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Letter: Select * from dream

Published 17 December 2008

From Chris Callaghan

David Wilks asked whether the nature of our TV-watching affects our dreams (29 November, p 24).

When I was learning website design and practising for hours every day, I used to dream in HTML.

That is, I used to write paragraph breaks, image insertion, links and so forth as the dream went along – almost like subtitles.

Sad, but true…

The letters editor writes:

• Call that sad? Last month I woke up in the middle of a dream conducted in SQL database queries… and they worked.

Faversham, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2687 published 20 December 2008

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