Frank -
I used to have semi-lucid dreams whose setting was inside of a VM of
some kind... being a Unix-head myself, it often had a lot of Shell like
idioms but it also had many of the flavors of the kinds of higher level
tools I might have been using about that time. I remember early
Objective C flavored dreams, CURSES library dreams, APL dreams
involving projective geometry, Prolog dreams involving natural language
understanding, and eventually VR and mixed reality dreams. In fact the
latter two I would say I still have, though they are polluted/mixed with
myth-dreams based in various archetypal tropes. I think I dreamed in
mathematics during my introduction to calculus and later to group
theory. During my first class in Quantum Chemistry I swear I dreamed in
the superposition of quantum states. I also sometimes dream in poetry.
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}{\partial t}}|\psi (t)\rangle }
I feel ya brother!
- Steve
On 10/21/16 5:49 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
I first learned Unix when I went to work at Bell Labs in 1978. I was
only there for two years but over the next 18 years at Carnegie Mellon
I used Unix workstations or time-sharing systems almost constantly.
The other night I had a dream that involved Unix. I am not saying the
dream made sense. Dreams often don't. For some reason I had a
feeling that someone had modified my system by replacing the cat
command with a shell script that didn't behave the way cat should. I
decided to use the which command to find where the fake cat script was
located in the file system. But then I thought how can I examine the
script without using cat. I was going around in circles about this
until I sort of woke up. I realized that I could use ed to look at
the script. Then I went back to sleep. Sometimes my memories of my
dreams aren't accurate.
Frank
Frank Wimberly
Santa Fe, NM
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