• newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
    273·
    2 years ago

    Completely false. They don’t show up in YOUR dreams. They definitely do in mine.

    You might just be bad at dreaming and don’t have vivid dreams. Don’t worry, you can train that

    • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I think this is it, some people don’t dream vividly and assume that’s how everyone’s dreams are.

      • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 years ago

        In the last few days, I have lucid dreams almost every night, but I also wake up midnight and then fall asleep pretty easily again so I basically use WBTB without noticing it. Still can’t control it and I really should start keeping a dream diary again. The dreams were incredibly vivid and I still remember actually walking and the feeling of touching things.

        Just today I had a lucid dream and looked at my phone to tell the time. Then I remembered this post and thought “ha, I can use my phone in dreams”

        I just always forget to stabilize my dream and wake up when closing my eyes.

        • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          Awesome :) I used to lucid dream all the time as a kid, it was amazing. It seemed to stop as I got older though I’m sure if I practiced I could get it back.

          My dreams are always incredibly vivid and clear, and long though. Last night my dream was over a week or so in dream time 😆

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Phone breaking anxiety, anyone? I have broken several phones by dropping them in my dreams. I got my first in ~2002 and I haven’t broken a single phone since then. I guess I just jinxed it, but still… I definitely dream about phones about once a year.

  • Jumpinship@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 years ago

    Not in regular dreams for me. However i used to habe a recurring dream where i accidentally broke my phone display every time. I thibk it’s because I was poor and broke my phone display a lot.

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’ve had many dreams where I’ve tried to use my phone but the display is all glitched out and distorted, or totally non responsive, or the battery immediately dies. Phones are never useful and always frustrating in my dreams.

    • crashbash111@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      My only guess for why my phone never shows up is that it just works. I never really drop it and I don’t spend much of my day on it. But I can understand if you drop your phone a lot why it might be popping up!

  • Wren 🪐@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 years ago

    I’ve definitely used my phone in dreams before. People have also said that you can’t read properly in dreams and that’s one way to know you’re dreaming (I was interested in lucid dreaming for a bit), but words look just fine to me when I’m dreaming

    • jiji@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      Same. I’ve had phones and text in dreams. Another trigger is supposed to be looking at a clock and it won’t look right but I’ve checked the time in dreams many times.

    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 years ago

      Well it really depends. When dreaming you mostly see what you expect to see. I sometimes can read and sometimes can’t.

      I can certainly say that my short term memory in dreams is really bad. It’s like you’re tripping balls on LSD or something. (at least in my experience. It might be different for you)

    • TheHighRoad@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      When I was around 8 years old, I lost a new issue of Nintendo Power in a Service Merchandise store. That may be the most aged statement I’ve ever made.

      Anyway, this was a very distressing experience for me; my disappointment and loss of hope sticks with me to this day. I vividly remember dreaming about finding it some time after. However, in my dream I recall flipping through the pages only to find garbled nonsense, page after page.

      This was actually more distressing to my confused, young mind. I don’t even try to read in dreams anymore, but maybe I should; it would be a dead giveaway.

      I still miss that issue. It was the Dr. Mario issue for anyone wondering.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 years ago

    I worked at a Verizon store for 9 years. I definitely had dreams about phones. Usually them getting wet.

  • Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve had dreams where I’ve pulled out my phone to take a picture of something beautiful that I want to remember and then I wake up upset that I didn’t actually take the picture.

  • dfirebug@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    For me I had a phone trigger a lucid dream because I noticed a small discrepancy. Guess that proves how much I’m on it.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 years ago

    The difference between dreaming of a book vs dreaming the story the book told. The phone is simply a medium, unless it acquires some other kind of association tied more directly to the actual object.

    My thought, anyway.

  • dyslexicdainbroner@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 years ago

    Mine just show up in nightmares, never in good dreams…

    I end up lost in a strange place with unknown people & can’t get a map, txt or call on the phone consumed with malware that looks like game images with no way to exit - I don’t normally play games on my phone.?.