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For several years I have been seeing the number sequence 1111.  I always wondered if it was a coincidence or something more.  Finally, the amount of times that the events occurred, made me believe that it was more than chance.  So I started searching the web and found I was not alone.  There were hundreds if not thousands of people experiencing the same thing. Some of the explanations went beyond what I was willing to accept.  I ultimately settled on and was willing to believe that it could be a way for our Guardian Angels to let us know they were here for us.   I have included my experiences below.  We can consider seeing these 1111 events as prompts from our Angel friends.  I also believe these experiences can help us grow spiritually, because they make us stop and question what these prompts could mean to us.  You can also go to my favorite 11:11 Message Board site. See for yourself how many people are experiencing these number prompts.

 

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 New: Reader Post 02-23-2008   Your 1111 Stories

 

New: Posted 09/01/2008

My wife and I where heading to the movie theater which is about 45 minutes from our home. We where having a conversation about what movie we would see and because we where distracted I missed the exit and had to drive 15 minutes further before we could turn around. Rolling Eyes Well that small detour decided it for us. We would be going to the later movie.

Since the movie theater was in a mall, we now had some time to walk around the mall (remember now, this would not have happened had we arrived on time for the first one movie.) One of the stores we passed was a toy store I just glanced into the window when I noticed this car set which had cars running on the track. I thought I had seen a flash of 11, as the cars where moving. We stopped and went back to stand in front of the window and look at the car set and sure enough there was the number 11, not only on one car, but both. What's even more curious is the fact that both cars had the same number. I don't think I ever saw that before.




So missing that first movie was a good thing. We now saw a prompt that we would have missed. What makes it even more special is if I had not turned my head just enough to see the car track, I would have missed it. If we had not walked through the mall while we waited for the next movie we would have missed it. If we had walked on the other side looking at the stores on that side, we would have missed it. Well, we all get the point. It was meant to be!

Peace and Love

Nick

 

New: Posted 08/24/2008

 I was clearing out my camera for some up coming trips and saw this shot before I deleted it. This was from one of my past trips.

I took it with one hand and without using the camera view finder. It was actually the 111.1mile marker. I'm surprised I was able to get what I did. What you see is my GPS unit sticking to the window

Hope everyone had a good weekend.


Peace and Love

Nick



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New: Posted 08/24/2008 

  I have seen many 1111's while working on my computer.  I don't always write about them, but they do come up.
Example; I was sent a document file and at the bottom if the page I saw 'page 1 11 of 11' I had taken a print screen shot of it, but then later I turned off the computer without saving it from my clipboard.  Next time 

 I was actually flipping through a magazine and obviously the numbers caught my attention, it was a difference in water height at this one Dam. I didn't have time to read the article but I did get a shot with the cell phone.
I know now why I had the urge to flip through it.

Hope you had a great weekend.


Love and Peace


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New: Posted 08/24/2008

Hi everyone,

I was in Brooklyn New York and I was heading back into Manhattan by Subway. I started at one end of the platform and then found myself drifting toward the center of the platform.

I turn to my right and see the building below. If I had not started walking toward the center of the platform I would have missed it.


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New: Posted 05/18/2008

Hi Everyone. Many, many projects have kept me pretty busy. I still see my 1111 prompts but I save the special ones for here. I just got my transformer for my camera battery yesterday and so I can finally share the one that my wife saw after shopping.



Hope everyone is having a great weekend

Nick
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 Posted 03/26/2008

  • It’s about 6:10pm here in Pennsylvania and I was about to clear the received calls and voice mails from my cell phone. I’m just glad I took a closer look (We know why Wink ) and saw the 11:11 prompt. I really had not paid any attention to what time it was when the call had come in.

    So, It was a very pleasant surprise, and a nice way to end the day.

    Peace and Love

    Nick

         

 Posted 02/23/2008

  • This actually happened last weekend when my wife and I went out to lunch. When we finished our meals the waitress brought our check and my wife noticed it was divided seat 1 and seat 2. What caught her attention was that the price of my meal came to $11.11. It was good she caught that prompt because when I paid for the meal the receipt that I got back showed the combined price of both meals. If she had not taken that closer look at the original check we would have missed this prompt.

    I took a picture with my cell phone so please excuse the poor quality of the picture.

    Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

    Peace and Love

    Nick



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 Posted 01/08/2008

  • Hi everyone, I hope everyone had a Happy New Year. January 2nd I took my First trip in a month. I’m doing better. I can walk without a cane now and actually sleep in a bed and not a chair. I went to Miami, Florida. I must have brought the cold weather down with me. It was in the Forties while I was down there. I was working in a Radisson Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard. The hotel was going through some modernization.  I was there Wednesday till Friday and every morning I met the mechanics in their workroom and the first chance I got I would lean up against this table by a wall that was near the entrance, so that I could rest my leg. Well Friday morning a New mechanic was standing in that spot, so I went and stood across from him and now I was able to see the wall that had been behind me all that time. On the wall was a paper with all emergency numbers and I saw that my favorite prompt 1111 were the last 4 numbers of one of those phone numbers. If that new mechanic had not stood in my spot I would have missed the prompt for this trip. I handed my cell phone to one of the other guys and asked him if he would mind taking a picture of the sheet of paper that was posted on the wall. My phone would not send the picture to my email address so no picture yet, but I’ll keep trying. I had Dinner at Flannigan’s restaurant every night and totally enjoyed the Blackened Tuna steak. I’ll be working out of my home office on Monday so I still get time to heal. The sciatica is much better so your prayers are working.    Love and Peace to all Nick
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  Posted 12/04/2007

  • My last trip was to "St. Louis Missouri

    I would have had 2 pictures but decided not to take the second one.  I didn’t want to take a chance that it would delay my trip.  I had been waiting at one gate for our connecting flight from North Carolina to St. Louis when they announced a gate change.  When we got to the new gate I was leaning against a wall and I looked across the rows of seats in the waiting area and in the opposite wall there was a door for an electrical closet.  The number on the door was 1111ELC.  If I had sat right down in a chair when I got to the new gate area I would have missed it.  I really didn’t think taking a picture of an electrical closet in an airport would be a good idea.  But then again… I could have given the police the link to this site. 

     

     The receipt was from a vendor in that same airport. The trip to Missouri went well but I had started having some discomfort in my back and right leg. (That was the reason I had been standing in the airport waiting area.) There was a handrail on the wall that I had been leaning on and I was pressing this rail into the sore part of my back.  Well, so far it turns out it may be my Sciatic nerve .  I’ve been home for the last 1-½ weeks.  Between the medication and also the care of a Chiropractor it is finally starting to feel better.

     

 
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Posted 11/18/2007

  • Hi everyone, I just spent a week in Lansing Michigan.   I added the Wikipedia link incase anyone wanted to learn more about the city. I stayed at Hampton Inn suites about 15 minutes away in the town of Okemos and then I drove to Lansing every morning. I was able to see my prompt for this trip while I was reviewing my receipts. I found it on the rental car agreement, near the bottom of the page I saw a charge for an 11.11% Concession Recovery Fee.

 

  • The real story is concerning my return trip from Rochester, Minnesota last week. I had been working on some elevators for the Mayo Clinic.   All went well at the clinic and I flew back to Newark airport Friday night and then I had that 2-hour drive home. While I was driving home I found myself about 10 to 12 miles from my home and that’s when I had the thought “Haven’t seen 1111 this trip” at that point I remembered that the mileage on my car had almost reached 1111** the week before, but I had not checked the mileage since then, so I looked down then and saw just how close I had been to missing the prompt. Looking at the mileage that was displayed and knowing how far I was away from home I realized that I would be at 1112 ** just before I arrived home. I took a picture of the dial while I was driving and then I took the second shot while I was sitting in my parking spot at my house. The red color in the second shot is from my covering the flash. I wasn’t sure if the flash would be too bright, so rather then take the chance I covered the flash. If I had not gotten that thought about not having seen a prompt, I know that I would not have checked my mileage. It’s really something I don’t do on a regular basis. I’m just glad that I did have the opportunity to see it and capture it for you as well.

    

 

   

 

       

   Posted 11/18/2007

  •  Hi everyone. I actually stayed local in the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania area for 3 weeks. My first trip will be tomorrow and I'm heading to Minnesota for 3 days. Something’s in the works for the week after that as well. Well yesterday I was at a job site and I had my voltage meter hooked up to the Elevator Motor that moves the elevators up and down. While watching my meter and making the elevator go up and down numerous times I saw 111.1 volts flash on the screen afew times. ( The voltage should have been stable at 140volts.) I do carry my little Cannon camera with me and decided to see if I could catch it when the numbers did flash on. Success... I’ll keep alert for any prompts on this upcoming trip.

 

 

  Posted 10/26/2007

  • Hi everyone, I just got back home after spending 3 days in New York City and Queens, New York.  I’ve been seeing my normal 1111 prompts all along, but I was waiting for one of those unique prompts that really stand out.  Well Wednesday was the day.

     

    I left my house at 4:30 am and drove to the bus depot in New Jersey.  They let us park our cars overnight so that is a really great place to park.  The trip from my house to the bus depot is 1 hour.  I then got on a bus for the 1-½ hour ride into Manhattan, New York.

     

     The next part of my trip was by subway train to Queens.  That would normally take another hour and then a short 15-minute Bus ride and finally a 20-minute walk to my company’s Queens office (My company is based in California).  So that’s about 4 hours of travel.  Now you know why I don’t do that every day.

     

    Well that day after a few wrong connections and missing my subway stop it took more like 5 hours to get to the office.   When I finally got off at the correct subway stop and walked to the city bus stop I was at the end of the line of the passengers that were boarding the number 11 Bus, my spot where I was standing was few feet away from the back of the bus by the bumper.  While I was waiting for the line to move forward I turned my head to look into the street and just then I saw a Taxi drive past and it had 1111 as the last 4 numbers of the advertised phone number that was shown on the car door.  We are talking only a few seconds of time for me to have been able to see the taxi and those numbers.

     

    To myself I actually said “Cool”, but I have seen and I wrote about seeing a taxi cab with these numbers before.  I guess I was also thinking, “not impressed”.  Well, I finally got on the bus and the ride was about 15 minutes and I got off the Bus and walked to the street corner waiting for the traffic light to change so I could walk across the street, well at that exact second that I had stopped I saw the very same Taxi drive right by me again. When I first saw taxi it had been going west and the bus was heading south.  Now the taxi was heading east, now I was impressed. 

     

    Keep in mind all the timing that was involved in seeing these 2 prompts.   If I had not be delayed, if there had been one less person standing in line at the original bus stop, I would not have been able to see that Taxi go past me, because I would have been next to the bus and it would have blocked my view of the street.  Not to mention what are the chances of the taxi passing right in front of me the second time at the exact second I had stopped walking and was waiting for the traffic light to change so I could cross the street.

     

    It would have served me right to have been standing there and have a big puddle of water in front of me and then have the taxi drive through the water and soak me. That would have been good pay back for the “not impressed” thought.

     

    Hope everyone has a great weekend.

    Nick

     

  Posted 9/26/2007

  •   Hi everyone, I wanted to pop off a quick note. I'm heading to Boston Mass. tomorrow early in the a.m.  Once again I caught this prompt as I was putting together my expenses for my last trip to Virginia. This was the bill for my rental car. I was in Charlottesville, Virginia for 5 days. I hope everyone had a great weekend. 

 

   Posted 9/23/2007

  •  I left my home in Pennsylvania and started to drive to the airport in Newark New Jersey. Same road I normally take in the wee early morning hours other times. But today was Sunday and I was taking an afternoon flight out. I look to my left and see a billboard and it gives a phone number and the last 4 numbers are 1111. I’m sure the billboard has been there for a while but I never noticed it when I was driving at night. Now that's a way to start a trip. I land in Dallas and I head out to the hotel shuttle van area and on my way I pass 2 taxi's and they had their phone number on the door and the last four numbers once again were 1111. I wish I had my camera ready, but, alas no. The shuttle van pulls up and I get in and sit right behind the driver and I'm able to see the front of the van and the radio. The driver adjusts the radio and a volume display of bars comes up and yes it was 4 bars next to each other and it sure looked like 1111. It will be interesting to see if I get any more prompts. Everyone have a great week
  • Nick

     

  Posted 8/19/2007

  •  Hi everyone. For this trip the phrase “ye of little faith comes to mind”.

 

  • My wife and I traveled down to Washington D.C. My schedule was for me to give training classes in the morning and then after 2 p.m. I was free to do some sight seeing with her. The week went well and as each day passed I realized that I had not seen that unexpected 1111 prompt. By Friday I did catch myself looking at license plates and building numbers and I forced myself to stop. The sightings had to be special or there had to be special circumstances associated with the sighting of an 1111 prompt and looking deliberately for them did not fit my rules.

 

So Saturday (today) when we started our trip back to Pennsylvania and I had not seen any prompts I was surprised and disappointed. I had become so use to seeing at least one prompt during a trip. While we were driving home I told my wife that the trip was not officially over till midnight tonight (Saturday) so I still had hope of seeing a prompt.

The drive back home is about 5 to 6 hours depending on the weather and traffic and if we stop for lunch etc. We were somewhere in Maryland and it was around 1:15 pm in the afternoon and my wife said she felt hungry and really wanted to stop at a Burger King for a hamburger (Whopper of course) so we saw an exit sign for fast food restaurants from the highway so went out the next exit. Little did I know I had gotten off one exit to soon and as a result we could not find the Burger King. After driving around for a while my wife said she was willing to stop at a McDonalds or any other place since it didn’t look like we would find the B K. Since she had expressed a desire for this particular fast food place I was determined to find one. I have a GPS system in the car and I got the bright idea to use the search feature to find a Burger King fast food restaurant. It indicated there was one within 2 miles and I let it guide us to that location. After eating lunch we continued our trip. We still had about two hours of traveling time and I mentioned again to my wife about how I felt that some how, somewhere, I would see the 1111 prompt.

After a few more minutes of driving my wife starts laughing.  I turn to look at her and ask her what’s so funny.  She says she got the urge to look in her pocket book and the receipt from the Burger King was the first thing she saw when she opened the pocket book.  What caught her eye was the amount she had paid for the meals.  Yes, you guessed it, $ 11.11.  I asked her why she didn’t notice the price when she had paid for the meals.  It turns out she had used her credit card and had handed the card to the person that was ringing up the sale and they had swiped the card and had not said what the total price of the purchase was.

 So let’s see, if we had stopped somewhere else the total may not have been the same.  If she had paid cash she would have seen the $11.11 right away and it would not have made the impact on us the way it did.  To have her see the prompt right after I had stated that there was still time to see one made it another special prompt.  Did I mention that we were delayed leaving the hotel because our car had a dead battery. It took an hour before we were able to get the car started with the help of the hotel maintenance man and his portable jump-start battery pack.  If that had not happened my wife would not have been hungry enough to stop when we did, because we would have been 1 hour closer to home and she would have been willing to wait till we had gotten home.  I guess I should have had alittle more faith that I would see a prompt.

Have a great weekend.

       

        Have a great weekend.

         Nick    

  Posted 08/11/2007

  •   Well I thought I was finished with my prompts for this trip, but I was wrong. Our friends had another one waiting in the wings. I was heading to Bush International airport in Houston and was looking for a gas station to fill up my rental car. No luck, I actually had to drive completely around the airport to find one. I finally dropped off my rental and the rental bus took me to the airport terminal. I started walking in the cross walk toward the terminal building. There was a taxi stand in front of the terminal where taxis were waiting to pick up passengers. The next taxi in line pulled forward passing in front of me. I passed the back of the taxi and was about to enter the building but I turned around and looked at the back of the taxi and low and behold, the telephone number had 1111 as the last 4 numbers. I looked at the other taxi’s that were in line and there was no other taxi from this particular company in line with that telephone number. Within a few minutes he had his passengers and he was on his way. This is going to be another right time right place prompt. If I had not taken the extra time to find a gas station, I would have missed seeing this taxi, if I had walked faster or slower I would have missed seeing it… You get the picture. When I started this thread I promised myself that I would only write about unique prompts. I also do not go out of my way looking for 1111. Maybe my purpose is to show that there is nothing to fear concerning the prompts, they are special. They have helped to make my traveling more interesting and fun. There is no way to describe the awe when I realize how precise the timing had to be in many of my sightings.

       Love and Peace

       Nick

   

 

 Posted 08/11/2007

  • Hi everyone, I wanted to get both these out tonight. Once again the picture of this prompt will follow when I get home for the weekend. My hotel here in Houston is about 5 blocks from the job-site and I decided to walk to the building and not take my rental car. The day went well and when we had finished for the day and we had left the building the mechanic asked me if I needed a ride back to the hotel. I told him it was so close I had no problem with walking and I would take the opportunity to pick up my dinner and bring it back to the hotel. I found my self-going from one side of the street to the other to check out the different dinner choices for the evening. Finally, I’m all set and I’m walking back to the hotel, but I’m on the opposite side of the street from the hotel. This means that I will have to go past the hotel and up to the corner of the street and then cross over to the other side. As I get closer to the corner I can see past the intersection and on the building on the other side of the street I see the building number displayed. Im already saying to my self “no way”… I cross the intersection and walk till I’m right across from the building and plain as day I see that the address is 1111 Rusk. I took another picture which now will become my Houston Texas prompt. When I told my wife about this one, she said that was why she was not too concerned about all my traveling, she looks at the traveling prompts as my angels watching out for me and letting me know that they are there for me. I tend to agree.

       Peace and Love to all

       Nick

    

 Posted 08/11/2007

  • Hi Everyone, I’m going to try to give an accurate step-by-step process that allowed me to see my Boston prompt; It was 7:10 pm and I had just responded to Cathy and Anne’s posts. By this time of night I usually have accepted the fact that I would be staying in my hotel and not go looking for any restaurants. Since I had no rental car it was even more certain that I would be staying in my hotel room. Earlier that afternoon when I had checked into the hotel, the hotel clerk at the front desk had mentioned that there was a restaurant a short walk (turned out to be 500 feet) from the hotel. I was tired and had pretty much decided not to venture outside. It would be a vending machine of soda and granola bars for dinner this night. But then for some reason I finally did get the urge to go :scratch: . The urge also came after I started wondering if I was going to see a prompt on this Boston trip. Then as I’m walking to the restaurant, I couldn’t help but shake my head over the fact that here I was doing the very thing that I had decided not to do :duh . After walking for a while I saw the restaurant in front of me and it really was a big place. While I’m walking thru the parking lot I pass this large tour bus. I walked along the right side of the bus and then as I passed the front of the bus I started to walk diagonally toward the front of the restaurant. Then I get this urge to stop and I start getting some negative thoughts about my continuing, I start thinking that it is really late, the place must be full because of all the cars, it looks like rain and I may get caught in a down pour on my way back to the hotel. So, I stop and turn around and start thinking about what I’m going to do next. By this time I’m also a little annoyed at myself for walking all this way and now thinking these stupid thoughts of why I should now turn around and go back to the hotel. When I stopped and turned my head to look back the way I had come, the left side of the bus comes into view and I found myself kind of scanning it from the back of the bus to the front and then as I look up above the drivers window I see 11’ 11’’ which is the height of the bus. :shock: Yes, even after all this time I can still be surprised. I started thinking about all the factors that once again came into play so that I could see the prompt. If the rethinking of my decision about going outside had not occurred, then if I had not stopped in the parking lot at that exact spot and turned around when I did, I would not have seen the numbers stating the height of the bus. Well, at that point I returned to the hotel for one good reason. That was to get my camera so I could document the prompt. ( Yes, 500 feet back to the hotel). Then when I got my camera I went back to the bus and took a picture of the bus and my prompt. Our friends worked mighty hard to get me to see this one. My second reward was that I did go into the restaurant and eat my baked salmon and rice meal and then return to my hotel. I can assume and I also believe that my actions were influenced. For me this was the strongest example of being led to be in the right place at the right time to experience a prompt. I just had to get this post written. I will post the picture when I get back home this weekend.

       Peace and Love to all

       Nick

      

     

  Posted 08/03/2007

  • Hi everyone, well I finished giving my training in Florida and only now when I was going over my receipts did I notice my 11:11 prompts plus. 

    I’ll be in Manhattan Monday, Boston Tuesday and Texas, Wednesday through Friday. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

     

    Love and peace

     

    Nick

     

           

  Posted 08/03/2007

  • Hi everyone. Well I was looking for my prompt for this trip and I finally got in the form of an email from my company. They were getting set to book my flight to Washington D.C. and wanted me to check and see if the flight information was okay. ( I'll be taking my car instead and bringing my wife along on this trip so she can do some site seeing)

    Notice what the flight number would have been. Very Happy

    Mon., Aug. 13, 2007
    Washington, DC (DCA - National) Travel Time:
    1 hr 20 mn OnePass Miles/
    Elite Qualification:
    500 /100% Flight: CO1111Aircraft: Boeing 737-500
    Fare Class: Economy (X)
    Meal: None

    Have a great day everyone.

    Love and peace to all

    Nick
     

   Posted 07/18/2007

  • Hi, you all (notice the southern accent ) Well my Mom is back in my sisters house. The Hospice people down in Carrollton, Georgia,  they are some real fine people. They brought everything my Mom needed, the hospital bed, oxygen, etc and set it all up for her. My Mom is resting as comfortable as can be expected and we are happy that we are able to fulfill her wishes of not having to pass away in an hospital or nursing home.

    While my sister and I were sitting on her porch I was looking in my wallet for some information and that’s when I came across a very old Business card from a hotel I stayed in last year. I chuckled and showed my sister the card with the 1111 address. Those prompts are sure there when you need them. (picture below).

    While I was in the hospital I decided to try my artistic talents on the board in my mothers room. It brought a smile to my Mom’s face as it did to the nurses who saw it.

     

     

   Posted 07/03/2007

  • For those of you celebrating the fourth of July; “Happy 4th of July”

    Well I was in New York City today and I picked up a new cell phone holder.  The Verizon store is located on the corner of 6th ave and 42nd street.  When I left the store I was going to walk to Park ave. and 49th street.   Now I could have walked straight up 6th avenue to 49th street, and then turned right on 49th and walked to Park ave. 

    But, at the last second I decided to walk east on 42nd street to Park ave and then go north up to 49th street.  Not a major change, just a different route getting to the same place.

      Now keep in mind I have been working in New York City for 32 years.  I’m walking along 42nd street when I turn my head and see a building with 11    11.  Never seen this before in all the years I’ve worked in the city.  Once again, if I had gone the other way I would have missed it.

     I really should have a survey to see if this truly is an 1111 prompt.  Take a look at the building and how the numbers are placed. 

     

 

   Posted 06/22/2007

  • Hi everyone I just finished a trip to Norfolk Virginia.  I came home and I realized I had not seen 1111 the whole trip.  I was alittle shocked.  ( I should have known better, the day was not over yet!).  I went into my home office and I was going to put some information into my Handheld PC.  I had left it home because the battery was going bad.  The battery would not hold a charge for more then a few hours.  My mistake was that I had not connected the charger to it when I had left on Monday.

     

    Needless to say tonight when I attempted to turn it on nothing happened, then I connected the charger and I got a memory loss error.  It seems the internal 30-minute battery had also drained and all the programs that I had installed over time were gone.  Lucky for me 80 % of my information was still on the 1 gig memory card, which did not require battery voltage to save the stored information.

     

    I started removing the battery pak so I could get the necessary information to order a replacement.  When I started writing down the information I saw the Module type was a familiar number. Type X1111.  I immediately looked at the clock by my desk and it was 10 minutes to midnight.  Our friends had just made the dead line. 

     

     

   Posted 06/08/2007

  • Hi There!Hi everyone, I was in New York City yesterday and I had to go to a job site that was having some problems. When I looked at schematic prints showing the electronic circuits I noticed the 11-11 date of when the print was drawn.



    The day before I was in New Jersey and I had been talking about 1111 and how often I experience seeing that number prompt. I gave the person an example of looking at my watch for no reason and then seeing the number.

    Right on cue, I looked at my watch and it showed 1:11.11. I just laughed and the person said “what” and he looked up at the wall clock and even though it was not digital he did see that it was 1:11 and he said “No Way” he couldn’t believe it. I smiled and told him that is how it works.

    Well I did say I was going to give alittle insight into a gift my mother had when we lived in Germany, I was 3 at the time. It was right after World War II and my parents and I were living in a refugee camp and in the camp the camp personnel would deliver the mail but they would not deliver any packages. The camp personnel would give the people a piece of paper telling them that a package had arrived and it would be waiting for them.

    My mother would have a dream of one of those old locomotives that bellowed smoke out of a smoke stack. When she saw white smoke in the dream she knew we were going to get a letter. When she saw black smoke it meant a package had arrived. When she had the dream of a package she would tell my father to go to the main post area and get the package. My Dad would arrive there and ask for the package. This confused the people there ; they would ask him how he knew there was a package, since they had not even sent out the notice yet. He just told them his wife sent him and he always listens to his wife. (That’s probably because of what happened in the next story ).

    The people at the main Post area would then deliberately not send any notices that a package had arrived to my parents to see what happened and sure enough each time my Dad would arrive to pick it up without any notification that a package had arrived.

    The next story I don’t have a good time frame, but it must have been between 1948 and 1952. My father was a Soccer fan and from what I understand there was a Lottery type game where you wrote down the possible score of the championship game. If you got the number correct you shared the prize with whoever else in the country had that same number.

    Well, while my Dad was filling out the ticket my mother told him to put in 0-0. He told her Championship games do not end in ties. ( Silly woman. thats what my dad probably thought) So he informed her that they would go into over time until there was a score/winner. So he puts down his pick ( Notice, he did not listen to his wife ) well that year it went into double overtime and for the first time they had to call the game with a tie score. Yup, you guessed it 0 to 0.

    In 1952 we came to America and my mother said thats when she lost the ability. I have over the years had many deja vu events. I also learned to listen to that little voice that warns of impending disaster, listening has saved me a few times. So I guess alittle of what she had was passed on.

    I downloaded a copy of the prints from my California Office and then I copy pasted the Print information for that job. I did remove company names and the address.





    Hope everyone has a good weekend.
    _________________
    Life is a stepping stone to Death and Death is a stepping stone to eternity.

     

 

   Posted 05/28/2007

 

  •  

    Hi everyone, I hope everyone had a good weekend.  Last week I was in El Paso, Texas and then on Thursday I drove to New Rochelle, New York.  I saw my 1111 prompt at the end of my El Paso trip.  I was being driven back to the airport from the jobsite that I had been on.  I was looking out the passenger side window for most of the trip just looking at the scenery and the buildings.  Then…as I turned toward the driver I saw a Billboard that we just started to pass and it had a telephone number for a business, the last 4 numbers were 1111.  If I had waited 2 more seconds before turning I would have missed it.   I had lunch at the airport and I did not notice the table number on my receipt till I got home and started doing my expense report.  The table number was 111/ 1 .

     

    Then the New Rochelle, New York road trip I had to pay a few tolls.  Once again I didn’t notice that one ticket had a time stamp of 11:11:29 and then at the next toll plaza the collection agents number was #01111.  I love when I get surprised like that.  The last three cases were totally out of my control.  There was no looking for numbers, they just occurred and I saw the prompts after the fact. 

      

   Posted 05/20/2007

  • May 20, 2007

     

        Hi There!Hi all, I’m waiting on a final go or no go for my flight to Texas tomorrow. Time is sure flying, (excuse the pun ) I can’t believe it’s been 2 weeks since my last trip. I have been busy at local job sites during this whole time. During this time I have seen 1111 a number of times and yesterday was no exception.

    I received an email from my company that had an attached file. The original date of the file was 11.11.06 this was the start of the day. A few more prompts followed this one, but the one I love the best is the one where I thought that I had missed a prompt. I was driving and I looked at the time on the clock in my car and it was 11:22 am and I said to myself “well I missed that one” then, a couple of minutes later I see one of those electronic billboards where you see the time and weather and …sure enough it showed 11:11. This has happened before and it’s still fun to see .

    I do appreciate the prompts and I do feel they are only a start to a greater adventure. I’m slowly taking the baby steps to what I would consider the next level. I’ve been here before and whether just a coincidence or not I felt I got more then I bargained for .

    I had been reading a book by Robert Monroe on “Journey out of the Body” and I attempted to do the same. I most definitely was not ready. After a couple of weeks of trying and no success I went to bed and did my 15 minutes or so of using his techniques and I woke up in an ambulance… As I regained consciousness I don’t recall anything, no bright light, just that it was Black (a little concern here.). The funny part was when the EMS person saw I was awake and he asked how I was feeling. I answered “pretty good”…He just grinned and said “I don’t think so, and then he went on to his other required questions.

    The Hospital and Doctors after all the tests found nothing wrong. My wife said she heard me fall out off bed and I was convulsing and had foam coming out of my mouth. That’s when she had called for the ambulance. When I got home 2 days later, I burnt the book.

    It really didn’t matter that the book may not have had anything to do with what happen, but I was taking no chances. That was April of 1993 and in October of 1993 I had a Triple Bypass. So yes, that event might have been a medical warning of a problem with my heart. Some of my friends believe I died and came back, others said I was brought back into my body so fast after an OBE that I was thrown out of bed. Bottom line no one knows, but I was not eager to find out if it had been an OBE gone wrong. So I stopped experimenting.

    Next time a little on my Mothers Physic dream ability.

    Hope everyone is having a good weekend

    Peace and Love
    May the Light protect you

    Nick

     

     

    May 5, 2007    

                Hi all, I was in NYC Friday. (Don’t worry I didn’t cook anything in a microwave ). I had just gotten into a cab and was heading about 10 blocks from my location at the time. The driver was not sure of the cross street of the job site, so I called the person I was to meet. He answered on the first ring and since he had seen my cell phone number come up on his phone so he spoke first and he said that he was just going to call and cancel our meeting. I said no problem and we arranged for another day, then I gave the cab driver the address for the second job site that I was to visit that day. He looks at me and says that it was only 1 block from where he had picked me up. We both found that funny and off we went. As we came close to the second job site, I saw a truck parked at the corner and I looked at the telephone number of the business he was driving for and the last 4 numbers was 1111.
    Once again, right time, right place.


    Peace and Love
    Nick

     

     

    April 26, 2007

         

       Just got back from Lansing Michigan, I was there from Monday till this morning, Thursday. It actually was an easy trip I spent 3 days training mechanics on the equipment they had just installed. Everything was all nice and good till last night. Because of all the traveling that I do, I add up a lot of travel points with the different hotel chains. This hotel upgraded me to a room with a living room with a kitchenette and the Bedroom and Bathroom .

    Since there was a microwave in the room, I decide to pick up a TV dinner and frozen breadsticks. I don’t go out to eat every night and this was all I was in the mood for. Cooking the TV dinner in the microwave went well, but when I put the bread sticks in next is when the fun started. I was sitting at the desk in the living room and was going through my emails and I get this passing thought that I had not seen 1111 yet on this trip. So, I started wondering how and if I would see it.

    Just about then I also get the thought that I had not heard the microwave bell go off indicating the Breadsticks were done. I look over and see smoke pouring out of the microwave . I jump up and run to the microwave and turn the timer dial to off and open the microwave door. The inside is filled with smoke (no flames) I reach in pull out the tray with the bread and throw it in the kitchen sink that was right there and turn on the water.

    I closed the Microwave door so no more smoke would come pouring out. That’s when the thought hit’s me. SMOKE ALARM… I turn around and see the unit in the ceiling, lucky for me it had not gone off yet. But a cloud of smoke was heading its way. I rush into the Bedroom open the closet door, took out my coat and ran back into the living room and start flapping the coat so the wind would push the smoke away from the smoke alarm.

    I’m still good, no alarms, and no evacuation of this hotel due to me. I run over to the heating /air conditioning unit and switch it to air-conditioning high. I figure it will help to suck some of the smoke out. Meantime, I know I have to open the microwave door to do some controlled smoke venting. (Kind of like what Nuclear Power plants have to do when they have problems and have to vent into the atmosphere)
    So that whole process of venting and dispersing the escaping smoke from around the smoke detector with my coat goes on for sometime.

    Finally all the smoke is out of the microwave and lucky me, still no evacuation was necessary. (Did I mention I put a towel at the bottom of my room door so the smoke would not go out into the hallway)? I then clean the inside of the microwave to remove all the smoke residue. I leave the air conditioner on in the living room all night to help reduce the smell. If anyone has burnt popcorn in a microwave you know what kind of smell I’m talking about.

    Well, finally everything is under control and I go into the bedroom and close the connecting doors to the living room/kitchen and for the first time I look at the clock radio that it next to the bed. The time was 11:11. I really couldn’t make this stuff up if I wanted too.

    I just looked up at the ceiling and said “ Guys, did you have to make it so dramatic”.

    Needless to say, I will not be using any microwaves in my future trips or wonder if I will see 1111 or not.

     

    April17, 2007

     

       Hope everyone had a good day. Talk about timing, here is another good example. I was in NYC today and it’s still wet from all the rain. The job site was located on Park Ave and 66th street. I finished around noon and I told the mechanic that I would walk the 10 blocks to the other building that was located at Madison Ave and 56th street. Madison Avenue is one street west of Park Avenue. I had intended on walking straight down Park Avenue and then turn west on 56th street and head to Madison. Some where around 6oth Street I decided to cross over to Madison from there. I get to Madison Avenue and start walking downtown to 56th. A traffic light at 57th street stops me and as the cars and trucks pass in front of me the second truck in line has a phone number and the last 4 numbers were 1111.

    If I had gone the original way I would have missed it. If I had not left the building at the time I did or had not walked at the speed I had …well you get the idea. Eventually I had to make my way down town to Chambers street and the location of the World Trade Center. Once there I went downstairs to the Path Train station and there I would catch a train to Newark, New Jersey. While waiting for the train on the platform I was thinking about how interesting and cool it was to have seen the 1111 prompt.

    I actually said to myself (In my mind, not out loud ) “How cool was that?” When at that exact moment I look down at the yellow caution area at the edge of the platform where the trains arrive. Stenciled on yellow paint was 777 . I looked down the rest of the platform and I could see no other numbers on that yellow strip that ran the length of the platform. This was the area that the first train car would be located. When I had first arrived I was more or less at the middle of the platform and found myself slowly walking down the platform to this area. So once I had gotten there is when these thoughts had started going through my mind.

    Think about it, just as I think "how cool is that", I look down and see the number 777. I guess they agree that it was cool.

    Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow

     

    April 6, 2007

     Whew, it's been one long day. I finally got to my hotel at 11:30pm tonight. Hmmm... I left my house this morning and drove to Albany New York at 11:30am this morning. I got here around 2:30pm and worked till around 11:00pm tonight.

    Just before I left my house this morning I decided to heat up a cup of coffee to take with me in my car. I opened the microwave door and was about to put in the time needed to heat up the coffee. That's when I noticed that the actual time was, 11:11am. So I had a smile with my coffee.

    Tonight when I finished working it was around 11:00 pm and as I was walking to the Parking lot to get my car, I got the urge to look at my watch to see what time it was. You guessed it, the time was 11:11.

    I'll be driving back to my home in the morning. Lucky for me I don't really have to leave early. I hope everyone has a great day and a great weekend as well.

     

 

  Posted 04/15/2007

  •   After all this time I can’t believe it never occurred to me to included the greatest story of all.  In my opinion my Guardian Angel has saved my life at least 3 times.  It could be as simple as a thought that I should change lanes while driving my car.  I’ll add that story another time. 

    I attempted to bring over the web page from my other site but ran into problems so for now I will give you the Link to MY 9 11 Story  Just put the mouse cursor on the title and click.

    That day I was in 6 World Trade Center, the building next to the North Tower.  

   Posted 04/03/2007

  • Hi There! Hi all, It’s been a hectic 2 weeks. Albany, New York last week. Today Manhattan, tomorrow and Wednesday, South Carolina and then Thursday back to Albany. I’ve been seeing daily combinations of numbers, 1111, 333, 555 (May have to change thread title to Traveling with Numbers). Very Happy

    When I hear a cell phone ring, I find myself looking at my watch. Today I was able to see 11:11 and 3:33 when it happened. I also saw 111.1 volts on my test equipment, since I only saw it happen once in 8 hours I think it was unique.

    I usually write the numbers down when they happen, but the information gets lost with all the other information I write down. I’ll try to be alittle more organized. Hope everyone has a great day.


    Love and Peace

    Nick

   Posted 03/19/2007

  • The prompts just keep on rolling in. I looked at the welcome email from the Shearton Hotel that I stayed at in Minneapolis and I normally do not scroll all the way to the bottom of the email. All the information I need is at the top. However, this time I did scroll down and at the bottom I saw the Address of Main office Which is the Starwood Hotels :
    1111 Westchester Avenue: White Plains, NY 10604

    The question is why did I scroll down today. I've been traveling for 3 years and after the first couple of emails from other hotel chains I realized I really don't have to look at the rest of the email. I have been to Starwood hotels before and never saw the address because those times I never scrolled down and read the whole email.

    Hope you had a great day

    Love and Peace


    Nick
     

   Posted 03/19/2007

  •  It always amazes me how and when the prompts are seen. I did give our Angel friends the challenge to show me the prompts in different ways and not just on digital clocks.  Since then they have become quite creative. Very Happy

    I just finished putting together my expenses from this last trip and as I’m looking at a receipt and I noticed for the first time the time of the purchase was at 11:11.  My usual comment at that time is “ I Love it.” Laughing

    It looks like I may be in Manhattan all week and I will keep my eyes open for prompts. I hope you had a good weekend.


    Love and Peace

    Nick
     

 

  Posted 03/18/2007

  •  Hi There! Hi all, I was in Minneapolis on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then Albany, New York on Thursday.
  •  (No 1111 taxi this trip Very Happy .)  But the Saturday before I left I did see 11:11 on my watch during the day and then that night when I looked down at the computer clock.

    But the most interesting prompt was early Saturday morning. I had finished my expense sheets for past trips and my wife always sends them to my California office by Fed Ex that Monday morning. That day she said since we had to drive into town we could use the Fed-Ex drop off location there. We have been living here for 20 years and I never knew there was one in town. (It’s a guy thing, clueless sometimes  : ]   ) I did tell her twice there was no rush and that she could do it Monday, but she said we were in no rush so we could make the extra stop in town.

    Well the place only had parking for 2 cars and it was off on a side street. The one spot next to the building was already taken, so I pulled into the parking spot next to the parked van. As turn off my car the van that was next to us, backs out and I turn my head to watch and as the nose of the van passes my window I see an electrical box on the wall of the building with the ID number 1111.

    There was no doubt in my mind that I was to see the prompt. Twice I had said we didn’t have to make the stop, but because my wife wanted to we did. Also what caught my attention was once again the timing. If the van had not left when it did, I would never have seen the numbers. I really do appreciate the timing that goes into having me see these prompts.

    I still had one more prompt waiting for me. That night while I was doing some reports I played an X-Files show that I had recorded earlier. I have seen almost all of them, so much of the time while I am doing my paper work I only listen and I’m not really watching the show. Something caught my attention and I look at the screen as the actor Fox Mulder is looking at some file drawers in the scene. The camera pans across the file drawers, and one of the labels on the drawer catches my eye. I put the recorder on rewind and then pause the scene just as the information on this one drawer is seen. (This was episode 85- Leonard Betts.) What it showed was:
    -----------Hagofian, Betsy
    -----------Human Ovum m
    -----------11/11/94

    Now, I have seen this episode at least 2 other times and never noticed or saw this. The Television on my desk is a LCD Flat screen, which seats right on my desk to my right. But, once again my favorite point that makes these prompts special for me, is, the timing. If I had not turned my head when I did, I would have missed seeing the 11/11. Every time I experience these prompts I do feel that much closer to our Spirit Guardian Friends.

    Love and peace to all

    Nick

 

  •    Posted : 03/04/07

    Hope everyone had a great weekend.  Last week I was in Vancouver, Canada.  The weather was great all week.  Monday morning I had left from Newark, New Jersey and flew up to Toronto, Canada and then continued on to Vancouver.   I had a window seat but slept for the first 2 hours.  I opened up my eyes and looked down at the snow and ice covered landscape 37,000 feet below us.  Almost instantly I saw an interesting formation of mounds on that landscape.  It was a formation of 4 straight and equal lengths of whatever.  It could have been a rock or ground mounds.  But, the fun part was that it looked liked 1111.  I wish I had my camera out for that one.

    That evening when I landed I took a shuttle bus to my hotel.  We stopped at one of many intersections and I looked out the window on the right side of the bus and I saw a building with some numbers displayed.  It was 11 [a tree] 11.  There was a skinny little tree that blocked the center number one 11111.  If I moved my head a little forward or back I would not have seen it as 1111.   If we had not stopped for a traffic light at that time I would have missed it.

    We continued on to the hotel and just before we arrived I spotted a taxi and the last 4 digits of their phone number that was showing on the door was 1111.  I was there from Monday till Friday morning.  During that whole time I did not see another taxi with that phone number.  (Just wait, it gets cute).

    Friday morning I get up at 3:30 am and leave the hotel at 4 a.m.  I walk out the door to catch one of the taxis that are usually waiting there.  That morning only one taxi is waiting and…you guessed it.  It was one of the 1111 taxis.  Every morning of the whole week I never saw one of those taxis waiting for passengers.  You can believe that it brought a chuckle from me for sure.   (Wait…it gets even better.)

    Traveling to the airport we are on this 6-lane highway 3 lanes to the airport and 3 coming back.  There was hardly any traffic, but I did see at least 3 of the 1111 taxis traveling past us in the opposite direction.  At this point I’m just shaking my head.  Then to myself I say, “How cool is that?”  Well it obviously was not cool enough yet, because another 1111 taxi pulls along side of my taxi going in the same direction we are and then almost instantly another one pulls up on our right side.   So here we have 3 of the 1111 taxis driving in a pack for about a minute then the two outside ones pull ahead and continue on their way.

     It was the best send off I ever had.   

     Love and peace to all

    Nick 

   Posted : 02/10/07

  • Date : 02/07/2007
  • I’m in St Louis, Missouri till Thursday afternoon. The trip from the airport to my hotel took about 20 minutes. I had been talking to the person that was giving me a ride to my hotel, and then I turned away from them and looked out the passenger side window of the car just in time to see a building with the address of 1111.

    That night I was in a restaurant, which had 3 television monitors lining the wall. I had been looking at the monitor that was furthest from me and then I had the urge to look at the monitor that was closet to me, and just happened to catch a sports score of 11 to 11 as it scrolled off the top of the monitor screen.

    Today at work I had the computer show me problem events. The first line showed an event occurring at 11:11:01 pm.

    Then later in the day the other person that I was with, sent the elevator to a floor for me to observe the operation of that the elevator. The display on the screen I was watching showed the floor that the car was sent to and then when the elevator finally arrived it would also show the floor that it arrived at. Yup, he had sent it to 11 and when the elevator stopped the display showed At 11 Destination 11.

    In case someone likes interesting facts of where I am:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri


    Peace and Love to all

    Nick

     

  Posted : 02/10/07

  •  Trip 01/28/2007
  • Hope everyone is having a great weekend. It’s Saturday night and tomorrow morning I head to the airport for my trip back home. I’ve been in Atlanta, Georgia since Tuesday. The real good news was that I was able to spend Friday night and Saturday with my sister and her family and my Mom who lives with them. We had a good time. Speaking of time... On Tuesday when I arrived at the job site and started checking for problems, I brought up the computer screen to see what problems had been logged. The first problem event had the time stamp of 11:11:21 pm. That night when I checked my emails I had a document from my company and at the bottom of the page was a reference number, and right in the middle of the reference number was ###1111 ###. Wednesday I was making checks with my voltage meter and the first check I made, showed 11.11 volts and then it bounced back and forth between 11.07 and 11.10. It never again showed the 11.11 reading. I did see 11:11 once on my watch either Thursday or Friday. Saturday I was in my sister’s kitchen and I walked past the coffee maker, I stopped, and went over to it to pour myself a cup of coffee. I looked at the base of the coffee machine and on the digital clock display was 3:33. For me it’s not just intriguing to see the number prompts, it’s also realizing how close I came to missing them.
  • Love and Peace to all  

           Nick

   01/11/07

  • I had it easy for 3 weeks, no real traveling.  333 seems to be the number of choice for me this week. The best case was on Monday when I pulled into a parking garage in Mobile Alabama by my hotel. I drove in and parked in a spot right there on the first level. But, I couldn't get rid of the feeling that it was not right. The feeling got stronger by the minute, so I pulled out and started going up to the next level. There were dozens of empty spots, but I just passed them all by. I even said to myself " What are you nuts!" I found myself on the third level which had no cars at all, I still drive halfway down and all of a sudden I get the urge to pull into a spot. I turn off the car and only then do I notice that each parking space has a number painted on wall in front of the car. Another Quote here " You got to be kidding me " I think my mouth stayed open as well. The number on the wall in front of me was 3 3 3. Shocked
     

   01/07/07

  • Hi all. Real quick one. My wife and I drove to my Sons house which is about one hour from our home. We went out for lunch and we placed our orders and while we were waiting, our drinks arrived. After a few minutes my wife said "I don't know if I should tell you this, but look at the serial number that's on the bottle of beer you have." Sure enough it had 1111 as part of the numbers.

    Later that day when we drove home she pointed out the license plate of the car we were passing. The 4 digits on the plate were 1111.

    Funny thing about this is, I don't think she realized the numbers were for her. She was the one that saw the numbers first. I'm sure that She is assuming that the prompts were for me.

    Everyone have a good Sunday

    Nick

     

 

   01/05/2007

  • I got lucky. The Friday trip was cancelled. This was a good thing since I would have been flying in some mighty rough weather today.

    So I'll be heading to Alabama on Monday instead. Yesterday was one of those Number days at every turn. The person I was with asked what time it was and after looking at my watch I was very happy to tell her 11:11. Very Happy

    Later that day my cell phone rang and the time on the display was 3:33 and then later that afternoon I checked the time again and it was 4:44.

    I had to print out some information that my office sent me and when it finished I saw that the last page showed it was 11 of 11 pages.

    That night I left or bedroom and was heading to my home office when I got the urge to turn around. I did and on the little table in the living room next to the bedroom door the clock showed 11:11.

    Funny thing, I never went back into the bedroom because I didn't remember why I had turned around to return to the bedroom. Well, we all know why.
    Very Happy

    Hope everyone has a great weekend.

    Love and Peace

    Nick

     

 

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