Do you dream about programming?

Jakob Olsen

Only when i fall asleep at work...

dazfuller

Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? ... look again.

LucianPopescu

Yes, that's right, i have dreams like that and most of the time the dream solves the problems i had during the day and when i wakeup i try and it works very nicely :))

stackemedia

I usually dream about programming when I'm really tired - and I'm always tired now (one two year old and one 5 month old == no sleep). I've been dozing on the bus and CSS keeps flying around in-front of me, and a keep thinking about things in in terms of CSS. I've also dreamt I was in Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament. - I think I spend too much time in-front of my PC, lol. :~

jsc42

I, too, have fallen asleep and solved coding problems whilst trying to get my baby to go to sleep (he is now in his twenties doing a doctorate - sponsored by an American company called Microsoft - so it must be hereditary). I even woke up from anasthetics after a minor operation with code running through my mind. In both instances, I managed to recall the code and it worked! However, the most beautiful, elegant algorithms that swirl in front of me whilst asleep (mainly whilst in the bath!) vanish on waking. :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :omg: (sorry - just had a good dream - must code it up).

Chamu Matumbura

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

I'd be debugging in the dream

It's high time you consider debugging the dream itself!!! ;P

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Zamaro

yes... that's my recurring nightmares.... <pre>internal static class ZamaroDreams { internal void Dream() { foreach(Dream dr in DreamCollection) { if (dr.IsNightmare && dr.IsAboutCoding) { dr.Show(); } } ZamaroDreams.Dream(); // recurring infinite loop } }</pre> :wtf:

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rubinstu

I high school when I was in my "second phase" of programming (the first on a TRS-80 COCO when I was 7-12 years old, the third now as a professional), I would go on massive programming binges. When I would get stuck on the kind of problem where you just try things over and over (and over and over...) for hours at a time, it would creep into my dreams. I would go through the problem in my sleep repeatedly and it was exhausting. You never get a break, even while sleeping. Occasionally (very rarely, and never when you need it), the solution would come in a dream! On a side note, after reading about some sleep and cognitive studies, as well as from my personal experience, I have concluded that the best way to write a lot of code efficiently is to -- code less and sleep more! Between staying up late (1:00 AM) on the computer and having kids waking up (6:00 AM), even though I don't feel tired, my brain is certainly not working optimally. When I do go to bed early (i.e. before 11:00) consistently for a few nights, the quality and speed of my work is much better. I have also found that 1/2 hour on the treadmill in the evening gives me a couple hours of extra brain energy at night. And my dreams are about friendly women, and not unfriendly pointers... Stuart

secorbett

Programming is not something that I dream about. I do tend to think about it a lot while on a long run or bike ride. It's never specifics, just architecture concept stuff.

Scott E. Corbett Software Engineer/Analyst

Battlehammer

I dream about not programming.

onemorechance

I have had them on occasion. The most memorable one was when a dream actually helped me solve a problem I was having with my C++ code. Of course, that was over a decade ago, and I doubt it will ever happen again.

Owen37

randomusic wrote:

Anyone else having such dreams occasionally?

Regularly. Not as bad as the dreams I used to have when I was in college and I had a Calculus class that ended at 10pm: I used to dream that I was an Integral. It was always really weird to be dreaming that a concrete object (me) was embodied in an abstract mathematical concept (really abstract while trying to get my mind around it!). I usually ended up with my body twisted into the integral squiggle at some point.... :laugh:

Sivajish

I get dreams about any programming problems I had during the day and I am usually successful solving it in my dreams. Its amazing how dreaming about the problem works for me.

Steve Mayfield

Isn't there an open source project called vdd - Visual Dream Debugger? (or was that a version description document) :confused: :laugh:

Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

RugbyLeague

You are lucky. I just get nonsense :(

zych

Yes, I had a programming dream last night. In the dream I was able to solve a complicated programming problem that I couldn't seem to figure out during the day. Isn't it funny how our brains work? Now I just have to convince my boss that I'll be more productive if I sleep at my desk.

LingonberryTart

Sadly, yes I do. I have dreams where programming and "real-world" concepts collide. I've been known to dream about "dimming up" a casserole, for example...casserole.meat = "hamburger", casserole.sauce = "marinara", casserole.starch = "penne", casserole.cheese = "mozzarella". I also recently had a dream where I was dismayed to find I'd paid the electric bill in test, not production. I probably need professional help.

Fenshaw

Years ago, I had a period of dreaming in binary. Endless strings of 1's and 0's and nearly going mad trying to parse them into meaningful instructions. X|

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KennZAney

What ever I am working on at work, I tend to dream about some nights. If I've had to hassle with my time entries, I spend part of the night dreaming about reviewing my time entries to be sure they are correct. :doh:

Plamen Dragiyski

Once I was dream to be coding the project that I do for myself. Actually a snippets of the code I saw in the dream were quite useful. From now on I suppose relaxing (and sleeping) makes the work to go better :laugh: