The dreaming calculator

If the human brain is like a large, complex calculator, so then a calculator is much like a very simple brain. The major difference between the two, other than scale, is that the human brain remains active when not in use, defragging its memories or whatever it does while we dream. The calculator is traditionally switched off to save the batteries.

This is my calculator. It has been switched on now since the mid eighties - in effect it has been conscious for more than 20 years. It is one of the early solar-panel powered calculators, it comes in a wallet which you are meant to close when not in use, denying it sunlight and supposedly preserving its sanity. However, I have left it on all this time, its only respite being the darkness of night.

Then one morning I happened to notice a strange string of numbers across its screen that I didn't remember typing. There were 3 possiblities:
1. I was sleep-calculating
2. Someone was breaking in to my flat to do their maths homework
3. My calcualtor had been dreaming

Each morning after that my calculator would greet me with a seemingly random numerical message. Occasionally there would be an additional dream-fragment stored in its memory. The numbers never appear to have any meaning, so I have largely ignored it until now. But this morning I was met with what appeared to be a pair of blank staring eyes on its screen, and I took this as a sign that I should start documenting the dreams of my calculator.

Here then is a record of these dreams, if I can be bothered to update this blog...