[macNchz]

>I fall asleep most nights writing and rewriting opening lines and first paragraphs in my head. And every morning before I wake, I am somehow still writing sentences in my head, twisted into my sheets while comparing arguments and searching for counter-arguments that could undo a whole story.

While some of the arguments in the rest of the article seemed a bit dubious, this opening segment resonated with me—I find myself dreaming in code fairly often, tossing and turning while my brain works through some non-existent problem, iterating non-functional lines of code. It's bizarre, uncomfortable, I don't feel rested and I wake up tense. Generally I take it as a sign that I need to scale back how much of myself I'm sinking in to my work, as I think it's more likely to happen when I've been working longer or later days. I think if I worked in an environment where I was expected to work so much that I started having dreams like this on a more regular basis, I'd burn out or quit very quickly.