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. > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, > Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > > Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther > King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at > http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > > Learn how to make accessible software at > http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
