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I've experienced similar effects first hand. University algorithm class assignment is due tomorrow at 1pm. I start working on it at midnight the day of. At aro

I've experienced similar effects first hand. University algorithm class assignment is due tomorrow at 1pm. I start working on it at midnight the day of. At around 4-5am I was stumped from a few problems, and went to campus to get some coffee. Tim Horton's doesn't open until 7am. I sit down in a chair and fall asleep. While I was sleeping (half sleeping?), I dream-solved the remainder of the problems. At 7am, I awoke, got my coffee, then went to type up the solutions.

texasbigdata 5y ago
Did you get the right answers? :) Hat tip for Timmies though.
- srcreigh 5y ago
  I didn't get a perfect grade, but I think the insights did help somewhat. Maybe if I did this 1 day prior and edited my answers, I would have done perfectly :)
elboru 5y ago
I had a really similar experience during college. I was trying to display a binary tree in the command line. I was not able to solve it while awake. I went to bed with that problem in my mind. Then I dreamt the solution. I woke up and the dream made sense. I couldn’t believe it so I tried in the code and it worked! That was a surreal experience.
- emi2k01 5y ago
  Dreaming of code is something that happens to me very frequently when I'm working on difficult problems and only the first few times was cool. Now, when I dream of code, I can hear my inner self saying "no, please! I actually want to rest" because most of the times I feel like I'm in a loop exploring the same solutions over and over. I've had to get out of bed and do something else so I can go back to sleep without having one of those weird dreams.
  - nelblu 5y ago
    Wow. You described my experience exactly! I used to love earlier when I dream solved complex problems, but now I don't like it. My technique to get good sleep is to fantasize that I am in a spaceship flying through the galaxy or observing Andromeda galaxy. Other times I dream of the Shire and that works too!
- ohiovr 5y ago
  Ah.. We need to campaign for siestas in the office. Productivity really goes up after a nap I think. Mexicans were known to do this.
  - srcreigh 5y ago
    Some Google offices have employee nap pods. Or at least they did in 2015.

texasbigdata 5y ago

Did you get the right answers? :) Hat tip for Timmies though.

srcreigh 5y ago
I didn't get a perfect grade, but I think the insights did help somewhat. Maybe if I did this 1 day prior and edited my answers, I would have done perfectly :)

elboru 5y ago

I had a really similar experience during college. I was trying to display a binary tree in the command line. I was not able to solve it while awake. I went to bed with that problem in my mind. Then I dreamt the solution. I woke up and the dream made sense. I couldn’t believe it so I tried in the code and it worked! That was a surreal experience.

emi2k01 5y ago
Dreaming of code is something that happens to me very frequently when I'm working on difficult problems and only the first few times was cool. Now, when I dream of code, I can hear my inner self saying "no, please! I actually want to rest" because most of the times I feel like I'm in a loop exploring the same solutions over and over. I've had to get out of bed and do something else so I can go back to sleep without having one of those weird dreams.
- nelblu 5y ago
  Wow. You described my experience exactly! I used to love earlier when I dream solved complex problems, but now I don't like it. My technique to get good sleep is to fantasize that I am in a spaceship flying through the galaxy or observing Andromeda galaxy. Other times I dream of the Shire and that works too!
ohiovr 5y ago
Ah.. We need to campaign for siestas in the office. Productivity really goes up after a nap I think. Mexicans were known to do this.
- srcreigh 5y ago
  Some Google offices have employee nap pods. Or at least they did in 2015.