Thread: Working with number in dreams

I don't know if this would actually work, I once had an LD where I tried to send my father a message using a computer and even though I know the keyboard better than my own house almost it still is very unstable.

Yea mind just loves trolling you. I think the problem are not numbers themselves. The whole dream is very variable and it's more significant when you look at small things or more concrete things like letters or numbers.

I think the trouble with numbers lies more in memory than anything, though perhaps for the same reason -- their innate abstraction -- that you described in the OP, Cusp.

It isn't that the numbers are changing on us because of their material vagueness, I think, so much as it is that we have difficulty in dreams attaching usable metaphors to numbers of any kind of complexity. Come to think of it, we have the same problem in waking life, but at least in waking life we can "retain" our number generations by grabbing a piece of paper and a pencil. In dreams, writing them down tends to fail because memory doesn't supply enough information to our unconscious to hold the written stuff steady (though, oddly, if you forget about the meaning of the symbols on the paper, they will seem to remain unchanged for quite a while).

So I think that to retain numbers in dreams you need to produce a metaphor that your memory can both readily file and find files that relate to it. That Stonehenge-like image you use for lottery numbers is an excellent example of this, BTW.

^^Actually you could need just 10 digits to express any number right? 12 would be expressed in the metaphors of 1 and 2 or perhaps in the shape of an addition of two single digits. I don't think it could work good with large numbers to express complex sets. Could someone tell some examples when might it be useful?