:D or little kids trying to "swipe" the screens on the back of digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to "swipe" the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...
h : ) ps - ruth: the answer to the real-life dilemma is to get a bigger suitcase! ;) On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote: > me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll) > > On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> 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] >> <mailto:[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] <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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>>> -- >>>> helen varley jamieson >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com >>>> <http://www.creative-catalyst.com/> >>>> http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net >>>> <http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net/> >>>> http://www.upstage.org.nz <http://www.upstage.org.nz/> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net http://www.upstage.org.nz
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