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Jihgfed Pumpkinhead · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject: Crazy Stuff

You know when you're half-asleep, and reality gets a little, well, blurry? You start thinking the oddest things, and this seems to be particularly so when you've been coding a lot the night before. Or am I just really, really, really mad?

I remember waking up early one morning, and looking at my digital clock flash "4:07". And I remember somehow interpreting that as a function call, with "4:" being the function and "0" and "7" being the arguments. I wondered how a function call could get on my clock, and what the purpose of the function was. Suddenly, it hit me: I must be crazy bat-fucking insane, to think that a clock was making a function call.

Similarly, once someone tried to wake me up, and I assumed I could ignore her, because it wasn't really her, just a pointer to her, and therefore couldn't really do anything until she was de-referenced.

Now, don't worry, I'm lucid and sensible enough when I'm fully awake (most of the time). I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed the weird things programming seems to do to your mind? If it's not just me, I think it bears a little investigation; if it is just me, well, I'm used to being crazy by now, I don't mind.

Bjorn · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject:

Yeap, you're done for. Been nice having you around.

Modanung · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject:

In about 10 minutes there will be a white little bus stopping at your place, 5 men in white coats will come out and take you with them... don't be affraid, do not run, just cooperate and you will not be harmed. They are just coming to help you, that's all.

valderman · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:23 pm Post subject:

BigManJones · Scholar Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 196

I've had similar bizarre experiences when half asleep, but none programming related: One time I was awoken in the afternoon by my phone ringing, I answered it, heard it was someone I didn't want to talk to and hung up without saying a word (it was my sister, yeah we're !real close) then went straight back to sleep. I used to dream about calculus after studying for a test for a few days.

LeoDraco · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:34 am Post subject:

Whenever I play an FPS too much -- like one of the Red Factions, for example -- I start looking around whatever environment I am currently in, searching for things to kill. I recall seeing a tractor once this last year and thinking that it would have been great to have had a grenade launcher with me.

I'm pretty sure I have dreamt myself coding, before. Or about code. Something like that.

EDIT: Oh yeah: I also seem to incorporate a lot of what I read and play into my dreams, too. Which is really funky. My sweet hours of REM sleep are spiced up by psychodelic science-fiction trips through my own insanity.

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DrV · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 4:43 am Post subject:

Ya, after playing Medal of Honor for the first few nights, I dreamt I was still playing the mission I had last played before going to sleep. It was like I was eternally stuck in the same place, and all I could do was walk around and try to snipe the enemy that I couldn't see... didn't get much sleep... and I do think of things in programming terms after programming too long, even during daylight hours, and my fingers unconsciously begin to "type" on the air when I think things... someday some touch-typist will catch me doing this and learn my passwords and my secrets and stuff... it's bad... they're coming to take me away... heee hee haa haa...
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PoV · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:21 am Post subject:

I can't recall a recent time where I was sleep coding/gaming. But there was this one time where a bunch of us we're working late (stupidly late). I was working on this and 2 other coworkers we're doing this. Both our milestones we're like 2 days later. The one guy was there snoring away, and every so often he'd blurt out questions, "Did we fix the goalie collision?", "Is the scoreboard overflowing the stack?", "Get Shaun in to fix those damn stats", or "What the heck is wrong with the wingman's AI?", cept most of the stuff was already done, in some cases a month ago. Yay... Debugging dreams.

Modanung · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 10:04 am Post subject:

I did have this dream once (few years ago)... Bjorn woke me up in the middle of the night for something very important, he'd installed some very cool game. When I came to his room to take a look it seemed to be the best game ever, it was sooo great. But I had to go back to sleep, I could play it tomorrow.
The next day it was a big disapointment when I realised it was just a dream.

XMark · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:01 pm Post subject:

I noticed whenever I've been reading a novel for a while I start mentally narrating people's dialogue. Example:

"Hey, Mark! How's it going?" he said with a slight smile
"All right, wanna hang out somewhere?" mark said, trying to ignore the gigantic zit that had appeared on his forehead some time between today and Tuesday
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Modanung · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject:

Today I had this very strange thing...
It had been a while since had draw with pensil on paper, mostly with my tablet, but today I drew on paper again. I was drawing a face and I drew a line on paper wich I didn't quite like, so I thought "ctrl+z" and my eyes even moved toward a spot in the vacinity those keys usually were... then I realised I wasn't working I Photoshop. It's so weird.
I need a good sleep tonight.

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Once, after a long Diablo 2 session, I tried to remember which of my characters was carrying my wallet.

actual · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 2:00 pm Post subject:

Okay, you've all gone past the point of no return, I'm afraid that there's no help for you. You're all fucked, also committed to a mental institution for life. Having never actually experienced any of these delusions or lucid hallucinations, I'm relatively sure they'll put me in a separate wing for the criminally insane, thank God.
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DrV · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:58 am Post subject:

The nice men in white coats told me I can have ice cream bars when-ever I want to. I am sooo happy! They even told me I can talk to my friend Bob - you know, that guy no one else can see - if I make my bed and don't mortally wound too many of the other patients.
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Modanung · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject:

You know, actually I don't exist... I'm Alex's imaginary friend, but alex is a bit shy.