On Tue, 12 May 2009 15:04:58 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:

> Talking about dreams, does anyone have dreams with plots/locations
> spanning multiple sleeping cycles which you can't remember while awake?

Rarely, but I have had this happen.  Often times when it does happen it's 
two subsequent sleep periods interrupted by being awake for a few 
minutes, and often the dream is lucid - and that's the reason I go back 
to sleep, to try to see what happens.

Recursive dreams are just weird.

I have a friend from years ago who used to keep a dream journal.  He 
remembers distinctly waking up one night and writing about the dream in 
the journal, but when he woke up the next morning, the pages were blank.  
He'd apparently had a dream in the dream, dreamed that he had woken up 
and written his entry and then gone back to sleep.

He said it was quite a pity, because he remembered the dream-in-a-dream 
was good but not what it was.

Jim

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:56:07 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
> 
>> Flying is pretty common for me.
>> 
>> 
> I've had several dreams where I'm attempting to land a 747 on a highway.
>    Usually I'm successful, then wind up taxiing the plane all around
> town, being careful not to snag any telephone poles.

Mine tend to be without the aid of aircraft.  Just floating/flying, 
seeing my neighborhood from a bird's-eye-view.

> NOTE: I have no clue how to fly a jet like that. If I'm ever at the
> controls of such a beast .... :/

Get on the radio and call the nearest tower (hopefully the frequency set 
correctly) and ask for the vectors to an airport with an instrument 
landing system.  Ask for the frequency of the ILS on the active runway 
and the tower frequency (so you can notify the tower you need to make an 
emergency landing).  Ask the tower for a precision radar approach to the 
ILS.

Use the autopilot heavily to adjust altitude, heading, and airspeed.  Set 
the NAV1 radio to the ILS frequency and set the autopilot to use the NAV1.

Set the autopilot also to follow the glidescope.

And make damned sure the altimeter setting is correct.  You don't want to 
hit the ground until the right moment.

Oh, and put the landing gear down.  That helps.

(Can you tell I spend too much time flying simulators?  And in particular 
747s?)

Jim

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:20:01 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> And today's was quite good as well, but it helps if you've heard the
>> Car Talk radio programme (we listen to the podcast every week - think
>> of Tom & Ray as being the geekier cousins (who know more about how cars
>> work as a result of an engineering background) of the guys on Top
>> Gear).
> 
> I have no idea what you're talking about.

http://www.cartalk.com

> I also have no clue what "firefly" is all about - so the last half dozen
> strips made no sense at all.

http://tinyurl.com/8vu9n

and

http://tinyurl.com/3xp32

Both very good, highly recommended viewing.

>>> Heh. I keep wanting to encrypt by brain to stop the auditors from
>>> trying to steal it...
>> 
>> LOL, you would certainly want to use an anti-heuristic algorithm, just
>> to confuse them.
> 
> It's more that, loosely speaking, encryption is a way of protecting
> things from harm, and auditors are people who want to harm me. Thus,
> following that pretty vague logic, this suggestion kind-of makes sense.

That does make a certain amount of sense, yes.

> Almost all of my dreams involve me being persecuted in some way or
> other. So thinking about protection while I'm half asleep makes sense.

:-(

Jim

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 17:52:32 -0400, clipka wrote:

> (Haven't seen the movie though; but I bet it's worth it, too.)

Oh yes, it is.  We saw it in pre-release and then bought the DVD.

River Tam kicks *ass*.

Jim

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 21:21:20 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>> Wait, what? Auditors? Harm you? Paranoid much?
> 
> Well, it *is* their job to prove that I'm doing my job wrong

Well, no, not really.  It's their job to prove your company is following 
the laws that they're required to and to document areas where compliance 
isn't being met.

Jim

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:23:18 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Hmm. Maybe it's because I never ever missed one single class during my
> entire time at college and university? Even the pointless ones. It never
> really occurred to me that it was *possible* to miss classes; I guess I
> thought I'd get detention or something. I don't know. It never really
> crossed my mind. I've always been such a *good* little boy. Very
> obedient. That's what comes from having very strict parents...

God, this sounds familiar.

The weird dreams I had relating to school recently had to do with me 
skipping out on an entire semester of some sort of American History class 
because the topic was boring to me, and then showing up to take the final.

Weird.

Jim

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:57:39 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> I once sat a 45 minute test, finished in about 10 minutes. Went back and
> did it all again to check my work. Another 10 minutes.

That's one of the things that always got me in those classes - I'd also 
often get done so early I wondered what I'd missed.

I did a certification test a few years ago that I did this on - exam was 
2.5 hours long, I finished in 15 minutes.  So I checked my work - good 
thing I did, because I did actually miss something, and ended up crashing 
the test environment trying to fix it.

If it hadn't been for a configuration error in the exam environment, I 
would've been outta there in 15 minutes.  Fixing a series of cascading 
failures due to the configuration error took me another 2:15, at which 
time the exam crashed hard.

I was quite pissed about it because I'd scheduled the exam time 30 
minutes before my normal lunchtime.  So I was very hungry by the time it 
crashed.

Jim

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On Mon, 11 May 2009 19:06:16 -0700, Chambers wrote:

> On 5/11/2009 3:49 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I had a weird experience a week ago last Saturday - don't know what I
>> was dreaming about, but I woke up convinced I had forgotten to check
>> and see what time I needed to be up for a meeting, took me a couple of
>> mins to realise that it was Saturday.
> 
> Have you ever gotten up for work, showered, gotten dressed, and went out
> to wait for the bus only to realize that it's 3:30 in the morning, and
> you could go back to sleep for 3 more hours?

Can't say I've done that.  Of course I walk to work 95% of the time these 
days (about 25 feet), and the rest of the time I drive 45 miles to the 
office.

So I can say I've gotten out of bed and stumbled to the home office 
before realizing that it wasn't a workday.  Does that count?

Jim

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 08:51:01 -0400, Kyle wrote:

> Chambers wrote:
>> Have you ever gotten up for work, showered, gotten dressed, and went
>> out to wait for the bus only to realize that it's 3:30 in the morning,
>> and you could go back to sleep for 3 more hours?
> 
> When I get up in the morning for work, it's dark outside.  One day, I
> woke up to see a bit of daylight, realized I was late, got a shower, got
> dressed, and then walked out the door to darkness.  WTF?!?  I had fallen
> asleep in the afternoon and had woken up just before dark, thinking it
> was morning.  GRRR!!!

I hate when that happens.  I do that on occasion.

Once (when I was teaching) I was flying home from Columbus, OH (via 
Cincinatti, OH) and I fell asleep before the plane took off and woke up 
after it had landed.  I don't remember the take-off or landing at all, 
just being in a moving airplane.

When I woke up, I had no idea where I was (other than "on a plane").

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I have a friend from years ago who used to keep a dream journal.  He 
> remembers distinctly waking up one night and writing about the dream in 
> the journal, but when he woke up the next morning, the pages were blank.  
> He'd apparently had a dream in the dream, dreamed that he had woken up 
> and written his entry and then gone back to sleep.
> 
> He said it was quite a pity, because he remembered the dream-in-a-dream 
> was good but not what it was.

I love it!

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