Argüelles interprets this calendar as part of what he calls a 'radiogenetic game board' that relates to both the I-Ching, the 64-unit DNA code, and many other "divinatory" systems, including the cosmology of Ibn al-Arabi of the 28 lunar mansions and the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot.

The seven day names are Dali, Seli, Gamma, Kali, Alpha, Limi, and Sillio.

This allows the mathematical system of the calendar, which Argüelles calls the "synchronic order", to remain intact.

In the original Mesoamerican calendar, there were 13 days not part of any month at the end of a 52-year cycle to account for leap years.

The basis of the Dreamspell Calendar is that time is not linear, but cyclic, and so does not require a strict "numbering" of years.

However, Argüelles recently address this issue because many followers of the calendar inquired how to number the days.

On the Tablet of the Inscriptions at Palenque a date of 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol can be inferred – otherwise known as 21 October 4772, almost 3000 years in the future.

[6] According to José and Lloydine Argüelles, two of the main purposes of the Dreamspell calendar are: The anthropologist Will Black conducted research into José and Lloydine Argüelles’ Planet Art Network (PAN) for several years.

In his 2010 book Beyond the End of the World – 2012 and Apocalypse, Black documented a general loss of interest in Dreamspell and in PAN.

Black points out that as general interest in the 2012 phenomenon increased as a result of the proximity of the "end date", the significance of PAN and the value placed on Argüelles’ ideas waned.