// initially written: yesterday (tuesday, 21 august 2012)
last night i brushed my teeth,
drank a glass of water,
and went to bed ..
..
.. which, unfortunately, wasn't the end of the story.
hours later, i gave up, got out of bed, flipped on the light, went to the table, and jotted down some notes about the new project .. and in doing so, i ran into an error in yesterday's proof.
argh! i knew it, that something was wrong ..!
don't ask me why, but my body knew and couldn't rest until it was settled.
and so i worked until the coffee ran out, then until the sun rose, and just when i saw some progress .. it was time to go to work.
// added: today
the proof is patched: problem solved.it turns out that the original argument was essentially correct .. only that i forgot to subdivide a set into subsets, where a previous condition becomes uniform on each subset.
now i feel cheated: i lost sleep over that?
more and more, i feel like my unconscious is constantly at work, running in the background, doing its best to catch up with the conscious, daytime version of me. i wonder if that's why i feel productive in the mornings:
is it really because at that point, my mind is fresh,
yet full of the ideas that my unconscious passed to me in sleep?
i have never woken up with the solution to a problem ..
.. but often enough, i wake up realising what doesn't work;
it's like the maths version of spider-sense or something.
.. but often enough, i wake up realising what doesn't work;
it's like the maths version of spider-sense or something.
the mind is a strange thing, i tell you .. mine, at any rate. \-:
1 comment:
We are all facing insomnia from time to time when something bothers us from inside. Point is to work on our self constantly to get inner peace, to be positive and to stay positive.
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