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Funny you should mention that. Years ago, when I was learning Lisp, I dreamed one night that the whole world had turned into parentheses, producing an existential horror rather like the "Knife Eye Attack":

http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p26

And the background music was Pink Floyd's "Any Colour You Like". This dream had background music. When I woke up, I was a lot better at Lisp than I was the day before, and the parens didn't bother me anymore. Nothing at all similar has happened since.

I actually do literally dream in code from time to time, but the code makes no sense, its more like a vague memory of me editing code rather than a meaningful program. I usually wake up with a smile on my face after such a dream.

I used to do that only once or twice (as far as I remember), and that was when first really learning Scheme and wrapping my head around functional programming.

But I am guilty of coming into office barefooted just to outgeek.

Last night I had a dream that I was telling a coworker he should use reinterpret_cast for something. But I'm not going to go bragging about it and I think it may be the only time I have ever actually dreamed about coding.