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I'm pretty much a total noob to all this, but I have some lofty aspirations for my game. There's sooooo much I have to learn. Not only do I need to understand the programming language, but I need to understand how all the elements of my game work together. So I've put a few weeks aside where I'm intently focusing on the game, & nothing but the game.
 
Result: I've begun to dream in code.

I usually go to bed right after working on the game (right after that weird pop in my brain tells me I've had too much), & I'll lay there thinking about what I've learned & what I still need to do. And all night my dreams are filled with green, yellow, blue, purple & red blocks, trying out rulesets & code structures, dreaming the results. Sometimes I even wake up with a solution to last night's problem.

Has anybody else experienced this?

That is so cool! Never have I dreamed of Stencyl coding, although I do get things stuck in my head after a lot of focus, like with board games, or with unusual physical sensations like jumping on a trampoline. But never have I been chased by laggy loop groups, or flew over clouds of "if" statements. And certainly, never have I had the focus to fix problems in specific code. Kudos to you and your dedication. I am envious.

This has happened to me a few times. Nearly every time I work on games before bed. My dreams will consist of problems, and I have to solve them logically. I usually wake up, and feel like I got no rest at all.

Phil Fish says he can subconsciously design levels in his sleep and make them when he wakes up. I'd pay money to be able to do that.

Lucid dreaming seems to make that possible. There are some tips about it on the internet and there are items that aid lucid dreaming, like REM masks. I haven't tried it yet personally, as it requires some trial-and-error/discipline (like having a dream journal, while it's optional I heard it does help) and I don't own a REM mask, but word goes that it works.

HA! I've done it a couple times except I wasn't really controlling myself it just happened and when I woke up it actually fixed a couple of problems.

I have only once had a useful dream. It was about 15 years ago when I dreamt that I had solved a really difficult problem interfacing a web-based system to a back-end SQL server which was used for indexing external documents held in a separate file-system.

When I thought about the dream later that day, I realised that I really had dreamt-up a solution and I was able to implement it!

Every other dream that I have ever had has been nonsense.

Nope, I seem to be unable to design games while sleeping