Synchronicities: My Angel Number Experiment

Angel Numbers Experiment
This post is for education and entertainment only. 

I’m being stalked by angel numbers. I see them all the time, every day. At first, I thought it was cognitive bias, the brain’s tendency to prioritize things we find important. But I realized the frequency was far beyond normal.

I ran a test and collected 10 screenshots of any repeating or sequential numbers I saw on Instagram in 3 minutes. This confirms that I’m not just seeing them in my mind, they’re tangible physical evidence. 

I consulted with ChatGPT and uploaded the screenshots with timestamps. The AI model confirmed that this probably was not likely to be random, and we explored some other possible causes for this phenomenon.

UPDATES

I’ve confirmed that the odds are astronomical. I uploaded my latest tests to and the results were surprising. Read the conversation with ChatGPT and review the original screenshots below.

Here are some of the highlights of the ChatGPT conversation.

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1: What’s Randomness?

Randomness measures the lack of predictability in an event or outcome. It’s a measure of probability, like flipping a coin, gives you a 50/50 chance of getting heads or tails.

But if you flip a coin 1000 times, you’ll get 50% heads and 50% tails. Entropy is the measure of disorder or uncertainty in a random system. Size matters in randomness. Subatomic levels appear chaotic, but the larger the scale the more predictable and less random things seem.

What we think of as random is actually a pattern in disguise. There’s order in chaos we can’t perceive. Particles seem random, but they follow probabilistic rules we can measure.

2: Increasing Frequency

In the second experiment, I scrolled for angel numbers in blocks of a few minutes at a time. This process confirms I can replicate the results consistently.

According to ChatGPT, it’s basically impossible to see that many, in that short of time, twice in a row. It means I could be doing it on demand, or the numbers are following me.

Instagram’s algorithm could be rounding numbers to repeating digits somehow. I see them on other platforms, but perhaps this is a common programming practice.

If that’s the answer, it doesn’t account for how often I see them offline, but that’s a different experiment. I’m only confirming for now that the number aren’t random.

Conclusion

I don’t pretend to know why this is happening, that’s what the experiment is for. I do find it amusing when they show up, so perhaps I have an emotional bias as well.

This is a fun experiment that you can try yourself. You will develop more focus and awareness of angel numbers and can record and compare your own results.

Always be curious about the world around us. The greatest mysteries are right in front of us, waiting to be uncovered. There’s magic in the so-called mundane.

 

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