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Now this is the funniest poll ever
Could this really happen?
| | | | Tim Drayton (X) 
Siprus
Local time: 15:35
Turki ke Inggris
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| Interesting question | Dec 20, 2006 |
This is an interesting question for me because very often when I wake up the first thing that springs to mind is some flaw in my previous day's translation work - often some obscure point buried in a mound of text. Sometimes I leap up and identify the mistake so that I can correct it later when the computer is on - sometimes it is too late because the final text has already been delivered. So much so that, deadline permitting, I sometimes delay sending a text to a client until I have 'slept on i... See more This is an interesting question for me because very often when I wake up the first thing that springs to mind is some flaw in my previous day's translation work - often some obscure point buried in a mound of text. Sometimes I leap up and identify the mistake so that I can correct it later when the computer is on - sometimes it is too late because the final text has already been delivered. So much so that, deadline permitting, I sometimes delay sending a text to a client until I have 'slept on it'.
Recently I was working on a book translation, and I found it very useful to read the pages I expected to work on the following day shortly before going to bed. I found this made me more productive the next day.
So, yes, I strongly believe that the subconscious mind reviews our translation work as we sleep. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Definitely it does happen... | Dec 20, 2006 |
Hello,
I have solved things in dreams lots of times: Maths problems for homework included .
I also finished a book in my dreams, although I have never checked whether my ending was the one I have never read....
Best,
Mar
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PAS
Local time: 14:35
Polandia ke Inggris
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| Not necessarily funny | Dec 20, 2006 |
I don't recall if I actually dreamt a solution to a problem, but I have solved translation problems while in bed, in the middle of the night.
Maybe I was lying in a half-asleep state and "click!" the proverbial lightbulb went on.
This just goes to show that even when you want to rest, your poor brain continues to churn.
Pawel Skalinski
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but I have dreamt of finishing a project only to be very disappointed when I woke up...
Giovanni
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Do you mean finding solutions to real life transl/interp problems in dreams (in which case no, sadly!) or having dreams in which you are solving a series of transl/interp problems (I do have dreams about work sometimes so maybe yes!)?
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But when I'm involved in a big translation I dream about it. The same happens when I have problems, with Trados, fior instance, because of a certain document, I also dream about it. If I spend an evening winaligning documents, I will also dream about it.
Never find a solution, but dream about it.
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| Sometimes.... | Dec 20, 2006 |
If it does happen, then when I'm half-awake and not in a dream, which is why I always keep paper and a pen (+ a torch!) next to my bed.
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Inggris
Local time: 13:35
Flemish ke Inggris
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I have too many nightmares about the native language only demon.
[Edited at 2006-12-20 14:37]
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...as I have too many other things to process in my dreams and don't have time for the translation issues.
| | | | Rebecca Garber
Local time: 08:35
Anggota sejak (2005)
Jerman ke Inggris
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| Not in my dreams per se | Dec 20, 2006 |
I don't usually remember my dreams. What I do remember is that I consistently cannot read in them.
However, I do wake up with the answers to translation problems.
So some part of the brain is working while I'm not.
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Parrot
Spanyol
Local time: 14:35
Spanyol ke Inggris
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| Not too strange | Dec 20, 2006 |
Mar Rodríguez wrote:
I have solved things in dreams lots of times: Maths problems for homework included .
As I recall, even the Silva mind control method had a way of programming problem-solving in dreams (mainly because it happens in a random way).
| | | | Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 14:35
Anggota sejak (2003)
Denmark ke Inggris
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| I dreamed about Multiterm... | Dec 20, 2006 |
Having got the basic functions of Trados to work, and persuaded it to link up with Multiterm a long time and a lot of hassle later... there was definitely a period when I woke up "knowing" things I did not know when I went to bed.
Sometimes they worked, and sometimes they were sheer wishful thinking...
I do try to 'sleep on' translations and give them a final proof reading before delivering them, especial... See more
| | | | Pundora
India
Local time: 18:05
Inggris ke Hindi
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I have no experience of interpretation but I am scared what happens if translation encroaches upon my dreams also!!
Pundora
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) and don't remember my dreams, but I suspect quite a lot of them do involve translating. Too many, in fact, in the last couple of months.
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