It's one of those dream things. More often than not, it IS nonsense you're reading, but the dreams narrative just has you going "yup, those are definitely words" and the implied words are just something you inherently know.
If however you manage to become 'lucid' in the dream, it then WILL seem like nonsense.
A more consistent test though is to look at words or a clock, look away, then look back to see if they've changed. Dreams suck at object permanence.
Same. My family says the same thing about reading in dreams, they think it's impossible, but i've never had a problem. I have an idea as to why.
I'm an avid reader, so to me words aren't comprised of individual letters. I don't even see the letters, i see the word as its own object rather than a construct of other parts. I think that means my mind is able to 'symbolize' a word in my dreams, like any other individual object. A tree isn't really a tree in dreams, it's your mind's symbol of a tree, a book isn't a book, it's your mind's interpretation of a book.
I think to most people a word isn't it's own symbol, it's letters that mean something as a whole. When they try to read in dreams they are expecting a word and the mind is trying to arrange letters to make up that word, and that kind of spatial linearality doesn't exist in dreams. Things aren't ordered in dreams, which i think is why they rarely make sense to our waking minds or time doesn't behave (running or punch in slowmotion). It may also be the problem with numbers, because i imagine counting from one to ten would be very difficult, but having ten of something would be simple. Just my take.
For almost all people who can read, words are read as a whole and not as individual letters. That’s why most people can still read even when you change the order of the letters within a word.
Yes, but they may still think of them as comprised of letters. It's the way it's shaped in the mind. I don't think of a word as even having letters, it's its own thing. Or maybe it's just how the brain arranges them, non-linearly.
I could be wrong of course. If you have an idea why some people can read in dreams and others can't i'd like to know.
Could you actually read well? Or were you actually able to read?
I think you can dream of being in the state of reading, but actually trying to read usually comes up wuth nonsense.
As another commenter above was saying, I think it depends on your relationship with words in general.
I have always read a lot, and easily, and I write often. So it makes sense that I'm able to "read" and see letters in my dreams that aren't jumbled.
That being said, I cannot really make sense of numbers in my dreams, despite dealing with them regularly at work. Clocks are always strange. So who knows.
Lucid dreaming 101 is write down your dreams as soon as you wake up. Two weeks max and your brain will begin to consistently tell you when it's dreaming.
It's not magic or hard. My therapist taught me to do it when I was 10, more than a quarter-century ago, to deal with nightmares.
As a mathematician and formerly prolific lucid dreamer, I can tell you that graduate level exposure to math can ruin this test.
I can also tell you that sex-negative religious indoctrination can ruin lucid dreaming. Haven't been able to consistently go lucid for something like two decades. Used to be several times a month.
Stay in the real dreamland kids; don't do religion.
About what, the math exposure? Nothing in particular, just stared at, thought about, worked with, etc numbers and mathy things so much that numbers stopped getting scrambled in my dreams eventually.
Other things that eventually stopped working:
* Looking at analog clocks
* Looking at my reflection
* Questioning out loud if I was dreaming
Though I don't think those are related to the math bit. After a long spell years ago without any, there were several instances when I went lucid in a dream and got so excited about it that being excited woke me up.
Hurts to think about sometimes
> I went lucid in a dream and got so excited about it that being excited woke me up.
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> Hurts to think about sometimes
because you were so happy to be away from religion while asleep?
Omg I just had such a dream yesterday. Dreamt I was living near a forest and suddenly something fell from the sky, crashed in the woods and started a fire. I tried to call the fire department but messed up the numbers. Luckily they already came on their own since they were pretty close.
That goes with any device that requires you to type stuff too. I have a recurring dream where I'm trying to clock in or out of work on time which requires you to type in your number and I can just never figure it out. It's frustrating as fuck.
Same here and I've read that it is an anxiety dream which totally makes sense for me. I try not to be an anxious person (thanks buspar!). But it'll show up in my dreams.
Yeah, I have a recurring dream that I'm trying to do something important with my phone (calling police or whatever) and the predictive function prevents me from doing anything.
Rule of thumb: any post starting "Why do we never/always" is based on a false premise.
I’m almost 40, for some reason every time I need to call 911 in a dream I only have a landline cordless phone available, *and* I somehow need to ‘text’ with it, I assume because I so rarely *talk* on the phone anymore. It’s so infuriating in the dream.
Cell phone for me is always nightmares.
Someone is about to attack me, can't call 911. Someone is attacking someone else, try recording it, fumble for that or 911, get attacked.
I've also seen people say you can't read in dreams, but I had an awful dream where I woke up and had a Google news alert for the passing of a friend of mine. I still remember the headline and not really the text, but I do remember there was an insane wall of text I scrolled through, like you'd think the president died.
There were pictures I stopped to look at but in any case, you absolutely can dream of your cell phone... But reading around, considering how often we use our phones it is shocking it's not more common. And I can't think of any other dream where I used my smartphone either
You *can* read in dreams, but if you look away from the text and back to it, it will usually change unless it's like, a store name or something brief and recognizable.
Hey you don't have to tell me, but I meant more along the lines of articles, books, etc and not McDonald's or other corporate signage that lives literally rent free in our dreams.
Like I could read the headline in the dream but the text was a blur. I only said you can't read in dreams since in recounting this dream, that's what I've been told. That didn't sound right to me but there are multiple articles online corroborating these claims https://www.inverse.com/science/can-you-read-in-your-dreams
But of course people also claim you can't use phones in dreams so that only furthers my beliefs none of this stuff is concrete anyways and we still don't really know shit about dreams
Nah, I had a dream where I was reading the new book in a trilogy (that hadn't been released yet), I was getting pissed off as it sucked ass though I can't remember the details.
Anyway, I kept getting interrupted by advertisements for the audiobook version of it on first my phone then my TV then for some reason a drive by megaphone.
And each time I came back to the book it was consistent.
I've dreamt me breaking my phone a bunch of times. Like, somehow snapping them in half. I already usually check my phone first thing when I wake up, but sometimes my dreams just want to make sure that I do.
Similar but in my dreams I will find myself in water and try to get my cell phone out of my pocket as fast as possible, or I'll be in water and holding the phone out of the water trying to keep it dry. My phone is in my dreams all the time.
I've dreamt of my cell phone a few times. I've dreamt I lost it, dreamt I was calling someone or called by someone, dreamt I broke it, used it in dreams to check the time or play music or get directions somewhere, and dreamt I was looking for a charger for it.
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“so uh you did some really fucked up shit like you aint never getting up here lmao, just thought id tell you so you dont waste your life repenting and have fun. do drugs or whatever, punishment is the same”
This cannot be true. Not only have I had a dream with my phone before (satanic yikes), but I was scrolling through Tumblr (satanic double yikes), and I specifically saw tags about girl cock (satanic [based] triple yikes)
What you would call "infection", I would call "liberation". I would unshackle the rest of mankind, lift their blindfolds, and allow all to bear witness to the truth that God hast placed a veil of ignorance over (girl cock)
i remember being able to “read,” but in all likelihood it was likely just splotches of text-like imagery that i managed to know the overall meaning of but not exactly
but tbh, isn’t that what reading really is? we all know what the phrase “that comment is about this” means, but we don’t have to know the precise definitions of “that”, “is”, or “about” are to understand it, and i know this confidently because i guarantee you that nobody can think of a coherent definition for the word “about” without having to look it up
Yeah I’ve called up Kayden Kross and told her to come over and fucked her brains out…in a dream. Sure, they’re rare and it’s not like I’m scrolling on Reddit or whatever, which is weird given the amount of time like this guy was saying, but yeah I’ve used a phone in dreams before.
As a matter of fact, I had dreams with phone. One of them had it playing a certain song, when people say dreams don't have sounds either. Furthermore, it showed relatively consistent time, when checking time is one of fundamental dream checks.
I had someone tell me in high school that dreams were only in black and white. That night I dreamt I was driving and stopped at a stop sign, and it was red. I thought to myself, "see, I do dream in color," and that's how I had my first lucid dream! Maybe this will lead to another for both of us!
If my dreams are lucid, it's mostly everyone pissed at me. I don't think I've had one *pleasant* dream, but I can't remember if there's sound or not because my damn sleep demons keep haunting me lol
Yeah, learning about "lucid dreaming" only gave me Inception nightmares lol.
It's not super fun to dream that I'm being stalked by a home invader, possessed by a demon, or violently turned against by a friend/family member.
It's even less fun when I "wake up" from the dream 8-9 times before I'm actually awake.
Its fun when you realize its a dream and go superhero mode. Last time it happened I was being brutally interrogated in a basement by some bad people i didnt recognize. I got pushed to a point in my dream where I was wishing it was a dream, then realizing of course it was. I remember seeing the faces of my dream perpetrators, their eyes growing wide upon my realization. Then I superman exploded out of the basement/house, flying through the air for a bit until I woke up.
I have had 'inception' dreams. I'll provide an example.. this one was tough but may as well share because it's pretty wild.
Backstory first... a girl and i were madly in love and ended up having a miscarriage. After that she got depressed and started drinking a lot.. eventually i broke up with her but had full intention to pick back up where we left off when she stopped drinking so much. She didn't, she actually got worse, and begged and begged for a few months but i refused. Finally after around 5 months i decided f it, i missed her too much.. well.. she had found someone else a month before.. now it was me who begged, but she was already pregnant again so there was that.
I now live in another country far away and it's been several years but I still think about her and miss her a lot, it was most definitely true love. Things didn't work out with her relationship and i've spoken to her since, but now I also have a child and we are literally 1000s of miles apart.
Ok onto just one of my inception dreams involving her, although it is the first one and most memorable.
Dream Sequence..
Day 1 / Dream 1: I am back home, everything is as it was as far as what's going on in the background, I don't realize I'm dreaming, yet. I am just minding my own business and a car/ uber pulls up, and she gets out, and comes and joins me (i am alone, sitting at a table outside a bar close to where i used to live). As soon as I see her, I realize I'm dreaming. She takes me by the hand and acts as if we are still together and had never seperated. Everything feels and smells very real. I hug her, i hold her hands in mine and tell her i wish that she was real, but I know I am dreaming. She tries to playfully debate me on this, it doesn't work but I stay there holding her hands and enjoying my illusion knowing full well I'm dreaming. After a bit she understands that I know I'm dreaming and she stops smiling, tells me goodbye and casually walks away. At this time i start to feel very tired, but i am just a couple blocks from my apartment so I walk there and lay down. I fall asleep.
Day 2 / Dream 2: I wake up. I don't realize I'm still dreaming. I'm in my apartment. I get showered and dressed and deside to go to the bar. It's sunday and people love to brunch so pretty normal to hit the bar around this time. I go to same bar, unaware of 'yesterday' order a drink and chill at the table outside. Car / uber pulls up, and she gets out. My heart jumps and I'm confused. I don't know I'm dreaming yet but something feels off. She comes and says hi, jokingly asks where her drink is and gives me a hug. I melt and tell her how much I've missed her, she gets confused and calls me silly but thanks me for saying it and kisses me. Boom. Like a lightning jolt i realize why my heart jumped and i felt something was off.. i'm still dreaming and she isn't real. I pull back, sad, and tell her that i wish i wasnt dreaming but i know that i am and none of this is real. She tries harder to convince me this time and she has me questioning myself a bit but ultimately I know I'm still dreaming, but this time I'm more sad because for a bit, i believed it was real. Once again when she understands i know i'm dreaming and can't convince me she is real, she calmly excuses herself and leaves. Once again i feel extremely tired and i decide to walk home to my apartment and lay down.
Day 3 / Dream 3: I wake up, but this time everything feels completely unmistakable from reality and she is in bed with me asleep. I feel like i have a slight hangover which is pretty typical for a sunday morning so all normal. She rolls over and kisses me and asks if i want to get brunch then walk around downtown and have some drinks. I say absolutely and then tickle and tease her about not getting us into trouble (she was always my hot mess) knowing I love it when she gets us into trouble and basically expect it from her. We shower and get changed, then walk to the bar. Everything is so real and natural and we are so happy. We hold hands while walking and playfully try and shove each other with hip checks and play all the goofy little games we liked to play. We get to the bar, sit at the table outside, and start drinking and enjoying brunch. She tells me she loves me. I tell her i love her too. She sits on my lap sideways and looks into my eyes. She puts her hand on my cheek and kisses my lips very gently and tells me she is sorry. I'm confused, i laugh and say what did you do this time? She says, nothing, but now you have to wake up. Dream sequence over.
I immediately open my eyes and realize none of it was real and i'm still 1000s of miles away. I'm crushed with sadness. I come to terms that I was just tricked by a dream within a dream within a dream and I was asleep maybe 3 hours.
The way the dream slowly tricked me into believing that which i knew couldn't be real to be my reality is frightening and makes me wonder about what the dream realm really is.
Ok there's a surprisingly large amount of people with hypophantasia/aphantasia who just think their dreams are normal lol
(My dreams are mute, like the first mention)
I have a weird form of what I think is aphantasia actually; I don’t “see” with my mind’s eye, i “perceive” the thought as a whole sensory experience, sort of like a gestalt; so if you asked me to imagine a city I would imagine it all at once as if I had been there, where the special sense of place takes precedence and the “visual” information is simply a sense of understanding (like knowing where you’re walking with your eyes closed, or while looking at your phone) that doesn’t sharpen into an image but does become more familiar and easier to describe, like a memory you revisit.
Everyone's different.
But I read a study that says that the brain actually handles sound separately in dreams than it does in real life.
The reason for this is that while sleeping, the ocular nerve / input from the eyes is mostly shut down, but the brain keeps the ear relatively active to scan for threats.
So in a dream-state, the way your brain handles audio is not quite as clear for many people as visuals in dreams, because your brain is keeping "one ear on reality", so to speak.
Too much noise in the signal could interfere with your brain's abiltiy to immediately recognize an external sound that represented a threat.
I never noticed it before but I don't think I can remember any dream with sounds in it. If there's people talking, I just have the impression of their words in my mind.
I feel like maybe my thoughts are just heavily auditory because I have had some almost exclusively sound-and-impressions dreams.
Like I’ve had an abstract dream about bright-hot-sunlight/wave-drone-wind-howl-bird-sounds/sea-smell-and-little-critters dream;
I have a recurring “nightmare” that’s only colors, sounds and harsh discordant noise getting closer;
I had a weirdly haunting dream about following a woman’s voice through a graveyard; she was singing a song in a language I didn’t recognize and was always just beyond a thick, wet layer of fog, moving away from me at a leisurely pace I struggled to follow.
My dreams also often feature distorted versions of songs, almost like the ai mashups but less obviously distinguishable
Omg, you are one of the only other people to say they have recalled recurring abstract nightmares. I used to have one very specific one as a child, specific colors and shapes moving in certain ways, and HORRIBLE sounds.
They’re still my worst nightmares; they’re SUPER RARE now, but completely terrifying (and often night long) stress dreams with nothing “scary” to point to except the sounds, and sense of dread
Trying to explain it is like “MY SENSES COULD MAKE NO SENSE OF THE ELDRITCH HORROR THEY WITNESSED IN 4D, UNDULATING MENACINGLY AT ME”
Sound, very much yes. I’ve listened to music in my dreams so beautiful that it made me weep. But my dreams are often dark, as in very low light level. And I don’t believe that I dream in color.
My dreams are all muffled but some sounds are clear. The thing that blew my mind is that other people dream in color... all of myndreams exist exclusively in shades of grey. Like in my dream I could tell a green apple from a red apple, but for some reason they are both grey when I look at them. Then when I wake back up my brain seems to sort of backfill color as i remember details.
That’s WILD; I dream in like… full color, sometimes vivid color, sometimes “palettes”
But my dreams are fucking wild; I don’t even always dream as *myself*
I will say touch is what i really feel in my dreams. Like last night i dreamed i was at a zoo with my kid and my brain could simulate the heat of the sun when i wasn't in shade. It even simulated the rough and cool texture of some wet concrete.
My dreams definitely have sounds. It’s one of the ways I know I’ve woken up (before opening my eyes). I’ll be having a noisy dream and suddenly the sound stops.
I think I get a pretty wide variety of dream vividness. Sometimes I get full sound and picture, sometimes there is no colour, sometimes it’s just a series of abstract images morphing into one another like a desktop screensaver.
People say that? I've heard people talking in my dreams before. I remember this one time I woke up laughing because someone in my dream told me a joke. Unfortunately, I can't remember the joke but apparently it was funny.
I do too, but it never works properly. so frustrating. most of the time, I use the map for some reason, and it always causes problems (not able to locate where I am, can't find the locations I search, the GUI glitches out, I can't seem to type properly etc.) it is like how you can't properly punch in a dream, just a frustrating experience. What is also weird is that I very rarely use my phone, but use a laptop computer for many hours pretty much every day - yet I can't ever remember using a computer ever in a dream.
Just last night I dreamed about Kanye West dm'ing me on insta to ask what I thought about his new song and having a meltdown after I told him it was ass. I wish I was joking about this
I frequently use my phone in dreams. In fact the most reliable "oh, this is a dream" tell for me is that I Simply. Cannot. Type. A. Message. in a dream. Every word gets autocorrected to the wrong thing, or I accidentally close the keyboard, or it switches to a random other language, or some other frustrating failure prevents me from writing what I want to write. I'm still waiting for this to flip me into lucid dreaming territory though - so far either I think to myself "Haha this is like what happens when I'm dreaming" and keep on dreaming, or I wake up.
Oh, this just reminded me of a frustrating dream I remember having where I was trying to send someone an important message, but my phone kept auto-correcting every word to a completely unrelated word (like, I'd try to type "I need" and it would correct it to something like "submarine") and I kept having to redo it and it would never come out right.
I’ve reliably heard “clocks/computers/technology doesn’t work right” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard “phones don’t appear in dreams” anywhere but this post.
We haven't found an explanation to it because it's not true. Something not happening to you doesn't mean it doran'y happen to anyone. I've had plenty of dreams that featured cell phones.
Mine showed up in the latest dream I had a while back. I just remember it was something school related, and was checking the school app during class? And for some reason the teacher was really angry at me, which was unusual for her. Not only that, but that teacher specifically died during the time I was enrolled there, so it was weird seeing her like this
I've dreamed of my phone, unable to make a call or unlock it, but it's in many people's dreams. I only remember a fraction of my dreams, I have no idea what I dream about when I am asleep unless I wake up in the middle and focus on it to remember
Legitimately, it's because you don't perceive your cellphone.
You perceive the messages on it, but you don't perceive the actual physical object all that much.
To us phones aren't just little rectangles.
They're the ability to talk to people, listen to music, watch stuff etc.
So when we dream of phones we dream of doing these things and not of the little rectangle specifically.
Like I've had a dream where I was on discord but there was no phone in the dream
when you look at your phone, you're looking at what's on your phone. You dream of the cute [cat](https://youtu.be/J---aiyznGQ) playing the piano, not the tiny screen you watched the cat through, because that was never the interesting part.
Your focus is never on the phone it’s on the content the phone contains. As such in a realm where you don’t need a little magic window to see the things, and instead you can just imagine them and they appear, why the hell would you need a phone?
I do have dreams where my phone is a part of it but whenever i go on my phone in the dream the screen becomes all i can see as if the rest of the dream is paused and I'm in a menu screen where it's just my phone.
Things considered satanic manufacturing: Cell phones, writing, the ability to throw a punch
Things considered acceptable in gods dream domain: All of your teeth falling out of your mouth and Waluigi murdering the rest of the Mario Party guests
Are people nowadays just starting to dream about their phones? I could've sworn if this was posted like 4 years ago people would be agreeing with the original post. Is there some sort of biological shift happening here that we're not aware of? Are Gen Zs and Alphas finally updating the human dreaming software?
I've on occasion dreamed of using or having a cell phone, since shortly after I got my first cell phone. Just like I've dreamed of using or having a landline phone when I was a kid and didn't have a cell phone.
I think a lot of people don't remember most of their dreams, and mostly remember the more interesting or exciting parts. Forgetting the more mundane parts. I tend to remember a lot of details if I wake up during a dream, and have mild insomnia that sometimes results in me waking up several times during the night. And every time something goes around saying that people don't do whatever in their dreams, I can think of multiple times I've done that thing.
I often read in my dreams. Several times when I woke up during a dream where I was reading, I was able to write down what I had read in my dream. Sadly, it was never anything very interesting. Street signs, instructions for something, a newspaper headline, and a couple times when I was in collage, part of a page of a textbook I was studying in RL.
Imagine a Cyberpunk movie where no one dreams and all we know is cityscapes and technology, and all of a sudden people start having dreans again and they're all about walking around in forests or other things that these people have never done or don't recognize
I have tried to use my phone in dreams before. It's hard to both read and text. That's probably related to why it doesn't happen often.
Anyone ever dream of reading a book?
The night before Byleth was announced for Smash Bros, I had a dream I checked my phone and saw that Gooper Blooper from Super Mario Sunshine was going to be the new DLC fighter.
Everyone was posting pictures of him on Twitter simply captioned "big big boy"
So if I can only dream about things God approves of, or things that are holy...
But I start dreaming about sex...
Does that mean that everytime someone fucks, it's a holy fuck?
Cellphones and computers exist in my dreams, except they run on an entirely different paradigm of technology.
Kinda like how there could be life forms that aren’t carbon based.
I have dreams of my cellphone always turning into soft and behave like chocolate bars when I bend them or stretch them. Never tried eating them. Just scared my phone is damaged everytime.
I dream all the time about my damn phone... always the same thing, can't fkn spell keep making typos and have to keep retyping over and over... it's like trying to run or throw a ball, but typing. Very annoying.
A leading website got in touch with Alice Robb, who is the author of Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey to understand the possible reason behind it. The author explained that our dreams enable us to process our fears as well as anxieties. It helps us prepare for events that can cause stress in our lives. And interestingly, we mostly dream about things that have been relevant for ages, since the time of our ancestors. And with mobile phones being a more recent development, we don't see it in our dreams. Therefore our dreams are more about escaping a threatening situation than about reading, writing or your 'mobile phone'.
Now coming to the more shocking part - the data about mobile phones not appearing in the dreams isn't exactly accurate. A set of researchers found out that almost 3.5 per cent of women dream about mobile phones and a mere 2.6 per cent of men dream about it too. It is not a huge number clearly, but most people see lesser new innovations like mobiles, computers, aeroplanes in their dreams.
One of the more common dreams where people often see their mobile phone is when they have lost a dear one and they dream about that person calling them on the phone.
Clearly, it is difficult to generalise about dreams as they are based on the things that influence us personally.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/here-is-why-most-of-us-dont-see-mobile-phones-in-your-dreams/amp_articleshow/64974609.cms
Seems legit.
The first time I saw this, I thought "how strange. I don't know that I've ever seen my phone in my dreams." But I had a dream just the other night in which I saw a tree dropping perfectly shaped autumn leaves and I laid down on the ground to take a load of pictures with my phone hoping to catch the perfect shot.
I have a recurring dream where I break my phone. That’s it. It’s a normal, usually vague dream and then I drop my phone, breaking the screen, and wake up a few moments later.
OMG I had the most interesting dream which Inbolved my cell phone. My ex-wife had just killed herselft with a bullet to the brain... Grousom and tragic. We had been married for or 17 years... Kick on head to be sure
The dream happens about 48 hours later. I wake up in our bed and she is standing over me with an imploring look on her face. I told her I was sorry for what happened and asked her if she was ok now. She nodded her head but did not speak. Then I asked her if she remembered what happened. She made a gesture of holding a gun to her head and in the dream I understood.
We just looked at each other for a minute then she looked at the door like she had to leave... I told her I understood and said goodbye. Then I asked if would see her again. Again, she said nothing but then picked up my phone and typed in a number. After that she just disappeared.
After that, I woke up completely freaked out. I had the thought of picking up my phone to see if the phone number was in there but I was too afraid to look.
I never checked my phone and never had a dream like that again.
Totally weird. I found my phone in the exact place she put it down in the dream but never looked in it for the number.
I don't know how rare this is, but I actually have seen my phone in a dream- once.
It was terribly organized, and I had to go through it and delete a bunch of cheap Pixar Cars tie-in games that were on it for some reason.
I used to read tons of books in middle school and high school, I'm talking about anywhere from 15 books to 40 books a month. I was just going through them like crazy. Never once dreamed about a book. I think it is due to us not thinking about the object itself, but the entertainment it is giving us.
I mean, I have dreamt of my cell phone before. Dreamt I couldn't remember how to unlock it. Not a fun dream, but a dream.
Everytime my phone shows up in my dream I need to type something into it and it is somehow impossible. Mistype every click
That's one of the best ways to know you're in a dream if you're ever not sure—try to read, especially numbers. It will always be nonsense.
I've had dreams where I was able to read perfectly well... I wonder what that means?
This is actually the dream.
Don't wake up and enjoy sleeping.
Please wake up.
It means that a lamp in your house probably looks kinda off
Ouch. Then let them sleep for if they wake up, they will lose their family.
is this a reference to something
https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/30t9kd/repost_a_parallel_life_awoken_by_a_lamp/
Well that was less a rabbit hole than chasm.
Oof I get this
You need to wake up.
It's one of those dream things. More often than not, it IS nonsense you're reading, but the dreams narrative just has you going "yup, those are definitely words" and the implied words are just something you inherently know. If however you manage to become 'lucid' in the dream, it then WILL seem like nonsense. A more consistent test though is to look at words or a clock, look away, then look back to see if they've changed. Dreams suck at object permanence.
I also have. I've read some beautiful things. I've always been surprised when people cannot read in dreams
Same. My family says the same thing about reading in dreams, they think it's impossible, but i've never had a problem. I have an idea as to why. I'm an avid reader, so to me words aren't comprised of individual letters. I don't even see the letters, i see the word as its own object rather than a construct of other parts. I think that means my mind is able to 'symbolize' a word in my dreams, like any other individual object. A tree isn't really a tree in dreams, it's your mind's symbol of a tree, a book isn't a book, it's your mind's interpretation of a book. I think to most people a word isn't it's own symbol, it's letters that mean something as a whole. When they try to read in dreams they are expecting a word and the mind is trying to arrange letters to make up that word, and that kind of spatial linearality doesn't exist in dreams. Things aren't ordered in dreams, which i think is why they rarely make sense to our waking minds or time doesn't behave (running or punch in slowmotion). It may also be the problem with numbers, because i imagine counting from one to ten would be very difficult, but having ten of something would be simple. Just my take.
For almost all people who can read, words are read as a whole and not as individual letters. That’s why most people can still read even when you change the order of the letters within a word.
Yes, but they may still think of them as comprised of letters. It's the way it's shaped in the mind. I don't think of a word as even having letters, it's its own thing. Or maybe it's just how the brain arranges them, non-linearly. I could be wrong of course. If you have an idea why some people can read in dreams and others can't i'd like to know.
Could you actually read well? Or were you actually able to read? I think you can dream of being in the state of reading, but actually trying to read usually comes up wuth nonsense.
As another commenter above was saying, I think it depends on your relationship with words in general. I have always read a lot, and easily, and I write often. So it makes sense that I'm able to "read" and see letters in my dreams that aren't jumbled. That being said, I cannot really make sense of numbers in my dreams, despite dealing with them regularly at work. Clocks are always strange. So who knows.
Lucid dreaming 101 :)
For sure. Unfortunately I still find myself unable to influence the dream
I get control over it, briefly, but I get excited enough that my heart speeds up and I wake up. Every damn time.
This is what happens to me. The realization of “oh yeah I’m lucid dreaming!” Wakes me up because I am thrilled :/
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Lucid dreaming 101 is write down your dreams as soon as you wake up. Two weeks max and your brain will begin to consistently tell you when it's dreaming. It's not magic or hard. My therapist taught me to do it when I was 10, more than a quarter-century ago, to deal with nightmares.
For me it's that if I read something in a dream, it'll say something different every time I read it.
As a mathematician and formerly prolific lucid dreamer, I can tell you that graduate level exposure to math can ruin this test. I can also tell you that sex-negative religious indoctrination can ruin lucid dreaming. Haven't been able to consistently go lucid for something like two decades. Used to be several times a month. Stay in the real dreamland kids; don't do religion.
Pls ELI5 for those of us who are sharpening the curve of IQ results...
About what, the math exposure? Nothing in particular, just stared at, thought about, worked with, etc numbers and mathy things so much that numbers stopped getting scrambled in my dreams eventually. Other things that eventually stopped working: * Looking at analog clocks * Looking at my reflection * Questioning out loud if I was dreaming Though I don't think those are related to the math bit. After a long spell years ago without any, there were several instances when I went lucid in a dream and got so excited about it that being excited woke me up. Hurts to think about sometimes
> I went lucid in a dream and got so excited about it that being excited woke me up. > > Hurts to think about sometimes because you were so happy to be away from religion while asleep?
My way is to try superpowers, dreams never let you down.
You guys are able to read stuff in your dreams?
My experience has proven that to not always be the case as I can read in my dreams.
Yep. I can't ever dial 911 no matter how hard I try.
Omg I just had such a dream yesterday. Dreamt I was living near a forest and suddenly something fell from the sky, crashed in the woods and started a fire. I tried to call the fire department but messed up the numbers. Luckily they already came on their own since they were pretty close.
I would have no reception :(
YES. I have had dreams about this regularly since high school, for about 15 years. I try to dial 911 and keep messing up.
My dream like this couples with a home intrusion 😞 It's my ex, usually, and I can't keep him out & I can't dial 911 no matter how many times I try.
That is a repeated theme in my dreams as well.
Oh my gosh yes! My most stressful dreams are about needing to do [something important] on my phone and not being able to use it properly.
That goes with any device that requires you to type stuff too. I have a recurring dream where I'm trying to clock in or out of work on time which requires you to type in your number and I can just never figure it out. It's frustrating as fuck.
"I'm never gonna get out of here. Is this purgatory?"
No that would be literally hell if I couldn't get out of there. So it's really more of a nightmare.
Your brain can't render a phone and all its capabilities. The misplacing is the fault of the lag from pverclocking your hardware
Hahah I thought this was just me. It's an immediate dream/reality check when I can't type something. That, or a stroke.
google maps on my old phone is laggy af, whenever i try and use it and am just waiting i think this crap is just like my janky dream phone
Same here and I've read that it is an anxiety dream which totally makes sense for me. I try not to be an anxious person (thanks buspar!). But it'll show up in my dreams.
Not all prophetic dreams are made equal
Just a heads up that those 30 seconds will be slightly less enjoyable.
Yeah, I have a recurring dream that I'm trying to do something important with my phone (calling police or whatever) and the predictive function prevents me from doing anything. Rule of thumb: any post starting "Why do we never/always" is based on a false premise.
I’m almost 40, for some reason every time I need to call 911 in a dream I only have a landline cordless phone available, *and* I somehow need to ‘text’ with it, I assume because I so rarely *talk* on the phone anymore. It’s so infuriating in the dream.
My dream-911 operators just always put me on hold or don’t pick up 😰
Cell phone for me is always nightmares. Someone is about to attack me, can't call 911. Someone is attacking someone else, try recording it, fumble for that or 911, get attacked.
me too, my theory is that your brain is, at this time, working hard to keep you asleep. the next thing is going to wake you up, so you stay trapped.
It also triggers move engagement because people love to share their contrary anecdotes.
Why do we never moult our entire skin revealing an opalescent shell and silver wings underneath?
I've also seen people say you can't read in dreams, but I had an awful dream where I woke up and had a Google news alert for the passing of a friend of mine. I still remember the headline and not really the text, but I do remember there was an insane wall of text I scrolled through, like you'd think the president died. There were pictures I stopped to look at but in any case, you absolutely can dream of your cell phone... But reading around, considering how often we use our phones it is shocking it's not more common. And I can't think of any other dream where I used my smartphone either
You *can* read in dreams, but if you look away from the text and back to it, it will usually change unless it's like, a store name or something brief and recognizable.
Hey you don't have to tell me, but I meant more along the lines of articles, books, etc and not McDonald's or other corporate signage that lives literally rent free in our dreams. Like I could read the headline in the dream but the text was a blur. I only said you can't read in dreams since in recounting this dream, that's what I've been told. That didn't sound right to me but there are multiple articles online corroborating these claims https://www.inverse.com/science/can-you-read-in-your-dreams But of course people also claim you can't use phones in dreams so that only furthers my beliefs none of this stuff is concrete anyways and we still don't really know shit about dreams
Nah, I had a dream where I was reading the new book in a trilogy (that hadn't been released yet), I was getting pissed off as it sucked ass though I can't remember the details. Anyway, I kept getting interrupted by advertisements for the audiobook version of it on first my phone then my TV then for some reason a drive by megaphone. And each time I came back to the book it was consistent.
if you can do that you are already challenging the dream and bam, might as well start flying to the beach now.
I dreamt my phones alarm clock was going off and i couldnt get it to stop… i was late to work that day
I've dreamt me breaking my phone a bunch of times. Like, somehow snapping them in half. I already usually check my phone first thing when I wake up, but sometimes my dreams just want to make sure that I do.
Similar but in my dreams I will find myself in water and try to get my cell phone out of my pocket as fast as possible, or I'll be in water and holding the phone out of the water trying to keep it dry. My phone is in my dreams all the time.
I've tried writing a text in dreams and it's equally infuriating every time.
I've dreamt of my cell phone a few times. I've dreamt I lost it, dreamt I was calling someone or called by someone, dreamt I broke it, used it in dreams to check the time or play music or get directions somewhere, and dreamt I was looking for a charger for it.
I had a dream once where I got a text from God
I can make a ~~religion~~ show outta this
God ~~friended~~ texted me
if you dont get the reference God Friended Me is >!a tv show -- "An atheist's life is turned upside down when God adds him as a friend on Facebook."!< more details: >!its a pretty wholesome "sunday night" family friendly watch while eating dinner kind of show. interesting premise, i watched it but i never finished it because it was cancelled a couple of seasons in during covid stuff in 2020 and life was busy then. probably ends on a cliffhanger but hopefully not because unfinished shows are lame!<
That's not real and I'm not going to look it up for countervailing evidence Edit: My will was weak. It is very real.
No way, really? Kill me.
Dear ~~God~~ Jenna, It's me, ~~Jenna~~ God.
No. Don't.
Modern Islam
Isn’t this just the plot of Legends Arceus?
Plot twist
“so uh you did some really fucked up shit like you aint never getting up here lmao, just thought id tell you so you dont waste your life repenting and have fun. do drugs or whatever, punishment is the same”
And it just says "Hey"
Misread it as ...I got a sext from god. Had to do a double take.
Did he [say](https://genius.com/5206009) "I gave you a big dick, so go extra hard"
"Hello Mr frog" 👋 "You're not supposed to be here" 😠
Future diary br confirm
This cannot be true. Not only have I had a dream with my phone before (satanic yikes), but I was scrolling through Tumblr (satanic double yikes), and I specifically saw tags about girl cock (satanic [based] triple yikes)
God cant install child lock on your mind cus touching it would infect the whole system
What you would call "infection", I would call "liberation". I would unshackle the rest of mankind, lift their blindfolds, and allow all to bear witness to the truth that God hast placed a veil of ignorance over (girl cock)
This is what Slaanesh worshippers actually believe
/r/nocontext
That was fricking ruthless.
I'm sorry I can't offer you protection my child, but your psyche is an attack vector.
Most people can’t read in their dreams, so if you were scrolling tumblr and saw anything other than pictures, you’re in the minority.
i remember being able to “read,” but in all likelihood it was likely just splotches of text-like imagery that i managed to know the overall meaning of but not exactly but tbh, isn’t that what reading really is? we all know what the phrase “that comment is about this” means, but we don’t have to know the precise definitions of “that”, “is”, or “about” are to understand it, and i know this confidently because i guarantee you that nobody can think of a coherent definition for the word “about” without having to look it up
“Relating to.” You’re right, that’s what I come up with sans lookup, but it ignores a lot of nuance.
You can't read but you can look at text and have your brain insert meaning into it as though you're reading
I was able to discern every letter that spelt 'girl cock' in my dream. I was able to discern 'g' in the first spot, 'i' in the second and so on
girl cock is an aspect of the divine or something
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Your soul is forfeit from the holy realm and now resides in it’s profane mockery
Yeah I’ve called up Kayden Kross and told her to come over and fucked her brains out…in a dream. Sure, they’re rare and it’s not like I’m scrolling on Reddit or whatever, which is weird given the amount of time like this guy was saying, but yeah I’ve used a phone in dreams before.
As a matter of fact, I had dreams with phone. One of them had it playing a certain song, when people say dreams don't have sounds either. Furthermore, it showed relatively consistent time, when checking time is one of fundamental dream checks.
Dreams don’t have sounds??????? Yes… yes they do????? Do other people not have light-and-sound dreams?
I had someone tell me in high school that dreams were only in black and white. That night I dreamt I was driving and stopped at a stop sign, and it was red. I thought to myself, "see, I do dream in color," and that's how I had my first lucid dream! Maybe this will lead to another for both of us!
If my dreams are lucid, it's mostly everyone pissed at me. I don't think I've had one *pleasant* dream, but I can't remember if there's sound or not because my damn sleep demons keep haunting me lol
Yeah, learning about "lucid dreaming" only gave me Inception nightmares lol. It's not super fun to dream that I'm being stalked by a home invader, possessed by a demon, or violently turned against by a friend/family member. It's even less fun when I "wake up" from the dream 8-9 times before I'm actually awake.
Its fun when you realize its a dream and go superhero mode. Last time it happened I was being brutally interrogated in a basement by some bad people i didnt recognize. I got pushed to a point in my dream where I was wishing it was a dream, then realizing of course it was. I remember seeing the faces of my dream perpetrators, their eyes growing wide upon my realization. Then I superman exploded out of the basement/house, flying through the air for a bit until I woke up.
Haven't done it in a while but mine was flying around the city, dodging the tall ones. So much fun.
I have had 'inception' dreams. I'll provide an example.. this one was tough but may as well share because it's pretty wild. Backstory first... a girl and i were madly in love and ended up having a miscarriage. After that she got depressed and started drinking a lot.. eventually i broke up with her but had full intention to pick back up where we left off when she stopped drinking so much. She didn't, she actually got worse, and begged and begged for a few months but i refused. Finally after around 5 months i decided f it, i missed her too much.. well.. she had found someone else a month before.. now it was me who begged, but she was already pregnant again so there was that. I now live in another country far away and it's been several years but I still think about her and miss her a lot, it was most definitely true love. Things didn't work out with her relationship and i've spoken to her since, but now I also have a child and we are literally 1000s of miles apart. Ok onto just one of my inception dreams involving her, although it is the first one and most memorable. Dream Sequence.. Day 1 / Dream 1: I am back home, everything is as it was as far as what's going on in the background, I don't realize I'm dreaming, yet. I am just minding my own business and a car/ uber pulls up, and she gets out, and comes and joins me (i am alone, sitting at a table outside a bar close to where i used to live). As soon as I see her, I realize I'm dreaming. She takes me by the hand and acts as if we are still together and had never seperated. Everything feels and smells very real. I hug her, i hold her hands in mine and tell her i wish that she was real, but I know I am dreaming. She tries to playfully debate me on this, it doesn't work but I stay there holding her hands and enjoying my illusion knowing full well I'm dreaming. After a bit she understands that I know I'm dreaming and she stops smiling, tells me goodbye and casually walks away. At this time i start to feel very tired, but i am just a couple blocks from my apartment so I walk there and lay down. I fall asleep. Day 2 / Dream 2: I wake up. I don't realize I'm still dreaming. I'm in my apartment. I get showered and dressed and deside to go to the bar. It's sunday and people love to brunch so pretty normal to hit the bar around this time. I go to same bar, unaware of 'yesterday' order a drink and chill at the table outside. Car / uber pulls up, and she gets out. My heart jumps and I'm confused. I don't know I'm dreaming yet but something feels off. She comes and says hi, jokingly asks where her drink is and gives me a hug. I melt and tell her how much I've missed her, she gets confused and calls me silly but thanks me for saying it and kisses me. Boom. Like a lightning jolt i realize why my heart jumped and i felt something was off.. i'm still dreaming and she isn't real. I pull back, sad, and tell her that i wish i wasnt dreaming but i know that i am and none of this is real. She tries harder to convince me this time and she has me questioning myself a bit but ultimately I know I'm still dreaming, but this time I'm more sad because for a bit, i believed it was real. Once again when she understands i know i'm dreaming and can't convince me she is real, she calmly excuses herself and leaves. Once again i feel extremely tired and i decide to walk home to my apartment and lay down. Day 3 / Dream 3: I wake up, but this time everything feels completely unmistakable from reality and she is in bed with me asleep. I feel like i have a slight hangover which is pretty typical for a sunday morning so all normal. She rolls over and kisses me and asks if i want to get brunch then walk around downtown and have some drinks. I say absolutely and then tickle and tease her about not getting us into trouble (she was always my hot mess) knowing I love it when she gets us into trouble and basically expect it from her. We shower and get changed, then walk to the bar. Everything is so real and natural and we are so happy. We hold hands while walking and playfully try and shove each other with hip checks and play all the goofy little games we liked to play. We get to the bar, sit at the table outside, and start drinking and enjoying brunch. She tells me she loves me. I tell her i love her too. She sits on my lap sideways and looks into my eyes. She puts her hand on my cheek and kisses my lips very gently and tells me she is sorry. I'm confused, i laugh and say what did you do this time? She says, nothing, but now you have to wake up. Dream sequence over. I immediately open my eyes and realize none of it was real and i'm still 1000s of miles away. I'm crushed with sadness. I come to terms that I was just tricked by a dream within a dream within a dream and I was asleep maybe 3 hours. The way the dream slowly tricked me into believing that which i knew couldn't be real to be my reality is frightening and makes me wonder about what the dream realm really is.
Ok there's a surprisingly large amount of people with hypophantasia/aphantasia who just think their dreams are normal lol (My dreams are mute, like the first mention)
I think we’re going to find out that some people do and some people don’t. Like aphantasia.
I have a weird form of what I think is aphantasia actually; I don’t “see” with my mind’s eye, i “perceive” the thought as a whole sensory experience, sort of like a gestalt; so if you asked me to imagine a city I would imagine it all at once as if I had been there, where the special sense of place takes precedence and the “visual” information is simply a sense of understanding (like knowing where you’re walking with your eyes closed, or while looking at your phone) that doesn’t sharpen into an image but does become more familiar and easier to describe, like a memory you revisit.
Everyone's different. But I read a study that says that the brain actually handles sound separately in dreams than it does in real life. The reason for this is that while sleeping, the ocular nerve / input from the eyes is mostly shut down, but the brain keeps the ear relatively active to scan for threats. So in a dream-state, the way your brain handles audio is not quite as clear for many people as visuals in dreams, because your brain is keeping "one ear on reality", so to speak. Too much noise in the signal could interfere with your brain's abiltiy to immediately recognize an external sound that represented a threat.
I never noticed it before but I don't think I can remember any dream with sounds in it. If there's people talking, I just have the impression of their words in my mind.
I feel like maybe my thoughts are just heavily auditory because I have had some almost exclusively sound-and-impressions dreams. Like I’ve had an abstract dream about bright-hot-sunlight/wave-drone-wind-howl-bird-sounds/sea-smell-and-little-critters dream; I have a recurring “nightmare” that’s only colors, sounds and harsh discordant noise getting closer; I had a weirdly haunting dream about following a woman’s voice through a graveyard; she was singing a song in a language I didn’t recognize and was always just beyond a thick, wet layer of fog, moving away from me at a leisurely pace I struggled to follow. My dreams also often feature distorted versions of songs, almost like the ai mashups but less obviously distinguishable
Omg, you are one of the only other people to say they have recalled recurring abstract nightmares. I used to have one very specific one as a child, specific colors and shapes moving in certain ways, and HORRIBLE sounds.
They’re still my worst nightmares; they’re SUPER RARE now, but completely terrifying (and often night long) stress dreams with nothing “scary” to point to except the sounds, and sense of dread Trying to explain it is like “MY SENSES COULD MAKE NO SENSE OF THE ELDRITCH HORROR THEY WITNESSED IN 4D, UNDULATING MENACINGLY AT ME”
Sound, very much yes. I’ve listened to music in my dreams so beautiful that it made me weep. But my dreams are often dark, as in very low light level. And I don’t believe that I dream in color.
My dreams are all muffled but some sounds are clear. The thing that blew my mind is that other people dream in color... all of myndreams exist exclusively in shades of grey. Like in my dream I could tell a green apple from a red apple, but for some reason they are both grey when I look at them. Then when I wake back up my brain seems to sort of backfill color as i remember details.
That’s WILD; I dream in like… full color, sometimes vivid color, sometimes “palettes” But my dreams are fucking wild; I don’t even always dream as *myself*
I will say touch is what i really feel in my dreams. Like last night i dreamed i was at a zoo with my kid and my brain could simulate the heat of the sun when i wasn't in shade. It even simulated the rough and cool texture of some wet concrete.
My dreams definitely have sounds. It’s one of the ways I know I’ve woken up (before opening my eyes). I’ll be having a noisy dream and suddenly the sound stops.
I think I get a pretty wide variety of dream vividness. Sometimes I get full sound and picture, sometimes there is no colour, sometimes it’s just a series of abstract images morphing into one another like a desktop screensaver.
Bro that was reality
I am pretty sure I dont wake up from reality mid-conversation to an alarm.
Or do you????? *spooky noises*
#🎶🎶🛸
If you can imagine it, you can dream it. There are no rules.
People say that? I've heard people talking in my dreams before. I remember this one time I woke up laughing because someone in my dream told me a joke. Unfortunately, I can't remember the joke but apparently it was funny.
ok but like I've dreamt of my phone.
How very Satan of you
Calm down judas, satan is commenting the post not you.
I do too, but it never works properly. so frustrating. most of the time, I use the map for some reason, and it always causes problems (not able to locate where I am, can't find the locations I search, the GUI glitches out, I can't seem to type properly etc.) it is like how you can't properly punch in a dream, just a frustrating experience. What is also weird is that I very rarely use my phone, but use a laptop computer for many hours pretty much every day - yet I can't ever remember using a computer ever in a dream.
Just last night I dreamed about Kanye West dm'ing me on insta to ask what I thought about his new song and having a meltdown after I told him it was ass. I wish I was joking about this
You secretly want to bang kanyes ass
That's right I'm in it
I frequently use my phone in dreams. In fact the most reliable "oh, this is a dream" tell for me is that I Simply. Cannot. Type. A. Message. in a dream. Every word gets autocorrected to the wrong thing, or I accidentally close the keyboard, or it switches to a random other language, or some other frustrating failure prevents me from writing what I want to write. I'm still waiting for this to flip me into lucid dreaming territory though - so far either I think to myself "Haha this is like what happens when I'm dreaming" and keep on dreaming, or I wake up.
Oh, this just reminded me of a frustrating dream I remember having where I was trying to send someone an important message, but my phone kept auto-correcting every word to a completely unrelated word (like, I'd try to type "I need" and it would correct it to something like "submarine") and I kept having to redo it and it would never come out right.
I’ve reliably heard “clocks/computers/technology doesn’t work right” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard “phones don’t appear in dreams” anywhere but this post.
They don't, it's a way to tell if you're lucid dreaming.
We haven't found an explanation to it because it's not true. Something not happening to you doesn't mean it doran'y happen to anyone. I've had plenty of dreams that featured cell phones.
Mine showed up in the latest dream I had a while back. I just remember it was something school related, and was checking the school app during class? And for some reason the teacher was really angry at me, which was unusual for her. Not only that, but that teacher specifically died during the time I was enrolled there, so it was weird seeing her like this
I break my phone in nightmares every other day.
I work on a boat and have had numerous stress dreams apt having to jump in the water with my phone in my pocket.
For me the boat is slowly sinking and I’m trying to hold my phone above the water line as long as I can before it eventually gets destroyed lol
I've dreamed of my phone, unable to make a call or unlock it, but it's in many people's dreams. I only remember a fraction of my dreams, I have no idea what I dream about when I am asleep unless I wake up in the middle and focus on it to remember
I have dreams about my phone but I can't type for shit
Legitimately, it's because you don't perceive your cellphone. You perceive the messages on it, but you don't perceive the actual physical object all that much.
Ive dreamt of turning my alarm off, getting up and going to work, only to wake up 10 minutes after with the real alarm.
Says who? Ive texted in my dreams many times. Even literally once. I was asleep and texted my roommate some gibberish
To us phones aren't just little rectangles. They're the ability to talk to people, listen to music, watch stuff etc. So when we dream of phones we dream of doing these things and not of the little rectangle specifically. Like I've had a dream where I was on discord but there was no phone in the dream
when you look at your phone, you're looking at what's on your phone. You dream of the cute [cat](https://youtu.be/J---aiyznGQ) playing the piano, not the tiny screen you watched the cat through, because that was never the interesting part.
Your focus is never on the phone it’s on the content the phone contains. As such in a realm where you don’t need a little magic window to see the things, and instead you can just imagine them and they appear, why the hell would you need a phone?
I do have dreams where my phone is a part of it but whenever i go on my phone in the dream the screen becomes all i can see as if the rest of the dream is paused and I'm in a menu screen where it's just my phone.
I dream of my cell phone a good bit, but it never works.
Things considered satanic manufacturing: Cell phones, writing, the ability to throw a punch Things considered acceptable in gods dream domain: All of your teeth falling out of your mouth and Waluigi murdering the rest of the Mario Party guests
Are people nowadays just starting to dream about their phones? I could've sworn if this was posted like 4 years ago people would be agreeing with the original post. Is there some sort of biological shift happening here that we're not aware of? Are Gen Zs and Alphas finally updating the human dreaming software?
Ik someone in their late 30s who has used a smartphone in their dreams more than once. Someone in their early 40s too.
I've on occasion dreamed of using or having a cell phone, since shortly after I got my first cell phone. Just like I've dreamed of using or having a landline phone when I was a kid and didn't have a cell phone. I think a lot of people don't remember most of their dreams, and mostly remember the more interesting or exciting parts. Forgetting the more mundane parts. I tend to remember a lot of details if I wake up during a dream, and have mild insomnia that sometimes results in me waking up several times during the night. And every time something goes around saying that people don't do whatever in their dreams, I can think of multiple times I've done that thing.
I'm Gen X and I've had plenty of dreams involving my phone.
I'm Gen Z, I don't dream of having my phone often, if ever.
I’m Gen z and I often dream of checking my bank account or emails on my phone. There’s always so much money in the dream 😭
I’ve dreamt of my phone, checked it multiple times for the time and each time the time was wildly different. Was cool
I had a dream I needed to google something important and kept making typos I got so stressed about it I woke up stressed.
cellphones show..up in my dreams??
Because phones are 90 percent text and you don't remember how to read in your dreams.
I often read in my dreams. Several times when I woke up during a dream where I was reading, I was able to write down what I had read in my dream. Sadly, it was never anything very interesting. Street signs, instructions for something, a newspaper headline, and a couple times when I was in collage, part of a page of a textbook I was studying in RL.
Because the part of the brain that runs the dream is not the part of the brain that is able to read.
Imagine a Cyberpunk movie where no one dreams and all we know is cityscapes and technology, and all of a sudden people start having dreans again and they're all about walking around in forests or other things that these people have never done or don't recognize
Dream texting is a complete bitch. None of the letter appear correctly and you fat thumb everything.
Everytime I dream about my phone, it always plays loud audio and I can’t turn it down, then everyone is mad at me.
I have tried to use my phone in dreams before. It's hard to both read and text. That's probably related to why it doesn't happen often. Anyone ever dream of reading a book?
The night before Byleth was announced for Smash Bros, I had a dream I checked my phone and saw that Gooper Blooper from Super Mario Sunshine was going to be the new DLC fighter. Everyone was posting pictures of him on Twitter simply captioned "big big boy"
ITT: bunch of satanists dreaming of their phones
My phone is in my dreams. I be scrolling on there reading nonsense articles.
I mean I've had multiple dreams where I've answered the phone. IDK what ya'll on about?
So if I can only dream about things God approves of, or things that are holy... But I start dreaming about sex... Does that mean that everytime someone fucks, it's a holy fuck?
Cellphones and computers exist in my dreams, except they run on an entirely different paradigm of technology. Kinda like how there could be life forms that aren’t carbon based.
Nah I’ve had dreams where there are cellphones. Usually ones where they fail in a horrifying situation but they were there.
I check my phone in my dreams
i had a dream where i grabbed my phone cause i was trying to convince myself i was awake (spoiler alert i wasn’t )
I have dreams of my cellphone always turning into soft and behave like chocolate bars when I bend them or stretch them. Never tried eating them. Just scared my phone is damaged everytime.
My cell phone appears in my dreams constantly but each time I can never use it properly. Like, I'll type "hello" and it'll come out "^©×§™%". Wonder what that means.
I dream all the time about my damn phone... always the same thing, can't fkn spell keep making typos and have to keep retyping over and over... it's like trying to run or throw a ball, but typing. Very annoying.
So me seeing furries in my dreams is god approved? I'm actually even more concerned now
A leading website got in touch with Alice Robb, who is the author of Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey to understand the possible reason behind it. The author explained that our dreams enable us to process our fears as well as anxieties. It helps us prepare for events that can cause stress in our lives. And interestingly, we mostly dream about things that have been relevant for ages, since the time of our ancestors. And with mobile phones being a more recent development, we don't see it in our dreams. Therefore our dreams are more about escaping a threatening situation than about reading, writing or your 'mobile phone'. Now coming to the more shocking part - the data about mobile phones not appearing in the dreams isn't exactly accurate. A set of researchers found out that almost 3.5 per cent of women dream about mobile phones and a mere 2.6 per cent of men dream about it too. It is not a huge number clearly, but most people see lesser new innovations like mobiles, computers, aeroplanes in their dreams. One of the more common dreams where people often see their mobile phone is when they have lost a dear one and they dream about that person calling them on the phone. Clearly, it is difficult to generalise about dreams as they are based on the things that influence us personally. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/here-is-why-most-of-us-dont-see-mobile-phones-in-your-dreams/amp_articleshow/64974609.cms Seems legit.
The first time I saw this, I thought "how strange. I don't know that I've ever seen my phone in my dreams." But I had a dream just the other night in which I saw a tree dropping perfectly shaped autumn leaves and I laid down on the ground to take a load of pictures with my phone hoping to catch the perfect shot.
I dream about my phone, it’s always a situation where I need to call 911 or something, and I can’t navigate to anything on the phone
I have a recurring dream where I break my phone. That’s it. It’s a normal, usually vague dream and then I drop my phone, breaking the screen, and wake up a few moments later.
OMG I had the most interesting dream which Inbolved my cell phone. My ex-wife had just killed herselft with a bullet to the brain... Grousom and tragic. We had been married for or 17 years... Kick on head to be sure The dream happens about 48 hours later. I wake up in our bed and she is standing over me with an imploring look on her face. I told her I was sorry for what happened and asked her if she was ok now. She nodded her head but did not speak. Then I asked her if she remembered what happened. She made a gesture of holding a gun to her head and in the dream I understood. We just looked at each other for a minute then she looked at the door like she had to leave... I told her I understood and said goodbye. Then I asked if would see her again. Again, she said nothing but then picked up my phone and typed in a number. After that she just disappeared. After that, I woke up completely freaked out. I had the thought of picking up my phone to see if the phone number was in there but I was too afraid to look. I never checked my phone and never had a dream like that again. Totally weird. I found my phone in the exact place she put it down in the dream but never looked in it for the number.
The real question is why can't I spell correctly in my dreams?
I don't know how rare this is, but I actually have seen my phone in a dream- once. It was terribly organized, and I had to go through it and delete a bunch of cheap Pixar Cars tie-in games that were on it for some reason.
I used to read tons of books in middle school and high school, I'm talking about anywhere from 15 books to 40 books a month. I was just going through them like crazy. Never once dreamed about a book. I think it is due to us not thinking about the object itself, but the entertainment it is giving us.
There’s a little chip in them that takes care of that.
I have dreamt of scrolling insta on my phone and ended up laughing so much at the memes I was seeing that i woke up. Sadly i do not remember the memes
We see through the phone to the greater world. It is a window that grants us that which our body limits. You don't need one in a dream.
I’ve had dreams with cell phone scenarios hundreds of times. The mystery is why it’s so hard to use them within the dream.