Hi edward Great dream and also a wonderful subject. I used to suffer from desktop publishing nightmares. I used to work for a small company that made a regular magazine using Pagemaker on an early macintosh plus with a tiny screen. The screen had to refresh all the time and the process was incredibly tedious and difficult, pulling down handles on text boxes and reflowing text. All this with someone standing behind me usually as I think people enjoyed watching me do it. I could barely see by the end of the day and the experience would often return as a regular nightmare. Sometimes I would make a whole magazine in my sleep! DTP. Desk Top Punishment. On 11 Mar 2015 19:33, "Edward" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically, > about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the > doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying > to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but > instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of > the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar, > highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out > of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are > meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or > 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to > the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen > which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen > leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting - > and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal, > I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way > through them like a character in a digital game - while in the > meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk, > getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make > them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything > else to help them. > > It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I > used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the > wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings, > catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting > further and further away from where I was supposed to be, > and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late > and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital > technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my > anxiety. > > Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise? > > - Edward > -- > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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