I used to dream in code, but now I dream in graphs that represent data structures. This happened when I began focusing on memory layout over syntax and API signatures.
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Re: Ask HN: Sunday brunch question: Do you dream in code?
#12Occasionally, yes. The oddest computer-related dream probably occurred when I was taking a computability course: cars entering and leaving parking spaces in a dream that had to do with the "pumping lemma" for regular languages.
Re: Ask HN: Sunday brunch question: Do you dream in code?
#13Happen quite often especially when I study something new, I wake up with the voice in my brain that repeats commands like "dot controller" and stuff like that..
Re: Ask HN: Sunday brunch question: Do you dream in code?
#14On an abstract level quite often where I have to process things in a certain order and similar problems. It seems to me that this happens when I'm rather overworked
Re: Ask HN: Sunday brunch question: Do you dream in code?
#15I don't dream in code, but sometimes I think in code. I find myself converting non-tech issues into syntax, and analyzing it for potential 'bug fixes' until I snap out of it and realize how weird that is.