So I’ve been writing / debugging this script for the last couple of weeks and working on performance issues, and there’s this thing I’m trying to figure out that makes Unity freeze up… I open the task manager and there’s Unity buzzing away, using up 100% of my CPU power, frozen, using more memory every second…
And my poor girlfriend has this chest cold that won’t go away so she’s coughing…
And I start having this dream that our house is the computer or something, and when my code gets too complex it overheats the CPU (which is the central air conditioning) so it starts to blow dust out through all the ducts and vents at us and it’s really irritating and makes us cough, so I have to go and optimize my code because we’re coughing…
My girlfriend says maybe I should take a break but when I wake up I know what I need to change in my script to get it to work right. It’s really strange but I like it. If I could just get a little more exercise maybe I wouldn’t have code nightmares.
I have never had such a direct comparison in a dream of real world issues I was having regarding coding. I have had some awesome dreams where I was playing my game in its finished state that is only in design phases. Or had dreams about playing with certain features I had not previously thought about at all. So then I wake up and write down the really cool new features my subconscious created! I suppose I am very excited about my project when that happens :).
I find myself setting my rotation as I roll over. It is in the Y axis even though I am laying down. Using localRotation instead of absolute coordinates…which way is Z universally anyways??? ,heh…I will animate my arm to move it…then wake up going WTF. Setting and getting body properties to code.
Haha, funny enough, yes. This past weekend, I apparently woke up in the middle of my sleep, poked my girlfriend and said, “Honey, please compile the scripts.”
Bluster, Relative rotations when lying down… Ugh! I feel your pain! If you lie on your arm and it goes to sleep, do you GetComponent to make it Active = true???
I’ve been a professional programmer for 20+ years, and it happens all the time. In fact, I would say you aren’t a real programmer until you have fixed a bug in one of your dreams.
Have to try that one! I usually use my other arm as an inverse kinematic goal to get it to move to a better position with less deformation in the joint:)
After a long week of threading in Perl at work, I was having trouble sleeping. I was laying in bed for like 4 hours, having a sort of sick-dream. The ones were your not sleeping but your imagining things or stuck thinking about the same thing for hours. Anyway, I was imagining that my thought process was stuck in an infinite loop. Talk about torture. I finally imagined that I fixed the loop and was able to sleep.
This is great. This topic is turning into a sort of confessional. Not that we’re talking about sins, but more about a darkened booth where we whisper our secrets, our obsessions, our guilty pleasures. I think it was the reference to “having a sort of sick-dream”… remembrances of half consciousness and sheets damp with sweat.
I once had a relational database dream when I was ill as a student. I couldn’t quite drop off because I first needed to work out which field of the blocked nose table was a foreign key for the sore throat table, and whether changing it would stop it from being BCNF and so on. It was only hours into the night that I finally got up, walked around and managed to convince myself that my illness had nothing whatsoever to do with databases.
I regard this as nature’s way of telling me that I need a break from programming
I sometimes found lots of answers while asleep.
When that happens, i quickly wake up and try to write the answer. I’m sure lots of you guys experienced this while asleep. ^^
Sometimes when I’ve been thinking about a game or ideas a lot I will have a dream where I’m sort of immersed in a (usually 3d) world that’s computer generated, or will see some kind of vision of a game on a screen - and it’ll usually be a pretty darn cool game as well… which I then wonder how to actually create in the real world, which is where it all falls apart, lol
I have vague recalls of programming dreams, i think it happens most when I’m facing new problems I’ve never seen before.
Happens to me more often with 3d modelling :-0
I once had an excelent game idea in a dream and it even was exactly the kind of graphics which could be made with the terrain system of the engine I used back then
