Only a computer geek would have a bad dream about getting a virus on his super-secure locked-down computer. I was in a DOS window and seeing all these directories in the directory listing that weren’t supposed to be there. I was furiously “rd /s”-ing them away, but more were coming up. It occured to me that maybe I needed to upgrade to Firefox 2.0, maybe it was less virus-prone.
But I woke up and my computer was fine. Whew.
I dreamed, as I was waking up one morning, that I saw my brain booting up. Evidently, it runs some flavor of Unix…
In October, I was working on reverse-engineering a program. I only had the binary, so I was working with the disassembly. After about a month, x86 assembly was invading my dreams.
I don’t usually have dreams I recall. I do remember once vaguely remembering dreaming in Lisp s-expressions, however, but I don’t remember any code.
What I does happen to me is that I sometimes wake up fairly disoriented, and the line between the computer world and the real world is seriously blurry. I have to sit and stare at my dog wondering if it is Turing complete and whether I can program it in binary. I wonder how two people can communicate when they obviously run on different hardware architectures, because isn’t love a form of RPC?
Will you marry me?
Er, ahem… back to the OP…
I once had a great dream in Labview…
I am not a geek. But I’ve frequently dreamed of being malicious code of various types.
Most of the time I’m a Trojan, but I’ve also dreamt of being a classic file infector, or an IM flooder. Given that I can’t program, I find it pretty fascinating that I know not only the name of the program, but often (not always) the language that it’s written in.
I’ve also dreamt of being an instant messenger application, but those dreams aren’t quite so interesting.
I repeat: I am not a geek.
(years ago)I dreamed I found a weird computer in some storage area or something - it was sort of like one of those very early ‘luggable’ machines, but the VDU was some kind of orange gas-discharge thing. The operating system/software was some proprietary thing and I had no manuals - I was trying to work out how to use it completely by trial and error. The guy from the company that owned it said I could keep it, but only if I figured out how to use it.
“Trojan”, “file infector”, “IM flooder.” Hehe, you sure talk like one!
I’m flattered, but sorry, I don’t think Mr. Neville would like that 
Hm. I dunno. You sound like geek. You smell like geek. I’m not going to taste you, but I’ve got a guess what you taste like…
Don’t worry. I’m not a geek either. I just end up in front of a god-damned computer or video game every waking minute of the day. I HATE computers. Snarl.
Heh, back in the day when I was on AOL and a volunteer mod, I’d dream in their proprietary programing language.
For weeks at a time. :-X
Cheers,
G
Many years ago I was having what seemed to be a very normal dream, except that everything people said was subtitled. It turned video game geek on me, right in the middle of the ‘screen’ of my dream appeared the words…Press enter to continue.
You know how when you’re really groggy in the morning and you stand in the shower staring at the tile grid in a subconscious state, gracefully rotating the descending tetrads around the various off-colored tiles to form a perfectly interlocking set until all of a sudden the water’s gone cold and your housemates are yelling at you because you’ve been in there for, like, forty minutes?
Yeah. Me either.