All I can say is be glad that you're dreaming about Perl rather than Tetris. <shudder>

Back in school I used to dream in code and equations, depending on what I was studying at the moment. I tried my darndest one morning to integrate the alarm clock, knowing for sure that if I concentrated hard enough and figured out that integral, the infernal thing would pipe down.

It is a weird feeling, that's for sure -- at the time it makes perfect sense, too. You're lucky if the solution you came up with really was lucid.

Matt