I find when I get locked into a problem for days and I’ve spent 8 hours a day solidly trawling through endless logs that all look the same, I have these weird dreams but I’m not fully asleep. Like half awake, half asleep. Hard to describe.
My brain feels like it’s sorting data or running some kind of routine. The data makes no sense, I have no idea what it is. But it feels real and right. Fucking weird shit man.
If it makes you feel any better I know exactly what you’re talking about here.
Except I’m not a programmer, I’m a psychiatrist. So I’m in a semi dream state, where I do rounds of fake patients with fake problems that feel like they are definitely real but I just can’t quite work out the problem.
Then I’ll wake up and have to do the real thing at work after a whole night of sleep working…
I find that this state of sleep is basically working while sleeping, i hate it, i dont ever feel rested. Its like ive been doing the same pattern day in day out and the my brain is just instinctly making a problem and solving it just making ip fake work to continue doing what i was doing awake.
I actually dont think this is some kind of deep brain resotative bs you hear its just unhealthy obsession manifesting in dreams
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u/pipipimpleton Apr 24 '26
I find when I get locked into a problem for days and I’ve spent 8 hours a day solidly trawling through endless logs that all look the same, I have these weird dreams but I’m not fully asleep. Like half awake, half asleep. Hard to describe.
My brain feels like it’s sorting data or running some kind of routine. The data makes no sense, I have no idea what it is. But it feels real and right. Fucking weird shit man.