Ask HN: Do you dream about code?

I've had a nightmare about getting stuck inside a pure function. I was trying get myself out using console output functions. I couldn't get out because all my member methods were mutators. Wasn't able to cast myself to string.

Makes no sense, i know.

This is a great question. Wish it had gotten more discussion.

When I've been working on a hard programming or design problem for several days, I often get a sort of repetitive dream where I'm going over and over the pieces of the problem. It's as if they are building blocks and I am turning them over and over in my hands, except they're ideas and not physical objects. The dreams rarely make direct technical sense and it's not like I wake up with solutions, but it still feels like part of the creative process.

Sometimes when am stuck, I get clues in a dream about the problem.

If I'm stuck on some coding/logic problem I sometimes dream of repeatedly going over the problem.. rehashing the process that isn't working over and over again... Its one of those times when you wish you could get some stupid song in your head just to push that out. heh

I had a dream before while I was learning c# : it's like I was walking on top of a chunk of code in c#.

Yeah, there are times when I'll toss and turn all night dreaming about coding. Usually that's only when I've been on a serious working binge and drank coffee late in the evening though.