edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can totally relate to the anxiety aspect
i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant place (usually it's to the small college town where i used to work) and never getting there despite hitchhiking and running and etc On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, 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 >
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