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My phone went dead, then i looked around the room and the lightz go out, I look out the window and there's a huge mushroom cloud in the distance (apparantly my dream brain remembered that emp kills electronics), then I wake up, but I can't fucking move my body (or at least that's how I remembered it, perhaps I'm mixing it up with a different memory of the time when I got sleep paralysis)
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.
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.
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.
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'm usually dreaming about something more interesting than a phone. I don't think I've ever had a phone in my dreams
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 🤓
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
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.
They literally do....
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Phones have become a transparent technology
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.
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
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.
/s