Hey everyone,
I was just wondering if anyone has used LD’s to solve some kind of problem and if so, post your stories here! This isn’t a pre-cog thing, this is about a problem you personally had and were able to resolve through a dream.
I thought of this the other day when I was reflecting back to when I was in Calculus. While I don’t remember the dream being a lucid one (I had never heard of LD-ing back then) it was incredibly vivid and of significant aid.
I began the Calculus course (in high school) with a goal to get the scholarship upon graduation. What drove me to this was the fact that anyone I mentioned taking Calculus to told me I should drop it, I would do so horribly, etc, so I set out to prove them wrong.
Up until about the 4th out of maybe 6 unit exams we’d taken, I got 94% on. One day I was out of town for an orthodontic appointment while the class wrote the 5th test without me. When I came back the next day (Friday) they were given an additional 30 minutes+ to finish it up whereas I was just beginning mine. I was moved into the hall to write it, and at the end of the class (which was my final for the day) I was at the beginning of the 7th question. I was stumped! The question was unlike any we’d ever seen or practiced before!
What we were doing was graphing functions without a calculator. Heh, I don’t even remember the terms anymore, but basically, there was A LOT of work to get the final graph, points, concavity, and so forth. I took my paper in and said I could stay another 5 minutes if he wanted for me to finish, but he said that since the class got an extra half hour, I could have some time on Monday. I gave him my paper and went home. On the bus I slapped myself for not writing down the final question or something so that I could practice it at home.
Enter the subconcious. Saturday night I had a dream with the test paper before me. The question was right there, and I knew it was the actual question. I began solving it using the steps we had learned in the class. Derive it, x’s, y’s, limits, concavities, points of inflexion, and so forth. Before the dream ended, I sketched the graph on paper. The shape of the graph was like this: imagine a horizontal line which curves down into a trough, then curves back up and smooths over. I immediately woke up and wrote everything that I had seen on the dream paper on a piece of paper beside me without even having to redo or think about the math. I ran upstairs and punched in the same equation I was given in the dream into my graphing calculator software and the exact graph that I had sketched in the dream was computed.
It was incredible!! I had never seen a graph like that in my life, yet in my dream I could draw it out, find all the necessary points, limit, and everything, and the computer matched the same!!! On Monday I finished the question during my spare before Calculus in a matter of minutes, handed it in, he corrected it, and in 6th handed me back the test with a big 9-5 on it, the record grade for any of my Calculus exams. To go even further, upon graduation I was awarded the Rotary Calculus Scholarship with a 94% average.
Dreams are so crazy, and it ceases to amaze me what kind of power they can really have!!!
Please feel free to post your experiences!
