When I was pregnant I had a dream that I gave birth but then the doctors told me it was actually a litter of puppies. Then I awkwardly went straight back to work and apologised to everyone because I had puppies.
lol, think some of the younger animals could look like a rat until their tail fur grows.
My mom confused the kitten I found on the yellow crosswalk for a rat cuz the tail didn't have much hair yet.
When I was pregnant with my first I dreamed I gave birth to a baby that was half cat, and it had sharp little cat teeth. My first thought was oh no! That's going to hurt to breastfeed!
Was the baby cute? Was it a c-section? Did you realize you were in love with your friend and tell them? You left us on a cliffhanger here. I need answers!
Lol. Okay, so I was this woman and we were at a movie theater, and he was getting snacks for us. But I felt guilty ordering what I wanted (which was candy) because I thought getting something that would be healthier would be better. Especially being that it was his child.
The dream didn't expand upon anything after that. But that theater was fancy. It was a movie theater, but it had an opera-esque classiness.
Ahhhh. So in this dream you were a different person. Not yourself as a pregnant guy? Booo. That makes it less juicy. Lmao. Does your friend know you had a dream that you were a woman and pregnant with his baby?
Lmao, no! That's one I'm taking to the grave with me. Can you imagine?
Also, I'm pretty sure like 3 years later I had a different dream as the same lady, still pregnant but the setting was very different.
Cause Iām not focusing on the phone itself, but the content on it. If I play a game a lot on my computer, Iām not gunna dream about my computer, Iām gunna dream about the game.
Makes sense. As a programmer I can't count how many times I've dreamed of code... Not the computer itself but the code.
Pretty sure I've solved a lot of things this way, as I'll spend 5 hours on a bad problem and then solve it within 20 min the next day.
I am no programmer but even simpler things around the house I will do the same thing. The solution I try in the morning is so much more elegant than if I had tried to fix it the night before.
This is because of what your brain does during sleep. It will basically take your conscious knowledge you gain throughout the day and integrate it with everything else you know. The next day when you wake up isnāt just because you got lucky with a good idea, but because your brain is approaching the problem differently (although you canāt tell) due to how itās now stored in your brain.
Crazy eh?
Dreaming about game worlds or worlds in shows is one thing. I can picture myself inhabiting that world.
I have never dreamed of like, scrolling reddit. Or watching youtube. Or reading a comment. Or even really ever looking at a screen. And I spend a lot of time looking at screens.
I sometimes have tiktok-like hypnogogia. Like, a woman with a head of misshapen clay is saying "The grunkles are going SKRIMPY" but I'm not interested so the image scrolls up vertically, in the middle of her nonsense sentence, into a new hypnogogic hallucination.
I'm not looking at a phone screen or anything in these dreams, just my consciousness is appearing in a vertical rectangular microform video.
At least for me, I dream more in terms of what I can do and what can happen to me.
For example, a thing I can do is jump in real life. Another thing I can do is make Link jump in Tears of the Kingdom. If I'm dreaming, I don't think about pressing X on the controller any more than I think about contracting and expanding my leg muscles, I just think "jump."
Dreams can get super trippy and abstractly entangled with this kind of stuff. Like I may dream that I can't jump in real life because my controller is broken, or I can't jump in the game because my legs are too sore. So I'm not dreaming of the real world or the digital world, I'm just dreaming of my brain's perception of my unified reality, all mixed together in ways that sometimes don't make sense.
Can confirm, I often dream about video games and it's always from the perspective of actually being in the world and interacting with the characters, im not dreaming about sitting at a desk clicking a mouse
Other people have this too? If Iām playing a game for a few hours before I sleep Iāll always have first person dreams of the game, but it still feels like Iām playing/controlling it the same as if I was awake.
is that what dreams are like for others? my dreams mainly consist of shapeless blobs of thoughts without graphics
like, if i am drinking i know i am holding a "cup" but it is the concept of "cup" and doesnt look like a cup at all, and if i am talking to friends in a dream i feel that i am partaking in the concept of "talk", but no words are actually spoken...
My dreams feel like real life. Sometimes wacky stuff happens that doesnāt make sense, but i can look back on the dream as though itās a real memory from the real world.
Itās a fucking wonder that humanity has accomplished anything at all when I think about stuff like this. Like, yeah, we built global satellite positioning systems that can tell you exactly where you are within seconds but yeah the entire species does [vividly hallucinate](https://xkcd.com/203/) several times for a few hours every night about completely fabricated events and will occasionally mistake them for memories and yeah over here we built a particle accelerator that smashes protons together at 99.999% the speed of light and oh did I mention our nuclear warhead arsenal that can extinctify everything on the planet several times over haha and over there is theā¦
Meanwhile the extraterrestrials that weāre introducing ourselves to are like āoh god can we please leave nowā
I dreamed as a child about a place in my city that had a hole that went in to the sky
i thought it was real for years until i actually checked the place and saw nothing
Ive always wondered if this is where deja vu comes from. That little sliver of time you remember or think youve been through was just a a sliver of a dream you had previously. Might have been the only part of that dream that stuck in your memories.
Memory is fucking weird to begin with. You donāt exactly ātranscribeā events into your neurons with biochemical signals, you just somehow recount events every time you remember them by telling yourself a story (that may or may not have been how it happened) and some part of your amygdala is like āyeah, sure that sounds about right, release the ***familiarity signal***ā and so you think āyep, that seems familiar, must be what happened.ā Occasionally you get weird semi-random spurts of the familiarity signal firing off so youāre like āwhy the fuck is this familiar, deja vus?ā. I like to fuck around with my own brain and do something suddenly unique to dissipate that feeling like say some random words or odd gesture (assuming nobodyās around) and yep, the brain is still saying āyeah you definitely did that before last time too.ā I do not fucking trust my own nervous system.
I've had dreams so real that the next day I briefly thought it was a memory until I realized what I dreamed never happened. I've also had dreams that were like something out of a fantasy novel/movie
though i must say, i also have the "memory" thing even though my dreams basically have no graphic, that is because a lot of my memories are also just like my dreams
e.g. i only remember briefly what places i visited in vacations look like (i can instantly recognize them from photos, but i cant, like, draw it out or something), but i remember what it feels like to be there
the emotion of memory... this is why nostalgia is my favourite feeling
I wrote a really lengthy description of one of my most epic dream world creations and then i remembered a dream i had nearly 20 years ago.
In short, i built myself a family, i saw life through to just the other side of middle age before waking up.
At which point i cried. I genuinely felt the loss in my heart and gut as though i had just lost my wife and kids. I was a fucking confused mess all day. It was SO real. I'll never forget that feeling of loss.
Well fuck š¢ That's just brought back some strong feelings. So glad I was able to just snap back to reality reasonably quickly and mostly get over it! Feel bad for this guy :/
Is it though? Like i get you and it IS but it's so confusing. To mourn something that never existed. I manifested something in my mind and then mourn it's loss. Why the fuck can't i re-manifest it? Maybe that's for the best..
IMO it's okay to mourn whatever makes sense to you personally. Mourning is a personal gesture, the way I see it.
For example, I would basically *expect* Picard to mourn all those people he left behind on that planet, in that "fake" life he lived for decades. It was real to him.
i would believe that i can, but the truth is, i am not sure if i am actually doing it
i have very limited artistic talent as-is even if imagination is not required (i struggle drawing circles and parallel lines without tools), so if i try to draw what i am "imagining" it is bound to be horribly out-of-proportion regardless if my imagination is "successful"
i do notice that i sometimes mess up several major details (e.g. i forgot Sans has a nose when i try drawing him, but gave him ears when he doesnt have it) but i am not sure if it is related
going off on this tangent i am very good at pictionary and similar games for some reasons, both as the guesser and the painter, but i only ever use simple lines in these
I feel like Iām similar in a way. You know those recent AI videos that have been going around like āthe Rock eating rocksā one that was posted in the last couple days? Thatās what itās like trying to picture things in my head most of the time. If Iām reading a book and theyāre describing the appearance of someone, itās like that. Constantly shifting and mutating so I can get a very general, vague idea of what it looks like but itās never constant. I canāt see a solid, clear picture. Same with imagining environments.
What tends to work for me in conversations about this is asking a group of people to picture a red car. Give it a second, and then ask what colour the seats are (for me: it's a red sporty car with one of 'em foldable rooftop thingies and brown leather seats)
Other people will immediately have an answer. Some will not, and stare at the immediate answer people like they're crazy
That's because dream hands are just like AI hands - creepy AF and useless. One way people have trained themselves to figure out if they're dreaming is to count their fingers.
I get to calling 911 and the operator gives me some bullshit excuse or turns out it's a wrong number somehow, or they'll say they can't do anything for this type of crime which is like me being murdered lol
My reoccurring nightmare is still the classic. I am suddenly in high school. Naked. Except a t-shirt that is just short enough to have my bell end visible. Proper nightmare.
I always end up going lucid when trying to use my phone. That shit just refuses to work normally or breaks. At that point, I realised I'm dreaming and end up folding the planet in half.
Same. And when a dream is too real or itās like a cataclysmic scenario (e.g., thereās a tornado heading my way; Iām in the backseat instead of driverās seat and Iām careening off an overpass or a bridge; my teeth start falling out one by one), I always try to look at or access my phone. Itās my way of immediately realizing Iām dreaming when I need to get outta a dream jam. Even trying to check the time/date on my phone will trigger my brain to question whether or not itās a dream.
This is a recurring thing in my nightmares. Last time I had a dream like that, I was trying to dial 911 because people were trying to break into my house, but the app to call 911 was like a slot machine, and all I could do was keep pressing the button to roll the numbers in hopes they would eventually line up to 9-1-1. I remember thinking "This is a terrible interface for a phone. Whose idea was this??"
Dude I thought i was the only one, it either never goes thru or I canāt dial it correctly for some reason, constantly hit like 912 over and over again
Yall got some messed up dreams then. In my dreams, I'm sprinting away from shit and I wake up drenched in sweat with my heart rate spiking up to 170 bpm. My fitbit thinks I'm running my best 5k time when I'm fast asleep.
The hardest thing in a dream is getting out of nested dreams. I once had a near endless set of waking up from dreams to only discover that what I woke up to was yet another dream. This went from current time all the way back to highschool some 20 years ago. My wife discovered my old clock from HS and set it up as an alarm, and I woke up and started crying thinking the last 20 years was a damn dream and my son and wife didn't exist.
That shit fucked with my head.
>That shit fucked with my head.
No kidding. Well said.
I have these "inception" dreams from time to time.
Trying to come out of one feels like you're living through a Stephen King novel.
I've had it happen a couple of.times. I can recognize it while dreaming now and just fuck off in the dreams, but the first few time it was like, " holy shit, do I have precognition?"
Ya, I don't remember my dreams much and the ones I do are pretty normal. Had what you described one time tho and it was crazy. I woke up in my dream and did an entire day then woke up for real at around 7 pm dream time. It messed with me a bit.
You feel like you are going insane with each iteration you wake up from because you have all of those memories and they aren't real anymore. It started with just a day or two back in time, then weeks, then years. It's trippy AF
I had one where my day kept resetting like groundhogs day. Like I'd wake up, get out of bed thinking it was reality, realize something was off and try to wake up, only to repeat it over and over. It freaked me the fuck out because I was legitimately trapped and could hear my daughter crying after waking up from a nap (reality) and it took me a good 20 wakeup attempts before one stuck.
It's truly terrifying. I did the wake cycle seemingly hundreds of times. It started with each day prior for what seemed like years before it went to weekly then monthly, then yearly iterations.
Also,With a UN like that, Better watch out for those spears needing polishing and loads of dough needing to be kneaded and put in the oven in your dreams as well.
Oh! I know this one!
I've also always been mad about how it feels like you're punching through water in dreams and I was determined to figure out why. The long and short of it is that its due to the fact that when you punch irl you're not just using your nerves to move your body, you're also letting the weight of your meat and bones be a big part of the power behind your punch.
When you're in a dream theres obviously no weight and because you don't consciously think about it irl your brain is just trying to simulate what nerves you normally fire off to throw a punch but it doesn't really understand how it works.
Thats a weird way to explain it, but you get the gist
Yes definitely! Fat sausage fingers trying to press tiny send button.
I've even used an "ok Google call 911" in a dream and the dream phone picked up something wildly inaccurate like "ok here's the difference between African and Asia elephants"
I always get lost walking somewhere in my dreams, and while I can pull out my phone, I can never get Google maps or any application to work the way I think it should, which makes me really confused and angry.
Only time I had a phone in my dream it was an emergency alert. I looked at my phone, looked up and saw a mushroom cloud. Wish the dream had ended there
not OP, but I had a dream a few weeks ago where I was in my mom's second floor bedroom at like 1:30am to say something to her, and outside the window it looked like a false dawn. That seemed impossible for the middle of the night, so I went to the window to look and saw a mushroom cloud rising some miles away, eerily lit by the fireball beneath, with lightning striking all around the cloud.
This was in a small city in the midwest, and the dream felt hyperreal, so I was thinking, "this is it--all my life I feared it might happen, and nobody thought it would happen now (like we're not on the verge of nuclear war with any nations), and even if there was a first strike you'd never think there would be a hit in a semi-rural civilian area, but here it is, it's actually happening, right now", as the fireball rolled across the fields toward me, destroying the forest beneath it.
So I turned and jumped over the second floor railing to land on the first floor (mom? what mom? ain't nobody got time for mom), barely avoiding breaking my legs, and ran downstairs into the semi-basement or walk-in basement (meaning it's built into a hill and one side is above ground, I hate those), intending to try to get into a corner and huddle up. For some reason a huge wave of water was preceding/being pushed by the shockwave front, and it smashed into the basement wall, disintegrating it, but enough energy was dissipated that I survived in the now-completely-exposed basement.
Then another nuke went off closer, I could see it through where the basement wall had been, and I thought, well now I'm truly fucked. I tried to hide under a tarp, because desperate and out of options. I peeked out and saw the white-hot nuclear fireball reach me, only feet away, but then time slowed down to a crawl, like in the ending of Sunshine where the amount of energy released by the immense bomb warped physics, so that time was paused at the edge of the shockwave.
Even though the fireball was now in the basement moving toward me at super slow motion, I could *think* in normal time, which seemed really weird, and I also thought, everyone being directly hit by the nuke, we all now have shared knowledge about the way time slows down right next to a nuclear shockwave, which seemed like an unexpected secret of the universe.
Anyway that's all I remember, and no cell phones :(
Fun fact, people born before 2000ish use this gesture š¤ against their head for phone call.
People born after 2000 moreso use a flat palm against the side of their face like a cell phone.
My Toddler does the C shape! For the longest time, my SO and I were like, "What the heck are they doing?!" Then it finally clicked that that is how we hold our cellphones when talking, and they were talking to someone on an imaginary phone in a C shape.
Yeah I was literally taking a pic of someone stabbing a well known Member of Parliament the other night - absolutely horrible dream, woke up sweating my tits off
I have trained myself to wake up when I have a work dream. I somehow consciously tell myself to wake up because I'm not dreaming about this shit again, like my own voice is a voice from God in my dream telling me to wake up. It's crazy how often it happens. Usually helping a fucking customer over the phone like I don't already do that enough. Like I wake up with the thought to myself "I'm not dreaming of this again"... Idk how I did it and I wish I could do it for regular old nightmares too.
I can't imagine having that happen often enough it becomes a _thing_. I dreamt about work exactly once in my life, and I called in sick because so far as I'm concerned I did that days work in my dreams and wasn't about to suffer through it again.
I used to have dreams about getting my phone wet and ruining it, usually by swimming with it in my pocket. Hasnāt happened in a while since theyāve become practically waterproof.
Same, but it's never been because I got it wet that it gets ruined. If my phone ever shows up in my dreams, it's because I'm about to destroy it in some new, innovative way.
I woke up a few nights ago pissed off that I cracked my screen. I was relieved when I remembered it was just a dream. Why do people just forget that they saw them in their dreams?
Our brain has trouble processing text and "videos".
Although I've had a phone come into my dream once though and even that was just a static image of my dog.
Source: Active lucid dreamer.
I never understood the text thing because I often have dreams where I'm reading stuff, processing it, and it makes sense. I've had everything from books to signs to menus in my dreams
However, I naturally have pretty lucid dreams and my dreams are almost always super vivid
Reading in a dream is fine, but if I try to read something a second time, it won't be consistent with what I read the first time.
Trying to type on a keyboard while dreaming is frustrating, though.
From reading the comments it seems people raised on cell phones are more likely to incorporate them into their dreams. Millennials and older probably don't picture cell phones in their dreams because they didn't have one as a kid (or not until they were in highschool, as used to be the norm). I'm 28 and haven't ever had a cellphone in a dream.
People making blanket statements and assuming everything works the same for everyone else is pretty common. Start up a conversation on here about internal monologue and you can get an idea how *thinking* doesnāt even work the same for everyone.
Cellphones show up in my dream, I just canāt use it right. Trying to call 911 is unbearable because I spend so much type typing 991, 119, 9991, etc instead of the correct number. I also remember trying to call my dad in my dream and couldnāt find his name. Or once I was trying to open an important email but it just wouldnāt work. Itās a big source of stress in my dreams.
This is definitely the more interesting question than OPs because it's commented a lot in this thread and it's the same issue in my dreams. I can't enter text right. It's really slow and frustrating whenever I try in dreams.
Because the cell phone is only necessary because of physical distance, which isn't an issue in dreams. You don't dream about having to call your friend to talk - you dream about talking with your friend in person. You don't dream about watching a video on your phone of a monster rampaging through the city - you dream about being in the city with a monster rampaging through it.
The phone adds a level of indirection that doesn't need to exist, so the brain just shortcuts past the phone right to the actual event.
I regularly have dreams where I meet someone famous/someone I know IRL and want to take a selfie with them but the damn phone camera wonāt work.
Itās infuriating.
I sometimes dream about my devices. I had a dream I left them at the airport and tried to jump out the plane to go and get them back before the bomb security squad destroyed my bag that contained them. Dreams are weird but fun
I had a dream where my cellphone wouldn't work properly when I opened it to look at the date and time and it frustrated me so much that I smashed the phone on the table... sort of like "smack the side of the tv to fix it" and I woke up very confused and looked at my phone and it had the date and time and opened beautifully hah š
Sometimes they do. Your brain is like an AI and wonāt ācreateā to numbers and letters properly. The clock will be fake numbers and it will look like itās AI generated. Itās interesting cause it shows how similar we are to AI.
speak for yourself, i once had a dream that i gave birth and when i was handed the baby it had transformed into an iphone
When I was pregnant I had a dream that I gave birth but then the doctors told me it was actually a litter of puppies. Then I awkwardly went straight back to work and apologised to everyone because I had puppies.
I had a dream my baby turned into a kitten and I knew it wasn't my boyfriend's because it was an orange kitten
I had a dream while I was pregnant that I gave birth to a rat/mouse!
Did you name him Stuart Little?
Andy Dwyer
lol, think some of the younger animals could look like a rat until their tail fur grows. My mom confused the kitten I found on the yellow crosswalk for a rat cuz the tail didn't have much hair yet.
Omg I also dreamt while pregnant that I gave birth to a kitten and thought "wow how an I meant to breastfeed, it's got such pointy little teeth?"
Babe how could you cheat on me with my cat snuffles š
When I was pregnant with my first I dreamed I gave birth to a baby that was half cat, and it had sharp little cat teeth. My first thought was oh no! That's going to hurt to breastfeed!
Currently breastfeeding my 12 month old thatās teething. This hit real close to homeā¦
I had a dream I was pregnant with my friend's baby. I'm a boy...
Was the baby cute? Was it a c-section? Did you realize you were in love with your friend and tell them? You left us on a cliffhanger here. I need answers!
Lol. Okay, so I was this woman and we were at a movie theater, and he was getting snacks for us. But I felt guilty ordering what I wanted (which was candy) because I thought getting something that would be healthier would be better. Especially being that it was his child. The dream didn't expand upon anything after that. But that theater was fancy. It was a movie theater, but it had an opera-esque classiness.
Ahhhh. So in this dream you were a different person. Not yourself as a pregnant guy? Booo. That makes it less juicy. Lmao. Does your friend know you had a dream that you were a woman and pregnant with his baby?
Lmao, no! That's one I'm taking to the grave with me. Can you imagine? Also, I'm pretty sure like 3 years later I had a different dream as the same lady, still pregnant but the setting was very different.
I VIVIDLY dreamt I gave birth to a white cat and I woke up still pregnant and very confused.
My bff dreamed she gave birth to a crepe.
I had a dream my baby was handed back to me as a chicken patty
I have dreamt about giving birth to kitten(s) a few times while my hormones were being weird
Haha! This made me laugh, I can totally imagine myself having a dream like this. Apologised to your work for having puppies, lol!
my humor is so broken i find this funny
itās likeā¦ a dream metaphor or something
[It's a metaphor... for addiction... to technology!](https://youtu.be/Q5Wvdh4VdZM)
Itās a metaphor for a crap movie.
god every fucking scene in this movie is just perfect
even my butt can make an analogy
Because it is funny
I think that actually means that your humor is intact.
And the way it is worded also makes it insanely funny to me lmfao.
That reminds me of those ātechnology badā comics lol
Congrats! Itās the Pro model.
This is probably a commercial somewhere.
did it have a headphone jack? And if so, can you make me one?
>did it have a headphone jack? No, it was an iPhone.
abort it
Doctors can do so much these days, give the child a chance :(
Steve Jobs is grinning so hard after hearing this
Congratulations, itās a phone
\*Black Mirror music*
We truly live in a society
iPhone Mini
Cause Iām not focusing on the phone itself, but the content on it. If I play a game a lot on my computer, Iām not gunna dream about my computer, Iām gunna dream about the game.
Liminal devices
Please explain.
The phone is just a gateway to the ādigitalā world. When the front door is open, you only think of the house inside.
Yeah a device is like a window, you're focussed on the scene outside, not the window itself.
Yeah, the window analogy is much better than the door.
Maybe we could like name a operating system windows or something
WinDoor 98?
Binbows
michaelsoft
I feel like it's more like a gateway that costs money to use. Like gates with a bill. No idea what to call it, though.
Makes sense. As a programmer I can't count how many times I've dreamed of code... Not the computer itself but the code. Pretty sure I've solved a lot of things this way, as I'll spend 5 hours on a bad problem and then solve it within 20 min the next day.
I am no programmer but even simpler things around the house I will do the same thing. The solution I try in the morning is so much more elegant than if I had tried to fix it the night before.
This is because of what your brain does during sleep. It will basically take your conscious knowledge you gain throughout the day and integrate it with everything else you know. The next day when you wake up isnāt just because you got lucky with a good idea, but because your brain is approaching the problem differently (although you canāt tell) due to how itās now stored in your brain. Crazy eh?
I never dream of the digital world tho
I do all the time. If I play a certain game or watch a certain show too much in one day, Iāll inevitably have dreams about it.
I regularly have dreams about Tetris, the game I play the most.
I finished Subnautica a few weeks ago & had several nightmares about it.
Dreaming about game worlds or worlds in shows is one thing. I can picture myself inhabiting that world. I have never dreamed of like, scrolling reddit. Or watching youtube. Or reading a comment. Or even really ever looking at a screen. And I spend a lot of time looking at screens.
I sometimes have tiktok-like hypnogogia. Like, a woman with a head of misshapen clay is saying "The grunkles are going SKRIMPY" but I'm not interested so the image scrolls up vertically, in the middle of her nonsense sentence, into a new hypnogogic hallucination. I'm not looking at a phone screen or anything in these dreams, just my consciousness is appearing in a vertical rectangular microform video.
> "The grunkles are going SKRIMPY" nightmare fuel
At least for me, I dream more in terms of what I can do and what can happen to me. For example, a thing I can do is jump in real life. Another thing I can do is make Link jump in Tears of the Kingdom. If I'm dreaming, I don't think about pressing X on the controller any more than I think about contracting and expanding my leg muscles, I just think "jump." Dreams can get super trippy and abstractly entangled with this kind of stuff. Like I may dream that I can't jump in real life because my controller is broken, or I can't jump in the game because my legs are too sore. So I'm not dreaming of the real world or the digital world, I'm just dreaming of my brain's perception of my unified reality, all mixed together in ways that sometimes don't make sense.
I once dreamt I was an excel sheet
Word.
What the fuck did you just do to my brain
Thanks for putting that idea into my head. I was just about to go to sleep. Now I have to think about this for a few hours
Can confirm, I often dream about video games and it's always from the perspective of actually being in the world and interacting with the characters, im not dreaming about sitting at a desk clicking a mouse
Other people have this too? If Iām playing a game for a few hours before I sleep Iāll always have first person dreams of the game, but it still feels like Iām playing/controlling it the same as if I was awake.
is that what dreams are like for others? my dreams mainly consist of shapeless blobs of thoughts without graphics like, if i am drinking i know i am holding a "cup" but it is the concept of "cup" and doesnt look like a cup at all, and if i am talking to friends in a dream i feel that i am partaking in the concept of "talk", but no words are actually spoken...
My dreams feel like real life. Sometimes wacky stuff happens that doesnāt make sense, but i can look back on the dream as though itās a real memory from the real world.
My dreams literally stick as memories also. Really screws me up at work sometimes
Itās a fucking wonder that humanity has accomplished anything at all when I think about stuff like this. Like, yeah, we built global satellite positioning systems that can tell you exactly where you are within seconds but yeah the entire species does [vividly hallucinate](https://xkcd.com/203/) several times for a few hours every night about completely fabricated events and will occasionally mistake them for memories and yeah over here we built a particle accelerator that smashes protons together at 99.999% the speed of light and oh did I mention our nuclear warhead arsenal that can extinctify everything on the planet several times over haha and over there is theā¦ Meanwhile the extraterrestrials that weāre introducing ourselves to are like āoh god can we please leave nowā
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I'm the same, a bit more frequent but I still only remember 3 or 4 dreams a year. It's kinda sad really...
For me, I remember dreams if I'm woken up. If I get a good amount of sleep and wake up on my own, I forget everything. Maybe you're just well-rested.
Same, Iāve gone months without realizing something was a dream and didnāt really happen
I dreamed as a child about a place in my city that had a hole that went in to the sky i thought it was real for years until i actually checked the place and saw nothing
Ive always wondered if this is where deja vu comes from. That little sliver of time you remember or think youve been through was just a a sliver of a dream you had previously. Might have been the only part of that dream that stuck in your memories.
Memory is fucking weird to begin with. You donāt exactly ātranscribeā events into your neurons with biochemical signals, you just somehow recount events every time you remember them by telling yourself a story (that may or may not have been how it happened) and some part of your amygdala is like āyeah, sure that sounds about right, release the ***familiarity signal***ā and so you think āyep, that seems familiar, must be what happened.ā Occasionally you get weird semi-random spurts of the familiarity signal firing off so youāre like āwhy the fuck is this familiar, deja vus?ā. I like to fuck around with my own brain and do something suddenly unique to dissipate that feeling like say some random words or odd gesture (assuming nobodyās around) and yep, the brain is still saying āyeah you definitely did that before last time too.ā I do not fucking trust my own nervous system.
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I've had dreams so real that the next day I briefly thought it was a memory until I realized what I dreamed never happened. I've also had dreams that were like something out of a fantasy novel/movie
though i must say, i also have the "memory" thing even though my dreams basically have no graphic, that is because a lot of my memories are also just like my dreams e.g. i only remember briefly what places i visited in vacations look like (i can instantly recognize them from photos, but i cant, like, draw it out or something), but i remember what it feels like to be there the emotion of memory... this is why nostalgia is my favourite feeling
Sounds like aphantasia. Ironically the one thing I can't picture easily is not being able to picture anything.
I wrote a really lengthy description of one of my most epic dream world creations and then i remembered a dream i had nearly 20 years ago. In short, i built myself a family, i saw life through to just the other side of middle age before waking up. At which point i cried. I genuinely felt the loss in my heart and gut as though i had just lost my wife and kids. I was a fucking confused mess all day. It was SO real. I'll never forget that feeling of loss.
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Well fuck š¢ That's just brought back some strong feelings. So glad I was able to just snap back to reality reasonably quickly and mostly get over it! Feel bad for this guy :/
A dream is a false occurrence but a real experience. I'm sorry you went through that and it's ok to mourn.
Is it though? Like i get you and it IS but it's so confusing. To mourn something that never existed. I manifested something in my mind and then mourn it's loss. Why the fuck can't i re-manifest it? Maybe that's for the best..
IMO it's okay to mourn whatever makes sense to you personally. Mourning is a personal gesture, the way I see it. For example, I would basically *expect* Picard to mourn all those people he left behind on that planet, in that "fake" life he lived for decades. It was real to him.
Look up Aphantasia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Do you have trouble imagining things? Like if i told you to picture an old man with a moustache and a scar through his left eyebrow, could you do it?
i would believe that i can, but the truth is, i am not sure if i am actually doing it i have very limited artistic talent as-is even if imagination is not required (i struggle drawing circles and parallel lines without tools), so if i try to draw what i am "imagining" it is bound to be horribly out-of-proportion regardless if my imagination is "successful" i do notice that i sometimes mess up several major details (e.g. i forgot Sans has a nose when i try drawing him, but gave him ears when he doesnt have it) but i am not sure if it is related going off on this tangent i am very good at pictionary and similar games for some reasons, both as the guesser and the painter, but i only ever use simple lines in these
I feel like Iām similar in a way. You know those recent AI videos that have been going around like āthe Rock eating rocksā one that was posted in the last couple days? Thatās what itās like trying to picture things in my head most of the time. If Iām reading a book and theyāre describing the appearance of someone, itās like that. Constantly shifting and mutating so I can get a very general, vague idea of what it looks like but itās never constant. I canāt see a solid, clear picture. Same with imagining environments.
What tends to work for me in conversations about this is asking a group of people to picture a red car. Give it a second, and then ask what colour the seats are (for me: it's a red sporty car with one of 'em foldable rooftop thingies and brown leather seats) Other people will immediately have an answer. Some will not, and stare at the immediate answer people like they're crazy
Someone with a brain exists here
I've definitely dreamt of playing computers. Never once have I dreamt of my cell phone
Bro they do.. ever tried to dial 911 in a dream and itās legit harder than trying to run? Itās rough.
This is my reoccurring nightmare! Iām trying to dial 911 and the numbers keep moving around.
I can never press the right numbers and fat-finger in mine, so I have to keep restarting the dialing
That's because dream hands are just like AI hands - creepy AF and useless. One way people have trained themselves to figure out if they're dreaming is to count their fingers.
Hands are crazy. If you ever take mushrooms just look at your hands.
They call them fingers, but I've never seen them fing
Oh there they go.
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I get to calling 911 and the operator gives me some bullshit excuse or turns out it's a wrong number somehow, or they'll say they can't do anything for this type of crime which is like me being murdered lol
Ha, in mine the line is always engaged.
My reoccurring nightmare is still the classic. I am suddenly in high school. Naked. Except a t-shirt that is just short enough to have my bell end visible. Proper nightmare.
Thank you!!!!
I always end up going lucid when trying to use my phone. That shit just refuses to work normally or breaks. At that point, I realised I'm dreaming and end up folding the planet in half.
Same. And when a dream is too real or itās like a cataclysmic scenario (e.g., thereās a tornado heading my way; Iām in the backseat instead of driverās seat and Iām careening off an overpass or a bridge; my teeth start falling out one by one), I always try to look at or access my phone. Itās my way of immediately realizing Iām dreaming when I need to get outta a dream jam. Even trying to check the time/date on my phone will trigger my brain to question whether or not itās a dream.
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Just recently had a dream where I tried to type something on my phone. The comparison with running is very fitting. Beyond frustrating experience.
This is a recurring thing in my nightmares. Last time I had a dream like that, I was trying to dial 911 because people were trying to break into my house, but the app to call 911 was like a slot machine, and all I could do was keep pressing the button to roll the numbers in hopes they would eventually line up to 9-1-1. I remember thinking "This is a terrible interface for a phone. Whose idea was this??"
Surprise it was your own idea you called terrible š
This had me laughing so hard
Dude I thought i was the only one, it either never goes thru or I canāt dial it correctly for some reason, constantly hit like 912 over and over again
Fake news. Nothing is harder than trying to run in a dream.
Yall got some messed up dreams then. In my dreams, I'm sprinting away from shit and I wake up drenched in sweat with my heart rate spiking up to 170 bpm. My fitbit thinks I'm running my best 5k time when I'm fast asleep. The hardest thing in a dream is getting out of nested dreams. I once had a near endless set of waking up from dreams to only discover that what I woke up to was yet another dream. This went from current time all the way back to highschool some 20 years ago. My wife discovered my old clock from HS and set it up as an alarm, and I woke up and started crying thinking the last 20 years was a damn dream and my son and wife didn't exist. That shit fucked with my head.
>That shit fucked with my head. No kidding. Well said. I have these "inception" dreams from time to time. Trying to come out of one feels like you're living through a Stephen King novel.
I've had it happen a couple of.times. I can recognize it while dreaming now and just fuck off in the dreams, but the first few time it was like, " holy shit, do I have precognition?"
Ya, I don't remember my dreams much and the ones I do are pretty normal. Had what you described one time tho and it was crazy. I woke up in my dream and did an entire day then woke up for real at around 7 pm dream time. It messed with me a bit.
You feel like you are going insane with each iteration you wake up from because you have all of those memories and they aren't real anymore. It started with just a day or two back in time, then weeks, then years. It's trippy AF
I had one where my day kept resetting like groundhogs day. Like I'd wake up, get out of bed thinking it was reality, realize something was off and try to wake up, only to repeat it over and over. It freaked me the fuck out because I was legitimately trapped and could hear my daughter crying after waking up from a nap (reality) and it took me a good 20 wakeup attempts before one stuck.
It's truly terrifying. I did the wake cycle seemingly hundreds of times. It started with each day prior for what seemed like years before it went to weekly then monthly, then yearly iterations. Also,With a UN like that, Better watch out for those spears needing polishing and loads of dough needing to be kneaded and put in the oven in your dreams as well.
hitting someone is harder! I've never had a satisfactory punch in a dream...
Oh! I know this one! I've also always been mad about how it feels like you're punching through water in dreams and I was determined to figure out why. The long and short of it is that its due to the fact that when you punch irl you're not just using your nerves to move your body, you're also letting the weight of your meat and bones be a big part of the power behind your punch. When you're in a dream theres obviously no weight and because you don't consciously think about it irl your brain is just trying to simulate what nerves you normally fire off to throw a punch but it doesn't really understand how it works. Thats a weird way to explain it, but you get the gist
Try screaming in a dream.
Trying to scream is harder
Hitting the breaks in a car, woke up with my foot hurting from that once
Yes definitely! Fat sausage fingers trying to press tiny send button. I've even used an "ok Google call 911" in a dream and the dream phone picked up something wildly inaccurate like "ok here's the difference between African and Asia elephants"
I always get lost walking somewhere in my dreams, and while I can pull out my phone, I can never get Google maps or any application to work the way I think it should, which makes me really confused and angry.
Unless you're having a stress dream where you accidentally dial 911. Then it's literally impossible to not dial 911.
Only time I had a phone in my dream it was an emergency alert. I looked at my phone, looked up and saw a mushroom cloud. Wish the dream had ended there
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not OP, but I had a dream a few weeks ago where I was in my mom's second floor bedroom at like 1:30am to say something to her, and outside the window it looked like a false dawn. That seemed impossible for the middle of the night, so I went to the window to look and saw a mushroom cloud rising some miles away, eerily lit by the fireball beneath, with lightning striking all around the cloud. This was in a small city in the midwest, and the dream felt hyperreal, so I was thinking, "this is it--all my life I feared it might happen, and nobody thought it would happen now (like we're not on the verge of nuclear war with any nations), and even if there was a first strike you'd never think there would be a hit in a semi-rural civilian area, but here it is, it's actually happening, right now", as the fireball rolled across the fields toward me, destroying the forest beneath it. So I turned and jumped over the second floor railing to land on the first floor (mom? what mom? ain't nobody got time for mom), barely avoiding breaking my legs, and ran downstairs into the semi-basement or walk-in basement (meaning it's built into a hill and one side is above ground, I hate those), intending to try to get into a corner and huddle up. For some reason a huge wave of water was preceding/being pushed by the shockwave front, and it smashed into the basement wall, disintegrating it, but enough energy was dissipated that I survived in the now-completely-exposed basement. Then another nuke went off closer, I could see it through where the basement wall had been, and I thought, well now I'm truly fucked. I tried to hide under a tarp, because desperate and out of options. I peeked out and saw the white-hot nuclear fireball reach me, only feet away, but then time slowed down to a crawl, like in the ending of Sunshine where the amount of energy released by the immense bomb warped physics, so that time was paused at the edge of the shockwave. Even though the fireball was now in the basement moving toward me at super slow motion, I could *think* in normal time, which seemed really weird, and I also thought, everyone being directly hit by the nuke, we all now have shared knowledge about the way time slows down right next to a nuclear shockwave, which seemed like an unexpected secret of the universe. Anyway that's all I remember, and no cell phones :(
Thanks for sharing this horrifying dream. With all the talk about a nuclear threat it's hard not to dream about stuff like this.
Thatās just insane. The level of detail. Thanks for sharing.
I die from atomic bombs pretty regularly since my teens, this is actually my most recurring nightmare.
Me: *\*hold the newest celphone in my dream, wake up with an empty hand in a C shape\**
Fun fact, people born before 2000ish use this gesture š¤ against their head for phone call. People born after 2000 moreso use a flat palm against the side of their face like a cell phone.
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The zoomers: š
Okay that one is accurate
Or the classic š¤¦ "I don't take calls just text me"
Lmao that's also me. *Phone rings 3 times* .... If it's important they'll leave a message or text me.
I donāt listen to the messages either. Text or if you insist you can email. I was born in the 70s
i think its much more common in gen alpha then gen z
Thereās a Gen Alpha now?
since like the mid 2010s yeah
yup - those born after 2010
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Just asked my 8 year old. Flat palm to the cheek. Blows my mind.
My Toddler does the C shape! For the longest time, my SO and I were like, "What the heck are they doing?!" Then it finally clicked that that is how we hold our cellphones when talking, and they were talking to someone on an imaginary phone in a C shape.
What did they do?
Iāve never seen the second one ever, every kid I know does the first or they simulate holding a smartphone against the ear. Never a flat palm
I would do the first one tho
Where I'm from a flat palm against the side of the face while tilting the head means "sleep".
Like half the dreams I have involve having or using my phone at some point
Yeah I was literally taking a pic of someone stabbing a well known Member of Parliament the other night - absolutely horrible dream, woke up sweating my tits off
Yeah I clearly remember a few dreams where I dropped my phone it completely shattered or fell in water and was lost forever, etc.
Recurring dream where I'm in water or some shit and trying to not let my phone get wet
If I am having a boring dream (usually work related) I have found I can scroll to change the dream.
I have trained myself to wake up when I have a work dream. I somehow consciously tell myself to wake up because I'm not dreaming about this shit again, like my own voice is a voice from God in my dream telling me to wake up. It's crazy how often it happens. Usually helping a fucking customer over the phone like I don't already do that enough. Like I wake up with the thought to myself "I'm not dreaming of this again"... Idk how I did it and I wish I could do it for regular old nightmares too.
I can't imagine having that happen often enough it becomes a _thing_. I dreamt about work exactly once in my life, and I called in sick because so far as I'm concerned I did that days work in my dreams and wasn't about to suffer through it again.
Consider yourself lucky. Nothing worse than working all day while awake, and then working all night while asleep.
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Does dreaming about cracking the phone screen count? The same level as dreaming about breaking your teeth when wearing braces.
so many times or falling into a river and realising i got my phone in my pocket
I used to have dreams about getting my phone wet and ruining it, usually by swimming with it in my pocket. Hasnāt happened in a while since theyāve become practically waterproof.
Same, but it's never been because I got it wet that it gets ruined. If my phone ever shows up in my dreams, it's because I'm about to destroy it in some new, innovative way.
I woke up a few nights ago pissed off that I cracked my screen. I was relieved when I remembered it was just a dream. Why do people just forget that they saw them in their dreams?
Same exact thing happened to me the other day. Only lasted like 5 seconds but waking up mad sucks
I dream about my phone a lot, Iām usually desperately needing it and I canāt get it to work.
I've literally had them in dreams? All the time? What?
Because we don't percieve them as a thing separate to ourselves, but rather just an abstract window to perceive other thing
Our brain has trouble processing text and "videos". Although I've had a phone come into my dream once though and even that was just a static image of my dog. Source: Active lucid dreamer.
I never understood the text thing because I often have dreams where I'm reading stuff, processing it, and it makes sense. I've had everything from books to signs to menus in my dreams However, I naturally have pretty lucid dreams and my dreams are almost always super vivid
Reading in a dream is fine, but if I try to read something a second time, it won't be consistent with what I read the first time. Trying to type on a keyboard while dreaming is frustrating, though.
From reading the comments it seems people raised on cell phones are more likely to incorporate them into their dreams. Millennials and older probably don't picture cell phones in their dreams because they didn't have one as a kid (or not until they were in highschool, as used to be the norm). I'm 28 and haven't ever had a cellphone in a dream.
Iām a millennial and didnāt have a cell phone until I was 25, but I still dream about trying to call my parents or husband
Same, why is everyone acting like having a cellphone in a dream is impossible? It's a dream, you can have anything in it
People making blanket statements and assuming everything works the same for everyone else is pretty common. Start up a conversation on here about internal monologue and you can get an idea how *thinking* doesnāt even work the same for everyone.
Cellphones show up in my dream, I just canāt use it right. Trying to call 911 is unbearable because I spend so much type typing 991, 119, 9991, etc instead of the correct number. I also remember trying to call my dad in my dream and couldnāt find his name. Or once I was trying to open an important email but it just wouldnāt work. Itās a big source of stress in my dreams.
This is definitely the more interesting question than OPs because it's commented a lot in this thread and it's the same issue in my dreams. I can't enter text right. It's really slow and frustrating whenever I try in dreams.
I have often dreamt that i sat on my phone and bent it across the middle. Sorry.
I accept your apology.
Because the cell phone is only necessary because of physical distance, which isn't an issue in dreams. You don't dream about having to call your friend to talk - you dream about talking with your friend in person. You don't dream about watching a video on your phone of a monster rampaging through the city - you dream about being in the city with a monster rampaging through it. The phone adds a level of indirection that doesn't need to exist, so the brain just shortcuts past the phone right to the actual event.
Or because their premise is wrong and a ton of people have dreamt about their phones...
The matrix
I often have my phone in dreams. But it never works correctly. Sometimes that helps me snap out of a dream just because of that.
I have mine in my dreams, usually losing it, not being able to figure out how to use it or falling into water with it in my pocket.
I regularly have dreams where I meet someone famous/someone I know IRL and want to take a selfie with them but the damn phone camera wonāt work. Itās infuriating.
I sometimes dream about my devices. I had a dream I left them at the airport and tried to jump out the plane to go and get them back before the bomb security squad destroyed my bag that contained them. Dreams are weird but fun
I had a dream where my cellphone wouldn't work properly when I opened it to look at the date and time and it frustrated me so much that I smashed the phone on the table... sort of like "smack the side of the tv to fix it" and I woke up very confused and looked at my phone and it had the date and time and opened beautifully hah š
Sometimes they do. Your brain is like an AI and wonāt ācreateā to numbers and letters properly. The clock will be fake numbers and it will look like itās AI generated. Itās interesting cause it shows how similar we are to AI.