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Quickies can be good, and there is a short dream report from Mogenns just now that really speaks to me.

I am looking at a computer display that is not quite clear, doing a repetitive game action to test the graphics  (there are lots of dials and gadgets around me ). I am on the headset with a man who  seems to be above me. He tells, “You need to adjust the dithering.” he is helping me. I don’t know where he is.

Feelings: Not a lot of feelings, more curious.

My comment:

If this were my dream, I’d be grateful for this message from the supervisor inside my head to “adjust the dithering”. Where I grew up, I was often told by parents and teachers not to dither. “We don’t have time to dither,” was a common phrase.  Synonyms for “dithering” include vacillation and nervous agitation. The word descends from the Middle English didderen, meaning to tremble or quake.

I can think of lots of ways that I dither, in this sense, doing things online resembling “repetitive game action to test the graphics” that may seem like work but are not the work and slow my approach to getting that done. Yet sometimes this type of dithering can get me to where I want to go by a roundabout or crab-wise progression.

Then again, there are fields in which dither is regarded as good, even essential. In audio production, the term can mean an “intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quanization error,” as in the last stage of producing a CD. To understand how dither developed virtue we must go back to the bomber aircraft of World War II. Allied engineers discovered that the boxy navigation computers of the day, crammed with gears and cogs, worked better when aircraft were in flight than they did on the ground. ground. It seemed the vibration of a plane in flight loosened up the sticky parts, so they moved in continuous flow instead of jerky stop-start patterns. So the engineers fitted the computers with motors to produce similar vibration, and someone who knew old words called that “dither”.

I note that dither is better when you are in flow or in flight than when you are stuck on the ground in repetitive patterns, or vacillating, undecided. I would love my man upstairs – I guess he is my oversoul, or higher self – to reach through my “headset”, whenever necessary, and keep my dithering in the useful band of vibration.

I think I’ll make “adjust the dithering” my personal mantra for today. Make that any day, and don’t dither over it.

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