Dream Logic

Princess Alice

In a recent dream, I had the "brilliant" idea of color-coding signs for downtown freeway on-ramps. Ramps that led westbound would be red, and ramps that red eastbound would be blue.

Simple enough, right? Well, here's the thought process I used to arrive at it:

1. The downtown onramps are, by definition, in the city's central business district.
2. Because they're onramps and not off-ramps, anyone using the ramps would be doing so to leave the CBD.
3. The time of day when most people will want to leave the CBD is late afternoon...around 5 p.m.
4. The sun sets in the west, so at 5 p.m. the sun will be further to the west than the east.
5. The sun is hot.
6. Therefore, "west" should be denoted with a warm color and "east" should be denoted with a cool color.

...so yeah. It took me a while after I woke up to realize just how convoluted that was.

lee4hmz

Reminds me of how Florida's US route signs were all color-coded at one point.

Imipolex G

insane princess logic

Tanya

Dream logic for me implies adding up the number of bright colors so that I can package them up and return them for bigger and better bright colors.