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i often have a dream of an android virus on my phone stealing all my money and data
Dumb. Mine was in my dream last night. I remember teaching my son to set a PIN instead of using Apple Face. If I remember, in the dream, he spent a lot of time making funny faces at me.
Have them pop up, but they work extremely erratically. Mostly pop up in the context of reading a single text, which changes if I think to look at it again (rare).
Buttons do whatever they feel like (mostly nothing or stuck keys producing garbage text), and I don’t think I’ve made or received a phone call (can’t say this for landlines when they show up).
Idk man, dreams are weird.
I saw this when it was originally posted in 2023 and it stuck with me like yeah, why don’t I dream about using my phone. Maybe it’s because they are an extension of something else I’m doing or maybe I just don’t remember.
And then one day did dream of struggling to use my phone and then in the dream itself I realized this was a dream and I was using a damn phone so the original assumption was wrong. I do dream about it, I just never think about it enough to remember. But when I started to think about it now I remembered.
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.
While we’re sleeping different parts of our brain is essentially idle and unresponsive. During the dream phase (REM sleep) there’s still multiple parts that are unresponsive even as the dreaming part is active. And everything we do that’s almost fully handled by a certain part of our brain won’t work in dreams when that part is idling.
The things that works but acts weird in our dreams is partially controlled by an idling part of our brain, but our dreaming part of the brain has a separate redundant model of that thing, but it isn’t complete (see: complex movement, etc)
not on a phone but i’ve had discord conversations in my dreams before
I’ve had at least a dozen dreams of trying to text someone during an emergency and I’m unable to do so. I keep fat fingering the buttons and it won’t send.
i have the same thing, it always scares me. i feel like it will happen in real life one day
I’ve had that dream many times! I cant recall it super specifically right now but funny enough, I think it’s typically a landline keypad I’m screwing it up on for some reason.
Ah, I’m sorry. That sounds anxiety-inducing.
Dreams are usually pure anxiety for me. Do people actually have enjoyable ones?
Yes, the sex ones
That’s about where I am. I commonly have a phone in my dream, but I can never type words properly.
I don’t remember many dreams, but I also don’t recall dreaming about computers or TV much.
Maybe brains just have a hard time hallucinating user interfaces.
That just got me thinking - you know how you can’t read in dreams? You might be able to glance at something and go “yeah that’s Exit sign”. But if you really try to concentrate on reading something it’s just a bunch of jibberish.
We’ve always written this off as different parts of your brain being responsible for dreaming and reading. But now that we’ve advanced our technology enough, it seems like maybe our dreams are just being created by some shitty AI.
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this is true. i remember been able to dream with my nokia 3320 back in the 00’s
I have them constantly make an appearance and it’s always a situation where I desperately need to contact someone and I can’t hit the right button. It’s so frustrating.
I regularly have dreams where I’m trying to use a smartphone but can’t do anything because I can’t read the screen and Pacific because it feels like I’ve been hacked.
My vape also regularly falls apart in dreams, and back when I smoked lighters never worked.
I think that the part of our brain that processes these mechanics are shut down when we sleep, so when our dream self tries to use them they just don’t function.
Could come into play where punching in a dream is impossible and running is difficult.
I ain’t no brain doctor, or nothin’.
My dreams are usually pretty communicative and applicable to things going on in my life. Glasses breaking when I was starting to have a drinking problem, bombing theatrical performances when I wasn’t acting authentically in my relationships, etc.
Not saying it’s applicable for every dream, but I think our unconscious mind is pretty communicative with us when it has something to say.
Glad someone’s dreams actually have meaning. Mine make no sense and I forget most of them by the time I wake up. The best I can hope for is getting a few seconds of lucid dreaming where I can can fly around for a bit until the dream ends (whenever the lucid thing happens, the dream seems to fall apart and I have trouble keeping myself from waking up).
I’ve tried flying many times before. The first attempts are more like jumps. Right when I feel like I’m flying, I get excited. Waking myself up dissapointed. Really dissapointed…
Was that meaning there or did you apply it post facto?
With confirmation bias it is easy to apply meanings to things that aren’t necessarily there.
I’m a xennial so very much grew up without cellphones at all, let alone smartphones. They occasionally pop up in my dreams.
had a dream recently where i was trying to take someones details in my phone but it wouldnt load the app and the keyboard kept fucking up as they were getting impatient with me. thanks brain, you son of a bitch.
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.
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 🤓
Read this yesterday, went to bed, dreamt about phones.
Genuinely, i was just dreaming about a new phone i was looking to buy.
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!
That’s your brain trying to stop you from pissing/hitting the bed.
I kinda like the ridiculously nasty bathrooms in Morphée’s kingdom.
Iirc it means that you feel vulnerable irl
