Phone no work

I have this recurring dream where I try to show a youtube video to someone but keep misspelling the name on the search bar and got increasingly annoyed by it until I wake up with bad mood.

Ah this sounds ao familiar. I always press the wrong buttons in dreams.

You know I'm not sure I've ever had a dream with a phone in it.

Only payphones in those matrix dreams
- Yea... dreams..
Digital watches and clocks also don't work, they show garbage
- I never understood this. In my dreams phones, tablets, and clocks all work. Like last night I pulled up a world map and zoomed in on Europe on a tablet, and not only did my brain fill in all the countries and even major cities (totally incorrectly as I'm in the US and not that familiar with European geography), but the website even had pop up ads that I needed to close out of to view the map without distractions. I could also Google where vikings originated and pull up a totally normal appearing Wikipedia page. Tech always works just fine in my dreams
I was just realizing this, too. I've had plenty of dreams where I'm driving a car or something, but never ones where I'm using my phone.

Best reality check is to pinch your nose shut with your fingers and then try to inhale. You can always inhale with a pinched nose in dreams

This one never worked for me. My reality check is to count my fingers. In dreams i have a lot more than usual.

I bet the dream phones are all malfunctioning because some joker set the font size to a thousand pixels per letter.

It's like our dreams are AI generated. Words and times are nonsense.

Need to count the fingers next time.
Well, they've definitely been created by a neural network.
My belief is that it's the animal that underpins the conscious mind. The same animal we start out as at birth, but grow beyond (some more than others). Dreams are it's way of interpreting the sea of sensory input we absorb, but being an animal - a ball of instinct wrapped around a pattern matching algorithm - it can't read, or count, it doesn't really understand any of it at all, it just recognises how things are usually related (not entirely unlike the AI image generators) on an instinctual level. Occasionally, on waking, the conscious mind will catch a glimpse of what's happening and try to contextualise it, applying more complex, learned thought processes to fill in the blanks and explain the nonsense, but dreams rarely make sense in their raw form.

Reality check I developed is rolling eyes far up. If you close your eyelids and then roll the eyes, you can notice how it lifts them (the eyelids) up a little.

While in REM and actually seeing dreams, you retain eye control, so by rolling your eyes you open them up and effectively wake up.

This allows me to escape most nightmares, good stuff

- There is no way to "remember" it per-say, you could only somehow train it to be a subconscious habit, these transfer into dreams. Not sure how I did it with mine, I had developed it in childhood, but I do use this trick even in irl when I'm scared, as a reality check.

I have this recurring thing where I notice things like this when I'm dreaming, and it causes me to wake up in the middle of the night. Except I didn't wake up. I dreamt that I woke up. Then I often fall back asleep again. I don't wake up until something's strong enough to wake me up twice.

Except sometimes when my body really doesn't want to be awake, I'll wake up a second time, then a third, then a fourth, and it just goes on forever until I've really overslept.

I indeed had a dream lately where my phone wouldn't work properly. Nobody was nice enough to come and tell me though.

In your next dream, Nic Cage will be coming around the corner to help you out.

Yup. I too have these dreams.

Usually I'm about to call someone but I keep pressing the wrong buttons.

Or I'm driving a car and I keep driving off the road.

13 Jan, 2024 I think....

D'oh -- every year I mess this up!

My wife has this issue all the time and she says it's her tell for when she's dreaming. She often uses it as a que to help her lucid dream

I wish my stupid self would relise that as I'm being pissed off about my phone not working in the dream world.
My wife has this issue all the time and she says it’s her tell for when she’s dreaming. She often uses it as a que to help her lucid dream
my tell is when i snap the rubber bands i usually wear on my wrists.. in dreams, i feel nothing when the band snaps against the skin
i had one recently and i tried to make myself fly after realizing it was lucid, but couldn't lol.. i also thought about jumping off a cliff but my brain still said no that's still a bad idea.. my sub-concious is trained i guess

Holy shit, Bob the Angry Flower is still alive and kicking! It's been on the Internet for like 3 decades. I remember reading these on dialup modems.

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