Dream technology is weird
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Be me, dreaming.
Look up at phone.
Phone says I'm 4 hours late for work.
Wake up
It's 2 in the morning and I have 5 hours of sleep remaining.
Alarm goes of in the morning. Someone is calling me. I pick up my phone to answer the call. Start speaking but the phone is still ringing. I hit the button again and again but it isn't working. I wake up, with the alarm still going off next to me.
Mobile phones haven't been around long enough to be a part of the Dreamlands, wait a couple of decades, maybe a powerful Dreamer introduces them.
Patch 1.2: Added mobile phones to Dreamlands
I did!
Not gonna tell you what I did though
Ordered takeout?
I have an infrequently recurring dream where I'm running late for work and I call in to say I'll be late, and then I blink and hours have passed and I'm freaking out because apparently I was in a fugue state and I call in to work again to try and update them and the whole cycle repeats until I finally wake up.
You need a new job.
I have a recurring dream where I have trouble typing into my phone keyboard. Whatever I do, the text just won't get in there. Sometimes it's urgent. Other times I'm trying to show someone something and they're watching me fail.
Same here! It’s insanely frustrating!
Yeah, the phone never works right in my dreams and I'm always very frustrated 😅
Your brain doesn't have enough VRAM to keep the simulation humming when it comes to generating accurate text and numbers
That’s your cue to lucid dream and start flying
I have a recurring nightmare where something awful has happened and I can't get my phone to work to call for help. It just doesn't work the way it is supposed to, or there's a glitch, or I forgot how to use it. It is oddly horrifying.
Ha! My phone was in my dream just last night. I was stuck on the home screen. I could swipe to other screens, but, it bounced back to home screen. Restart, same problem. Funny to see this post today.
I dream a lot about car related stuff. Accidents, getting lost, losing the car.
I don't ever have any of that happen IRL.
But yeah, never my phone, maybe once or twice a pc
I'm a school bus driver and I constantly dream about fucking up hard at work, like hitting cars, running over children and whatnot. There's always a couple of minutes first thing every morning when I wake up where I sit and think about what else I'm going to do for a living before I realize it was just a dream.
I've had dreams that are just me lying in bed scrolling on my phone. They feel 100% real until I wake up and realise the content I was looking at was unintelligible
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I have constant dreams behind the dashboard of an Airbus A320neo. It’s been a solid week of the same dream. The autopilot isn’t working so I have to manually do calculations of banking angles and then time it with my flight plan that I have no idea how to type into the flight computer.
I’m not a pilot at all. Help
Seems like u are one now, follow ur dreams bud
Play Flight Sim to get it out of your system.
Alternatively, stop playing Flight Sim to get it out of your system.
Fuck it, fly into the 3rd tower to get it outta your system!
I flew a cirrus vision jet into my work building and it was very therapeutic.
I dreamt I broke my new phone the other night and woke up sad untill I checked my phone, I got a Motorola flip phone and my last 2 Samsung flips broke so I guess I'm more paranoid about breaking it than I thought.
I had a dream a while back which I was recording an old CRT TV that was way too high to comfortably view and a friend of mine somehow grabbing a bag of what I'd presume was fairy floss from inside an empty cabinet. The phone worked pretty much the same as it does irl, and one of my teachers walked by and I got scared and hid my phone behind my jacket in fear of it getting confiscated, probably the most interesting one I've had in a while.
I had my phone in a dream for the first time yesterday! I only used it to call my partner, but it was definitely there.
My dreams have no technology.
Lately too many have been about peeing, and I wake in a panic. I feel like I’m playing chicken with myself.
I've had entire dreams in the command line, which was fairly incredible to me at the time because I still couldn't read the characters consistently, and was only taken aback at the strangeness of such after the fact. I had a sense of what the commands meant and I knew what I was doing (hacking the planet), but while I couldn't read it I knew what the output felt like. Dreams are weird.
I have quite literally dreamed about running neo/fastfetch 😭
I think your brain spends more time focusing on the output of reading rather than the process of reading. So your dreams skip over that process and jump straight to the comprehension.
Thank you for posting this, this is the first thing I thought of when this was brought up.
I also think I've never seen legible text in a dream. This "i know it's text but can't really read it" sounds a lot like the issues AI image generators have.
The rise of AI made me rethink many things about consciousness. It seem like our internal image generators and text generators are separate from "us" as in the "core personality".
not being able to read was how batman realized he was in a induced dream state by the scarecrow in TAS. I'm pretty sure I've been able to read in dreams before but apparently it is a thing.
I've had this same feeling. Stable diffusion really got me.
It is possible to see legible text in a dream or at least to think that you do, but it's difficult to keep it in place. It changes at the speed of thought...
You reminded me of when I was cramming for CCNA like 10 years ago, and had a really bad cold for which I was given Codeine.
My girlfriend at the time told me that I was rambling about "spanning tree" in my sleep.
Years back, when I was working helpdesk and was on overtime, I traveled to visit my long-distance girlfriend. The first night, I was so tired that I quickly fell asleep. Apparently, in my sleep, I kept asking her for her username so that I could log the ticket.
I think the issue is that devices with screens are usually meant to be your window to experience something else. When you get immersed in something, you forget about the device and focus on the experience.
I like playing games, and when I get into a game the focus is on the game itself, not the controller/TV/etc. I've had dreams about games, but it's always me experiencing the game directly and not focused at all on the details of how I'm accessing the game.
I think it's the same with phone use, but the experiences we get on a phone are harder to imagine as a"direct experience". Things like sending a text message don't convert well to a fully immersive experience, so I think our brain skips over them.
Hm I occasionally dream about getting messages or seeing/doing something on social media, but I never use a device when doing so. It's just the isolated experience. It doesn't happen very often but when it does it's the only content of the dream.
Me who often has super mundane, but extremely vivid dreams of just regular life, including using my phone: Why can't I dream about riding a dinosaur in a massive McDonald's warehouse like I did when I was 12? 😮💨
Have you tried lucid dreaming? It's fairly simple to get into. A lucidity check throughout the day that gives you something to check for in dreams. Mine is placing my fingertips over my nostrils and breathing in. If I can't breathe, I'm awake, if I can, I'm asleep. Once you get into the habit of doing it you'll start doing it in your dreams, and as soon as you realize you're asleep you can take control. Just don't close your eyes or look in mirrors.
Then I'd just be scrolling my phone, but the memes suck because I have to manually think of them.
I mean, you control it, and effort and exhaustion don't exist. Go ride a dinosaur, or schtupp your secret crush
When I was 12, most of the dreams I remember were about fire, spiders, or super-embarrassing myself at school. I do NOT miss them
Mine were either falling from great heights, riding in a car and driving off a bridge, getting crushed in a collapsing tunnel (lots of bridges and underwater tunnels where I grew up), or full blown hardcore pornographic dreams that involved the weirdest shit imaginable that made me question my sanity when I woke up.
12 is a super awkward age. Lmao
One time I had a dream where I saw something really cool happening (can't remember what exactly) and I decided to take a picture with my phone to view it later.
I woke up disappointed that it wasn't saved to my camera roll.
I cant believe nobody made an app that allows you to access photos you made in your dreams
At least once a week, I have a dream where some piece of technology that I use every day just won't work properly. I was up frustrated.
Literally had one last night. I dreamt there were massive riots with sword and axe armed rioters were smashing up everything. Instead of a regular emergency alert, my phone had scrolling text on a blue background warning about the event.
Your phone had a windows blue screen of death
No, it was more like a news ticker or a tornado warning that would appear when watching live TV.
I've had them. They usually involve me fumbling with it, unable to use it in some kind of emergency.
They don't work right when I'm trying to use them in my dreams.
My wife was just telling me about trying to look up information on a phone in her dream and couldn't get it to give her useful information, she was trying to figure information on a disaster or something that was happening in her dream
Same here, and usually I'm fine with it, like it's just below my sus level in the dreams.
I've recently learned that all dreams are real, that everytime you imagine a scenario, you create various new universes where every possible thing that could have lead up to that scenario are retroactively played out in another universe for consistency.
Everytime a new person thinks of that scenario, even in passing, even subconciously, their soul visits that area. Even if no one else knows about it, thinking about a similar enough scenario creates new line that can pass by that same area.
Nothing is lost, all information is retained by an ever expanding universe that touches and shares its collected information with other universes.
Nothing is lost, everything is somewhere, and people can become strong enough to swap to anyone in any timeline we wish. We are all the same person in different forms except for those of us who are different actors playing the same character in someone else's script.
Reaching Nivrana means you are not bond to one life and can freely hop around the timelines, even create new ones, be god of every reality you imagine, as creation becomes faster and easier. Win every encounter not with skill, but by changing timelines until you find one in your favor.
screams in forbidden existential knowledge
The weird fever dream you get after writing code for too long...
I think my brain knows it would solve too many plot points too easily. I'm stuck in a 90s dreamscape where all the pay phones are broken.
Anytime I try to use my phone or any app, it won’t work and just pisses me off.
Well my dreams last night were about a group of people that were having a competition in a barber shop to see who could cut out holes from the skin on the top of their heads without looking at how deep the incisions were and without any anesthetic...
So honestly - not looking at my phone is really the most reasonable part of the majority of my dreams.
Now that it's been brought to my attention I will most certainly have a dream where I'm using my phone lol
I think it's an age thing. I bet the kids who grew up holding a cell phone have them in their dreams.
I just had a dream where I used a laptop. I was on the phone with someone and had AirPods, but don’t remember seeing the phone.
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