the universe has a very specific geometry, or behaves like a mutating tessellation in that small and large scale principles can be observed in everything, yet never present exactly the same.

Great, now I might not sleep tonight.

[CastlesInTheAir]

Originally Posted by Happy Camper

I'm not sure exactly.

Logically, I just don't like it when people talk about the big bang theory as if it were fact, and not just a reasonably good placeholder theory. I think we're too observationally limited to be doing that; it's irresponsible and possibly even hindering people from looking at the universe differently.

When I was manic, I preferred not to read much if at all about the things I was obsessed about. I wanted to eventually see how off base I was and how close my conclusions were to what noted scientists/physicists have made. Essentially I wanted to give myself space for original thought.

You could google "biocentrism" and "the universe isn't expanding". Biocentrism was interesting as it states that observing the universe creates it.

This has basis in quantum mechanics when considering wave-particle duality in that merely observing certain particles changes their behavior. Maybe the universe is a particle and exist in it's current state because something outside of it is observing it? Maybe looking at the universe explodes it, and looking away shrinks it, and we can only exist during an infinitely small period during this phase change.

One of my themes during the mania was that the universe has a very specific geometry, or behaves like a mutating tessellation in that small and large scale principles can be observed in everything, yet never present exactly the same.

Great, now I might not sleep tonight.

I think you got my wheels spinning now too.....haha and I hate when people speak of any theory as fact as well.....what we "know" is always changing so in affect we always know nothing.. the world is flat, the world is round and so on..

[IndieVisible]

Well you started this thread that got my brain spinning. But I'm glad you did.

I remember actually solving the meaning of life and could prove it during one of my episodes. I wish I wrote it down cuz I can't remember what it was now

[CastlesInTheAir]

Originally Posted by IndieVisible

Well you started this thread that got my brain spinning. But I'm glad you did.

I remember actually solving the meaning of life and could prove it during one of my episodes. I wish I wrote it down cuz I can't remember what it was now

Damn I wanna know what it was....and know how u feel! I wish I woulda wrote everything down when I had my psychotic episode....but you know I wasn't even allowed to have a darn pencil...

[Happy Camper]

Originally Posted by IndieVisible

Well you started this thread that got my brain spinning. But I'm glad you did.

I remember actually solving the meaning of life and could prove it during one of my episodes. I wish I wrote it down cuz I can't remember what it was now

I'd like to have seen it as well.

I want to say I wrote things down like a crazy person, but since I was crazy it's not saying much. I wrote in all directions and bled pens dry of their ink. After that I had no choice but to abuse my keyboard on a daily basis.

When it died down I destroyed every single piece that I had written. 30 page essays, insane diagrams, poems that weren't half bad, and a copy of the message I had written in someone's journal during inpatient because I was convinced they were one of my apostles.

___________

I also wanted to say that I think more people can contribute to universal understanding without necessarily having to tackle the intimidating math. I actually argued with myself that language is a form of arithmetic and the calculations behind persuasiveness is a math of it's own. Bad at math? Doubtful you're bad at every kind of math!

[BipolaRNurse]

Ahh, yes, the coincidence thing. I've got it in spades. And I'm having one of them now---too many things have dove-tailed too neatly in the past couple of weeks. Like running across this thread about coincidences and finding out other BPs have them too.

[Alokin]

Holy moly! Just looked at the clock, 0111!!!! After I read the initial posts earlier I saw 1:11? Seriously guys? Stop it! LOL!!!