Funny

When I was a ~10 year old kid, I dreamed about having an iPod touch. It was so cool to take pictures, play games, and look up information. I would wake up and be disappointed for half a day that the iPod was no longer in my hand.

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."

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

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.

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.

They literally do....

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.

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.

Heard somewhere once that dreams have a hard time with details. It's all loose impressions that your brain rapidly confabulates into experiences. It's why (supposedly) light switches don't work in dreams. If any of this is true, the same probably applies to other devices.

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.

This has nothing to do with the post, but I have had multiple unconnected people tell me I was in their dream and every single time I was eating fried chicken. So either I give off the vibe I love fried chicken, which is true, or I'm off wandering though my friends dreams watching their weird shit while eating some tasty fried chicken.

not on a phone but i've had discord conversations in my dreams before

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!

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.

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.

I want to know why I continually dream about taking a piss but never actually wet the bed. I mean, thank you bladder but jeez.

Actually, I'm a school bus driver and most of my dreams involve me fucking up badly somehow in my bus and waking up bummed that I'm going to have to find another job. I wonder if other drivers have this going on.

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 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 literally dreamt about using a phone tonight

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.

A void cannot pierce the immaterium.

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 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'.

Typically I can't read letters or numbers in my dreams.

All advanced tech is forbidden in that realm.

Speak for yourself, my phone is constantly in my dreams, and for some reason my alarm isn’t stopping no matter how much I try!

My spouse has a recurring nightmare including a Nokia 3310

People seriously don't see phones in their dreams? Unbelievable.

Phones aren't real.

I'm a xennial so very much grew up without cellphones at all, let alone smartphones. They occasionally pop up in my dreams.