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A perfect (waking) example of this. I was paying for something by switch. The checkout person put my card in a machine, which generated some paper till roll. He handed me a pen with which to sign my name and complete the transaction.
I began to write my four-digit chip-and-pin number on the signature line. I formed the first stroke of the first number, realised my error, then blended it into my signature.
That's a good example of blurring the boundaries of things, mixing metaphors, in a way. It happens all the time at varying subconsious and conscious levels - transposing the attributes of one mechanism or process or entity onto another. As my anecdote shows, this activity need not be confined to slips of the tongue or to dreams.
A perfect (waking) example of this. I was paying for something by switch. The checkout person put my card in a machine, which generated some paper till roll. He handed me a pen with which to sign my name and complete the transaction.
I began to write my four-digit chip-and-pin number on the signature line. I formed the first stroke of the first number, realised my error, then blended it into my signature.
That's a good example of blurring the boundaries of things, mixing metaphors, in a way. It happens all the time at varying subconsious and conscious levels - transposing the attributes of one mechanism or process or entity onto another. As my anecdote shows, this activity need not be confined to slips of the tongue or to dreams.
