A newfound friend some of you are familiar with, Claire Lynch, challenged me to write an app that would make communicating by Morse Code faster than texting.

Claire, I never imagined you’d influence my dreams.

I woke up from a night of coding in my subconscious — experimenting with the length of time that designates a pause and when it’s a pause, exactly what kind (space between words, space between sentences, etc.), as well as the definition of dots and dashes when one is “clicking” a touchscreen device like a mobile phone or tablet PC.

Of course, I haven’t got out to any Android or Apple app store to see if the app in question already exists.  Create mine first and let the competition wait with bated breath.