I had a dream recently where I was guiding a civilisation over multiple thousands of years. Att the end of the dream when they had finally overcome their problems, one of them said to me ‘being a person, when really you’re just a blob of goo, is the most profound thing you could ever do.’
And it hit me so hard. All I am is a bunch of cells held together in a skin bag. And yet I’m a person with feelings and experiences and desires. And I did that, I live it. It makes us all so valuable.
Have your dreams ever had effects on you like that?
I have the feeling all software devs had that happen to them once, me included.
I made the mistake of admitting it though. Someone asked me how I came up with that interesting idea, and I said I saw it in a dream. They just stared at me as if I said I smoke weed in the corporate bathroom and perform seances as a side hustle 😂
Seance coding is the new vibe coding. Get the ouija board out! Add stickers to add a few characters like ±();&?!|.
Ok grandpa, how do we fix the bug?
Tap for seance
Ok stop, this isn’t grandpa, we accidentally channeled a daemon again
If I remember right, the trick that makes sewing machines work came to the inventor in a dream.
The inventor was exploring the jungle or something like that in his dream, and got attacked by spear-wielding savages. The spears all had a hole near the tip. Which was what he was missing to make the sewing machine work - he’d been trying to make it work with the hole in the back, like a regular sewing needle.
Didn’t the guy who discovered carbocycles dream of a serpent biting its tail rolling around chasing him and the next day he was like, shit, hydrocarbons can probably loop around too.
Ah, I hadn’t heard about that one!
We all pray to the machine god, brother
Yeah. Not the code specifics itself, but definitely the method or code structure.
That makes four of us… at least.