Excel dreams
Anyone else have them?
Anytime I spend a long day working on a model in excel I wind up trying to continue my work when I try to go to sleep at night, needless to say it seriously impedes my rest. Sometimes I'm in a half sleep trying to fix an impossible excel problem and can't go to sleep until its done.
Anyone have any tips or should I check in to the closest mental hospital?
Institution not required, but do seek out someone who can help... Maybe some hypnotherapy, or some quick but intense exercise then a shower, followed by herbal tea...
Dont be too freaked by it, plenty of people in the sciences/maths research and traders have work-related sleep disorders. Sort it out though.
If you're lucky your hypnotherapist will... not be able to continue his services, for whatever reason, and you'll walk around all day humming "damn its good to be a gangster."
I remember the same happening to me when I took calc in college. I kept having a half dream/half awake thing where I would be trying to solve an impossible problem.
it goes away on its own
I have the same problem a lot of the time. It is not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of times after a good rest I will wake up and have a better idea on how to solve the actual problem. Nyquil will make it go away though if it is bothering you.
In my first year or so of working I would consistently have really lame dreams that generally involved Excel or whatever else I had been intently working on. Over time I think I just started becoming more confident in the work that I was doing and really just started worrying a lot less about my work (I wouldn't go so far as to say I became apathetic, but I really don't let last-minute model changes or other fire-drill issues get to me any more - I think you just become desensitized to it).
Once when I worked on a ridiculously stressful bake off, I had dreams that this brute of an MD was tracking me down, calling and calling, asking about some change i didnt make in the doc, just wouldn't leave me alone. Result - woke up in a cold sweat! Needless to say this was the sleep I gathered from going in a meeting room in between my triple all nighter, so was not in the best of places, but pretty messed up nonetheless.
As smuguy alluded to, once you become more sure of yourself and confident in your work, it'll pass. Failing that, exhaustion will set in.
After working hard on a problem for a while I often work through it in my sleep, although not always in excel. I specifically remember dreaming in French after cramming for an exam for a few days.
I've heard of lots of other people doing the same.
Had a dream about WSO (Originally Posted: 05/15/2013)
That included Brady having a breakdown because he still couldnt get into Harvard. And then me getting my Certified User status revoked and being really upset about it.
Signs my life is pathetic? I think so.
nope, just beautiful. first world nightmares
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Laughing my ass off, great way to start off my WSO day
I also had a dream where my certified user status was revoked...then I woke up and it came true!
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