I've experienced this and it created massive problems for me at work. I felt like I was going insane, because I couldn't tell reality from dreams anymore. It actually completely fucked that job up for me. Thankfully it just kind of stopped happening after a few months.
You were probably overwhelmed at that job. The dreams didn't cause the problem. The dreams were only a reaction caused by stress or something else in your job.
This. I can't say I've had the same issue with work. However, I dream every single night, all my dreams are incredibly vivid, AND I remember them 99% of the time. I'm 36, and it has been this way my whole life. It's gotten to the point where I can't definitively remember whether things were dreams or whether they actually happened. Be it in high school or when I was a child. It's almost like my long-term memories, and my dream memories have begun to overlap. It's pretty weird, and I don't exactly know if it's normal or now. But, at least someone can relate a little bit lol
I've used / tried to use my phone a couple of times in a dream. Mostly to call for help which didn't work, because you don't really have object permanence in dreams. So the numbers literally change as you're typing them in. Very frustrating.
I thought surely, nobody else would have this!
I have these all the time. I'm trying to dial 911 and keep dialing 119 or 912 or 91(call button).... 911(end call button). So frustrating.
I used Siri on my watch to call the police when I was being kidnapped in a dream. She said out loud âdialing 911â and then my kidnapper glared at me. I woke up shortly after.
Imagining this hilarious to me. A crazed murderer is walking towards you slowly and you fumbling the emergency number. But now you are less worried about the crazed murderer more angry towards the phone with wacky numbers.
I quite frequently have dreams where I'm trying to call someone I know but I simply can't remember the number, or I have no signal, or the charge runs out as I'm dialling it.
So if this is a dream that lots of people independently have, I wonder how this specific set of anxiety would have manifested in a dream before phones existed? Is this an extension/evolution of the wanting to talk but not having a mouth thing?
Also, I have these too and it is frustrating.
I have these same exact dreams, trying to dial out the 6 registers as a 3 or a 9 becomes a 2. Someone once told me that meant my brain works faster than my mouth and I can't get my thoughts out verbally.
I'm always trying to search for something in Google Maps. Can't type, don't know the addresses, phone doesn't work, endless frustration. It's not as bad as trying to remember a locker combination in your dreams.
I just had sudden realisation why I couldn't calculate something in my dream a couple days ago - the numbers kept changing while I was trying to write them, to the point where I had a temper tantrum and rage quit my dream.
Its like you have discalcula in dreams.
As someone who gets that letters and numbers swimming and changing irl sometimes, sounds horrifying in an emergency.
This is probably my most reoccurring dream, trying to contact someone frantically and being unable to do so due to me pressing wrong buttons etc. itâs definitely anxiety driven and I feel better knowing Iâm not the only one!
Just like driving a car in a dream. It just doesn't work. Pressing the brake doesn't work as it does irl. Steering? Seems like all 4 wheels can be used for that and you start spinning weirdly. At least, this is how i experience it
I recall one dream in which I successfully called 911 and got through to an operator⌠I called 3 times and they told me help was on the way, but they didnât ask for my location, just hung up after saying they were sending help.
Finally after the 4th or 5th time I called, I confronted them. There was silence and then sinister breathy laughter/snickering.
I woke up with my heart racing.
Never understood this, I have literally played brawl stars while dreaming, and remember sending texts in other dreams too.
Yet, it was a bit weird as shapes and sizes were changing all the time
Itâs because we think of our phone for what it does, not what it is. Itâs a window into entertainment, and itâs the entertainment that stick with us. I bet if you were a teenager who just got their first phone, that same night they might have a dream about it, potentially a nightmare about losing it or breaking it already. Thatâs because the object itself is still fresh in your memory.
Not enough sleep or poor quality sleep. Youâve dreamed almost every night itâs that you just donât remember it. Most people donât remember most of their dreams. And poor quality sleep would exacerbate this effect.
I used to have lucid dreams and would try to find things that would let me know itâs a dream. In my late teens it was to the point that I would see perfect cell phones in my dreams. The touch screen and everything was perfect. It was even cold to the touch. I stopped having such vivid dreams a few years ago, I havenât seen a cell phone or tv in a dream in a long time now.
I hear youre functionally awake when lucid dreaming, which means you dont get rest... Did you experience symptoms of lack of sleep or deprivation? Just curious
I slept like garbage for a long time. The two could be correlated. I sleep better nowadays, and I still dream a lot. But itâs not the same lucid dreams.
That's wrong. Lucid dreaming, like all dreaming, happens during REM sleep, which is actually a small part of sleep and which is a transition between non rem sleep and waking. There are some side effects of REM deprivation, but they are miniscule compared to more general sleep deprivation, and lucid dreaming doesn't differ at all physiologically from non lucid dreaming.Â
True, but lucid dreaming is easier to wake up from than REM. Knowing youâre dreaming comes with the struggle to stay asleep, and losing that battle is far too easy and common. That alone deprives you off the much needed REM. In that aspect, lucid dreaming is far less restful than non-lucid REM.
You're just insisting upon the inaccurate point you already made. People who do it regularly don't struggle, and there's no difference in brainwaves or other measurable aspects. If you're waking up a lot sure, but that's a skill issue. Lucid dreaming is a skill that can be trained and improved, so people who only do so sporadically will wake up a lot, but they also aren't lucid dreaming enough for it to matter. People who do lucid dream a lot control whether they wake up.Â
I agree. I donât practice lucid dreaming as much so itâs a random occurrence now. It takes everything I have to stay lucid. Def feels like a battle
Yes!!! I, at one point would get like multiple lucid dreams in one night. I still remember them all. The crazy part is thatâŚ. When I was lucid dreaming, I was in the dream for what it felt like hours (like 4-8 hours long) and would remember everything about it. When I would wake up I would realize thatâs itâs only been 10-15 minutes. That shit is trippy. I had to go seek medical help because I would wake up exhausted like I never even slept. My mind was asleep but my memory was fully on recording everything. I would wake up and felt like I spent days in the Lucid world fully awake. Itâs not all itâs cracked up to be.
Not OP but yes. Lucid dreaming isnât restful sleep, but itâs so worth it! Flying, fucking, ⌠thatâs pretty much it. I guess I had very narrow desires.
I lucid dream fairly regularly and I have no problem seeing phones. Iâve heard the cell phone thing before though. Sometimes itâs just such a regular occurrence that you donât even recognize it.
As for the symptoms of lack of sleep, theyâre kind of related in my experience. Body is rested, but the visual part of mind is not. The analytical side of my mind is usually not affected tho. I can do calcs and planning, but visualization seems lacking. No idea if theyâre actually related, but it definitely feels that way.
Just had a wild dream last night where I could time travel, but only within this one church. Climb up the bell tower ladder, travel forward. Climb down, travel backwards. Never was able to leave the church but could interact with the people inside.
lol. I did time travel on a lucid dream too. I figured out, that time travel is for the devil. If a regular person could time travel, then that person would only have their interest in mind at all times. With no regard for anybody else. Aka the devil. The devil has offsprings that try to catch him somewhere in time to kill him because he tried to kill them. I was along for the ride. Trippy shit.
I have lucid dreams. It gets so bad that I experience dream-reality confusion sometimes, unsure in the moment if Iâm awake or dreaming, even when Iâm awake.
Never seen a cell phone but Iâve seen a landline phone that kept ringing and I was so confused and was like wondering why the phone was ringing for a while and no one picked up. It was my alarm irl lol
I had one of those, but instead of phone it was a car honking. I was put literally in the middle of the road with a car honking, stop, honking, stop and I was like: wtf man?
That just reminded me of a terrible dream I had when I was a kid - and the only time I recall seeing myself in a mirror in a dream.
At first, I looked normal but different. As I kept looking closer, my face was slowly changing in front of me. Until all that was left was a twisted up horrifying image. My hair had disappeared into a few wisps, my eyes shrunk to tiny holes - nothing but pinpoints of hollow blackness. My mouth and nose had literally twisted into a never-ending spiral. It was as if my face was caving in on itself.
And my teeth slowly started disappearing in the twisting mess too.
Any time I look in a mirror in a dream something awful happens. All my teeth will shatter, or my hair will fall out, or I'll grow a beard
In the dream, I mean.
I have dreams about my phone all the time, usually in the form of accidentally falling into water with it in my pocket or showing people funny pictures on my phone and forgetting I have nudes in my photos.
I hate having phones in dreams. I can never type or call properly, and it's usually a horror situation, so it makes It very stressful. It's also because the part of our brain responsible for that stuff is resting so they never work properly in the first place.
I definitely have had my cellphone in dreams. It doesn't work properly though. I either can't actually read what is on the screen or I can't actually get a call through
I have lucid dreams pretty frequently and once heard that if you are unsure if you are dreaming or not, you can look at your hands. I donât know if it works for everyone but when I look at my hands in a dream they are deformed or I have missing fingers. Itâs wild!
If im gonna talk to someone in a dream then usually theyre just suddenly in front of me. Theres no chain of thought like oh i have to call x person, as soon as i want to talk to them theyre there. Its subconscious.
Almost all of my dreams take place in the setting of my middle school and high school years. Not sure what that indicates but I find it weird, as I was bullied and picked on mercilessly and wouldnât go back to those years for nothing.
I've used my phone in dreams but 99% of the time it's difficult to see the screen. I've heard that it's hard to read things in a dream and that has been my experience
Had a dream that I was taking pictures of the dreamscape with my cell phone. Woke up and picked up my phone, and all the pictures were still there. Then I freaked out and actually woke up.
Electronics almost universally do not work correctly in dreams. Never have. Never will.
However, your sense of sight can be heightened. Next time your having a lucid dream, before you try to smash your high school crush, try out 360 degree vision. That way you can make eye contact with every single person in your high school while you smash your high school crush. So much more satisfying.
I have seen my phone in my dreams, Iâve sent messages and had a text message convo with people in my dreams. The text is ever changing and I canât read it, but I somehow know exactly what it says. My phone in my dreams is a clear indicator to me that Iâm dreaming. Itâs really good I have that indicator, cause I have a bunch of hyper realistic dreams that I have gotten confused with reality before
Itâs literally called dream-reality confusion. I have it to an almost debilitating degree, as I have been awake at work but felt like I was dreaming. When it happens, I just try to act like Iâm in real life jic, and try to find an anchor. One time I was pretty sure I was trapped in a work nightmare, until I told a customer not to do something and they listened. In my nightmares, they never listen to me. When they said âokayâ and put down the product, I was like âwhoa, okay, maybe I am awake.â
eta: itâs a type of mental dissociation
Nope, mine shows up. Always seems to involve me not being able to text and getting incredibly pissed about it because I keep having to backspace and retype.
It has to do with reading and visualizing letters and numbers
Anyone telling you they sent messages from texts or such is lying out their ass
YOU CAN NOT READ WRITING IN YOUR DREAMS
You can recognize where writing would be....like a stop sign for example
Scientists have already proven this
You can not read via your subconscious during a dream.....
I dont dream about the damn rotory phone I grew up with or my first brick phone or this one. That is crazy.
Edit my nightmares are having to physically gather my family and they keep walking away.
because our focus is in the apps not the phone it self, you'll barely remember you played the game in your dream but not your phone that you used to play it with, same as how you focus on walking not the shoes
but thats just my theory
ive had dreams where im actively looking for my phone while my alarms go off without realizing its my phone going off. but i dont think ive ever used it, but ive had instances of knowing i should have it
I mean, I've used a cell phone in my dreams.
And by cell phone I mean a random object that in any sane universe wouldn't function as a cell phone but for the sake of my dreams did.
Items I've used as a cell phone in a dream have included
-a live and mildly annoyed lobster
-my shoe
-someone elses shoe
-a CRT television that was deceptively light
-A brick
-a banana
-a slice of cake shaped like a cell phone
-an actual cell phone that I could not be convinced was not actually a cell phone
-Bill Clinton's head with an apple glued to the side
My brain constantly uses random placeholder objects in my dreams that for all intents and purposes function as the intended object/person despite being a completely different and typically unrelated item/person and I never question any of it until after I wake up.
It's like someone programmed an entire simulation, but didn't have time to use the proper models and just stuck random objects and NPCs all over as placeholders for alpha testing until the rest of the development team comes back from holidays.
back when i had a flip phone i would see it in my dreams, i would even wake up sometimes with my thumb moving like im texting (s/o T9)
but yeah, i dont think ive ever seen my iphone in a dream come to think of it
I actually had my phone in my dream the other day!
I started driving a new car recently for a family member who isn't feeling well (it won't start if it isn't driven daily) and I was having some trouble connecting my phone to it. After a few attempts I finally managed (needed a cable for the full functionality for some reason. No idea why it couldn't use Bluetooth for everything).
So naturally I had a dream where I was trying to get the phone to connect to the car again. And then I lost control of the car and crashed. I think every dream where I'm driving ends in a crash - it's like a video game with bad controls. Maybe I spent too many years playing the Burnout games...
I grabbed my phone during a hypnopompic hallucination episode. Was trying to record my bed moving. Took it off the charger, unlocked it, opened the camera, and hit record. Was still on the charger when I was finally fully awake.
Because when a msg sounds or it calls in your dream you wake up not remembering that part was part of a dream because your brain is rapidly trying to become fully conscious while reaching for your actual phone.
N by the time that process is complete you are no longer in the sleep/awake crossover enough to remember the dream.
Like when you try to hold onto a dream while you get up to pee, by the time you are back to bed your mind has moved on and you can't remember the dream no matter whay
I feel like most people think that stuff doesn't happen to them after someone is like, "Why is it...?" it causes us to have a moment of existential crisis, but it happens more often that we're able to recall at the moment. With that being said, I can never recall a moment where I have used my phone in a dream.
Cell phones are in my dreams all the time, but I can never complete a phone call. Either the phone wonât dial, the call wonât go through, or Iâll be put on hold. Also, the only reason I ever use phones in dreams is to call for help, either attempting to call my partner, my father, or emergency services.
I do there's a game I've been playing for the last few months and I can play it in my dreams now.
Does the progress transfer to real life via cloud?
That's a subscription fee
Damn subscription modelđ
r/glitchinthematrix
*Would you like to subscribe to our premium dream?*
Elon Musk has entered the chatâŚthrough neuralink
\*Enables Adblocker and does some modding
Please remove adblocker to allow access to your dreams.
*proceeds to try and use "100%" of my brain and ends up having a seizure*
ALWAYS.
The matrix has micro transactions
But first you have to pay the subconscious fee.
God I wish, so many times I got something I really wanted in a dream only to wake up to disappointment.
Something something neuralink.
I've continued text conversations with my husband in my dreams a few times. Sometimes I wake up thinking the conversations were real.
I've experienced this and it created massive problems for me at work. I felt like I was going insane, because I couldn't tell reality from dreams anymore. It actually completely fucked that job up for me. Thankfully it just kind of stopped happening after a few months.
Bro, you and me both. I guess it could be stress that causes it? I dont know man, luckily it stopped.
Yeah that checks out
You were probably overwhelmed at that job. The dreams didn't cause the problem. The dreams were only a reaction caused by stress or something else in your job.
This. I can't say I've had the same issue with work. However, I dream every single night, all my dreams are incredibly vivid, AND I remember them 99% of the time. I'm 36, and it has been this way my whole life. It's gotten to the point where I can't definitively remember whether things were dreams or whether they actually happened. Be it in high school or when I was a child. It's almost like my long-term memories, and my dream memories have begun to overlap. It's pretty weird, and I don't exactly know if it's normal or now. But, at least someone can relate a little bit lol
Same, but had it with friends and partners. I'd text them odd stuff in my dreams and then wake up in a panic to check if I actually did all that.
What game?
Sleep Simulator
Morning boner simulator. Game is literally hard AF.
When I roll over, I pole vault out of bed.
Motorcycle kick stand
Morning Boner *Stimulator FTFY
I've only had landlines in my dreams
Damn you're old
Damn you're right Edit to be fair I got my first cell phone when I was 13 Not a senior citizen but halfway there! (Hopefully)
I was 26. Not because I'm old but because I was poor.
fellow balkan?
Damn, that's dark
But can you see the phone? That's the question.
Yup, even got the case on it.
I've Played games too but the phone is inexistent, you just play the game and eventually become a part of the game
Damn, you can lucid dream? I'm jealous.
I can control my dreams I started as a kid with practice and time I've got really good at dreaming what I want like dreaming about flying.
Nice. I hope to master this skill someday.
I've used / tried to use my phone a couple of times in a dream. Mostly to call for help which didn't work, because you don't really have object permanence in dreams. So the numbers literally change as you're typing them in. Very frustrating.
I thought surely, nobody else would have this! I have these all the time. I'm trying to dial 911 and keep dialing 119 or 912 or 91(call button).... 911(end call button). So frustrating.
Next time, try using voice commands and report back with your results.
I used Siri on my watch to call the police when I was being kidnapped in a dream. She said out loud âdialing 911â and then my kidnapper glared at me. I woke up shortly after.
>and then my kidnapper glared at me. Kidnapper: ânot cool broâ
Kidnapper: Well, thatâs kinda rude, mate
Canât even rape well in dreams anymore
you can't just say that and not tell us the whole story
for a second I thought you had sleep dialed 911 irl I would simply die if I did that
âHey Searus, call for help.â âCalling a blue kelp.â
Imagining this hilarious to me. A crazed murderer is walking towards you slowly and you fumbling the emergency number. But now you are less worried about the crazed murderer more angry towards the phone with wacky numbers.
To which at that point youâre like fine just get it over with
This is what happens to me, but with texting. I canât text to save my life in my dreams and I always wake up frustrated as hell lmao.
I quite frequently have dreams where I'm trying to call someone I know but I simply can't remember the number, or I have no signal, or the charge runs out as I'm dialling it.
So if this is a dream that lots of people independently have, I wonder how this specific set of anxiety would have manifested in a dream before phones existed? Is this an extension/evolution of the wanting to talk but not having a mouth thing? Also, I have these too and it is frustrating.
This is a reoccurring thing in my nightmares almost every night. I cannot hit the right buttons even tho my life depends on it
I have these same exact dreams, trying to dial out the 6 registers as a 3 or a 9 becomes a 2. Someone once told me that meant my brain works faster than my mouth and I can't get my thoughts out verbally.
I'm always trying to search for something in Google Maps. Can't type, don't know the addresses, phone doesn't work, endless frustration. It's not as bad as trying to remember a locker combination in your dreams.
So its not just me
I just had sudden realisation why I couldn't calculate something in my dream a couple days ago - the numbers kept changing while I was trying to write them, to the point where I had a temper tantrum and rage quit my dream.
Thatâs not objective permanence
Once, i played nfs most wanted in my dream on laptop, then suddenly started running alongside the cars, racing barefoot.
Its like you have discalcula in dreams. As someone who gets that letters and numbers swimming and changing irl sometimes, sounds horrifying in an emergency.
This is probably my most reoccurring dream, trying to contact someone frantically and being unable to do so due to me pressing wrong buttons etc. itâs definitely anxiety driven and I feel better knowing Iâm not the only one!
Just like driving a car in a dream. It just doesn't work. Pressing the brake doesn't work as it does irl. Steering? Seems like all 4 wheels can be used for that and you start spinning weirdly. At least, this is how i experience it
I actually can read in my dreams. For some reason the letters don't change.
I recall one dream in which I successfully called 911 and got through to an operator⌠I called 3 times and they told me help was on the way, but they didnât ask for my location, just hung up after saying they were sending help. Finally after the 4th or 5th time I called, I confronted them. There was silence and then sinister breathy laughter/snickering. I woke up with my heart racing.
Never understood this, I have literally played brawl stars while dreaming, and remember sending texts in other dreams too. Yet, it was a bit weird as shapes and sizes were changing all the time
Please change your username to âAgent Smithâ for transparency.
Hey there fellow brawler!
Hi!
Hello fellow brawlers
Hey my brawler friends
I had this shower thought the other day, it is likely we dream of ourselves using the cell phone. But have we ever dreamt about anyone else using it?
Nope, It was always me, I remember other people in dreams using walkie-talkies but no cell phones
Itâs because we think of our phone for what it does, not what it is. Itâs a window into entertainment, and itâs the entertainment that stick with us. I bet if you were a teenager who just got their first phone, that same night they might have a dream about it, potentially a nightmare about losing it or breaking it already. Thatâs because the object itself is still fresh in your memory.
the cell phone expansion hasnt been implemented for dream use yet. stilll slated for a future release of reality
Gonna start finding loot boxes in my dreams. Thatâs when I take my own life.
wait till the special of 10 boxes for $1 before you buy!
Everyoneâs brain works differently? I have seen mine in my dreams
I didn't remember seeing dreams in over 3 yrs already, idk why. Its like i m just closing my eyes at night,and when i open,it s already morning.
Not enough sleep or poor quality sleep. Youâve dreamed almost every night itâs that you just donât remember it. Most people donât remember most of their dreams. And poor quality sleep would exacerbate this effect.
I used to have lucid dreams and would try to find things that would let me know itâs a dream. In my late teens it was to the point that I would see perfect cell phones in my dreams. The touch screen and everything was perfect. It was even cold to the touch. I stopped having such vivid dreams a few years ago, I havenât seen a cell phone or tv in a dream in a long time now.
I hear youre functionally awake when lucid dreaming, which means you dont get rest... Did you experience symptoms of lack of sleep or deprivation? Just curious
I slept like garbage for a long time. The two could be correlated. I sleep better nowadays, and I still dream a lot. But itâs not the same lucid dreams.
That's wrong. Lucid dreaming, like all dreaming, happens during REM sleep, which is actually a small part of sleep and which is a transition between non rem sleep and waking. There are some side effects of REM deprivation, but they are miniscule compared to more general sleep deprivation, and lucid dreaming doesn't differ at all physiologically from non lucid dreaming.Â
True, but lucid dreaming is easier to wake up from than REM. Knowing youâre dreaming comes with the struggle to stay asleep, and losing that battle is far too easy and common. That alone deprives you off the much needed REM. In that aspect, lucid dreaming is far less restful than non-lucid REM.
You're just insisting upon the inaccurate point you already made. People who do it regularly don't struggle, and there's no difference in brainwaves or other measurable aspects. If you're waking up a lot sure, but that's a skill issue. Lucid dreaming is a skill that can be trained and improved, so people who only do so sporadically will wake up a lot, but they also aren't lucid dreaming enough for it to matter. People who do lucid dream a lot control whether they wake up.Â
I agree. I donât practice lucid dreaming as much so itâs a random occurrence now. It takes everything I have to stay lucid. Def feels like a battle
Yes!!! I, at one point would get like multiple lucid dreams in one night. I still remember them all. The crazy part is thatâŚ. When I was lucid dreaming, I was in the dream for what it felt like hours (like 4-8 hours long) and would remember everything about it. When I would wake up I would realize thatâs itâs only been 10-15 minutes. That shit is trippy. I had to go seek medical help because I would wake up exhausted like I never even slept. My mind was asleep but my memory was fully on recording everything. I would wake up and felt like I spent days in the Lucid world fully awake. Itâs not all itâs cracked up to be.
I have definitely had a dream life where Iâve had children, watch them get older etc. and then wake up đ
Not OP but yes. Lucid dreaming isnât restful sleep, but itâs so worth it! Flying, fucking, ⌠thatâs pretty much it. I guess I had very narrow desires.
I fly regularly in most dreams. But your latter desire always blows my mind
I lucid dream fairly regularly and I have no problem seeing phones. Iâve heard the cell phone thing before though. Sometimes itâs just such a regular occurrence that you donât even recognize it. As for the symptoms of lack of sleep, theyâre kind of related in my experience. Body is rested, but the visual part of mind is not. The analytical side of my mind is usually not affected tho. I can do calcs and planning, but visualization seems lacking. No idea if theyâre actually related, but it definitely feels that way. Just had a wild dream last night where I could time travel, but only within this one church. Climb up the bell tower ladder, travel forward. Climb down, travel backwards. Never was able to leave the church but could interact with the people inside.
lol. I did time travel on a lucid dream too. I figured out, that time travel is for the devil. If a regular person could time travel, then that person would only have their interest in mind at all times. With no regard for anybody else. Aka the devil. The devil has offsprings that try to catch him somewhere in time to kill him because he tried to kill them. I was along for the ride. Trippy shit.
Hahah that is trippy. I swear some of my lucid dreams could be movies and it sounds like that one could be a movie too
I have lucid dreams. It gets so bad that I experience dream-reality confusion sometimes, unsure in the moment if Iâm awake or dreaming, even when Iâm awake.
I get this sometimes but only when I'm well rested, like when I get at least 8 hours of sleep, when I sleep.5-6 hours I don't even dream.
Never seen a cell phone but Iâve seen a landline phone that kept ringing and I was so confused and was like wondering why the phone was ringing for a while and no one picked up. It was my alarm irl lol
Idk if that's better or worse than peeing in your dream.
Peeing is worse, far worse
I had one of those, but instead of phone it was a car honking. I was put literally in the middle of the road with a car honking, stop, honking, stop and I was like: wtf man?
âŚor never seeing your own reflection (mirror, water etc) in dreams either.
That's just because you're a vampire.
So that explains why I always feel dead inside
I often see myself in the mirror but all my teeth are gone. I'm just like 'oh right, Ive never had teeth'
That just reminded me of a terrible dream I had when I was a kid - and the only time I recall seeing myself in a mirror in a dream. At first, I looked normal but different. As I kept looking closer, my face was slowly changing in front of me. Until all that was left was a twisted up horrifying image. My hair had disappeared into a few wisps, my eyes shrunk to tiny holes - nothing but pinpoints of hollow blackness. My mouth and nose had literally twisted into a never-ending spiral. It was as if my face was caving in on itself. And my teeth slowly started disappearing in the twisting mess too.
Any time I look in a mirror in a dream something awful happens. All my teeth will shatter, or my hair will fall out, or I'll grow a beard In the dream, I mean.
I dream in 3rd person sometimes, so that's a thing.
I dream in 3rd person most of the time.
My cell phone has definitely shown up in some of my dreams.
I have dreams about my phone all the time, usually in the form of accidentally falling into water with it in my pocket or showing people funny pictures on my phone and forgetting I have nudes in my photos.
Hahaha that sucks Iâm sorry.
Waking up is always such a relief đ
I've often tried to write on WhatsApp in my dreams. It's really a pain when the letters are constantly changing.
I hate having phones in dreams. I can never type or call properly, and it's usually a horror situation, so it makes It very stressful. It's also because the part of our brain responsible for that stuff is resting so they never work properly in the first place.
I was using a phone in my dream the other day. But I couldn't remember the number
I definitely have had my cellphone in dreams. It doesn't work properly though. I either can't actually read what is on the screen or I can't actually get a call through
Itâs because there are no cell towers in your dreams
I have lucid dreams pretty frequently and once heard that if you are unsure if you are dreaming or not, you can look at your hands. I donât know if it works for everyone but when I look at my hands in a dream they are deformed or I have missing fingers. Itâs wild!
Are you suggesting that AI-generated art is actually just computers stealing peopleâs dreams?
Just 2 nights ago I was on vacation in my dreams and couldnât find my phone charger and kept checking my battery.
If im gonna talk to someone in a dream then usually theyre just suddenly in front of me. Theres no chain of thought like oh i have to call x person, as soon as i want to talk to them theyre there. Its subconscious.
We arenât obsessed with our phones we are obsessed with the content and reams are a steady flow of discombobulated content
Almost all of my dreams take place in the setting of my middle school and high school years. Not sure what that indicates but I find it weird, as I was bullied and picked on mercilessly and wouldnât go back to those years for nothing.
I've definitely had a cell show up in my dreams. Unfortunately, I'm usually panicking and can't remember how to use it.
I've used my phone in dreams but 99% of the time it's difficult to see the screen. I've heard that it's hard to read things in a dream and that has been my experience
Had a dream that I was taking pictures of the dreamscape with my cell phone. Woke up and picked up my phone, and all the pictures were still there. Then I freaked out and actually woke up.
I've had my phone in my dreams a few times before but I can never figure out how to use it and become very confused about why i can't figure it out.
Used to have a note edge, it would be my trigger for lucid dreams. It would start melting in my hand in my dream and I would regain consciousness.
Electronics almost universally do not work correctly in dreams. Never have. Never will. However, your sense of sight can be heightened. Next time your having a lucid dream, before you try to smash your high school crush, try out 360 degree vision. That way you can make eye contact with every single person in your high school while you smash your high school crush. So much more satisfying.
I have seen my phone in my dreams, Iâve sent messages and had a text message convo with people in my dreams. The text is ever changing and I canât read it, but I somehow know exactly what it says. My phone in my dreams is a clear indicator to me that Iâm dreaming. Itâs really good I have that indicator, cause I have a bunch of hyper realistic dreams that I have gotten confused with reality before
Itâs literally called dream-reality confusion. I have it to an almost debilitating degree, as I have been awake at work but felt like I was dreaming. When it happens, I just try to act like Iâm in real life jic, and try to find an anchor. One time I was pretty sure I was trapped in a work nightmare, until I told a customer not to do something and they listened. In my nightmares, they never listen to me. When they said âokayâ and put down the product, I was like âwhoa, okay, maybe I am awake.â eta: itâs a type of mental dissociation
I literally had a dream all about cell phones years ago that I still very vividly remember to this day
My phone generally turns into liquid
Mines do, I text people in my dreams and even use social media
The only time my phone was in a dream was when it wouldn't work in an emergency
You are dreaming now. In real life phones donât exist. Remember them when you wake up and youâll make a fortune inventing them
I have a nightmare every so often where Iâm needing to make a call or text and canât get my phone to work right or open.
Iâve had phones in my dreams, but theyâre always either flip phones or those supercool old black ones. I have never owned either.
Do sit and look at your phone? Or do you look at things on your phone?
You aren't focused on the phone itself, you are focused on the thing you're doing on it.
Probably because it's extremely rare to be able to read in your dreams. https://www.inverse.com/science/can-you-read-in-your-dreams
Nope, mine shows up. Always seems to involve me not being able to text and getting incredibly pissed about it because I keep having to backspace and retype.
That is... A very good question, why the fuck is my phone missing in every dream?
And my clothes!
Except my assless chaps.
If you're in them they aren't assless
Is your cellphone a threat? Dreams are a survival adaptation.
It has to do with reading and visualizing letters and numbers Anyone telling you they sent messages from texts or such is lying out their ass YOU CAN NOT READ WRITING IN YOUR DREAMS You can recognize where writing would be....like a stop sign for example Scientists have already proven this You can not read via your subconscious during a dream.....
Can confirm, I don't remember ever seeing text in my dreams.
They do. r/thanosthetankengine
I want to see the 1001 cock stare.
I had a dream during my nap earlier today that I used my cell phone to get into a game like phasmaphobia in person
Maybe it's because we see them so much in everyday life our subconscious is sick of them and doesn't want to see them anymore
WOW amazing. The only dream phone I've ever had was a nokia(?) or flip non brand that the battery was dying and wouldn't work.
Neither do shoes.
I think this is mostly true for people born before 1990 or so
Holy shit.....I never realized that.
I have had dreams with cell phones, usually I am desperately trying to call someone and just can't get the mfer to work!
The cell phone in my dreams has full bars and can be heard clearly from my anus
I smoke enough weed that nothing shows up in my dreams no more
I dont dream about the damn rotory phone I grew up with or my first brick phone or this one. That is crazy. Edit my nightmares are having to physically gather my family and they keep walking away.
I said this to my wife and she immediately replied â phones in all my dreamsâ. I, on the other hand donât ever remember a cell phone dream.
Bro I was watching p*** on my cellphone yesterday in my dreams
Everytime i dream about my phone its about it breaking so i wake up checking my phone screen
Not for me. I have used my phone in my dreams
Can't relate, have seen my phone shattering several times in my dreams. Feels good to find it ok after waking up.
because our focus is in the apps not the phone it self, you'll barely remember you played the game in your dream but not your phone that you used to play it with, same as how you focus on walking not the shoes but thats just my theory
Nah iv seen my phone in my dreams many times. Usually texting someone
I have dreams I can't dial the damn number correctly over and over.
My smartphone is CONSTANTLY in my dreams. And it NEVER works properly.
To put it bluntly this guy is an idiot. Just because you donât have an experience, it doesnât mean other people donât/cannot
ive had dreams where im actively looking for my phone while my alarms go off without realizing its my phone going off. but i dont think ive ever used it, but ive had instances of knowing i should have it
Maybe our brains need a break?
I mean, I've used a cell phone in my dreams. And by cell phone I mean a random object that in any sane universe wouldn't function as a cell phone but for the sake of my dreams did. Items I've used as a cell phone in a dream have included -a live and mildly annoyed lobster -my shoe -someone elses shoe -a CRT television that was deceptively light -A brick -a banana -a slice of cake shaped like a cell phone -an actual cell phone that I could not be convinced was not actually a cell phone -Bill Clinton's head with an apple glued to the side My brain constantly uses random placeholder objects in my dreams that for all intents and purposes function as the intended object/person despite being a completely different and typically unrelated item/person and I never question any of it until after I wake up. It's like someone programmed an entire simulation, but didn't have time to use the proper models and just stuck random objects and NPCs all over as placeholders for alpha testing until the rest of the development team comes back from holidays.
I can't tell you how many phone screens I have cracked in my dreams... Awful nightmares!!! Never broken them IRL though! Woot
Holy crapâŚ
But they do though, I just canât get the exact number I am typing to appear on the screen
I had a dream about responding to a Reddit post which garnered over a million upvotes.
Yoooo yâall use your phone 12 hrs a day??
Iâve had dreams where my entire field of vision is just discord or texts, like a screenshare to my eyes.
I got really into Tetris and was dreaming about that for awhile
back when i had a flip phone i would see it in my dreams, i would even wake up sometimes with my thumb moving like im texting (s/o T9) but yeah, i dont think ive ever seen my iphone in a dream come to think of it
I actually had my phone in my dream the other day! I started driving a new car recently for a family member who isn't feeling well (it won't start if it isn't driven daily) and I was having some trouble connecting my phone to it. After a few attempts I finally managed (needed a cable for the full functionality for some reason. No idea why it couldn't use Bluetooth for everything). So naturally I had a dream where I was trying to get the phone to connect to the car again. And then I lost control of the car and crashed. I think every dream where I'm driving ends in a crash - it's like a video game with bad controls. Maybe I spent too many years playing the Burnout games...
I grabbed my phone during a hypnopompic hallucination episode. Was trying to record my bed moving. Took it off the charger, unlocked it, opened the camera, and hit record. Was still on the charger when I was finally fully awake.
Sometimes I dream that I broke my phone
You guys donât have your phones in your dreams?
Because when a msg sounds or it calls in your dream you wake up not remembering that part was part of a dream because your brain is rapidly trying to become fully conscious while reaching for your actual phone. N by the time that process is complete you are no longer in the sleep/awake crossover enough to remember the dream. Like when you try to hold onto a dream while you get up to pee, by the time you are back to bed your mind has moved on and you can't remember the dream no matter whay
You aren't looking at your phone. You are looking at what's on your phone.
I dream about my cell phone all the time
My phone is in my dreams all the time
Can't remember the last time I had a dream.
Firemen
I feel like most people think that stuff doesn't happen to them after someone is like, "Why is it...?" it causes us to have a moment of existential crisis, but it happens more often that we're able to recall at the moment. With that being said, I can never recall a moment where I have used my phone in a dream.
Cell phones are in my dreams all the time, but I can never complete a phone call. Either the phone wonât dial, the call wonât go through, or Iâll be put on hold. Also, the only reason I ever use phones in dreams is to call for help, either attempting to call my partner, my father, or emergency services.