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Anna Villarreal
Anna Villarreal

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Sleeping: Strange Computer Dreams

A cumulative list of computer dreams just because

[10/11/2024]

Yesterday, I was watching the screen at the front of the room while the teaching assistant was doing a computer update. It was the same screen as always: "Updating computer... Do not shut off until update complete". Now, I had never really thought about what would happen if I turned my computer off in the middle of an update.

So I did some research, bad idea obviously. XD. Then I got to thinking, what if it turned off by some means that was out of my control? Like what about a lightening strike? Also bad. So guys - probably don't update your computer during a thunderstorm. On that note, there are also special power supplies you can buy to prevent this from happening.

neon sign thunderstorm

So following these thoughts I had a dream about a huge lightening storm in my neighborhood. The lightening was across the street in the distance, putting on a spectacular show. I could tell this was bad news for my computer. The lightening was acting weird, trying to snake its way into my window. I was freaking out. Unplug everything! The lightening is going to get me! I was in a panic and couldn't get my computer to turn off! After some amount of continued panic, the dream transitioned.

Later in the dream I was eating the messiest food on the planet, chicken wings. It was getting all over my shirt and it was embarrassing. I was at an event with a bunch of people that could see me. Such horror.

Strange how your subconscious translates your waking life into dreams. No, I do not eat like that. Although sometimes I feel I do. XD Like "OMG a crumb fell. Now I'm the unspoken pig."




[07/07/2024]

So then, i've been learning to code long enough that it has infiltrated my dreams. Has this happened to you? I woke up this morning questioning my reality. I'll share my dream and I would love to hear yours! I will update this periodically should I have more interesting dreams!

Worms and Rats

Female looking at computer virus

I had a dream (probably was a nightmare, but it was too interesting to be scary...) about worms and rats. Ok, so i've heard about worms. But a rat, what's that? I looked it up this morning an it turns out it's an actual thing. (I knew about remote controlling, just not the shorthand term for the malicious version of it.) There must be untapped knowledge in the recesses of my subconscious. This is not the type of thing you just make up. In my dream someone got access to my computer and was messing with me.

The Dream

Repeating dialogue box windows

Suddenly, my screen started doing that thing where the windows keep repeating over and over again. A dialogue box popped up all windows-98 style displaying "install rat?" with a rat made in ASCII at the beginning. The dialogue box disappeared without my intervention.

After a moment of staring at the complete dysfunction and trying to escape it, I found a tiny little portal window on the bottom right of my screen that I could access. I clicked on it, and a text editor filled with nonsensical characters opened up. Looked like I could type something. I was able to communicate with them. I discovered that they had offset all of the keys on my keyboard by 1. Having caught on to it, I was able to have a conversation with them and reason with them, only to discover that it was someone that I had met before!

WHAT in the world...

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