I couldn’t ever recall having a dream where I had a cell phone. Hell, I don’t think I communicated with anyone in those dreams outside of literally conversating face to face.
Yes, but rarely can I figure out how to use it. Whether it’s a text, email, or web site I want to look at, the keys don’t work the way they are supposed to or the keys themselves do not make sense.
Same. I’ve read that this is because that part of your brain isn’t functioning or something. I have no source. Just “I think I heard this once.”
I think it’s because dreams are “run” by the part of the brain that evolved in nature, and doesn’t access the parts of the brain we use to access much of anything we’ve invented.
Depends on the dream. Usually when I have a lucid dream, it’s mundane as fuck and just feels like being awake and I might talk on the phone or dream about memes. The wild, fun dreams don’t have anything like that.
Sometimes! I’ve definitely used it to make calls or check the time.
Thats interesting, If I really think about it I never have dreamt about technology at all.
Sometimes , but there are pop-up ads, and weird apps running, that prevent me from using it. Or I can’t switch from the app currently running to the app I want. For some reason, when I have my phone in my dreams, these are common themes.
I don’t remember actually making phone calls in my dreams.
Non-sleepers of Lemmy, RIP.
No.
This reminds me of another factoid - most people never write in their dreams. I wonder if there is a relationship.
I occasionally have/had dreams about writing tests. There’s almost always a problem with both being able to read the question and being able to write the answer! Lol
That’s how I make sure I’m dreaming - I look for anything written. Written words in dreams are always changing and illegible.
I have read many things just fine in my dreams, never had a cell phone though.
Yep. I have on several occasions had dreams about my phone having been taken over by malware or similar, the homescreen being changed to be full of junk apps, and being unable to uninstall them or take back control of the phone. Not pleasant at all.
I’ve never had a cell phone in a dream but I’ve dreamed about other pieces of technology like video games. Though in my dreams if I interact with something like a video game there is no abstract medium like a peripheral and screen through which I’m interacting, it’s like I’m transported into the game whether it is first person or third person.
Not really. I don’t call people not can I read in my dreams.
The only time that I remember dreaming with my phone, I was trying to turn it off, while its real life counterpart rung furiously.
I’ve dreamt some times with my desktop though. Such as:
- my cat pulling out the mouse from my computer, sitting in its place on the mousepad, and then meowing loudly (she does this a lot when she’s play-hunting)
- throwing potatoes on the screen, so I could get some French fries in return
- keyboard gardening: the keys were subbed with small pots full of dirt, some with small versions of plants. A lot of them were pepper plants and I was trying to cross-breed them.
No. Sometimes I have a computer in my dreams but it is usually useless.
I am my cell phone
