Dream technology is weird

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Now that it's been brought to my attention I will most certainly have a dream where I'm using my phone lol

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I think it's an age thing. I bet the kids who grew up holding a cell phone have them in their dreams.

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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".

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They don't work right when I'm trying to use them in my dreams.

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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.

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Same here, and usually I'm fine with it, like it's just below my sus level in the dreams.

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I've had them. They usually involve me fumbling with it, unable to use it in some kind of emergency.

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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.

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Anytime I try to use my phone or any app, it won’t work and just pisses me off.

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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...

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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.

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Your phone had a windows blue screen of death

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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

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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.

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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.

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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? ‍

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Recently I had a dream that involved my (smart) watch and phone. Only for knowing the time though. I thought that I had overslept for work, but every time I looked at my watch, my phone, or the clock on the wall, the time was different (but always way too late). At some point I think I woke up, because I remember looking at my watch, concluding that everything was fine and that I could still sleep and hour, and fell asleep again. But then the dream started again by pulling a "you dreamt that you overslept but now you have actually overslept".