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by teni 4640 days ago
Sometimes when am stuck, I get clues in a dream about the problem.
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I've had this. I remember getting stuck when I was 17 on some ridiculous C string parsing problem. I'd been at it for hours when I gave up, went to bed, dreamed about it, woke up and wrote the solution in under a minute.

It was kind of a surreal experience given the amount of effort I had put in the evening before.