somewhere else
she dreams about someone she used to know. she used to dream about him a lot, but not so much now. she had the biggest crush on him, for the longest time. it was easier not to see him because the crush was always there, would not go away, and it made her blush and stutter and look like an idiot. so she would dream about him, and the dreams were usually carnal, and she would savour them, but not otherwise encourage the crush. still, it was there, even after six years of not seeing him every day, so it was better not to see him.
she dreams about him, and it seems she is re-enacting something that is supposed to have happened, but even in the dream she knows it only happened in her imagination (the study), but it seems he knows all about it. so she recites the list of numbers, knows that this is what she will be useful for - knowing the numbers (but also aware that this has not been discovered yet) - and she calls them "Prozac numbers" because she's forgotten what they're supposed to be called.
when she dreams about people she knows, but in this kind of setting, where they know about things she knows only exist in her head, she calls these dreams Circuits, and long ago decided that it all really happens, somewhere else, in another dimension, another plane of existence. re-inventing astral travel, if you like. so once there have been Circuits with someone, she treats them differently in waking hours: there's a shared secret, even if they're not aware of it.
no wonder they look at her funny.