THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, March 6, 1995 TAG: 9503040036
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E1 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY EARL SWIFT, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 77 lines
In dreams I walk with you
In dreams I talk with you
In dreams you're mine, all of the time
We're together in dreams.
Roy Orbison: Lovesick sap or would-be Lotto jackpot millionaire?
His ballad ``In Dreams'' worships a woman the late singer could never win, but it may also hide a formula for winning hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of dollars.
It's all explained in ``Lottery! Your Dream Ticket,'' a new book that assigns numbers to the images that crowd your brain while you sleep. You can flip through the paperback, find the things you've dreamed and use their corresponding numbers to win fortunes in lotteries the world over.
The fact that in the song Roy dreamed of walking, for instance, means he should have put money on the number 5. That he talked in his dream means he'd have done well with 37. He was a singer, meaning that 2 and 10 would work.
The song's about unrequited love. That's tied to the number 36, according to the book. And he was singing to a beautiful woman. That's a 38.
That makes the six winning Virginia Lotto numbers suggested by Roy's dream 2-5-10-36-37-38.
Due out this month, the book purports to be an English translation of ``La Smorfia,'' an 18th century Italian guide to playing the numbers. It joins dozens of pamphlets and magazines that insist lotteries are not governed by chance but by numerological patterns, or horoscopes, or geographical coordinates.
These claims might give pause to the thinking reader. Still, this latest addition is admirable for its completeness. Arranged alphabetically, it lists what are surely all common dream images and quite a few besides.
Dreaming of a pretty woman, as Orbison often did? Play 1, 6 or 30. A woman at the door should prompt a wager on 42. A woman in bed gets a 24; a woman in love a 2 or 5. A ``woman on parade'' gets a 35.
This insistence on detail extends to simpler images. While dreaming of a fish means you should play 23, dreaming about a living fish suggests a 29. If the fish is underwater in the dream, play 31. If it's in a lake, 32. In an aquarium, 6.
Individual species get their own numbers. Flounder: 5. Perch: 6. Lox: 25. Your dreams about monkfish are telling you to play 35, unless the monkfish is cooked, in which case you should try 18. If the monkfish is cooked by boiling it, however, consider 15.
Being an Italian work, human monks figure prominently. The book provides numbers for dreaming about one monk (43), many monks (33) and an uncle who's a monk (44). A hug between monks is a 25. Taking a fancy to a monk gets 31. The tears of a monk: 8.
On the subject of clergy, it also says that dreaming of a fight between nuns means you should play 3, an argument between a priest and a salesman begs a 9, and envisioning a ``bishop in vehicle'' makes a winner of 29.
We sometimes dream of the weird, and here the weird is well-represented. Abusing coffee in a dream is a 10. The Air Force Academy? 32.
There's even a number for dreams about numbers: 2. You people dreaming of the number ``18'' might be tempted to do the obvious, and play 18. Don't do that. Play 2.
Unless the number you dream about is ``2,'' in which case you should play 32. There are a few other exceptions. If you dream of ``3,'' don't play 2, either - try 22. For dreams about ``4,'' play 7. If you dream of ``7,'' play 12. And if you dream of ``12,'' play 29.
Let's say that you dream of playing five lottery numbers. Again, avoid the obvious. There's a special number for dreams about the act of playing five lottery numbers: This time, you do play 18.
The price for all this wisdom: $3.99.
Not too big a number, considering that the book is guaranteed to work.
After all, you can bet somebody is going to get rich off this thing. ILLUSTRATION: Color drawing by Janet Shaughnessy, Staff
by CNB