Dreams that should not Be

[hartmans]

I dreamed about writing/fixing my resume last night. That's probably not too unusual, but the dream was in XML. I didn't know you can dream in XML; I'm still not sure you can. Well, OK, the whole thing wasn't in XML; it sort of shifted back between being very abstract, manipulating the XML with no apparent real world context and me sitting there discussing parts of it. The resume had a bit more power than I'm used to: as I moved around and changed parts of it, my life retroactively changed to fit. That would be kind of useful.

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[(Anonymous)]

I had a dream that I installed linux on my sleeping bag.

Re: Dreams and meta-shift

[hartmans]

I often find I get trapped into meta-level shifts in my dreams. (Installing software on an object would be an example of such a thing.) The common manifestation is the assumption that I can just copy or backup physical objects. I keep running into a part of my brain that says there's something not quite right about assuming I can do that.