Dave Merrill
Axe-Master
It's not uncommon for me to wake up with some insight or realization of a problem in my programming work. So maybe going to sleep is a productivity tool!
It is! James Watson and Salvador Dali would concur as well!It's not uncommon for me to wake up with some insight or realization of a problem in my programming work. So maybe going to sleep is a productivity tool!
Don't know if this is apocryphal, but I've read Dali would hold a spoon such that it'd fall on the floor and wake him when he'd fall asleep in his armchair. Has anyone tried this method?
They key here is that he was in the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep. Some wild imagery (or solution) would appear and he would be woken up and remember what he caught a glimpse of. As opposed to fully falling asleep and waking up one or seven hours later and having difficulty recalling the dream.
Doesn't have to be a shower per se. I did some of my best thinking on mid-afternoon walks when I was working full-time.
It's not uncommon for me to wake up with some insight or realization of a problem in my programming work. So maybe going to sleep is a productivity tool!
I was working on a math problem many years ago and couldn't figure it out. One night I had a dream and in that dream someone said to me: "A hypocycloid of three cusps".
Now, to my knowledge I'd never even heard of a hypocycloid of three cusps. Turns out it was the solution. Still kind creeps me out to this day.
There's definitely stuff out there beyond the 5 senses and current measuring capabilty. I have had occasional dreams that were detailed glimpses of future events in places that I had never been....I was working on a math problem many years ago and couldn't figure it out. One night I had a dream and in that dream someone said to me: "A hypocycloid of three cusps".
Now, to my knowledge I'd never even heard of a hypocycloid of three cusps. Turns out it was the solution. Still kind creeps me out to this day.
I hope you get a great night's sleep with lots of REM time!I was working on a math problem many years ago and couldn't figure it out. One night I had a dream and in that dream someone said to me: "A hypocycloid of three cusps".
Now, to my knowledge I'd never even heard of a hypocycloid of three cusps. Turns out it was the solution. Still kind creeps me out to this day.
Wow this is news, pregnancy test lol. I didn't even know. Well, they can't, because they can't
It seems our subconscious mind doesn't sleep and keeps working on things maybe? Tesla and some of the great inventors of the past believed there is a universal pool of knowledge they could sometimes tap into. Apparently no one has mastered that ability though, so who really knows?I was working on a math problem many years ago and couldn't figure it out. One night I had a dream and in that dream someone said to me: "A hypocycloid of three cusps".
Now, to my knowledge I'd never even heard of a hypocycloid of three cusps. Turns out it was the solution. Still kind creeps me out to this day.
There is something to this!It seems our subconscious mind doesn't sleep and keeps working on things maybe?
Yeah same, but mostly when I was younger. I haven't had those dreams in like 15-20 years. Glitch in the matrix got fixed?There's definitely stuff out there beyond the 5 senses and current measuring capabilty. I have had occasional dreams that were detailed glimpses of future events in places that I had never been....
Possibly. Now I just get occasional weird ones that mash up people, places, and things from incongruent times and places, and some outright whiskey tango foxtrot Salvador Dali stuff on occasion....Yeah same, but mostly when I was younger. I haven't had those dreams in like 15-20 years. Glitch in the matrix got fixed?
There's definitely stuff out there beyond the 5 senses and current measuring capability.
Glitch in the matrix ...
Although unihemispheric sleep is not known to occur in humans, recent research has found that humans exhibit a similar sleeping style when they experience troubled sleep in a new location for the first time, called the "first night effect." This effect involves asymmetric dynamics between the two hemispheres: while the right hemisphere engages in normal slow-wave sleep, the left hemisphere experiences shallower sleep, suggesting that it may be staying partially alert.
So agree - I've had this happen a ton of times with code. Stare at it for hours with no solution - come in the next day and bam, done.That’s happened to me with a programming problem I had at work. It’s amazing what the mind can do when we’re sleeping.