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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 241.1 | GREAT IDEA FOR A MOVIE! | BPOV10::COLLETON | | Thu Nov 13 1986 23:12 | 2 |
| CAN WE CALL YOU TRON? :^)
BILL
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| 241.2 | More on work-related dreams | NATASH::BUTCHART | | Fri Nov 14 1986 08:53 | 13 |
| Whenever I am working intensely on anything I will tend, if the
effort goes on long enough, to dream about it.
My favorite coding dream was reported to me by mu husband, a Principal
Software Engineer. He doesn't often remember dreams, but this time
he dreamt that he kept going to the computer room for his listings
and the operations staff kept giving him rabbits. Towards the end
of the dream he was sitting dejectedly in the lab with bunnies hopping
all around him. (This was during the debugging phase of a project
and the problems were multiplying faster than anyone could keep
track of.)
Marcia
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| 241.3 | Me too | AKOV68::FRETTS | | Fri Nov 14 1986 09:55 | 10 |
| I have had a couple of dreams like this. Unfortunately I don't
remember the details, though what I do remember is that I came
up with solutions to problems in the dream and was able to use
the solutions at work. This same thing also occurred when I
was taking night classes and was getting stuck on some homework
problems - I would wake up early in the morning with the answers
I needed.
Carole
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| 241.4 | Ditto... | COLORS::GARY | inclined to wear bedroom slippers... | Fri Nov 14 1986 11:06 | 11 |
| Yes, it hasn't happened recently, but when I was playing bridge alot (daily)
I would dream bridge problems (and solutions), in vivid black and red.
Come to think of it, the same thing happened when I was learning bliss...
-vicki
P.S. Marcia, what a delightful image... It certainly takes the cake!
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| 241.5 | My ex's experience. | ERLTC::COOPER | Topher Cooper | Fri Nov 14 1986 11:36 | 22 |
| I frequently have dreams about my computer work. It is a part of
my life and therefore part of my dreams, nothing memorable though.
In the early 70's though, I got my (then future, now ex) wife access
to our AI lab's PDP-10. She used it on her senior thesis which
was entitled something like "Literal, Figurative and Metaphorical
Terms in Aristophenes 'The Birds'". She entered manually, for every
word in the work the number of times it was used in each of three
ways. A lot of data entry to say the least.
She did this work over winter break while I was away visiting my
folks. This was her first exposure to computers. She used, for
data entry a ARDS storage CRT (precursor to the Tectronix), which
had a bright green phosphore, and worked almost day and night on
it.
By the end of the week, she told me, she was having a consitant
repeating dream. In the dream she was in a large open space,
surrounded by giant (8 feet) green numbers jumping, bouncing and
dancing.
Topher
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| 241.6 | | INK::KALLIS | Support Hallowe'en | Fri Nov 14 1986 11:37 | 7 |
| Re last several:
This isn't limited to coding. Often when we sleep our subconscious
mind works on a problem and we wake up with the solution.
Steve Kallis, Jr
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| 241.8 | Lambda Deer, Seeker of Visions | EXCELL::SHARP | Say something once, why say it again? | Thu Nov 20 1986 11:09 | 14 |
| I almost always dream about software when I'm working hard on it. I don't
know whether it facilitates or merely manifests a breakthrough understanding
of the problem. Like .0 I find myself as a data element personified, riding
through the program structure, or alternatively as the algorithm
personified, floating through the data structures.
It's a fun kind of dream for me, I don't remember experiencing this as a
nightmare. In fact, I actively seek out this kind of dream. It's like the
modern high-tech version of the vision quest: I go for days on minimal food
and sleep, shunning all contact with others of my tribe, concentrating on my
desire for knowledge, until my dream ally appears to guide me through
the visionary world.
Don.
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| 241.9 | RE 241.8 | EDEN::KLAES | Is anybody out there? | Thu Nov 20 1986 12:07 | 20 |
| This is not meant to be funny, but your dream sounds somewhat
like the 1982 movie TRON.
It had an interesting premise of an intelligent but evil (why
are they always?) computer called the Master Control Program (MCP).
It was taking over numerous other companies' programs, and would
force programs to become part of it, or destroy them in video games
(in the computer world, everything was anthromorphized). One of
the ways it controlled other programs was to tell them that the
"belief" in having users (i.e., gods) was a lie, and only the MCP
world existed. The story focused around a user brought into the
computer world kind of like the Messiah, and his assisting a program
called Tron who was trying to contact his "god" and defeat the evil
MCP.
Didn't ya ever wonder what's REALLY going on inside all those
VAXes? :^)
Larry
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