Poll: Do you ever dream about projects you are working on at night? Лице кое објавува дискусија: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you ever dream about projects you are working on at night?".
This poll was originally submitted by Julianne Rowland. View the poll results »
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Diana Coada (X) 
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 10:37
португалски на англиски
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| I never work at night. | May 12, 2013 |
These days I wake up early in the morning and by 6pm my brain is done.
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It has happened that I dream at night about projects I am working on if I'm stuck on a word and once or twice (maybe more) I even dreamt about the solution...
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If it is a particular nightmare of a project 
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neilmac
Шпанија
Local time: 11:37
шпански на англиски
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But not often, and I don't often remember dreams anyway. Too much to do in the waking world!
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Thayenga
Германија
Local time: 11:37
Член (2009)
англиски на германски
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At least not that I recall.
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| "In dreams, I walk with you..." | May 12, 2013 |
I always dream about Roy Orbison, myself.
Steve K.
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Triston Goodwin
Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 03:37
шпански на англиски
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| And I, being poor, have only my dreams... | May 12, 2013 |
I dream up better translations for difficult phrases. I also usually have mini-nightmares that I had made a mistake in a translation, but I had already sent it out to the client.
It's normal for me to dream about work, just last night I dreamt that my wife and I started a business shipping bananas to Alaska.
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| Yes, sometimes | May 12, 2013 |
And it always means I need a break from work
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Allison Wright (X)
Португалија
Local time: 10:37
The multilingual garbled mish-mash of sleep-talking I am told I do when I have a heavy workload would suggest that I do process what I am working on at some level while sleeping. I have no recollection in the morning of what I was saying, or the subject of the mutterings!
But then, two years ago, when I worked on a De-En project spanning five months, I went to sleeping thinking (and I am told speaking during the night) in Portuguese only. I tried to alter this pattern by reading Eng... See more The multilingual garbled mish-mash of sleep-talking I am told I do when I have a heavy workload would suggest that I do process what I am working on at some level while sleeping. I have no recollection in the morning of what I was saying, or the subject of the mutterings!
But then, two years ago, when I worked on a De-En project spanning five months, I went to sleeping thinking (and I am told speaking during the night) in Portuguese only. I tried to alter this pattern by reading English poetry (a favourite activity of mine) before sleeping, but the Portuguese pattern persisted. I think this was my brain's way of keeping sane for all the De-En during the day.
Before going to sleep I consciously relax and distance myself from the day's activities. I normally sleep very well indeed. My dreams are most often very visual, and image-based rather than language-based, and sometimes have a nice dash of symbolic colour.
Like others, if I have been grappling with a translation problem, very often the solution occurs to me shortly after waking, but without my being aware of having dreamt about it. ▲ Collapse
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Fortunately, touch wood, I have so far been lucky enough to have avoided any such nightmarish projects!
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