this is true. i remember been able to dream with my nokia 3320 back in the 00’s

That just got me thinking - you know how you can't read in dreams? You might be able to glance at something and go "yeah that's Exit sign". But if you really try to concentrate on reading something it's just a bunch of jibberish.

We've always written this off as different parts of your brain being responsible for dreaming and reading. But now that we've advanced our technology enough, it seems like maybe our dreams are just being created by some shitty AI.

/s

No I dreamed at least twice in last month of being at the movies, and one of those wss last night. Also I can remember details of my dteams. Some of them a vivid months hell years later. Also I still remember in detail a recurring dream I had as a 5 year old. But for the first time last night I questioned weather I was dreaming or not. That what scares me most about my dreams, they feel fucking real when I am having them. I always wake up relieved when I wake up knowing it wasn't real. But never noticed about not having a cellphone. But now that on my mind wouldn't put it past my mind to conjure one up.

Back in the day, I would have AOL Instant Messenger windows pop up in my dreams.

The panicked "did I really send that text". Can't say I haven't been there.

I have a recurring stress dream about needing to type a message urgently on my phone and the touch screen keyboard not registering any of the right letters.

I miss physical keyboards.

That's always the answer to these posts.

Man that would be crazy. Except it does.

In my dreams, I very frequently use my phone to book tickets, check train schedules or itineraries. Usually, though, time is ridiculously tight and/ or the connection keeps breaking down etc.

I have had that one often even with landlines.

Last night I dreamt the icons on my home screen were scrambled. To make matters worse, there was a transparent vertical Windows style taskbar overlaid with its own icons and I could not find the icon/app I wanted.

Yes Windows and phone in the one nightmare! Could have been worse: a clippy AI 🤓

Same fucking thing, a couple of times i did manage to call and they answered the call, only for them to be incredibly incompetent and super annoying, they wouldn't take me seriously at all.🥲

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

People say that dream states don't do well with text or numbers in particular.

I've read in lucid dreaming communities that trying to read the time on a clock, or small text (and failing to do so), is how some people manage to realize they're in a dream as a first step to taking control.

My dreams remind me a lot of AI videos. It makes sense if you juts look at it and squint a little, the closer you look the more you realise that it's all smoke and mirrors

i think that's because of all the weed, but i could be wrong

No reason more than one thing can't be true, dreamwalker

Great, now I'm going to dream and some dumbass is going to be eating fried chicken in it.

That's your brain trying to stop you from pissing/shitting the bed.

I kinda like the ridiculously nasty bathrooms in Morphée's kingdom.

Iirc it means that you feel vulnerable irl

Ah, I’m sorry. That sounds anxiety-inducing.

I've had that dream many times! I cant recall it super specifically right now but funny enough, I think it's typically a landline keypad I'm screwing it up on for some reason.

i have the same thing, it always scares me. i feel like it will happen in real life one day

That's about where I am. I commonly have a phone in my dream, but I can never type words properly.

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 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.

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.

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)

There was a bridge I used to drive over on my way to and from work every day. It was a very tall bridge and I've always been terrified of heights. Every day when I drove over it, especially when traffic was bad enough that I'd be stuck in the middle of it and could feel it swaying, I'd just stick to the lane farthest from the sides and maintain a mantra of it's safe, it's huge, it's going to be here forever, don't be afraid. (Also there was a cool abandoned military base that was visible from it and I'd look at that to distract myself when my mantra wasn't enough.)

Anyway, I still have the same job but have moved hundreds of miles away from there. After I did so, a ship hit one of the supports for that bridge and caused several people to live through exactly the unlikely event I dreaded happening every day during my daily commute. Now I don't ever drive on a bridge over anything bigger than a small river or even creek and, though it's unrealistic to expect this to be fulfilled, hope never to again.

I think it's because a PC is simply an interface, the stuff on screen is the bit that gets remembered. That and maybe the stuff shown is much more engaging for most brains.

Watching infrastructure fail is a daydream, not a real dream.

I almost never dreamnof the computer but game dreams are common. Its like fully immersed with what's would be on screen without the computer being in the situation.

I have dreamt a few times about having majorly messed up something while putting my computer back together (it was implicitly dismantled before the dream started). Then I wake up in the night to realise that it was a dream and the PC is still in working condition.

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.

And yet I can play a full match of Overwatch in my dream and still lose because my DPS is running in the open and getting shot in the head /s

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.

Do you?