It was as if my subconscious was only Tetris. But I think there's a difference between a problem bugging you and you thinking about it and the phenomenon of Tetris pieces continually falling and fitting together in your head. I used to play Tetris a TON and had the actual Tetris effect real bad. I don't know if I'd consider what you're going through with math to be the Tetris effect. Have dreamed about solving a problem you were working on, and have actually solved it in your sleep, or had an epiphany? Since CompSci is math and programming heavy, I'm wondering how many of you have had this happen to you? Whether you're on the theoretical/graduate/academic side pouring over the maths for hours, or on the development side coding for hours.
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Couldn't figure it out in my sleep, but the tetris effect had me running through scenarios all night with the structure of our code we had written and I'd come to the conclusion that we went off on a huge tangent that didn't offer any viable ways to make it work. I just kept running through every possible way to solve it in my head, and I woke up thinking we had over-complicated everything with deep unnecessary nested-loops, utilized an algorithm wrong for a list, and with the way we called a function that was completely unnecessary. I don't want to make this too long, but it's happened to me with discrete mathematics, as well some really abstract stuff that I couldn't wrap my head around.Ī week ago it happened with this complicated programming problem I was stuck on, trying to help a friend with his side project. Went to sleep, and it was all I dreamed about, and I woke up and solved it. One time in calc 2 I was stuck on a tough integral involving trig at the tail end of a very long session. I'll just be dreaming and solving integrals, like really focusing on it, but asleep. Lately it's happened with calculus and my other math courses when I get in the zone and practice problems for 12 hours straight. Making real plays, exploiting patterns, and even lose a pot. To the point where I'd still be sitting at a 6 max table asleep in a dream, and each player my mind made up would have their own play style, and cards were randomly generated.
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