I've had entire dreams in the command line, which was fairly incredible to me at the time because I still couldn't read the characters consistently, and was only taken aback at the strangeness of such after the fact. I had a sense of what the commands meant and I knew what I was doing (hacking the planet), but while I couldn't read it I knew what the output felt like. Dreams are weird.
I also think I've never seen legible text in a dream. This "i know it's text but can't really read it" sounds a lot like the issues AI image generators have.
The rise of AI made me rethink many things about consciousness. It seem like our internal image generators and text generators are separate from "us" as in the "core personality".
It is possible to see legible text in a dream or at least to think that you do, but it's difficult to keep it in place. It changes at the speed of thought...
not being able to read was how batman realized he was in a induced dream state by the scarecrow in TAS. I'm pretty sure I've been able to read in dreams before but apparently it is a thing.
You reminded me of when I was cramming for CCNA like 10 years ago, and had a really bad cold for which I was given Codeine.
My girlfriend at the time told me that I was rambling about "spanning tree" in my sleep.
Years back, when I was working helpdesk and was on overtime, I traveled to visit my long-distance girlfriend. The first night, I was so tired that I quickly fell asleep. Apparently, in my sleep, I kept asking her for her username so that I could log the ticket.
I think your brain spends more time focusing on the output of reading rather than the process of reading. So your dreams skip over that process and jump straight to the comprehension.
I have quite literally dreamed about running neo/fastfetch 😭
HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!
I think the issue is that devices with screens are usually meant to be your window to experience something else. When you get immersed in something, you forget about the device and focus on the experience.
I like playing games, and when I get into a game the focus is on the game itself, not the controller/TV/etc. I've had dreams about games, but it's always me experiencing the game directly and not focused at all on the details of how I'm accessing the game.
I think it's the same with phone use, but the experiences we get on a phone are harder to imagine as a"direct experience". Things like sending a text message don't convert well to a fully immersive experience, so I think our brain skips over them.
Hm I occasionally dream about getting messages or seeing/doing something on social media, but I never use a device when doing so. It's just the isolated experience. It doesn't happen very often but when it does it's the only content of the dream.
I have constant dreams behind the dashboard of an Airbus A320neo. It’s been a solid week of the same dream. The autopilot isn’t working so I have to manually do calculations of banking angles and then time it with my flight plan that I have no idea how to type into the flight computer.
I’m not a pilot at all. Help
Literally had one last night. I dreamt there were massive riots with sword and axe armed rioters were smashing up everything. Instead of a regular emergency alert, my phone had scrolling text on a blue background warning about the event.
One time I had a dream where I saw something really cool happening (can't remember what exactly) and I decided to take a picture with my phone to view it later.
I woke up disappointed that it wasn't saved to my camera roll.
I cant believe nobody made an app that allows you to access photos you made in your dreams
Idk, ask the NSA if they have a copy of it
They don't work right when I'm trying to use them in my dreams.
Same here, and usually I'm fine with it, like it's just below my sus level in the dreams.
I have a recurring dream where I have trouble typing into my phone keyboard. Whatever I do, the text just won't get in there. Sometimes it's urgent. Other times I'm trying to show someone something and they're watching me fail.
That’s your cue to lucid dream and start flying
Yeah, the phone never works right in my dreams and I'm always very frustrated 😅
Your brain doesn't have enough VRAM to keep the simulation humming when it comes to generating accurate text and numbers
Same here! It’s insanely frustrating!
I've had them. They usually involve me fumbling with it, unable to use it in some kind of emergency.
My dreams have no technology.
Lately too many have been about peeing, and I wake in a panic. I feel like I’m playing chicken with myself.
At least once a week, I have a dream where some piece of technology that I use every day just won't work properly. I was up frustrated.
Ha! My phone was in my dream just last night. I was stuck on the home screen. I could swipe to other screens, but, it bounced back to home screen. Restart, same problem. Funny to see this post today.
I've had dreams that are just me lying in bed scrolling on my phone. They feel 100% real until I wake up and realise the content I was looking at was unintelligible
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Be me, dreaming.
Look up at phone.
Phone says I'm 4 hours late for work.
Wake up
It's 2 in the morning and I have 5 hours of sleep remaining.
Reading is hard in dreams and Mirrors/Displays turn into portals. It's fascinating how similar it is to nerfs when they reconstruct reflections/mirrors and stable Diffusion when it writes "text".
Idk, I've had all kinds of mirrors in my dreams. Portal mirrors, regular mirrors, you leave but your reflection doesn't follow mirrors, creepy thing behind you reflection mirrors, only the background is different mirrors, and many books I've read from.
But come to think of it, never a smartphone.
I had Smartphones, but it feels like using it super drunk. Like you can barely make out what app you are using and the text changes all the time.
Mirrors and Displays are perfectly fine if you "just see them"... when you examine them they start to do funky shit.
Another interesting "function" is breathing underwater, holding breath indefinitely, closing eyes while walking into a wall to "glitch" the world. Idk, lucid dreaming sometimes is wild.
I have an infrequently recurring dream where I'm running late for work and I call in to say I'll be late, and then I blink and hours have passed and I'm freaking out because apparently I was in a fugue state and I call in to work again to try and update them and the whole cycle repeats until I finally wake up.
You need a new job.
I have a recurring nightmare where something awful has happened and I can't get my phone to work to call for help. It just doesn't work the way it is supposed to, or there's a glitch, or I forgot how to use it. It is oddly horrifying.
Now that it's been brought to my attention I will most certainly have a dream where I'm using my phone lol
I had my phone in a dream for the first time yesterday! I only used it to call my partner, but it was definitely there.
I did!
Not gonna tell you what I did though
Ordered takeout?
Doomscrolled Instagram
I dream a lot about car related stuff. Accidents, getting lost, losing the car.
I don't ever have any of that happen IRL.
But yeah, never my phone, maybe once or twice a pc
I'm a school bus driver and I constantly dream about fucking up hard at work, like hitting cars, running over children and whatnot. There's always a couple of minutes first thing every morning when I wake up where I sit and think about what else I'm going to do for a living before I realize it was just a dream.
The weird fever dream you get after writing code for too long...
I had a dream a while back which I was recording an old CRT TV that was way too high to comfortably view and a friend of mine somehow grabbing a bag of what I'd presume was fairy floss from inside an empty cabinet. The phone worked pretty much the same as it does irl, and one of my teachers walked by and I got scared and hid my phone behind my jacket in fear of it getting confiscated, probably the most interesting one I've had in a while.
Anytime I try to use my phone or any app, it won’t work and just pisses me off.
I think it's an age thing. I bet the kids who grew up holding a cell phone have them in their dreams.
Well my dreams last night were about a group of people that were having a competition in a barber shop to see who could cut out holes from the skin on the top of their heads without looking at how deep the incisions were and without any anesthetic...
So honestly - not looking at my phone is really the most reasonable part of the majority of my dreams.
Recently I had a dream that involved my (smart) watch and phone. Only for knowing the time though. I thought that I had overslept for work, but every time I looked at my watch, my phone, or the clock on the wall, the time was different (but always way too late). At some point I think I woke up, because I remember looking at my watch, concluding that everything was fine and that I could still sleep and hour, and fell asleep again. But then the dream started again by pulling a "you dreamt that you overslept but now you have actually overslept".
Alarm goes of in the morning. Someone is calling me. I pick up my phone to answer the call. Start speaking but the phone is still ringing. I hit the button again and again but it isn't working. I wake up, with the alarm still going off next to me.
I dreamt I broke my new phone the other night and woke up sad untill I checked my phone, I got a Motorola flip phone and my last 2 Samsung flips broke so I guess I'm more paranoid about breaking it than I thought.
I've recently learned that all dreams are real, that everytime you imagine a scenario, you create various new universes where every possible thing that could have lead up to that scenario are retroactively played out in another universe for consistency.
Everytime a new person thinks of that scenario, even in passing, even subconciously, their soul visits that area. Even if no one else knows about it, thinking about a similar enough scenario creates new line that can pass by that same area.
Nothing is lost, all information is retained by an ever expanding universe that touches and shares its collected information with other universes.
Nothing is lost, everything is somewhere, and people can become strong enough to swap to anyone in any timeline we wish. We are all the same person in different forms except for those of us who are different actors playing the same character in someone else's script.
Reaching Nivrana means you are not bond to one life and can freely hop around the timelines, even create new ones, be god of every reality you imagine, as creation becomes faster and easier. Win every encounter not with skill, but by changing timelines until you find one in your favor.
screams in forbidden existential knowledge
I just had a dream where I used a laptop. I was on the phone with someone and had AirPods, but don’t remember seeing the phone.
