When geeks dream... (crossposted)

[azurelunatic]

This is the first time I've seen *that* symbolism, in all the dreams-of-other-people that I've analyzed.

Specifically, something standing, in a dream, for a firewall (and probably other security software) on a network.

I mean. There was this zombie worm, and then it kept getting bigger, and our protagonist was getting very worried about it. Our protagonist tried to isolate it, and called for backup. The backup calling everybody around over to her so she could pull out her CD player, put headphones on all of them (she had an audio splitter), and have them listen to the CD. It was evidently a very powerful shielding spell on the CD.

A worm, a network, and a shield-on-a-CD -- a firewall.
Dreams are pretty cool.

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[xoexohexox.livejournal.com]

i remember back when i used to MUD, i would have dreams about the game (gemstoneIII, specifically), "in-engine". It was wierd..i wasn't "seeing" a landscape and people and actions that the words -represented-, and i also wasn't "seeing" text scrolling past my field of vision, it was like a strange conceptual flow of data and causality that i can't relate to anything i've seen or heard.

Reading the Shadowrun novels gave me some pretty strange computer dreams as well. Looking back, its funny that they referred to the consensual hallucination that made up everything on the internet "the Matrix", back in the 80s, in the players handbooks and stuff. I think the novels came out later than that.

[azurelunatic]

I had a text-only dream some months ago.