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Alarm.

Sleep.

Dream.

Alarm.

Dream.

You are dreaming. You are dreaming that you are dreaming. You are dreaming that you woke up from a dream, hit the alarm, and went back to dreaming. It's a dream within a dream.

If that last sentence rings any bells then you have received  information that allows you to get more meaning from it than someone who has not seen the movie "Inception". Billy's blog post #4 gives us his insight into “how one sees information as giving a meaning”. The in-class demonstration of different waveforms shows how meaning can be relative. Providing someone with the information of a song, what it looks like as a waveform, is completely different than hearing the song. (unless of course you have the information to turn a waveform into a song in your head). By giving us insight to what the songs “mean”, we both look at the waveform and see different things. I saw the waveform of an unknown song. Dr. Edwards saw the waveform of a song he chose because he liked it and had fond memories of it. Sometimes there is more meaning to the message than you have information for.

Meaning can also be misinterpreted but because we can pair the information with context, we can usually understand the message.

This is the word ghoti. You know, the one that swims, tastes really good and looks like this ><>?

With the information and context that we use when reading, we read it as goaty or gotty. In order to aim for misinterpretation, this is the breakdown. The “gh” produces an “f” sound like in rough. The “o” produces an “ih” sound like in women. The “ti” produces a “sh” sound like in the word nation. All of these misinterpreted sounds combined produces the word fish after I have provided you with the information and context for this particular “word”.