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
Dumb. Mine was in my dream last night. I remember teaching my son to set a PIN instead of using Apple Face. If I remember, in the dream, he spent a lot of time making funny faces at me.
I’m usually dreaming about something more interesting than a phone. I don’t think I’ve ever had a phone in my dreams
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 have them constantly make an appearance and it’s always a situation where I desperately need to contact someone and I can’t hit the right button. It’s so frustrating.
Sometimes I dream that I have to call 112 but can’t. I type 111… clear… 122… clear… 111… clear… 1112… clear… Brain definitely has issue with maintaining a consistent state of UI in dreams. Even watches don’t work. Every time you check the time it will be different.
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 🤓
I don’t need a phone in my dreams. What I need is a god damn clean toilet so I can finally sit down and poop and pee!
That’s your brain trying to stop you from pissing/shitting the bed.
Iirc it means that you feel vulnerable irl
I kinda like the ridiculously nasty bathrooms in Morphée’s kingdom.
Because dreams don’t exist anymore. I haven’t had a dream in years, and since anything I experience is universal that means everyone else is just lying about having dreams, and that’s why there aren’t phones aren’t in dreams.
i think that’s because of all the weed, but i could be wrong
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They literally do…
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.
It’s similar for me too, but a bit broader. My brain apparently can’t convincingly simulate any digital user interfaces. No PC, phone or anything else like that works correctly in my dreams.
It’s actually one of the most consistent ways I have to figure out that I am currently dreaming.
The parts of your brain involved in symbolic language are less active when you’re asleep, and since interfaces like that are basically all symbols your brain has a hard time understanding any symbols it remembers or making sense of anything it can put together. The part that remembers stuff is still going strong though.
So basically you know what a computer is and how it should work, but you’re trying to use an interface you’ve never used before in a language you don’t speak that was designed by a person with uncertain notions about where icons and windows should go or how they move.In most cases it’s easier for the dream to just say “and then you clicked the button to do the thing”, like it does with signs and stuff.
Makes a lot of sense.
My dreams managed to conjure my Mac login screen which, pretty impressive. Let me try to log in for quite a while as my panic increased.
Yeah, that’s mostly what happens in my dreams. I need to call someone, but the keyboard of the phone doesn’t work correctly, or only the last 1-2 digits stay on screen. Or I need to login and the keyboard doesn’t work correctly.
I think, I just don’t have enough space to keep that many things consistently in memory at the same time without forgetting something.
A few days ago, there was a post about a BlackBerry with an Android OS coming to market.
You can already get a unihertz titan, it is what i’m typing on now. :)
Hey, I’ve seen this one before!
That’s always the answer to these posts.
Man that would be crazy. Except it does.
I literally dreamt about using a phone tonight
Phones aren’t real.
Funny thing is that despite being on my PC all the time (literally, if I don’t eat, sleep or shit I am in front of my PC) I very rarely dream of computers.
Last dream I rember was me standing somewhere I don’t recognize and watching a bridge collapse lmao.
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.
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.
Ah, the Key Bridge going to/from Dundalk, MD?
Man, I used to use that bridge all the fucking time. Got my first speeding ticket on that bridge.
Even though I don’t live in MD anymore, it’s still trippy to think about that just not existing anymore. Super tragic situation all around.
That’s the one. Other than the speeding ticket part, every word of this could have been written by me.
(My first speeding ticket was on 40, coming from Delaware to Maryland)
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.
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Watching infrastructure fail is a daydream, not a real dream.
Daynightmare.
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.
Phones have become a transparent technology
My cell phone is in my dreams all the time. Usually I’m trying but failing to make or send text messages or phone calls.
It’s when I succeed in my dream that I wake up in a panic and check my phone to make sure that I didn’t actually carry it out in real life. So far so good.
The panicked “did I really send that text”. Can’t say I haven’t been there.
As teenager I’ve once been in the “I received a weird text from you last night” situation. Never happened again in the 20 years since then, it still gives me a weird feeling when I’m at a hotel without a proper nightstand and I have to keep the phone in my bed for the night.
Shit, that happens to me on a weekly basis because I forget to lock my eee:;5788 on I live mannequin pants ggggg 674566;-&_+(6 the devil is tongue punching my asshole &+$76546???
The devil wants some of that Pooptart.
The devil works in mysterious ways.
You should get that checked out, like… all of this (＠_＠;)
Oh I never actually did that, but my dreams are very vivid and sometimes I might confuse what is a real memory and what was my last night’s dream.
I was a little kid when I dreamt of a translucent phone with buttons that could reposition (that was before I saw touchscreens) all over the front surface.
