Before you go on to ask me anything more on the weird topic of this post, it would definitely help you to know something about the geek in me. My musings as a programmer were recorded in my first blog here rajivmohapatra.blogspot.com
After I finished my bachelor's degree in engineering I went on to be a software engineer designing mainframe systems for Fortune 500 BFSI clients. I have a habit of taking my work very very personally. Sometimes so personally that I design entire program modules in dreams and many lines of code start appearing in my dreams.
This particular dream happened on one fateful day when I was supposed to be running the mainframe batch streams for the general housekeeping jobs to keep the data environment in good shape. The archaic age-old systems that mainframes are, most of the systems and programs were written and maintained long before I materialised on planet earth. Every technology that my engineering books termed outdated and my teachers refrained from delving deep into, appeared to be very much the lifeline of the global financial world and of my worklife as well. Infact relational databases which appeared as early as the 1970s were not dominantly used in the client's systems. The hierarchial IMS-DB databases that I had to mess with had a unique characteristic. In the Online mode during the day people have access to the data-stores where as in the Offline batch mode(mostly in the night and early morning) only the programs and jobs have access to data.
I was assigned to arrive early in the morning and run the offline batch streams successfully to completion after which the data environments would be online for the day. However it so happened that some developer had managed to screw the data and my job-runs were unsuccessful. After a lot of hullabaloo it was decided to abandon the job-runs in the half-run states before the data environment went online. Needless to say my entire day went on pondering as to how could things have turned out perfect.
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Time - 3.15 am Indian Standard Time
All the batch streams flash before my eyes. I see a humongous number of batch jobs running on the screen and suddenly all of them abend(whenever a job does not complete successfully its termed an ABnormal ENDing or abend). And in the next second another flash
ALL ENVIRONMENTS ARE ONLINE
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Man what a nightmare. And as I lay in my bed, I keep pondering, why couldn't I find any solution for it. Needless to say, I never had any nightmare with such tenacity before. And however hard I tried to sleep afterwards I could not sleep. Eventually I read a book and as the clock showed 6 am I went on to get prepared for office, who knows what lays in store for me in the day ahead, maybe I will find a solution to my problem.
Starting on a brand new day...
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Interpretation of Dreams
Scientists say the higher your IQ, the more you dream. So, considering the fact that my IQ is 137 which is pretty higher than Einstein's, I am bound to dream more.
Dreams have always been more than a fantasy world for me. I view them as an astral projections to another dimension where everything is purely driven by our thoughts to accomplish our aspirations that seem impossible in the real world. There is also a spiritual angle to the dream world and it is acknowledged as a higher level to human existence that we experience on earth. More on the spiritual theory on dreams in some later post.
So the million dollar question - do you really consider dreams as dreams ?
How do you know you are not dreaming right now? What is it that convinces you that what you are experiencing now is “real”? Is it that others agree with you? What if they, like in your sleeping dreams, are dream characters in another dream? How can you trust what you are experiencing? In your sleeping dreams, don’t the characters act and sound like they are real? Don’t they work to convince you that they are real? You could be dreaming at this instant! In the next instant you could awaken on a couch or bed and say, “Wow, what a vivid, realistic dream I just had!” Consider for a moment that those who you trusted to teach you about this dimension (like your parents) might be dream characters, too; that like your sleeping dreams, you create all the characters, situations, and backgrounds (like houses, yards, fields, forests, etc.). If this dimension were a dream, then who is responsible for and creating every bit of it? If you are dreaming, you are the creator of it all.
If you like my way of thinking read on, for this blog is specially created for all you folks out there. My topic of dreams usually vary a lot. My dreams are a consequence of my mental states. Sometimes, I am a teenager enjoying in a beach with beauties doing things which are unmentionable in a country like India and unthinkable in a place like the temple city of India. Sometimes, I am frantically falling from a skyscraper, running endlessly as the protagonist in the movie Apocalypto, or sometimes racing on the highway on a superbike with front wheel automatically popping up at higher revs leading to a wheelie. Rest of the times, I am just in some twisted story. Many of these bittersweet twisted sci-fi out of the world stories are going to follow in the posts to follow. Happy reading :)
Dreams have always been more than a fantasy world for me. I view them as an astral projections to another dimension where everything is purely driven by our thoughts to accomplish our aspirations that seem impossible in the real world. There is also a spiritual angle to the dream world and it is acknowledged as a higher level to human existence that we experience on earth. More on the spiritual theory on dreams in some later post.
So the million dollar question - do you really consider dreams as dreams ?
How do you know you are not dreaming right now? What is it that convinces you that what you are experiencing now is “real”? Is it that others agree with you? What if they, like in your sleeping dreams, are dream characters in another dream? How can you trust what you are experiencing? In your sleeping dreams, don’t the characters act and sound like they are real? Don’t they work to convince you that they are real? You could be dreaming at this instant! In the next instant you could awaken on a couch or bed and say, “Wow, what a vivid, realistic dream I just had!” Consider for a moment that those who you trusted to teach you about this dimension (like your parents) might be dream characters, too; that like your sleeping dreams, you create all the characters, situations, and backgrounds (like houses, yards, fields, forests, etc.). If this dimension were a dream, then who is responsible for and creating every bit of it? If you are dreaming, you are the creator of it all.
If you like my way of thinking read on, for this blog is specially created for all you folks out there. My topic of dreams usually vary a lot. My dreams are a consequence of my mental states. Sometimes, I am a teenager enjoying in a beach with beauties doing things which are unmentionable in a country like India and unthinkable in a place like the temple city of India. Sometimes, I am frantically falling from a skyscraper, running endlessly as the protagonist in the movie Apocalypto, or sometimes racing on the highway on a superbike with front wheel automatically popping up at higher revs leading to a wheelie. Rest of the times, I am just in some twisted story. Many of these bittersweet twisted sci-fi out of the world stories are going to follow in the posts to follow. Happy reading :)
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