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Are you able to read in your dreams? (lemmy.wtf)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Suspicious@lemmy.wtf to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I ask because it's considered common knowledge that you can't but I regularly have dreams where I continue books I'm reading irl (they usually devolve into naritive nonsense over time and then sometimes to blank pages, but the actual text is definitely deciferable), text messages, computer screens, and road signs, in both lucid and regular dreams. Am I the odd man out or is it actually just something people say?

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[–] cerement 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you can read in dreams but there’s no “continuity” of what you’ve read – within the dreamscape, you think (or you tell yourself) you’re continuing to read a book you’ve read in real life

this lack of “continuity” is one of the main tricks of lucid dreaming – read something twice (ex. time on a digital watch (not an analog watch)) – if the content changes, you’re dreaming – the secret of lucid dreaming is if that change triggers enough frisson for you to “wake up” inside the dream without kicking you out of the dream completely

[–] Suspicious@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago

I'll have to try that next time I'm lucid, never noticed(as far as I remember anyway)