Originally posted by pantha
Years ago at work we had a lottery bonus ball game. If your number was the bonus ball for that week, you won the money in the pot. My number was 33.
Ever since , I see 33 all of the time. I think that we see numbers all of the time without registering them, it's only if a number crops up that has
meaning to us, that our mind stops and looks twice. I see 11.11, 3.33, 17.17 and others on my clock all of the time, and since I mentioned it to my
daughter she has ever since I put the thought in her head. That's my take on it anyway.
11 seems to be a common number, and frauds like Uri Geller profit off of it.
You see 11 everywhere, and they see $$ everywhere.
You both capture what you see also!!!
The mind is always looking for meaning in things, further most research the neurology in gamblers, and also neurology in primates, I believe
chimpanzees and apple juice.
Amazing stuff.
Science may sound boring and dry, but I know what you are looking for, and it's not there, and me saying this will only reinforce your beliefs, but
sometimes, and mainly all the times, we look for stuff, that isn't there.
Here's a little homework assignment!!!
Go to your local busy gas station, find the person in the back filling out the lottery cards or buying numerous scratchcards, and ask them, just ask
them, what their strategy is? Just do that, and you'll see them trying to find order in something that has no order, just see how far their belief is
in their strategy, see if they really believe they are on the right track, and when they keep losing, inquire further and see if they have reasonable
excuses for losing.