Statistics for Dreamers

 Statistics for Dreamers

by Elena Herman

Problem: Freud charges $12.59 per book and Elijah charges a pang of isolation for The Interpretation of Dreams. Let C= the amount of memory that can be trusted and E= the number of dirty mugs standing sentry at the edge of the bed. Find the probability that a randomly selected blanket will lock your mind in under an hour. From our earlier work we know that MC= a dream of rain falling inside means what you don't understand is overflowing and NE= talking roadkill means the people you know are also wearing down. And it's easy to show that SE= tonight the message comes as a flicker in a dim school bathroom, the snowdrift too literal on bare calves, blood steaming from mouth to nose-- her laughter sounding outside.

Define SE when you wake. Calculate and interpret the meaning.