• NickwithaC@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        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.

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        A few days ago, there was a post about a BlackBerry with an Android OS coming to market.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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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    I have dreams with phones all the time. I dream that I type something, I look at the keyboard for a second, and when I look back at the text box I realize I made a mistake and have to rewrite most of the text.

    It helped me realize I already experienced a quirk of the brain while dreaming, that I found about some time after I started having this recurring dream: if you look at a text while dreaming, then you look away and then back at it, the text will change.

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    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.

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        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.

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    had a dream recently where i was trying to take someones details in my phone but it wouldnt load the app and the keyboard kept fucking up as they were getting impatient with me. thanks brain, you son of a bitch.

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    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.

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    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.”

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    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

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        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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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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        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.

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        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

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception

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    This has nothing to do with the post, but I have had multiple unconnected people tell me I was in their dream and every single time I was eating fried chicken. So either I give off the vibe I love fried chicken, which is true, or I’m off wandering though my friends dreams watching their weird shit while eating some tasty fried chicken.

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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.

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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.

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    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.