• DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    10 minutes ago

    People can dream of phones but the ability to read language while dreaming depends on where that language processing routes through the brain as it is different for different people. Most commonly people cannot read in dreams. Being able to write in dreams is even more rare.

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    29 minutes ago

    They feature in my dreams on an infrequent basis. They never work, though. I’ve never made a successful call on a cell phone in my dreams, ever. I suspect that means something, but I don’t know what.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
    14·
    3 hours ago

    Sometimes I dream that I have to call 112 but can’t. I type 111… clear… 122… clear… 111… clear… 1112… clear… Brain definitely has issue with maintaining a consistent state of UI in dreams. Even watches don’t work. Every time you check the time it will be different.

    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I have had that one often even with landlines.

      Last night I dreamt the icons on my home screen were scrambled. To make matters worse, there was a transparent vertical Windows style taskbar overlaid with its own icons and I could not find the icon/app I wanted.

      Yes Windows and phone in the one nightmare! Could have been worse: a clippy AI 🤓

  • Slovene@feddit.nl
    8·
    3 hours ago

    I don’t need a phone in my dreams. What I need is a god damn clean toilet so I can finally sit down and poop and pee!

  • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    3 hours ago

    Because dreams don’t exist anymore. I haven’t had a dream in years, and since anything I experience is universal that means everyone else is just lying about having dreams, and that’s why there aren’t phones aren’t in dreams.

    • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      5 hours ago

      I have a recurring stress dream about needing to type a message urgently on my phone and the touch screen keyboard not registering any of the right letters.

      I miss physical keyboards.

      • squaresinger@lemmy.world
        7·
        4 hours ago

        It’s similar for me too, but a bit broader. My brain apparently can’t convincingly simulate any digital user interfaces. No PC, phone or anything else like that works correctly in my dreams.

        It’s actually one of the most consistent ways I have to figure out that I am currently dreaming.

        • turtlesareneat@discuss.onlineEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          My dreams managed to conjure my Mac login screen which, pretty impressive. Let me try to log in for quite a while as my panic increased.

          • squaresinger@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Yeah, that’s mostly what happens in my dreams. I need to call someone, but the keyboard of the phone doesn’t work correctly, or only the last 1-2 digits stay on screen. Or I need to login and the keyboard doesn’t work correctly.

            I think, I just don’t have enough space to keep that many things consistently in memory at the same time without forgetting something.

  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
    161·
    6 hours ago

    Funny thing is that despite being on my PC all the time (literally, if I don’t eat, sleep or shit I am in front of my PC) I very rarely dream of computers.

    Last dream I rember was me standing somewhere I don’t recognize and watching a bridge collapse lmao.

    • Sabata@ani.social
      1·
      23 minutes ago

      I almost never dreamnof the computer but game dreams are common. Its like fully immersed with what’s would be on screen without the computer being in the situation.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 hours ago

      There was a bridge I used to drive over on my way to and from work every day. It was a very tall bridge and I’ve always been terrified of heights. Every day when I drove over it, especially when traffic was bad enough that I’d be stuck in the middle of it and could feel it swaying, I’d just stick to the lane farthest from the sides and maintain a mantra of it’s safe, it’s huge, it’s going to be here forever, don’t be afraid. (Also there was a cool abandoned military base that was visible from it and I’d look at that to distract myself when my mantra wasn’t enough.)

      Anyway, I still have the same job but have moved hundreds of miles away from there. After I did so, a ship hit one of the supports for that bridge and caused several people to live through exactly the unlikely event I dreaded happening every day during my daily commute. Now I don’t ever drive on a bridge over anything bigger than a small river or even creek and, though it’s unrealistic to expect this to be fulfilled, hope never to again.

      • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 hours ago

        Ah, the Key Bridge going to/from Dundalk, MD?

        Man, I used to use that bridge all the fucking time. Got my first speeding ticket on that bridge.

        Even though I don’t live in MD anymore, it’s still trippy to think about that just not existing anymore. Super tragic situation all around.

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 hours ago

          That’s the one. Other than the speeding ticket part, every word of this could have been written by me.

          (My first speeding ticket was on 40, coming from Delaware to Maryland)

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      I think it’s because a PC is simply an interface, the stuff on screen is the bit that gets remembered. That and maybe the stuff shown is much more engaging for most brains.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      3 hours ago

      I have dreamt a few times about having majorly messed up something while putting my computer back together (it was implicitly dismantled before the dream started). Then I wake up in the night to realise that it was a dream and the PC is still in working condition.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I was a little kid when I dreamt of a translucent phone with buttons that could reposition (that was before I saw touchscreens) all over the front surface.

  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    8 hours ago

    My cell phone is in my dreams all the time. Usually I’m trying but failing to make or send text messages or phone calls.

    It’s when I succeed in my dream that I wake up in a panic and check my phone to make sure that I didn’t actually carry it out in real life. So far so good.

      • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
        2·
        7 hours ago

        As teenager I’ve once been in the “I received a weird text from you last night” situation. Never happened again in the 20 years since then, it still gives me a weird feeling when I’m at a hotel without a proper nightstand and I have to keep the phone in my bed for the night.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    692·
    12 hours ago

    I don’t personally spend much of my day thinking at all about my phone. It’s an extension to get to what matters, like my family, or completing a task. I don’t ever think “I’m looking at my smartphone” as much as “I’m talking to my sister” and “I’m using the Bank’s app.”

  • Nate@piefed.alphapuggle.devEnglish
    49·
    11 hours ago

    I get phones in my dreams all the time. Usually checking the time and being late to get up. Sometimes the horror of receiving an unexpected call

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 hours ago

        Well that my secret all my dreams are nightmares, do people have pleasant dreams? My are either straight up unnerving nightmares or a weird crazy mess that makes no sense. Also they jump from one scene to other. Sometimes they are hard to keep together. What I don’t understand is for most people dreams are supposed to fade away after waking. But for me a lot of them I can hold onto for fucking years in vivid detail. And if I concentrate hard enough when I go to bed can revist some. But that part is rare.

        Dreams fascinate me and I will ponder over mine for days or weeks. The only dreams that make sense are the smoking dreams. I am ex smoker and I will have the occasional dream of picking up a pack of cigarettes and smoking. They say that is just par for the course for addicts. Sad thing I hear that one doesn’t ever go away.

        But the rest of my dreams cant gst handle on them. But none of them are good or pleasant.

  • finitebanjo@piefed.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 hours ago

    Anything that involves dexterity or hand movements generally don’t show up in dreams. Thats why fighting in your dreams feels like a numb slap fight.