And forget everything the next morning. No, I’m not partying nor drinking, nor even hanging out with people. I’m looking at my math homework now, which I was struggling to finish last night. Right in the middle of a math problem, here’s what I have written, in pencil and scrawled in strange shapes, as if these words were numbers or mathematical symbols.
“Has a plasma TV”
(Immediately to the left of this is a double integral.)
“high-response really cool all.”
“If you’re busy this week, [break] good for all”
“details on Google”
“belows thanksgiving”
“Floor [unreadable] mtg”
This is so weird that I have to scan this. It’s shocking.
Seriously, I can’t believe I wrote this. I must have a second mind that takes over when I stay up too late. Maybe it’s my night-time mind. Normally, this stuff would stay in my head: it would probably be processed to create my dreams. But when I don’t sleep, there’s no chance for dreams, so I get this dream-like state. And it’s really a second mind separate from my daytime one: I don’t remember this. It’s vaguely familiar, but I do not remember it.
Update: the next page has the word “Sorority” at the top, followed by “11/6/06″. I have no idea what that date has to do with anything (this was written yesterday, 11/15/06). Oh, and it has “Intel” randomly thrown in the middle, too.
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That’s awesome.
andrew247, yes, I had noticed that too. The math is wrong.
I can’t read it very well, but from what I can make out, you have:
r^2 = 2
r= 1/2
The square root of 2 wasn’t 1/2 last time I checked.
Dude that’s kind of scary. I thought I was crazy.
I have had similar experiences. When I was in college taking notes, half asleep, the notes do not make sense. Or when I am telling Amy a story, and I fall half asleep, I start to say weird things. Interesting that in my mind, it made sense, but what comes out doesn’t.
What I want to know is, are your math answers correct? Did you not realize those random notes were there till the next morning? It is amazing that while you are half asleep writing jumbled words, there is a part of you that can think clearly enough to solve math problems. Thinking back, did you think you were working on math straight through or did you realize you fell asleep along the way?