Oh, subconscious

[algeh]

As I was waking up this morning, I thought "man, it feels like this dream was written by the internet". I'm not quite sure what that means, but I don't think it was a compliment.

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[duncanmac]

I am reminded of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, where the network has become known as "The Net of a Million Lies". :-/

Collaboration may be a positive thing, but I am also reminded of the well-known statistical (or should I say sadistic :-) phrase "regression to the mean" [average].

[algeh]

Yeah, it seems that collaboration also needs some form of moderation in order to not just descend into suck. I'd like to see more elaborate moderation and fork management as a net norm, but other people don't seem to see it the way I do. (I want it to be easy to fork any given collaborative project under a different mod and have software that tracks such things in such a way to make it painless for people to follow either/both and not have it get so fragmented as to be a giant pile of suck. I have no clear idea how to do this myself, I just want it to be.)

[glowing_fish]

I was going to ask as a joke, but perhaps it is a serious question...

I wonder if your dream had captions in it?

Although, even more serious question: for the most part, any activity that we do regularly will eventually find its way into our dreams. (I have lots of dreams about riding the bus, for example).

So there should be a lot more dreams with internet, in it? A couple hours a day should embed itself in our sub-conscious.

[qousqous]

So why do I have dreams about seeing a bicycle train that holds 20 people, and drinking beer before work, and making out with people I just met on the residential side streets of SE Portland, and being about to fly to Belgium? None of those are regular activities for me.

[duncanmac]

Did you use to live on the East Coast (near Washington DC, or in Florida)? Amtrak's Auto Train carries bicycles and cars both ways.

Or did you read Tintin as a kid? The author lived in Belgium, and much of the comic strip was set there. [He was also apparently near-misogynistic, but I digress.]

[qousqous]

No, and no. And by "bicycle train", I mean basically a bunch of surreys chained together into one unit, with everyone pedaling. But I do think about bicycles a lot.

[admnaismith]

Let me guess...every time something happened in your dream, everyone would leave comments in all caps, with a whole lot of these ---> !!!!!!!!

And at least one person would come along and say something completely out of the blue about President Obama or the Teabaggers, and a few other people would hold up their thumbs and say, "I like this", and then a cat would walk by eating an invisible sandwich...

[algeh]

I think it was just really disjointed and kept changing focus, which is problem I often have in dreams. This is annoying when I'm close enough to awake to "follow the plot", I guess.

Re: Can't msg you but

[algeh]

Ummm.....ok! I can probably do that. I have messaging turned off because I don't want people to think that LiveJournal is a good way to reach me in a short period of time, but you just won the Checking Email Repeatedly Is Great For Procrastinating Prize so I saw this. My poor work habits have now been further reinforced