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Weird dreams you've had
nekowafer:
I don't have any of their contact information anymore :(
Redball:
What about usernames and country?
nekowafer:
One is Jonathan, from the Netherlands, and one went by Squall (I don't remember his real name), they were friends, and lived close to each other. That's literally all I've got.
Thrillho:
When I was learning shorthand at university and had to practise it every day as well as the 90 minutes of lessons each time, I used to literally dream of people talking in shorthand. I would perceive them as talking in the dream and HEAR the written outlines. It was kind of amazing.
Redball:
That is amazing, and that I can't quite visualize it doesn't make it any less so. What's especially interesting is how shorthand became a sort of language, a communication medium. I had a slightly similar but simpler experience , this one with typing.
I took a typing course in sophomore year of high school, first semester. At the time, I was a bike messenger for Western Union, taking telegrams to people all over the White Plains NY area. When I completed the course, I asked for an "inside" job, and at one point, I learned to type on a teletype machine. The kind of machine I used had a maximum speed of 65 wpm, but that speed was measured more as characters per minute, or per second -- if I typed more characters in a second than that rate (65 x 5?), this electromechanical machine would freeze. So bursts of speed were out. What I learned was a very constant rhythm on the keyboard. And as I was learning that, I would go to sleep "writing" to myself in that rhythm. I think I dreamed in it too.
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