not Frankenstein

I had an odd dream last night. I wish I could remember more of it. It seemed important, though as I think about it, I’m not sure why it would seem so.

What I do remember is something about numbers, changing the numbers of items, I.D. numbers or something. Mostly the numbers were being changed by adding digits. Like, if some item was #142, it would be changed to #1,421 or maybe #14,210. I don’t recall what the items were nor the setting. Though I think it may’ve been something to do with a lab, something scientific.

Mainly I think that because the other thing I remember was a guy cloning himself, or making a copy, or perhaps just a look-a-like. It was sort of a mad scientist type of guy. He had a lab; it wasn’t like a Dr. Frankenstein’s castle with lightening flashing in the background. But it was just this guy working alone, no assistants, as you’d expect in a lab. He wasn’t growing the clone from his cells, but rather by injecting his cells and a bunch of other stuff—chemicals or whatever—into the body of some medium-sized animal. It was the size of perhaps a cat or rabbit, but definitely smaller than an adult human. Yet, whatever he was injecting was making the animal grow larger and look like him. The animal was unconscious, so I don’t know if it got any smarter or self-aware. I sort of have the impression that the idea was to make it smarter and such, to be able to use it as a double or decoy or…I don’t something like that.