Posted by jonvon on December 31, 2001 at 14:54:11:
In Reply to: last night's dream posted by giveawayboy on December 30, 2001 at 09:41:04:
i had yet another horrible dream about math class. i have been having these for years now, at least two years, this is the fifth or sixth one that i can remember, not sure how many i've had that i don't remember! each time i'm in a classroom and the professor is going over a bunch of new material that is all really fascinating. it is stuff i haven't seen yet since i haven't cracked a book all semester. i'm always really interested in it. then i realize he is talking about an upcoming test that is going to have all this new material plus a bunch of old material, none of which i have read at all. ugh! i get to feeling overwhelmed and guilty and scared and feeling like a pathetic loser. in some of the dreams i realize this is the first class i have been to since the semester began. oh man do i suck! it is the worst feeling. they keep coming to me over and over.
this morning i had a dream that all of our code development at work was going to become completely object oriented. there was this consultant who was explaining how it worked. there were these machines that were sort of growing up out of the servers, big flat circuit boards with places to plug in these little modules. you had to wire all the modules together to make your object collection, each module plugged into the board, and then you wrote your code so that all the pieces went inside each of the little modules. then each code snippet would be encapsulated inside each module, and the modules would send messages to each other via the wires and the board connecting them all. but then i realized that this would never work because the architecture was too inflexible, you would have to build a new physical machine every time you wanted a new program. and since there was only so much room to build these things you would have to wipe out the old machines (and the associated programs) before you could build a new one. the dream shifted to a new phase where everything was software, the machines disappeared, and then i thought it was going to work and we would be ok.
i felt like i knew what i was doing in this dream, unlike the math class dreams. i'm not sure but this might be a cry for help. eek...
: all i remember was that i had gone to this catholic church and was saying some prayers there and that there were lots of strange people there and they were having some outdoor banquet catered there. afterward i was talking to some folks outside and i had one of those tubes that is made of plastic and filled with gelatin or oil or whatever, and i was sliding it up and down my arm, and explaining to everyone how it was a stress reliever. and there was this elf there who was about the same size and shape as Nate, only he was alot lighter than Nate and had brown hair, which was real whispy and fly-away like I would imagine an elf's. He looked just like a human. he had some rune looking thing around his neck. it was more like a mantra he had come up wiht or something very personal. the shirt he was wearing was either beige or rust or in between. you could barely see where his skin started and the shirt ended. pretty cool. and he was wearing brown cords and standing up against a tree, just feeling the wind and looking and listening. and he smiled when i noticed him. everyone was talking about God too.