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Have you received wisdom from dreams? (lemmy.nz)
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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?

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[–] 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Have your dreams ever had effects on you like that?

Not like that, no. But I had a dream once about a specific coding/logic issue where in my dream I came up with a solution that actually worked in reality.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I have the feeling all software devs had that happen to them once, me included.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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 😂

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    When I was in college I was super stuck on a calculus homework problem. I worked on it futilely for hours before giving up and deciding to email my instructor about it in the morning. That night I solved the problem in my dream, and when I woke up I actually remembered the dream and it was the correct solution. My instructor thought it was hilarious when I told him about it in class.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I remember a dream study that found if you're working on a skill within something like half an hour of going to sleep, you're markedly faster at learning the skill. I think they measured it using a skiing video game or something like that

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    A large part of me really wants to believe that skiing video game was SkiFree 95.

    ... Because I probably had bad dreams about that yeti as a kid LOL

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Hah! I remember the game, but I don't think that was it.

    I saw it on a Discovery documentary or something in high school, as I recall. There were a few shots of the test subject playing a sports skiing console game of some sort

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago*

    Oh yeah i have dreams like this when i leave engineering coursework too late but, despite having dream insights that solve my problems, i've decided it's more efficient to just never ever leave those things too late again

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