Linklater's Waking Life touches on this, describing digital clocks and such not working in dreams, iirc.

Dreams are the brain trying to solve problems it couldn't solve during the day. Phones are nightmares we're forced to entertain during the day. Does the heroin addict dream of hot spoons and needles or the way they feel when high?

Hmm, yea I'm on a computer the majority of most days probably but I can't remember ever really dreaming about that

i often have a dream of an android virus on my phone stealing all my money and data

I had a flip phone in a dream once but all the text on the screen was Cyrillic gibberish.

(computer but still relevant ig) I had a dream the other day that 4get.ca added an ai chatbot and a games tab. I was like holy fuck... i can play mario on here!!

I'm guessing it happens most among millennials and gen z. Seems like dream norms are based on your youth.

Remember (gen x folks) when they used to say that everyone dreamed in black and white, but you're like, nuh uh? It's because boomers dreamed in black and white because they grew up on black and white TV.

I have tech of all kinds in my dreams, including smartphones, and that's clearly not rare since there are always many comments saying so every time this gets posted.

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.