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That sounds precious - but what I mean is that when I dream like this, it's a strange dream programming - I never dream of programming. I recently dreamed that my son was crying and that I was running some sort of blended patch programming language (like MAX/MSP or Quartz Composer) to fix what his problem was.
I also vaguely remember a dream where I was adding something to my house with code.
Stuff like that. It's always a little frustrating to wake and realize that what I dreamt was impossible (at least for now  )
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I am alone in such nightmares,
But today I came to know real coders do solve there problems in dreams,sometimes!
Like I do 
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I often come up with solutions for coding problems when I sleep, and I have also solved several puzzles in some video games I have when asleep.
I like it when that happens!
public class SysAdmin : Employee
{
public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem)
{
if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){
throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User));
}else{
base.DoWork(workItem);
}
}
}
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but it wasn't on a keyboard.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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Sounds like you were attempting a collision exploit to create a functional copy of the identity certificate...the real question is whether or not you pulled out the hydra. 
Jack of all trades ~ Master of none.
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Would you believe if I say "I solved in dream".
May be it was not dream, I was thinking subconsciously. but in a sense all dream is subconscious mind action
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Include me too in the list. I also have such experiences 
Always Keep Smiling.
Yours Pankaj Nikam
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I too belong to this group.
Thanks & Regards,
Vani Kulkarni
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So, we can easily establish a club with the name
"Dream Coder"
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Why not For sure
Always Keep Smiling.
Yours Pankaj Nikam
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It happened to me often that I found solutions to programming problems when dreaming or just dozing. I don't really think that this is such an uncommon thing to happen. Indeed I also believe that a lot of work is done by our brain when we are not conscious. Sleep deprivation experiments have shown that we need sleep in order to function properly, albeit some need more than others, and it is not only about giving the body a rest, but also sorting things out in our mind. Lets call it post-processing and a little garbage collection. 
Cheers!
And now back to work sleep! 
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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That is part of the reason I deliberately take a five or ten minute break from development pretty much every hour. Doing something unrelated to the task at hand helps to focus me on the essentials of the task, rather than the details of the problem I was trying to solve. I often find that when I pick it up again, I have a clearer view of what I am trying to do, and can work a lot more effectively.
I know it sounds odd, but not doing my job all the time makes me better, and more efficient at doing my job!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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This is very common and integral to how brain works. Brain does lot of its work in dream/sub-conscious state. Sometimes it is in an actual dream you can remember and sometimes you see that you know the solution to a problem as soon as you wake up from sleep/nap.
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Yes at times I have that feeling too. I cannot quite describe it how it happens but at times the problem that I try to solve is too complex and cannot find a way around after trying several ways and often when all I wanted to do was give up on it and magially in my dreams I figur out how to solve it. That feeling is really magical.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Sometimes at wakeup I forgot part of the solution, or at least I'm sure I've figured out some problems that can arise with the dreamed solution, but I cant remember them..
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My wife claims that I elbowed her in the ribs at 2am and said "Give me the CRO."
I was fast asleep at the time.
In the morning, I had to explain that it must have been CRO (oscilloscope) not anything else she might have imagined. 
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Once I had a persistent sore throat and I dreamt that I was delving into the code of my mind to see if there was perhaps something wrong with the 'IsThroatSore()' interface function rather than the actual 'Throat' object.
I was investigating a way to add more interface functions to more accurately diagnose the source of the problem but I woke up before I had finished 
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An Alternate Interpretation involves one being awake and dreaming they were coding in the context that they wish they were able to code.
(what a cranky way for me to start the week)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I'm actually a bit surprised, now that I think about it I don't think I ever have. Which is odd, pretty much any other regular activity has made its way into my dreams, including using a computer to browse the web, but never programming. And on top of that my dreams are generally heavily influenced by things I've done/seen/etc. in the past 24-48 hours... 
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I dream code so much that I keep pen and paper handy so that when I awaken I can record the results.
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And I thought I was the only one. On high-stress projects I dream about possible solutions so much that often I wake up screaming "yes, solved it". After which I reach for my pen and paper on the night stand.
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Sometimes I get to see hex on the walls after working on a core dump but I do not sleep until a problem is solved
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I have had to deal with cleaning up others' code that must have been written while they were dreaming.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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