I recently commented much of this on Natalia's 3-3-3 post, but decided I wanted to expand a bit on it, so moved it here to create a new thread for it.
Numbers do follow me, especially 11:11 for a few decades, but not 3-3-3, or so I thought—this is about as sneaky as it gets, and I since I only put this together recently as I was thinking on some of the new experiences I've been having, It seems clear to me that this was something that I was only meant to piece together now—another way point in awakening, and making the connection/confirmation to more of what our cousins above have said: that many of us have been set on paths, marked, etc., but because of free will it's still up to us to parse things out and choose what path we follow.
So, here are the three specific events that triggered my 3-3-3 realization:
1973 - I had a very bad hallucinatory attack—the only one I've ever had. I saw all manor of faces, creatures, and other imagery, but I've never been able to recall anything specific—it was an extremely traumatic experience, and as best I can recall, I may not have had aphantasia up until then. I was 8 years old. Up to that point, I also remember that I regularly felt presences, saw faces, heard voices, and experienced a LOT of intense deja vu moments, too. Consequently, I was quite afraid of the dark, had very bad and intense recurring dreams, and was utterly terrified of images of eyeballs and a myriad of other things.
1983 - I had a time slip/OBE experience. I woke up to my alarm and tried to get up, but I couldn't move. I could however, see the clock, and the time was about half an hour before the alarm was suppose to go off. I felt an incredibly intense energy vibration/shiver go through me, and the clock started to speed forward through the numbers and when the clock caught up with the alarm, I could move again.
1993 - I had my first, and still only, very obvious anomalous sighting (no longer true as of last week). While traveling to and event with my wife at the time, it was night time, and I was in the passenger seat just watching things go by. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a very bright light above a farm house about 100 yards or so off the side of the highway. The light was a brilliantly white cone that lit up the side of the farm house and part of a nearby tree as bright as day. I initially thought that it had to be a helicopter, but I couldn't see anything above the light cone—no other lights, no rotor wash in the tree, nothing, and the cone of light was stationary. Then, as if noticing that I noticed it, the cone of light "rolled up"—I don't have better words—not turned off or dimmed, but literally pulled up like a ladder, like it was a solid object. I sat there dumbfounded thinking to myself "light doesn't do that."
Of course, now I see the 3-3-3 from the end digit of each year, but I also realize that 8 plays an equal part in it, as I was 8, 18, and 28 respectively when these things happened. These have always been important incidents that I've remembered well, but didn't put the numerical significance, or that they could even be related, together until now.
Another oddity, but I can't remember exactly when it happened, although it was in the early 2000s: as I mentioned that deja vu was intense for me as a child, well that followed me throughout my life, up until I had a few episodes that didn't feel right happen relatively close together, and I remember wondering if I could will myself to not go along with it and purposely alter the time line as it were. It culminated in a deja-vu moment soon after, that I felt extreme danger in as it started, although the circumstances were totally benign and mundane. I remember that I truly felt like my life was in danger, and I forced myself to override the experience and do something different than what was expected. I haven't had a single deja vu experience since. I really think I dodged something big, and now, thinking on it, I believe I may have been warned by one of our lofty cousins. There are a lot of other possibilities, too, that have come to light because of what we've been learning—could it have been an echo/glimpse into a parallel life/dimension, or even swapping places.
I guess what I'm getting at here, is a suggestion for us all to look at things that have happened to us in the past that we may have had a different idea about what happened at the time, and shine a new light on them, to see if they reveal anything to us unexpected under our new and growing understanding.
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I also have had the feeling many of the random "strange" and seemingly normal events, personality traits, thoughts, and interests throughout my life are coall3ssing into something that is begining to have a greater meaning. Thank you for posting. I'm glad we have this community to share and corroborate eachother in some ways.
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Edit: makes me think it's ok to have no free will(except how we choose to view/feel the events), given time is a "loop". There is no doing, only happening that we experience. Idk just feelings...