when I was studying Photoshop intently, first learning it, after many long nights of 'tips and tricks' tutorials, I had an experience unlike anything else. I was still awake, but had fallen into a trance-like state of intense focus, still using the program. When I snapped out of it and reflected back, I realized that during that time, my body had completely disappeared. I could feel the mouse cursor; it had become a complete prosthetic. I felt like a 'transparent eyeball' absorbing the nature of photoshop, acting with limbs that only appeared on-screen.
it was during that time and for a few years afterwards, I started to have dreams of using computers, always using photoshop. usually frustrated about this or that feature not working properly (anxiety). I always guessed that the dreams were a byproduct of using the same program for 10-12 hours a day for extended stints of time. Bz On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- -˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+- http://bishopZ.com -˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+-˜+*oˆ‰÷——‹˙Ê*+- ==\\___//== ===\\_//=== ====\_/==== =====_=====[ \_____________end.transmission______________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
