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When I was a ~10 year old kid, I dreamed about having an iPod touch. It was so cool to take pictures, play games, and look up information. I would wake up and be disappointed for half a day that the iPod was no longer in my hand.
I don’t personally spend much of my day thinking at all about my phone. It’s an extension to get to what matters, like my family, or completing a task. I don’t ever think “I’m looking at my smartphone” as much as “I’m talking to my sister” and “I’m using the Bank’s app.”
I get phones in my dreams all the time. Usually checking the time and being late to get up. Sometimes the horror of receiving an unexpected call
receiving an unexpected call
They asked about dreams, not nightmares…
Well that my secret all my dreams are nightmares, do people have pleasant dreams? My are either straight up unnerving nightmares or a weird crazy mess that makes no sense. Also they jump from one scene to other. Sometimes they are hard to keep together. What I don’t understand is for most people dreams are supposed to fade away after waking. But for me a lot of them I can hold onto for fucking years in vivid detail. And if I concentrate hard enough when I go to bed can revist some. But that part is rare.
Dreams fascinate me and I will ponder over mine for days or weeks. The only dreams that make sense are the smoking dreams. I am ex smoker and I will have the occasional dream of picking up a pack of cigarettes and smoking. They say that is just par for the course for addicts. Sad thing I hear that one doesn’t ever go away.
But the rest of my dreams cant gst handle on them. But none of them are good or pleasant.
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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.
this is true. i remember been able to dream with my nokia 3320 back in the 00’s
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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Back in the day, I would have AOL Instant Messenger windows pop up in my dreams.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
In my dreams, I very frequently use my phone to book tickets, check train schedules or itineraries. Usually, though, time is ridiculously tight and/ or the connection keeps breaking down etc.
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 🤓
Same fucking thing, a couple of times i did manage to call and they answered the call, only for them to be incredibly incompetent and super annoying, they wouldn’t take me seriously at all.🥲
I have cell phones in my dreams all the time. One of my most common stress dreams is that I can’t enter a fucking address into the navigation app
I was trying to buy a buss ticket while running thru a city and my password was 20 characters long and trying to enter anything is useless.
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.
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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.
I want to know why I continually dream about taking a piss but never actually wet the bed.
Sorry about that. Bug fixed. You will now piss the bed.
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…
I dream about messing up at work pretty frequently as well.
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.
Heard somewhere once that dreams have a hard time with details. It’s all loose impressions that your brain rapidly confabulates into experiences. It’s why (supposedly) light switches don’t work in dreams. If any of this is true, the same probably applies to other devices.
People say that dream states don’t do well with text or numbers in particular.
I’ve read in lucid dreaming communities that trying to read the time on a clock, or small text (and failing to do so), is how some people manage to realize they’re in a dream as a first step to taking control.
What’s pretty interesting to me is, when I was tripping on mushrooms hard many years ago, the Mac OSX Aqua interface was beautiful but unusable (likely any user interface would have been), felt like interacting with a squishy wet portal to another dimension, and reading interface items and digesting what something like “close” meant was nigh impossible, like “is this element close to me?” “Should I close this element like a door?”
But years later, in dreams I’ve noticed it’s similar to how my brain was interacting with an interface while tripping, which definitely has similarities, it’s no wonder Aldous Huxley wrote
I’ve read text in a dream. Short words and sentences. For instance “love you” in a fogged mirror. What gave It away to me was that there wasn’t a shower in the bathroom. I lucid dream, but I don’t have the best control over it.
My dreams remind me a lot of AI videos. It makes sense if you juts look at it and squint a little, the closer you look the more you realise that it’s all smoke and mirrors
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.
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!
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.
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)
Haha was it a MD State Trooper?
But yeah, I hadn’t lived in MD for over 12 years when the bridge came down. My mom still called me at 0430 my time to tell me what was happening. Snapped me out of my sleep stupor state REAL quick.
It still feels like I can go home and use it, even if logically I know it’s not there anymore. And what happened to the night shift workers was DEVASTATING. I cannot even imagine what horror they went through in their final moments, and what their friends/families went through when they woke up the next morning. Its just super fucking sad all around.
TBH, I don’t remember. That was … 19 years? … ago. Since it was my second ticket (first for speeding), and I was on the highway, I pulled to the left and the cop yelled at me over his megaspeaker to pull to the right; that’s most of what I remember about it. As well as being nervous as hell.
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 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.
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.
