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Does anyone else solve problems while they sleep?

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jmcoreymv

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Lately, I've been waking up at like 3 AM a number of nights with the solution on how to solve different problems I've been encountering with a project I'm working on. It will be a problem I have no clue how to fix, and all of a sudden I'll wakeup in the middle of the night knowing both the cause and solution. It's really weird, yet...helpful.
 
I have had this happen while working as a tool designer. Not very often though as I tend not to think about work while at home.
 
I've never done it with numbers or major problems, but I had many nights where I'd wake up solving Tetris puzzles in my head.... very very weird and actually annoying. It took me 3 weeks for it to stop.
 
I usually solve the problem of being tired... actually no. I average about 6 hours of sleep a day, and it is taking its toll on me. I haven't even had a dream in I don't remember how long.
 
I hardly ever think about work when I get home, and my dreams are almost never work related, so it's just weird that I wakeup with the solution to technical problems.
 
I do my best troubleshooting at 3am while I'm asleep. But that usually means I'm up at 3:30 implementing the solution 🙂
 
I used to. Be careful, it's a slippery slope. If you find that you do it well and often enough, soon you'll want to sleep just to solve a problem.
 
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I used to. Be careful, it's a slippery slope. If you find that you do it well and often enough, soon you'll want to sleep just to solve a problem.
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My next plan is to convince my boss that when I run into a problem I can't solve, I should just take a nap while at work.
 
Yeah, in my sleep, while taking a shower, eating food. Actually, I think I'm constantly thinking about how to solve problems throughout the day EXCEPT when surfing ATOT.
 
not just work-related problems, but other problems in different areas of life also! I love it, but it's so frustrating because i'm too lazy to write it down in the middle of the night and then i can't remember when i wake up, but i know i had the solution.
 
i tend to do it while i am driving

i pay attention to the road and won't even think about the problem, but the answers just pop up
 
Originally posted by: jmcoreymv
Lately, I've been waking up at like 3 AM a number of nights with the solution on how to solve different problems I've been encountering with a project I'm working on. It will be a problem I have no clue how to fix, and all of a sudden I'll wakeup in the middle of the night knowing both the cause and solution. It's really weird, yet...helpful.
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Happens to me too.

I wish it would happen now though because I am really stuck...
 
Yeah, I have a quadratic solver in my head. Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and shout "5 +- 6i!!!!"
 
No, but I seem to do a lot of thinking in the shower, especially ideas for essays. And when I had a paper round, I used to think about stuff while doing that.
 
I just dream of beautiful naked women.

I do however get weird thoughts when im running for a long time, or when im snowboarding and going off huge jumps, but i usually forget what i was thinking.
 
Yup. Somehow I just tend to wake up and immediately think about the problem and the solution without even getting the first foot on the floor.

I think it's something to do with beind relaxed, because it happens when I'm in the shower, too.
 
I unified the 4 fundamental forces last night, but when I woke up I mistook the solution for a strange dream about naval warfare, so I forgot the whole thing 🙁
 
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