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A while back I was neck deep in learning C programming, and would spend hours every night working on various programs. It got so bad at one point that I actually had a dream of just C source code. I can't remember what exactly the code was, but it was the most bizarre dream I've ever had.
Anyones input on this is greatly appreciated, as it still puzzles and confuses me at times.
Umm, yeh, this has happened to me tons of times. It's usually just on the current project I'm working on, and when I can't figure out what the heck is going on that's making it not work, I sometimes dream of solutions and wake up immediately to go fix my problem. 9/10 times it works. ;)
What really gets me is when I'm deep at work at a project in VB, I'll get stuck at a problem and decide to give it a break for a while.
I'll go out and have a smoke, come back in and stop at the john before I come back to coding. Never fails, I can see the re-written code in my head while I'm sitting there, but by the time I get back to my desk the solution escapes me.
Now THAT is wierd.
I recently drempt that I had invented a cure for death that involved cloning the body and storing peoples minds on a Maxtor HDD (Don't ask me why Maxtor - I think they were just the cheapest). It all made 100% total sense and it was absoultely garunteed to work - till I woke up. ;)
I remember I was trying to release the whole thing under an open source licence but my business partner was trying to sell it to the highest bidder (which, if you knew my business partner, you would find hilarious).
Dreaming about code is normal - well normal for me at any rate - and certainly more normal that the dream which I outline above.
Cool, at least now I don't feel like so much of a freak. Now if only I could remember what the code was...
Hrmm, well there was the time that I dreamed that JP and Brad came to my house and had a steak dinner with me... Now thats bad! ;) :)
well they say that your dreams are tapping directly into your subcontius and that they are your clearest form of thinking...... but if i go any further i think this threadll have to be moved to the cosmos forum......Quote:
Originally posted here by jehnx
Umm, yeh, this has happened to me tons of times. It's usually just on the current project I'm working on, and when I can't figure out what the heck is going on that's making it not work, I sometimes dream of solutions and wake up immediately to go fix my problem. 9/10 times it works. ;)
I was fixing a hideous pointer bug in some code once. It took me two days to isolate the problem. I had a dream where I was being chased by this little guy that looked like the cartoon drawing from the old 7UP adds. I think he was meant to be some sort of null pointer on steroids or something. Anyway, it had me waking up in a cold sweat.
On the plus side, it made me even more keen to find the bug. I don't think I could last more than one night being chased by the evil null pointer man. Maybe I'm just nucking futs?
That's some funny doo-doo, w/ yer dream smirc. . .null pointer man on steroids. . . :D
Dreams have never helped me with coding anything, that's always come in a flash of inspiration, where you smack yourself on the forehead and say God D*mn and Eureka at once. . .I gotta weird dream though. . .alright, I'm like, on the moon or something, and I'm some kinda tripped out antigravity farmer, in a greenhouse the size of Delaware, I slowly float towards a long line of plants. . .tomatoes the size of a basketball. . .big struggle trying to pick one in zero-g, finally get the thing off the stem. . .take a big bite, it's really juicy and has that really ripened texture. . .I think 'needs salt'. . .and then I wake up.
d3l3t3d > thats pretty strange, like LoggOff said, dreams are your clearest form of thinking, so I wonder what brought that dream on?
Omgoosh-koss, hope that's not the case here, cause it's recurring, and it's actually really pleasant. Guess you could go all Fruedian or Jungian on it, but you could prolly do the same with everyone's and take what you get from it badly.
I've had a similar experience with a dream in HTML. At the time I was coding quite a few pages, staring at code all day to the point where I would close my eyes and still see it burned into my retinas. *LOL*
I don't remember a whole lot about it, but it was kind of Matrix like, people with streaming code, and in the dream I had a laptop, and as I changed things, people disappeared or things appeared. Very odd.
Maybe it is a sign that if you try a bit harder you'll have a great program on your hands.
It's happened to me a lot. Once, I had to write some code for source highlighting in VB and the code I had written was unbelievably inefficient. I go to sleep that night and BAM! the code comes to me. Needless to say, I jumped out of bed and coded it in immediately. And the code worked (as usual).
Cheers,
cgkanchi
Neo, you are ready, save us now.
heh.. just kidding.
I also have dreamed code, though I am only a dabbler, learning enough of whatever language I need to work with to get my project finished(usually recycling others code heavily). I only need to program once in a great while, but if I have been working on a project long enough, sometimes the fix for a problem I have does come to me the day after I have a code/matrix dream.
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I don't sleep, that's the best solution.
dude you need to get some a$$
it had happened with me also one day.. i was suppose to appear for my C exams the next day and in the night i studied till round about 3.30 .. then i went to sleep .. and i dreamt that i am writing my paper and the paper is sometimes easy and sometime tough.. and i am writing and writing.. adn sweating... and in the morning the paper was good but my brother told me "u were murmering printf scanf in your sleep.." heheh now what can u say...
intruder > thats pretty bad. As far as I know, I don't talk in my sleep, though I have room all to myself so theres no one to tell me if I do talk. I can only imagine the kinds of dreams some of the people here on AO have, esp some of the people who are hardcore programmers.
Yeah, happend to me once also..
Had been debuging an assignment (a game in C++ with DirectX) for 3 days: collision detection wasn't working...
I finally found out the bug the next morning: a ";" at the end of the line of a "for" statement..
(something like: "
for( int i=x; i<ARRAY_SIZE; i++);
{
//navigate array of pointers to polymorphic objects!
}"
so the loop ran "empty" and "i" was one to high when executing the code block!
The worst was that it was so subtle:
VC++ compiler doesn't protest (warn) of "empty" for statements
tracing an executing directx prog is hell
the prog didn't crash because the invalid array subscript just returned a pointer with invalid value which was supposed to point to a polymorphic object (refered to a superclass) in which I only used an int, which was just wrong...
Anyways..
Ammo
You actually had a dream of the next MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS, and if only you could remember, you might become a multi-millionaire.