• Peppr@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    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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      4 hours ago

      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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      6 hours ago

      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