23 Enigma

The "23 Enigma" is the Discordian belief that allthose out, only the one that is significant gets
events are connected to the number 23, givenrecognized. I also do this with 1:38 daily. 138 has
enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter.become such a thing with me and my wife that she
The idea behind this is to get you to think. Have youwats the number tattooed and is always saying,
ever bought a new car, and then suddenly realized"Play the lotto!".
that every other car on the road seems to be justWhat this means is something bigger though. There is
like yours!? Or found out about a new band, and theninformation, concepts, theories, etc., that when we
realize that they are everywhere, you can't escapehear them, we overlook them, or just nod our head
the song!?in a zombie-like fashion. But had we just learned that
That's idea behind 23. There is no real meaning,concept, it would stand out as a strange coincidence
obviously, it's a random number. But what itthat we are hearing it again. The simple fact is that
represents is something huge.we now understand it, it's not the first time we had
We take in information from all around us every day,access to the information, it's the first time that it
but what we don't realize is that a lot of thiswasn't filtered out!
information seems to be edited out if it meansBased on this, I bet you recognize the number 23
nothing to us. Everyone has tunnel vision. Within ourthe next time it is in your visual range. But more than
world some things are of great importance to us,that, experiment… look up something on Wikipedia,
some less, and some things we don't know about.read all about it. Then follow up by finding more
The things that we don't know about are ALLinformation on another site. Now that you have
around us, but until we take notice they are filteredthese facts, or theories, or whatever it may be, you
out.WILL notice that someone else mentions them. A
The cars on the road are the same cars that werefriend, a radio DJ, someone behind you in line...
there the day before; you just had no reason tosomeone will be talking about the thing you just
notice them. That song has played in the same roomlearned about.
with you before, but you had no reason to takeWhat's even better, and more fully proves the point,
notice.is that you will notice that it was mentioned on your
My number is 138 and 1031. I played in a band calledfavorite CD, or movie, or book. And you heard it
Eerie Ln. for a few years and everything wasbefore, you just edited it out... you then suddenly
centered on Halloween and 1031. So now I noticerealize that it's impossible to even comprehend the
1031 everywhere, I tend to look at the clock atamount of the information that you have edited out
exactly 10:31 regularly. I might have looked at thein a lifetime. "Reality Tunnel" truly does seem to be a
clock at 10:29, then again at 10:34, my brain just editsfitting label for our consciousness!