Everybody has had experiences where they solved a problem or were able to think something through whilst sleeping. Happens to me quite a lot since my day-to-day life involves a lot of "working in my head", whether that's computer programming, or playing chess, or working on a mathematics problem. The number of times I've played a chess game and then analysed some related position in a dream (after finally falling asleep) is enormous. Or been trying to solve some geometry problem and realised how to redraw the diagram whilst resting.

Last night and today was particularly surreal, though.

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Topics: software/debugging, thinking

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