3 ms·

The dreaming of fixing an issue is funny. You can take advantage of that by stopping when you are stuck. A lot of times your brain will cook up a fix during the

• dfee 6y ago
  You’re right that often times works, but I’ve backtracked on that - to the extent I’ll actively try and dream about something else - an island perhaps. I’ve come to terms that, for me, hacking into the night, dreaming about solutions, then waking up and implementing them... is manic and deeply unhealthy.
• whoisstan 6y ago
  Getting on the bicycle and cruise around does the same thing for me. Without thinking about the problem directly, ideas pop into my mind.
• bambataa 6y ago
  I find the surface level of my programming dreams are exceptionally dull (`var a = b + c` for what feels like hours) but yes sometimes a solution to a problem occurs to me early the next day.
• jwdunne 6y ago
  That’s my number one problem solving strategy. 1. Batter my brain 2. Do something else 3. Sleep on it 4. Aha moment I do it so often, I just say to colleagues that “It’s stewing in the back of my head for a bit” or “Need to sleep on it”. Before I was fully aware of it, I’d get super disheartened, sleep on it, then come in the next day and nail it by 10. That’s another thing: if something becomes comical, there’s usually a pattern. If it’s the positive kind of comical, repeat the pattern. If negative, consciously avoid (but that appears comically harder).