The moment you wake up from seeing yourself debugging code in your sleep is basically the moment you realise you have been baptised as a true developer.

What experiences have you had which you consider to be your development 'baptism'? :D

Not really baptism but once I had a dream about linear algebra that I couldn't understand at university and I realized the solution during a dream about an exam. I passed the exam few days after also thanks to this dream :-)

@miska haha glad to hear it! Funnily enough my dream was also for a University assignment!

4 years ago I had to take the rest of a working day off due to a spontaneous fever I developed (pun unintended). That night I had a nightmare about audio waveforms, Fourier analysis and parsing vray scene files (ray tracing), the combination of which (and a weird one at that) comprised the task I was working on that day. Amidst the high temperature, cold-sweat, and horrifying half-awake hallucinations, I experienced unpleasant trippy visions of solving said task over and over again. After an unpleasant day in the hospital the next day (which deserves a separate medRant platform to be built for the sole purpose of me sharing that experience...), I went back to work and diligently typed down, for half an hour straight, what came to be the solution to all my remaining tasks for the current sprint.

Happy end, yay...

And then the scrum master loaded more USs for me :/

For me it was the day I realized I was responding messages with 'ACK' instead of 'Ok'