me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll) On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller <dave.miller...@gmail.com> 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 <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> 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 <edw...@edwardpicot.com> 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 >>>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> -- >>> helen varley jamieson >>> he...@creative-catalyst.com >>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com >>> http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net >>> http://www.upstage.org.nz >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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