They said the same about clocks/watches, but I’ve seen the time a couple of times already in a dream. Yeah, NOT the real time, but a realistic one.
Also about reading words. I’ve read plenty of stuff in my dreams. The problem is that the words aren’t stable. Like they change when you look away.
For me I can read fine in my dreams, but if I become the tiniest bit lucid I realize that it doesn’t actually say what I thought it said, it’s just gibberish. Also my brain will sometimes go “The thing you thought it said makes no sense. It’d make a lot more sense if it said this.” Then the words change and I go “Oh, my mistake.”
Around 3 years ago I dreamed I overslept and woke up at 6:31. I have to leave home around 6:10 to be on time for work.
That morning I woke up on time, but when I got in my car its clock showed it was 6:31. I didn’t understand how it could be that late and checked the time on my phone. Turned out the car was showing the wrong time, which happened to be the same time as in my dream.
Last month I overslept and woke up at 6:31.
You wanna dream up some lottery numbers for me friend?
The trick is to look away and look back and see if the time changed.
Same with books. Try to read it. Now try again
Nah, best to check if your dream kettle will boil.
I like to lay down and try to nap. If I can’t then I might already be asleep and should be wary.
My thought has always been that it’s not that things like that can’t work in dreams, but dreams are mostly symbolic and you’re more likely to dream about using a phone or something if you have an issue with what it symbolizes. For instance, I personally often dream about trying to call or text my wife, but either the phone doesn’t work, I can’t see the screen, she can’t hear me, or something like that. My guess is that the dream is about my frustration when I can’t communicate well with my wife.
I’ve also had dreams where I was stuck or trapped in something and couldn’t get my phone to work, couldn’t make my voice work to yell, or anything like that, and I figure that it’s because I have real issues asking anyone else for help.
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…
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.
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
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.
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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.
Inception?
False awakenings are nuts
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.
Dreams are what happens if your brain is able to hallucinate without any feed back from reality.
In reality your phone works because there is a living board and software keeping the interaction confined to it’s inner possibilities. Your brain doesn’t have ways to allow for this internal logic and therefore interactions with software never go well.
Notice that is only slightly better in simulating other people. Faces are never consistent, but generally people logic is easier to stimulate, so other people are more convincing.
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
ok but how do you manage to remember this when dreaming?
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 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.
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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