Don't dream about computers. Do daydream, often, about the delicious boredom (
which so often gave rise to really *useful* thought) that used to be part of my
life, especially as a teenager, long before *devices*... I love the technology
in lots of ways. It's altered my life to the good, but sometimes....
m.
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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?
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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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