Do you dream about programming?

[randomusic]

I must have done too much programming lately. Last night I was dreaming about programming, data and objects shuffled here and there according to various rules, and I tried to get it all "working" :) Anyone else having such dreams occasionally? Magnus

[Keith Barrow]

Yes, I once even solved a real problem that way. I recently dreamed that the surround to the fireplace in my bedroom turned into a set of windows tabs and I had to get them in the correct order. That was disturbing.

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[randomusic]

He he, that reminds me of something similar but the other way around, in awake state. One of my screens was not in a good position, and I wanted to physically move it a bit to the side. But I was tired, really tired, so I tried to grab and move the screen with the mouse, you know, hold down the mouse button somewhere in the screen area and drag it a bit to the side. It did not work :) Magnus

[Michael Schubert]

randomusic wrote:

Anyone else having such dreams occasionally?

Yes, but I usually get distracted by a smoking hot brunette who really isn't interested in programming.

[NormDroid]

No.

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[Cedric Moonen]

When I started to work some years back, I was tracking memory leaks and during one night I dreamt that I had a memory leak in my own brain. That was a bit scary :~

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[Pete OHanlon]

Michael Schubert wrote:

smoking hot brunette who really isn't interested in programming

I should think not. I suspect the lady in question would be more interested in a fire extinguisher or the likes.

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[Pete OHanlon]

It's a shame you can't remember the outcome of that dream.

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[R Giskard Reventlov]

Sadly yes; usually when I've left work with an unsolved problem (which is not to say that the dream has ever helped me solve the problem).

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[Michael Schubert]

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

I suspect the lady in question would be more interested in a fire extinguisher or the likes.

Yes. Unfortunately, evil spirits wake me up each time once I start sharing her interests.

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

If something has really disturbed me at work, almost certainly I'll be dreaming about solving the issue. I'd be debugging in the dream. Those are nightmares.

“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

[NormDroid]

Ho ho ho, I'd bet he been dreaming of c# instead and he would of never encountered the problem.

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[Russell Jones]

I used to when I first started out. Now I just dream about getting the hell out of it!

[RugbyLeague]

I dream about programming rather a lot - it is always absolute nonsense - the odd thing is even in the dream I am aware it is nonsense but I persevere anyway. I always wake up irritated.

[Maximilien]

I'm dreaming about pointer insertion and buffer overflow ... read that like you want!! :-O

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Unfortunately the .NET guys can never dream of it. :laugh:

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Unfortunately his brain functionality is not written in C# for performance considerations. :)

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[Brady Kelly]

Even when I haven't been doing a lot of programming I have such dreams. I think they reflect the nature of what your mind is going through in symbolism most familiar to me.

[Brady Kelly]

Michael Schubert wrote:

smoking hot brunette

I also dream about them sometimes as well. :)

[randomusic]

I once read Freud's book about interpretation of dreams, and I think he would have said something similar to what you said.