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OCD Tech Dreams

Posted on Fri, 2005-12-23 22:06 by sarahfelicity

I'm not sure this is a healthy or positive thing to be admitting in a public forum, but... I think I've caught some sort of bug.

Lately, particularly when sleeping in close proximity to one who possesses a lot of google juice, I find my sleep disturbed by less-than-restful and slightly obsessive dreams about technology, social software, and other such geeky things. The kind of dreams where you don't really feel like you've slept properly all night, because the content is kind of stressful. I remember having similar dreams in university, when I would work on a paper all day, and then dream about said paper all night, only to wake up the next day and get back to work on it. Ugh.

So these days I dream all night about tagging photos on Flickr, for instance. Or uploading difficulties. The other night I had dreams about APIs, and trying to get a feed of photos with a certain tag into an aggregated blog that I manage. Sheesh.

Tell me this will stop with time?

Also, tell me if you know how to do that Flickr feed thing mentioned above... :) 

UPDATE: I figured it out. It actually wasn't hard. Maybe I can sleep tonight... 

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Oh yes, do I know this phenominom

Wed, 2006-01-18 21:45 — Christopher (not verified)

Happens to me - either when I'm stuck and frustrated, or when I'm on the trail (tail?) of something new and exciting. Only with me it is as likely to be about trains and train engineering (in the civil and P.E. sense) as much as it is about computers. I have also dreamed both writing projects and sermons whole (. . . then forgotten much of it and had to reconstruct it again!). And graphic projects too - laying out this brochure I'm working on now, for example.

It's a dance between inspiration and fallow resting feilds. Inspiration, if it's of any scope, always seems just slightly diagnosable. If not OCD, then it's manic. It's good stuff - worth celebrating!

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