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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I had a dream recently where I was guiding a civilisation over multiple thousands of years. Att the end of the dream when they had finally overcome their problems, one of them said to me 'being a person, when really you're just a blob of goo, is the most profound thing you could ever do.'

And it hit me so hard. All I am is a bunch of cells held together in a skin bag. And yet I'm a person with feelings and experiences and desires. And I did that, I live it. It makes us all so valuable.

Have your dreams ever had effects on you like that?

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[-] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

I have the feeling all software devs had that happen to them once, me included.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago

I made the mistake of admitting it though. Someone asked me how I came up with that interesting idea, and I said I saw it in a dream. They just stared at me as if I said I smoke weed in the corporate bathroom and perform seances as a side hustle 😂

[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Seance coding is the new vibe coding. Get the ouija board out! Add stickers to add a few characters like +-();&?!|.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Ok grandpa, how do we fix the bug?

Tap for seance

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Ok stop, this isn't grandpa, we accidentally channeled a daemon again

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

If I remember right, the trick that makes sewing machines work came to the inventor in a dream.

The inventor was exploring the jungle or something like that in his dream, and got attacked by spear-wielding savages. The spears all had a hole near the tip. Which was what he was missing to make the sewing machine work - he'd been trying to make it work with the hole in the back, like a regular sewing needle.

[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Didn’t the guy who discovered carbocycles dream of a serpent biting its tail rolling around chasing him and the next day he was like, shit, hydrocarbons can probably loop around too.

[-] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

We all pray to the machine god, brother

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Not the code specifics itself, but definitely the method or code structure.

[-] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

That makes four of us... at least.

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