Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of digital
images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.
It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine.
Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about valuing and
owning 'accidents' in the work after all.
On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:
i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to be
about people & places, & my anxiety dreams are nearly always
associated with travel. one that i used to have for a long time was
that i had to catch a train, but i couldn't fit all of my stuff into
my suitcase/backpack. i would be frantically trying to cram everything
into a space that was physically too small for it all, as the clock
ticked mercilessly on, but i would keep trying until it was actually
past the time that the train would leave (even if i also needed time
to get to the station). one of those inevitable losing battle
situations like the sorcerer's apprentice in fantasia, but without any
brooms coming to help. happily i haven't had this dream for a while :)
but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given that i
generally spend most of my working day in front of one & most of my
communication with the outside world is through the computer. i always
shut down completely & switch off the power when i finish for the day,
so maybe that achieves a mental switching-off as well.
h : )
On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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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