Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the house, my immediate thought is "undo" and then I realise that doesn't apply to real life.
On 12 March 2015 at 09:45, ruth catlow <[email protected]> wrote: > p.s. > Helen your traveling dream is too often my waking reality: ( > > > On 12/03/15 09:45, ruth catlow wrote: > > 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]> 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 > [email protected]http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > -- > helen varley jamieson > [email protected] > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net > http://www.upstage.org.nz > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > [email protected]http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > [email protected]http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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