I knew it. Sine and cosine.
If a tree forms a right triangle, as most I have seen do growing flat on the ground, then the height is the opposite side. The shadow it casts on the ground is the adjacent side. The hypotenuse forms from the far edge of the shadow with the height of the tree.
Euler's formula, I was just reading, tells me about how sine is the same as cosine but just 90 degrees out of phase.
Also, it corresponds with what I was visualizing with the curve of that symbol that appears to be the numeral zero with a horizontal line through the middle of it. I forget the name of that symbol.
So a sine wave rises and decreases vertically while a cosine wave is 90 degrees different from that. It is flat.
Of course, that was no where even close to how I actually determined the height of the tree.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/21/10 4:38 PM
At the very vague start of the dream that I think I woke up from earlier today I think, as I have been trying to remember today, that Bill Clinton gave me an assignment that had something to do with trees and so with a certain sense of confidence I was standing next to a treeline and I knew that I could determine the height of the trees, which were soaring above me, by measuring the length of the shadow on the ground. There was another dream sequence before that of which writing the last sentence made me think of but I cannot now remember that earlier dream sequence although I might remember it later. One problem I noted with my activity to determine the height of the trees, which all seemed generally the same height, was that the shadow of the tree I was going to measure stretched across a busy highway or major roadway. There were not a lot of cars going past at the time but there were just enough that I would not have time to keep the tape measure from being run over by a car and I did not want that to happen. I worked at it for a while and then I was on the other side of the road and I am not certain if I did get the shadow measured correctly. There are other scenes on that other side of the road and then I noticed that I had lost track of the shadow. I seemed to be too far down the dirt road I had been working on and I had been looking at the road and there were ruts in the road and standing water and I remember that I was stretching the tape measure and I was concerned about something and that concern might have been about snakes but I never did see anything.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/21/10 4:48 PM
After I noticed that I had lost track of the shadow there are some other details I notice around then but I am not clear on what happened next. I should have walked back the way I came but I seemed to travel through the woods in a direction of travel perpendicular to where I had been. None of the surroundings are specifically familiar but at the end of the dream I knew where I was. I seemed to have walked through the woods and I walked back out to that paved road again, which I seemed to have traveled parallel to while traveling from east to west, and I was standing there looking back towards the north-east and I was looking at that office complex building
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 March 2010 excerpt ends]
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:40 AM Pacific Time USA Wedneday 15 August 2012
