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."
Oh great, now I might dream about them.
Edit too many nows.
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!
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
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
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....
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.
I'm a xennial so very much grew up without cellphones at all, let alone smartphones. They occasionally pop up in my dreams.
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.
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.🥲
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.
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.
I experience this in reality with iphones. 18 versions of iOS and it's still not possible to type a coherent sentence on those things in one attempt.
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.
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.
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.
I regularly have dreams where I'm trying to use a smartphone but can't do anything because I can't read the screen and Pacific because it feels like I've been hacked.
My vape also regularly falls apart in dreams, and back when I smoked lighters never worked.
I think that the part of our brain that processes these mechanics are shut down when we sleep, so when our dream self tries to use them they just don't function.
Could come into play where punching in a dream is impossible and running is difficult.
I ain't no brain doctor, or nothin'.
My dreams are usually pretty communicative and applicable to things going on in my life. Glasses breaking when I was starting to have a drinking problem, bombing theatrical performances when I wasn’t acting authentically in my relationships, etc.
Not saying it’s applicable for every dream, but I think our unconscious mind is pretty communicative with us when it has something to say.
Was that meaning there or did you apply it post facto?
With confirmation bias it is easy to apply meanings to things that aren’t necessarily there.
Glad someone's dreams actually have meaning. Mine make no sense and I forget most of them by the time I wake up. The best I can hope for is getting a few seconds of lucid dreaming where I can can fly around for a bit until the dream ends (whenever the lucid thing happens, the dream seems to fall apart and I have trouble keeping myself from waking up).
I've tried flying many times before. The first attempts are more like jumps. Right when I feel like I'm flying, I get excited. Waking myself up dissapointed. Really dissapointed........
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 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.
I very rarely remember my dreams but I definitely do remember that once a long time ago I did dream of making a forum post from my smartphone. So the premise is not correct for all people.
i often have a dream of an android virus on my phone stealing all my money and data
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.
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.
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.
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.
I literally dreamt about using a phone tonight
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.
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.
Read this yesterday, went to bed, dreamt about phones.
Genuinely, i was just dreaming about a new phone i was looking to buy.
not on a phone but i've had discord conversations in my dreams before
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.
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.
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