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Can you read inside your dreams?

I always here people claim that it is impossible, but when I read in a dream it seems as thought I am actually reading and not just thinking.

So...can you dream read?

Several times. Once, there was a sign in my dream, it said "Danger: Mine field* When I stepped into the area, a mime popped up. When I looked back at said saign, it was purple and read: "Danger: MIMEfield" The mime killed me with an invisible gun. Strange dream. *Blinks twice*

I was reading in my dream last night. It was memory because it was books I've read before but the odd thing is that I was using hypodermic syringes as bookmarks, I have a huge fear of needles.

Several times. Once, there was a sign in my dream, it said "Danger: Mine field* When I stepped into the area, a mime popped up. When I looked back at said saign, it was purple and read: "Danger: MIMEfield" The mime killed me with an invisible gun. Strange dream. *Blinks twice*

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Er... I think - THINK - you can read if it's short sentences.

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Er... I think - THINK - you can read if it's short sentences.
Actually, I can read my own post! :eek: :p.

Yeah, I know, not what you mean. Still, I think people can read in their dreams.

I've read in dreams, but then had the experience of having it become gibberish or, if I reread, having it change as I read it.

Sometimes, if I fall half asleep while reading, my brain will make shit up to continue the story.

My dreams are the only place where I can read. :(

My dreams are the only place where I can read. :(

Muahhaaha!

Illiterate fool!

*hopes this isn't New Limacon's dream*

Muahhaaha!

Illiterate fool!

*hopes this isn't New Limacon's dream*
If you don't start being nicer, I'll wake up.

Can you read inside your dreams?

I always here people claim that it is impossible, but when I read in a dream it seems as thought I am actually reading and not just thinking.

So...can you dream read?

I can but I have to know the person and a little bit of their background and history in order to make it accurate. Dream reading is something my friends and I do when hanging out. We just talk about dreams and ask each other what we think they mean.

Due to the nature of dreams being what they are--your brain's defragmentation routine, essentially--any text is almost always hopelessly jumbled and will never remain the same unless you're lucid dreaming.

And if you're lucid dreaming, why the hell are you wasting your time reading?

If you don't start being nicer, I'll wake up.

Uhm..
*thinks fast*

*takes off clothing*

who READS in their dreams. My dreams are usually an orgy of sex and violence...with superpowers...

Can you read inside your dreams?

I always here people claim that it is impossible, but when I read in a dream it seems as thought I am actually reading and not just thinking.

So...can you dream read?

For most people dreaming and reading are mutually exclusive. By the time you're conscious enough to make the effort to read in your dream you're usually waking up. I've made the effort once or twice and usually the page I read never says the same thing twice and all I get for my efforts is waking up in the middle of the night.

Add to this the fact that when you remember your dream you're not really remembering most of it. You're making it up after the fact. That's why its so hard to remember your dreams after you wake up. Most of what you think happened, didn't happen. That's what's going on when you suddenly find yourself in the situation that you dreamed you were in last night. Some of the details are kind of similar and your brain fills in the rest and tells you "this is what I dreamed last night."

It's probably also what's going on when you dream that you read something. You know what you were dreaming the same way that you know where you are and who the various unfamiliar characters are. You're making it all up, including the content of what you dream you're reading and the experience of having read it.

who READS in their dreams. My dreams are usually an orgy of sex and violence...with superpowers...

Dreams about sex, violence and superpowers aren't usually about sex, violence, and superpowers. You're dreaming about your narcissistic psychic isolation from those around you. The sex is your desire to connect with your fellow human beings in a genial fashion and the violence is you lashing out in the pain of your inability to do so. The super-powers is your ego's effort to console itself for its self-imposed isolation. ;)

Now if you were dreaming about picking carrots from the garden and then washing them to make soup... then you'd be a dirty whore.

When I was in college, I read in my dreams regularly, usually right around finals time when I was doing a lot of cramming, then History, Calculus and Economics would all mesh together in a large book.

Oh, yes -- I've read alternate versions of Romance of the Three Kingdoms more than once...

Sometimes, if I fall half asleep while reading, my brain will make shit up to continue the story.

I love that. The end of the chapter's always a lot more boring when you wake up.:p

I've read in dreams, but then had the experience of having it become gibberish or, if I reread, having it change as I read it.
I've done this in dreams.

Sometimes, if I fall half asleep while reading, my brain will make shit up to continue the story.
I've done this in dreams, too. However, I'm not sure if I keep "reading" the story, or if I'm hearing the made-up words in my head. I did once fall half asleep while reading a magazine and my mind shifted from reading the printed words to turning the page's photo of a celebrity getting out of a car into a video of the celebrity getting out of the car and going into a theater.

When I was in college, I read in my dreams regularly, usually right around finals time when I was doing a lot of cramming, then History, Calculus and Economics would all mesh together in a large book.
Similar experience: When I was working as a proofreader/editor, I sometimes would dream that I was still doing it/still at work. I guess it was more of a work dream, but the job involved reading.

Also, not really related but still, I taught myself to drive a car over the course of several separate/different dreams. :)

I've read in dreams, but then had the experience of having it become gibberish or, if I reread, having it change as I read it.

^ This.

The funniest thing is when you're sleep-reading, but in that almost-awake state where you're aware you're dreaming and can remember what you've "read." It really is absurd gibberish - words which seem important and meaningful in themselves, but make no sense when connected to the other words.

read inside my dreams? i do it all the time.

ok, not every dream, but yes i can read things like readouts and computer displays. i don't recall ever sitting down to read a book in one of them.

but there was a series of college level classes i took in a sequence of dreams where i actually had to answer essey type questions on the tests, read them and did so. even got a halfway decent grade on them.

of course i've also had dreams where i wanted to read something and it kept blurring out on me. i suppose that's more often the experience more people take with them back into this universe from the one they dream in.

but conversely for me, that is the less often situation.

your subconscous does something in your dreams a little like game mastering in roll playing games, and sometimes, what the dream is about, being able to read something might take you in a direction other then what its trying to point out to you. that's where the not being able to read something in them comes about. and since there's a frustration element to that, i think thats why people remember that more then all the times then can and do read things in their dreams while dreaming, and then completely forgetting about that part of their dreams when they wake up.

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Can you read inside your dreams?

I always here people claim that it is impossible, but when I read in a dream it seems as thought I am actually reading and not just thinking.

So...can you dream read?
I got an intertitle that told me why I had died once.

I've read in dreams before, I can't speak to it being common though. I very rarely remember my dreams when I wake up, even if I do I won't remember it an hour later.

I cant read in my dreams... neither when Im awake :(

I had...umm. I had a story-book dream, I guess? It was fading back and forth, but sometimes the dream would simply be happening, and other times I would only see words describing the actions and dialogue of the dream.

Reading "I said" and having it be about you is a bit disorienting.

Reading a line of text twice is one of my ways to check if I'm dreaming, the words have never stayed the same both times in my dreams. The problem is that intentionally comprehending (as opposed to being fed understanding by the dream) anything that requires more than 2 words to explain is way beyond my intelligence while sleeping so after finding out text changes I usually go like "Me dreaming... anything possible... eat icecream!" and then the whole world turns into icecream.

I've never read -in- a dream but i can certainly understand them afterward.
Recently i've had so many either jumbled together or a whole series of dreams i forget all of them.

I'm pretty sure i dream more when nervous, something to do with the chemicals involved in my head.
It's not like i dream random stuff either, it's more circulated around my life but in a different kind of timelines where it's possible to do more things.

Dreams about sex, violence and superpowers aren't usually about sex, violence, and superpowers. You're dreaming about your narcissistic psychic isolation from those around you. The sex is your desire to connect with your fellow human beings in a genial fashion and the violence is you lashing out in the pain of your inability to do so. The super-powers is your ego's effort to console itself for its self-imposed isolation. ;)

Now if you were dreaming about picking carrots from the garden and then washing them to make soup... then you'd be a dirty whore.

:eek:

Dude...

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!



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I have read single words or short sentences, but usually the words change or disappear when I glance away and back at them. My dreams are illogical and often nonsensical.

Several times. Once, there was a sign in my dream, it said "Danger: Mine field* When I stepped into the area, a mime popped up. When I looked back at said saign, it was purple and read: "Danger: MIMEfield" The mime killed me with an invisible gun. Strange dream. *Blinks twice*

When you look at something in your dream, itll say something. But if you look away and then back again, itll be different :headbang:

I actually did this just last night. In my dream, I came across an article about my school's dances.

Fall Tolo (Turnaround dance) -- "No hassle. Just go as friends."

Valentine's: "I like you, you like me. Let's go to a dance."

Spring Tolo: ?????

JSB (our version of Junior/Senior Prom): "A meeting of peoples and cultures"

Now out of the three that I remembered, two of them make sense. Guess which one doesn't?

When you look at something in your dream, itll say something. But if you look away and then back again, itll be different :headbang:
Not always. Once I had a dream where I kept getting interupted while reading a really good book (I'd never heard of it before, I wrote down what I remembered though. Wish I could find it :() and I ended up swearing at my grandparents after they asked me to turn water into coffee. I couldn't get past the third sentence each time I sat down to read.

I dreamt last night that I was a butterfly.

But maybe I am a butterfly now dreaming that I am a man.

So if I am a butterfly dreaming I am a man then yes I must be able to read in my dreams, and all of you are mealy figments of my subconscious.

A bit of Confucius for you.



No, I have read in my dreams before I have done a lot of stuff in my dreams before.

I dreamt last night that I was a butterfly.

But maybe I am a butterfly now dreaming that I am a man.

So if I am a butterfly dreaming I am a man then yes I must be able to read in my dreams, and all of you are mealy figments of my subconscious.

A bit of Confucius for you.



No, I have read in my dreams before I have done a lot of stuff in my dreams before.

Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man? Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of Sashimi?