Thread: Experiment: want help (quick)

Derivatives?

Stupid derivatives.

I tried a simple addition last night and I couldn't do it. It was only five numbers.

"Differentiate," you mean?

Also, I wonder if too much thought in a dream could cause premature awakening. After all, you are taking focus off of the dream itself.

Oops, wrong word

I visualized the number in front of me so I didn't take focus from the dream.

im not to bright in math, but a while ago i had a 25 minute long Lucid Dream and i did some math and my math skills where normal.

Cool idea.

I'll try this tonight.

The only problem is that it's hard to keep track of time in dreams.

Sounds like a great idea.

I did an equation before in a lucid dream and tried to remember it when I woke up so I could check to see if I solved it correctly. I couldn't remember it outside of the dream, but then I have trouble remembering intricate things when I wake up.

I've done something similar to this already. I was with a guy, on an overpass, staring at an intersection when it exploded in color. It was like a rainbow had hit it.


I was able to identify every color, and point out where they were to the guy because he couldn't see them. Another time, I was in a room with a cd player when it started playing Korn's "Coming Undone". It played almost exactly the same as the real song, except I forgot some parts of it, so it made up it's own lyrics, but otherwise it sounded fine.

Oh, one thing I forgot to add. This was a recent dream. I was Godzilla, I was walking through the ocean, heading towards a door in the air when I heard my mom's voice ask me a question, she said "How many winters are in 55 years?" and I couldn't think of the answer :/

I guess your logical skills aren't very bright in your dreams This is interesting.

So I finally WILDed today. Not a spontaneous one, but my first actual old-fashioned WILD. Pretty cool stuff. Because I rolled out of my bed as usual, I plugged my nose, then counted my fingers. The counting alone made me remember this thread. Here's the equation I came up with:

6x^3 + 9x^2

The answer I came up with:

18x^2 + 18something.

I was wondering about the equation. It seemed as if I had stolen it from the thread, but I didn't remember that as the answer (actually, I just realized that both equations contain the same numbers, different order!). So I changed the equation to 6x^3 + 4x^2, and came up with 18x^2 + 8something.

I don't remember if I had the exponents right for the second half. I know didn't screw up with the simple multiplication, however. Interesting that both equations omitted the superfluous constant 'b' at the end.

After I did that, I noticed my left eye was out. Actually, I mean "entire left side of vision." I think this was a product of my own superstition.

How come instead of an x you had 8something?

I think you need some refresher on calculus. Derivates are exact, there is no b constant, you are thinking of integrals and c is the most common variable for an unknown constant.

I wonder if you could ask your DCs moderate-complex math questions and have them answer correctly

Originally Posted by ninja9578

How come instead of an x you had 8something?

I think you need some refresher on calculus. Derivates are exact, there is no b constant, you are thinking of integrals and c is the most common variable for an unknown constant.

Why 8something instead of 8x? Heh, I was dreaming. You tell me! XD

I meant the "constant" part of the post like this: take a normal y=mx + b equation. 'b' doesn't matter when taking the derivative (if it's a number, not a variable, that is). When creating my problem, I automatically omitted 'b' from the original equation, because I know that it doesn't matter in the derivative.

My terminology is off, I know. As long as I can solve a problem with the information given, I'm satisfied.