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People can dream of phones but the ability to read language while dreaming depends on where that language processing routes through the brain as it is different for different people. Most commonly people cannot read in dreams. Being able to write in dreams is even more rare.
This is why reading and writing is one of my lucid dreaming triggers. Don’t need tops or other tokens like in Inception. Just try to read the same thing multiple times and it’s different everytime in a dream, because you aren’t actually reading, just hallucinating that you are.
thank you Batman for teaching me this
I have cell phones in my dreams all the time. One of my most common stress dreams is that I can’t enter a fucking address into the navigation app
I was trying to buy a buss ticket while running thru a city and my password was 20 characters long and trying to enter anything is useless.
I want to know why I continually dream about taking a piss but never actually wet the bed. I mean, thank you bladder but jeez.
Actually, I’m a school bus driver and most of my dreams involve me fucking up badly somehow in my bus and waking up bummed that I’m going to have to find another job. I wonder if other drivers have this going on.
I want to know why I continually dream about taking a piss but never actually wet the bed.
Sorry about that. Bug fixed. You will now piss the bed.
When I bought my first new car, I had horrible nightmares about wrecking it for a solid 6 months. Not quite the same, but I sympathize.
Edit: Upon rereading this, it makes me sound like ms money bags with my “first” new car. Felt I should clarify, it’s also my only new car and I finally pay it off next year and I’m so excited!!! Anyway…
I dream about messing up at work pretty frequently as well.
Ooh do you ever have dreams where you either can’t quite reach the brake pedal, or you can but the vehicle barely slows down?
Also the pissing… I pretty regularly have dreams where I’m taking a piss and usually don’t pee IRL… But every once in an unfortunate while… But in those few times, luckily the sensation of warm piss on my skin quickly awakens me and my bladder sphincter slams shut before I’ve soaked the sheets.
My bus dreams are usually about getting into some tight spot where I have to back up and then smashing shit up when I do. We’re told quite emphatically to never back up and our enormous repair bills justify that. I’ve taken out a few fences myself in the real world.
I saw this when it was originally posted in 2023 and it stuck with me like yeah, why don’t I dream about using my phone. Maybe it’s because they are an extension of something else I’m doing or maybe I just don’t remember.
And then one day did dream of struggling to use my phone and then in the dream itself I realized this was a dream and I was using a damn phone so the original assumption was wrong. I do dream about it, I just never think about it enough to remember. But when I started to think about it now I remembered.
Speak for yourself, my phone is constantly in my dreams, and for some reason my alarm isn’t stopping no matter how much I try!
I regularly have dreams where I’m trying to use a smartphone but can’t do anything because I can’t read the screen and Pacific because it feels like I’ve been hacked.
My vape also regularly falls apart in dreams, and back when I smoked lighters never worked.
I think that the part of our brain that processes these mechanics are shut down when we sleep, so when our dream self tries to use them they just don’t function.
Could come into play where punching in a dream is impossible and running is difficult.
I ain’t no brain doctor, or nothin’.
My dreams are usually pretty communicative and applicable to things going on in my life. Glasses breaking when I was starting to have a drinking problem, bombing theatrical performances when I wasn’t acting authentically in my relationships, etc.
Not saying it’s applicable for every dream, but I think our unconscious mind is pretty communicative with us when it has something to say.
Glad someone’s dreams actually have meaning. Mine make no sense and I forget most of them by the time I wake up. The best I can hope for is getting a few seconds of lucid dreaming where I can can fly around for a bit until the dream ends (whenever the lucid thing happens, the dream seems to fall apart and I have trouble keeping myself from waking up).
I’ve tried flying many times before. The first attempts are more like jumps. Right when I feel like I’m flying, I get excited. Waking myself up dissapointed. Really dissapointed…
Yeah, it’s something like that for me too.
Was that meaning there or did you apply it post facto?
With confirmation bias it is easy to apply meanings to things that aren’t necessarily there.
Typically I can’t read letters or numbers in my dreams.
it’s often how I realise I’m dreaming. looking as moving shapes but still somehow being able to read it. something clicks and I know I’m in a dream. can’t hold it for long though.
When I was a ~10 year old kid, I dreamed about having an iPod touch. It was so cool to take pictures, play games, and look up information. I would wake up and be disappointed for half a day that the iPod was no longer in my hand.
They feature in my dreams on an infrequent basis. They never work, though. I’ve never made a successful call on a cell phone in my dreams, ever. I suspect that means something, but I don’t know what.
While we’re sleeping different parts of our brain is essentially idle and unresponsive. During the dream phase (REM sleep) there’s still multiple parts that are unresponsive even as the dreaming part is active. And everything we do that’s almost fully handled by a certain part of our brain won’t work in dreams when that part is idling.
The things that works but acts weird in our dreams is partially controlled by an idling part of our brain, but our dreaming part of the brain has a separate redundant model of that thing, but it isn’t complete (see: complex movement, etc)
Fat fingers
I’m a xennial so very much grew up without cellphones at all, let alone smartphones. They occasionally pop up in my dreams.
Have them pop up, but they work extremely erratically. Mostly pop up in the context of reading a single text, which changes if I think to look at it again (rare).
Buttons do whatever they feel like (mostly nothing or stuck keys producing garbage text), and I don’t think I’ve made or received a phone call (can’t say this for landlines when they show up).
Idk man, dreams are weird.
I very rarely remember my dreams but I definitely do remember that once a long time ago I did dream of making a forum post from my smartphone. So the premise is not correct for all people.
Oh great, now I might dream about them.
Edit too many nows.
i often have a dream of an android virus on my phone stealing all my money and data
Read this yesterday, went to bed, dreamt about phones.
Genuinely, i was just dreaming about a new phone i was looking to buy.
