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Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth by Gene_Parmesan on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:27PM (#19942214)
Try spending ~20 hours in a week playing serious racing sims complete with wheel and real-feeling pedals, then hopping into your car on the weekend to drive cross-state to visit family.

I also got this with programming at least once. I had been spending all night trying to get something with my WPF view models working (and failing). When I finally got into bed, I was having trouble falling asleep because I was just "seeing" endless lines of code scrolling through my head. I very distinctly remember thinking, "What order do I have to call these methods again to successfully enter sleep mode?" Quite a bizarre experience.

Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth by orthoxerox on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:54PM (#19943949)
I once was woken up in the middle of the night by stomach cramps. The project I was working on for a financial customer was in crunch mode, so as I sat down on the crapper I started thinking if I was pooping from a balance or an off-balance account. A moment later I realized that was a dumb question: you can't keep the food you've eaten on your balance sheet! It took me a minute more or so to finally come to my senses.
Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth by positr0n on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:20PM (#19943678)
I've had experiences like that with a crying newborn in the middle of the night. I visualized a terminal full of log messages and considered what commands to run or if I should just reboot and see if that fixed the problem. Started laughing when I woke up a little more, haha.
Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth by SwiftyBug on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:38PM (#19942819)
I've had some similar experiences. When that happened I couldn't sleep very well and pretty much dreamt of code.
Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth by samayylmao on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:14PM (#19943149)
My sleep code always compiles and always works as intended.
Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth by xena on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:07PM (#19944737)
It was really easy to tell dreams apart from reality until the compilers started working.