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Dreaming about MATHS???

Dewdew

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:35 pm

I was working on my maths (calculus) assignment, last night, tell late.
As sometimes happens when coming across new theory, I just couldn't get past a certain step in several of the problems.

So I went to bed thinking I would have to ask one of my friends for help the next day.

But then when I woke up this morning, the first thing I thought was something that the professor had said in our lecture. Suddenly it all clicked, and I was able to finish the problem. Which I did right then.

So where did that thought come from? Was I dreaming about maths the whole night?
Has anything like this ever happened to you?

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:32 pm

well the brain is actually processing and learning while you are sleeping. So if you were really worried about those problems, chances are your brain was working at it while you weren't awake. It's standard. Similar thing happened to me while programming, I was stuck at some point and couldn't figure out how to fix the problem, so I took a nap, and awoke having had the answer 'come to me'.

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Baron von Turkeypants

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:46 pm

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Psh, that's never happened to me. It's happened to all of my math teachers/professors I've ever had. Never happened to me.

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:17 am

I've occasionally had times when I've dreamed that I was working on an assignment or something I had to do, then when I wake up I remember enough to have a good start on it.

I rarely remember my dreams though.

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Moo-ism

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:27 pm

Not lately. Most of my dreams are about violence and politics. crying I should read something lighter to have less nightmares.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:08 pm

I was talking to someone recently and they told me that the way to tackle a hard problem is
a) you read/study relevant material to the problem
b) you stop thinking about it and do something else
c) you get a break through
d) you solve the problem, or at least solve the next step to your problem.

Anyway it fits with my dreaming about maths, as the stop thinking about it is not that you actually stop thinking about it, but that you hand it over to your sub-concious mind to think about it. Then when it works out the step you are missing it will feed it back to you.

Isn't our brain such a wonderful thing?

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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:12 pm

When you sleep your brain deletes all the irrelevant information. So you are able to string thoughts together more easily.

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