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.
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
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 often have a dream of an android virus on my phone stealing all my money and data
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.”
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.
Watching infrastructure fail is a daydream, not a real dream.
They literally do…
I have a recurring stress dream about needing to type a message urgently on my phone and the touch screen keyboard not registering any of the right letters.
I miss physical keyboards.
A few days ago, there was a post about a BlackBerry with an Android OS coming to market.
It’s similar for me too, but a bit broader. My brain apparently can’t convincingly simulate any digital user interfaces. No PC, phone or anything else like that works correctly in my dreams.
It’s actually one of the most consistent ways I have to figure out that I am currently dreaming.
My dreams managed to conjure my Mac login screen which, pretty impressive. Let me try to log in for quite a while as my panic increased.
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.
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’m guessing it happens most among millennials and gen z. Seems like dream norms are based on your youth.
Remember (gen x folks) when they used to say that everyone dreamed in black and white, but you’re like, nuh uh? It’s because boomers dreamed in black and white because they grew up on black and white TV.
Dreaming in color or black and white is more of a personal aspect unrelated to TV and probably something that can change even for one person over time. And dreams are not only based on your youth, they are based on your life and your experiences and can include just about whatever. You can dream in different languages depending on what you are using most (many dreams I have are in English and I’m not a native speaker).
But I’m guessing you’re around English speaking people most of the time
Actually no, not technically, but I do get to use English most of the time. But that’s now in my late 30s, during my youth and childhood I would never use English really. The whole point is to give a counter experience to the fact that dreams are based on our upbringing. It’s based simply on whatever is in our minds.
No, it really has been statistically associated with such things as what kind of media you were exposed to. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/health/02real.html
Unfortunately I need an account to read it. But there’s a difference on the media you are exposed and the medium. Dreams in B&W are not related to old TV
