I don’t remember many dreams, but I also don’t recall dreaming about computers or TV much.
Maybe brains just have a hard time hallucinating user interfaces.
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.
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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.
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???
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.
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
That’s absolutely it. I was a chronic waker-and-baker for almost thirty years and never had dreams. I quit four years ago and now I have multiple intense dreams every night. I genuinely don’t like it at this point - I spend too much of my first few minutes awake each morning worrying about shit that never actually happened.
i used to be able to lucid dream (beating my sleep paralysis demon the fuck up with a thick bike chain was a special treat) but honestly i didn’t sleep restfully back then. been wake and baking for ten years and the occasional dream is neither deep enough to control nor invite the hat man. I’ll take it.
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 🤓
not on a phone but i’ve had discord conversations in my dreams before
I want to know why I continually dream about taking a piss but never actually wet the bed. I mean, thank you bladder but jeez.
Actually, I’m a school bus driver and most of my dreams involve me fucking up badly somehow in my bus and waking up bummed that I’m going to have to find another job. I wonder if other drivers have this going on.
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…
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.
My bus dreams are usually about getting into some tight spot where I have to back up and then smashing shit up when I do. We’re told quite emphatically to never back up and our enormous repair bills justify that. I’ve taken out a few fences myself in the real world.
I dream about messing up at work pretty frequently as well.
I literally dreamt about using a phone tonight
I saw this when it was originally posted in 2023 and it stuck with me like yeah, why don’t I dream about using my phone. Maybe it’s because they are an extension of something else I’m doing or maybe I just don’t remember.
And then one day did dream of struggling to use my phone and then in the dream itself I realized this was a dream and I was using a damn phone so the original assumption was wrong. I do dream about it, I just never think about it enough to remember. But when I started to think about it now I remembered.
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!
Iirc it means that you feel vulnerable irl
I kinda like the ridiculously nasty bathrooms in Morphée’s kingdom.
Anything that involves dexterity or hand movements generally don’t show up in dreams. Thats why fighting in your dreams feels like a numb slap fight.
I experience that when i have generally high anxiety
Fighting in my dreams is usually more like Mortal Kombat with an endlessly refilling health meter. Brutal attacks that do nothing.
I’ve had at least a dozen dreams of trying to text someone during an emergency and I’m unable to do so. I keep fat fingering the buttons and it won’t send.
That’s about where I am. I commonly have a phone in my dream, but I can never type words properly.
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.
Speak for yourself, my phone is constantly in my dreams, and for some reason my alarm isn’t stopping no matter how much I try!
Have them pop up, but they work extremely erratically. Mostly pop up in the context of reading a single text, which changes if I think to look at it again (rare).
Buttons do whatever they feel like (mostly nothing or stuck keys producing garbage text), and I don’t think I’ve made or received a phone call (can’t say this for landlines when they show up).
Idk man, dreams are weird.
My spouse has a recurring nightmare including a Nokia 3310
Vaguely related, considerably off topic:
… As a child I had a recurring nightmare about being chased by essentially demon possesed pants.
Because of this goddamned book:
https://www.rhcbooks.com/books/43177/what-was-i-scared-of-by-dr-seuss
I was deep within the woods
When, suddenly, I spied them.
I saw a pair of pale green pants
With nobody inside them!
Thank you Dr. Seuss, for literally authoring (and illustrating!) my nightmares.
My nightmare version was basically me trying to put my pants on for school, except oh no! a fucking poltergeist has possesed them, they are alive, they are bad, and they are chasing me.
Literally started having the nightmares the same night after reading this.
As a child I kept having a nightmare of a sentient kite chasing me through a hotel. I don’t think any media exists I picked this up from so maybe kid brains just love producing nightmares of getting chased by random objects.
This is so bad and hilarious at the same time. I feel for you, even if my laughing makes me look like a liar (艸≧▽≦)｡
3310 is so strong it can distort the fabric of reality and enter dreams
Typically I can’t read letters or numbers in my dreams.
it’s often how I realise I’m dreaming. looking as moving shapes but still somehow being able to read it. something clicks and I know I’m in a dream. can’t hold it for long though.
