Re: lookin' good

["John W. Cummings" <intltrvl@QuixNet.net>]

Hi Jania & Greg,

"Dreaming is the best way to travel."  Credit: Moody Blues.  On a slightly
more serious note,
I've survived these many years of staying up into the wee hours by way of
taking what someone's call "power naps" = naps of 20 to 30 minutes but NOT
and hour and I find myself waking up refreshed!  And good for many more
hours.  Back to answers in a dream" -- been there and had that experience.
Wonder who else out there has had this experience?

This is my first posting since joining speakup@braille and hope it's
appropriate?


John in California
----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Nowak <romualt@megsinet.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: lookin' good


> The human brain is an interesting organ, is it not?
> I've often heard it said that you shouldn't think directly
> at a problem to help you solve it.
> Instead, think around it, and the solution will most likely come to you.
> Dreaming is a good state to think around a problem.
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:31:51PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Scott:
> >
> > I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a
> > large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a
> > reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the
> > evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong.
I
> > learned to go to sleep.
> >
> > Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed
having
> > awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over
> > again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change.
> > Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and
on
> > to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc.
> >
> > PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately
correct.
> > But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off
> > inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour
> > somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me
going
> > on this kind of crazy schedule.
> >
> > Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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