I just recently dreamt that i was sitting on a train (or street car) and that i pushed the button above my seat to turn the light on which Immediately read my biometric data which paid for my seat. it also told me - somehow on a mini display - that i paid too little, just alike 6 % of my trip.
i like dreaming about computers - and art works for that matter - it usually brings up strange new worlds ;-) --ursula > :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 > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
