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Comment by JoeAltmaier | Hacker News Reader

I used to have dreams of setting breakpoints in my children, to figure out their objectionable behavior. Very strange.

My junior year in college, I had a semester from hell where I took AI, Distributed Programming, Operating Systems, and a 400-level Math class all together. One morning as I washed my hair in the shower, still in a state of sleep-deprivation from a long night in the lab, I kept thinking to myself that if I didn't setq my hair (or was it setf?), then it wouldn't really stay washed.

When I finally woke up and came to, it was a mix of laughter at how out of it I was and worry that I was slowly going mad.

Similar, but after a long week building a parser. I dreamt I was sitting under a tree, and falling asleep such that first my torso fell asleep, then my limbs and head, then my fingers/toes/ears etc. etc. Woke up laughing uncontrollably.

I practice a meditation technique where one "scans" the body from toe upwards to put the various parts to sleep sequentially. If I'm tired, I'm usually asleep by the time I get to the head.

Wow, that's an awesome concept for a story/film!

Inside Out comes close, I think.

I immediately think of Westworld, specifically how the engineers interact with the hosts in the service areas.

I used to have dreams of setting breakpoints in my children, to figure out their objectionable behavior.

Dolores, bring yourself back online. Analysis.

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