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.
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”.
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…
I’ve had this same feeling. Stable diffusion really got me.
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.
HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!
Thank you for posting this, this is the first thing I thought of when this was brought up.
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.
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.
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.
I have quite literally dreamed about running neo/fastfetch 😭
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.
Patch 1.2: Added mobile phones to Dreamlands
Oh no dont update yet, patch 1.2 was bad. There is a bug where you dont properly reboot during Night Terror mode and instead forced Host_Wakeup routine it loops back to start sleep cycle again.
Not to mention a certain lord of dreams has been locked in a basement for 100 years or so.
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
Play Flight Sim to get it out of your system.
Alternatively, stop playing Flight Sim to get it out of your system.
Fuck it, fly into the 3rd tower to get it outta your system!
I flew a cirrus vision jet into my work building and it was very therapeutic.
Seems like u are one now, follow ur dreams bud
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your phone had a windows blue screen of death
No, it was more like a news ticker or a tornado warning that would appear when watching live TV.
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.
I cant believe nobody made an app that allows you to access photos you made in your dreams
Idk, ask the NSA if they have a copy of it
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.
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? 😮💨
Have you tried lucid dreaming? It’s fairly simple to get into. A lucidity check throughout the day that gives you something to check for in dreams. Mine is placing my fingertips over my nostrils and breathing in. If I can’t breathe, I’m awake, if I can, I’m asleep. Once you get into the habit of doing it you’ll start doing it in your dreams, and as soon as you realize you’re asleep you can take control. Just don’t close your eyes or look in mirrors.
Then I’d just be scrolling my phone, but the memes suck because I have to manually think of them.
I mean, you control it, and effort and exhaustion don’t exist. Go ride a dinosaur, or schtupp your secret crush
When I was 12, most of the dreams I remember were about fire, spiders, or super-embarrassing myself at school. I do NOT miss them
Mine were either falling from great heights, riding in a car and driving off a bridge, getting crushed in a collapsing tunnel (lots of bridges and underwater tunnels where I grew up), or full blown hardcore pornographic dreams that involved the weirdest shit imaginable that made me question my sanity when I woke up.
12 is a super awkward age. Lmao
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.
You need a new job.
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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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.
They don’t work right when I’m trying to use them in my dreams.
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
Same here, and usually I’m fine with it, like it’s just below my sus level in the dreams.
I did!
Not gonna tell you what I did though
Ordered takeout?
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.
