I remember, recently, that I was doing math in my dreams. I don't remember the exact results at all, but I think I was calculating my grades, like I often do IRL. Haha, I don't know if that really answers your question... |
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I doubt anyone reading this has ever tried this, but can dream characters do math? I sure they could do simple things that you have memorized like 2 + 2 = 4, but do you think they could do problems like 13 x 17 or something like that? |
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I remember, recently, that I was doing math in my dreams. I don't remember the exact results at all, but I think I was calculating my grades, like I often do IRL. Haha, I don't know if that really answers your question... |
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That's an interesting question. I actually had a lucid dream where a DC and I were playing a math game of some kind which involved adding/subtracting numbers. Although the DC in that dream was a sort of creepy, disembodied voice... |
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Thanks DuB for that link, that was really interesting! |
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this is a (low priority) goal of mine, i think it would be interesting to know if i could do a bit of calculus in a dream. |
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I decided to try this last night and I was surprised at the results. |
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Last edited by John11; 04-26-2009 at 01:58 PM.
Very interesting question indeed. The subconcious knows more than we do so who knows what could happen. What would happen if in a lucid dream you found a calculator and typed the following, |
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You could confrim it when you wake up. |
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I don't see why that would be hard... I has seen many DCs do maths in dreams, mostly because I like to go and study in schools at lucids to see what I can find and has done operations myself, not that hard or at least not for me. |
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That's awesome that you tried it! Thanks for your input. I guess the results aren't as spectacular as I was hoping, but that's one piece of information closer to understanding lucid dreaming. |
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I think the key here is getting the answer through a medium that your subconscious trusts, aka a calculator. If you do a problem on paper, it will be just as effective as doing a problem in your head in WL because you have to remember what you write down for it to exist in a dream. With a calculator, you are trusting an object in the dreamworld to perform the operation, aka your subconscious. I hypothesize that the answer will be incorrect, but who knows? If I can get my hands on a calculator in DW, I will first do simple problems, then increase the complexity gradually. This will minimize any experimental error. |
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Dream on...
What I mean is write down something like: |
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I see what you mean. In that case, I don't see any reason why you couldn't. |
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Dream on...
Getting DC's to supply me with objects always works for me. It takes the burden of me having to believe anything and puts it on them. Hence, for all practical purposes, a calculator is essentially an inanimate DC. All I have to do is punch in some numbers and let it figure out how to come up with the answer. We still don't know how powerful the subconscious is. I'm sure that there's a limit to how "smart" it can be but as we all know, it's pretty darned clever. It knows answers that we in our conscious state do not know. |
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This is a great thread! I wish I had something better to contribute. I had a partially lucid dream where I was solving what I think was a quadratic equation by writing it down long handed. I remember that I was not able to read what I wrote down after a few lines of calculations. |
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ha well I had a non lucid dream a couple of weeks ago in which me and two other friends won £50,000 in a competion. We had to split it between 3 and I got a calculator out and the answer came to £21,225 each! it seems a bit odd that's it's an easibly workable problem and my subconscious didn't know the answer! |
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I actually have tried doing math in LD's just to see if its possible..And yes. It is. Only simple things though, like 2+3=5. Not much past that. |
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I tried doing maths in my normal and lucid dreams. For what I can say, maths in normal dreams is almost impossible for me (I once dreamt of a math test and well.. I failed miserably, got very nervous etc). In lucids, its different. I can do some simple tasks like 20x10 oder something, but not any where I have to think hard even iRL. |
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