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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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".

[–] lath 11 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] vala 9 points 1 week ago

I've had this same feeling. Stable diffusion really got me.

[–] pyre 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] pyre 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] danc4498 6 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Psythik 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Play Flight Sim to get it out of your system.

Alternatively, stop playing Flight Sim to get it out of your system.

[–] the_grass_trainer 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck it, fly into the 3rd tower to get it outta your system!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I flew a cirrus vision jet into my work building and it was very therapeutic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Seems like u are one now, follow ur dreams bud

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your phone had a windows blue screen of death

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No, it was more like a news ticker or a tornado warning that would appear when watching live TV.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Rooty 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mobile phones haven't been around long enough to be a part of the Dreamlands, wait a couple of decades, maybe a powerful Dreamer introduces them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Patch 1.2: Added mobile phones to Dreamlands

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[–] DrPop 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They don't work right when I'm trying to use them in my dreams.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

My wife was just telling me about trying to look up information on a phone in her dream and couldn't get it to give her useful information, she was trying to figure information on a disaster or something that was happening in her dream

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Same here, and usually I'm fine with it, like it's just below my sus level in the dreams.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Me who often has super mundane, but extremely vivid dreams of just regular life, including using my phone: Why can't I dream about riding a dinosaur in a massive McDonald's warehouse like I did when I was 12? 😮‍💨

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2 9 points 1 week ago

That’s your cue to lucid dream and start flying

[–] deprecateddino 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, the phone never works right in my dreams and I'm always very frustrated 😅

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I've had them. They usually involve me fumbling with it, unable to use it in some kind of emergency.

[–] AA5B 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] ch00f 15 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] ArgentRaven 15 points 1 week ago

I think my brain knows it would solve too many plot points too easily. I'm stuck in a 90s dreamscape where all the pay phones are broken.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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".

[–] Lumisal 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

You need a new job.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I did!

Not gonna tell you what I did though

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[–] MrJameGumb 10 points 1 week ago

Now that it's been brought to my attention I will most certainly have a dream where I'm using my phone lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Anytime I try to use my phone or any app, it won’t work and just pisses me off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The weird fever dream you get after writing code for too long...

[–] Sestren 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I think it's an age thing. I bet the kids who grew up holding a cell phone have them in their dreams.

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