It’s because it’s something constantly in flux. You don’t have an unconscious model of “a phone”, because you’ve changed out your handset so many times that you’re not inherently comfortable with the sensation. And because they’re information displays, they don’t form an unconscious impression.
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
receiving an unexpected call
They asked about dreams, not nightmares…
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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.
I had a flip phone in a dream once but all the text on the screen was Cyrillic gibberish.
I very rarely remember my dreams but I definitely do remember that once a long time ago I did dream of making a forum post from my smartphone. So the premise is not correct for all people.
I have cell phones in my dreams all the time. One of my most common stress dreams is that I can’t enter a fucking address into the navigation app
I was trying to buy a buss ticket while running thru a city and my password was 20 characters long and trying to enter anything is useless.
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.
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.
this is true. i remember been able to dream with my nokia 3320 back in the 00’s
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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No I dreamed at least twice in last month of being at the movies, and one of those wss last night. Also I can remember details of my dteams. Some of them a vivid months hell years later. Also I still remember in detail a recurring dream I had as a 5 year old. But for the first time last night I questioned weather I was dreaming or not. That what scares me most about my dreams, they feel fucking real when I am having them. I always wake up relieved when I wake up knowing it wasn’t real. But never noticed about not having a cellphone. But now that on my mind wouldn’t put it past my mind to conjure one up.
Back in the day, I would have AOL Instant Messenger windows pop up in my dreams.
Read this yesterday, went to bed, dreamt about phones.
Genuinely, i was just dreaming about a new phone i was looking to buy.
A void cannot pierce the immaterium.
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…
Yeah, it’s something like that for me too.
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.
It’s usually pretty explicit and on the nose. Not much room for alternative interpretation in many cases.
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/shitting the bed.
I kinda like the ridiculously nasty bathrooms in Morphée’s kingdom.
Iirc it means that you feel vulnerable irl
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.
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.
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.
Fat fingers
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)
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.
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i think that’s because of all the weed, but i could be wrong
That’s absolutely it. I was a chronic waker-and-baker for almost thirty years and never had dreams. I quit four years ago and now I have multiple intense dreams every night. I genuinely don’t like it at this point - I spend too much of my first few minutes awake each morning worrying about shit that never actually happened.
i used to be able to lucid dream (beating my sleep paralysis demon the fuck up with a thick bike chain was a special treat) but honestly i didn’t sleep restfully back then. been wake and baking for ten years and the occasional dream is neither deep enough to control nor invite the hat man. I’ll take it.
