I think the issue is that devices with screens are usually meant to be your window to experience something else. When you get immersed in something, you forget about the device and focus on the experience.
I like playing games, and when I get into a game the focus is on the game itself, not the controller/TV/etc. I’ve had dreams about games, but it’s always me experiencing the game directly and not focused at all on the details of how I’m accessing the game.
I think it’s the same with phone use, but the experiences we get on a phone are harder to imagine as a"direct experience". Things like sending a text message don’t convert well to a fully immersive experience, so I think our brain skips over them.
Hm I occasionally dream about getting messages or seeing/doing something on social media, but I never use a device when doing so. It’s just the isolated experience. It doesn’t happen very often but when it does it’s the only content of the dream.
I have constant dreams behind the dashboard of an Airbus A320neo. It’s been a solid week of the same dream. The autopilot isn’t working so I have to manually do calculations of banking angles and then time it with my flight plan that I have no idea how to type into the flight computer.
I’m not a pilot at all. Help
Play Flight Sim to get it out of your system.
Alternatively, stop playing Flight Sim to get it out of your system.
Fuck it, fly into the 3rd tower to get it outta your system!
I flew a cirrus vision jet into my work building and it was very therapeutic.
Literally had one last night. I dreamt there were massive riots with sword and axe armed rioters were smashing up everything. Instead of a regular emergency alert, my phone had scrolling text on a blue background warning about the event.
Mobile phones haven’t been around long enough to be a part of the Dreamlands, wait a couple of decades, maybe a powerful Dreamer introduces them.
Patch 1.2: Added mobile phones to Dreamlands
Oh no dont update yet, patch 1.2 was bad. There is a bug where you dont properly reboot during Night Terror mode and instead forced Host_Wakeup routine it loops back to start sleep cycle again.
Not to mention a certain lord of dreams has been locked in a basement for 100 years or so.
One time I had a dream where I saw something really cool happening (can’t remember what exactly) and I decided to take a picture with my phone to view it later.
I woke up disappointed that it wasn’t saved to my camera roll.
They don’t work right when I’m trying to use them in my dreams.
Same here, and usually I’m fine with it, like it’s just below my sus level in the dreams.
I’ve had them. They usually involve me fumbling with it, unable to use it in some kind of emergency.
I think my brain knows it would solve too many plot points too easily. I’m stuck in a 90s dreamscape where all the pay phones are broken.
At least once a week, I have a dream where some piece of technology that I use every day just won’t work properly. I was up frustrated.
My dreams have no technology.
Lately too many have been about peeing, and I wake in a panic. I feel like I’m playing chicken with myself.
Be me, dreaming.
Look up at phone.
Phone says I’m 4 hours late for work.
Wake up
It’s 2 in the morning and I have 5 hours of sleep remaining.
Ha! My phone was in my dream just last night. I was stuck on the home screen. I could swipe to other screens, but, it bounced back to home screen. Restart, same problem. Funny to see this post today.
Now that it’s been brought to my attention I will most certainly have a dream where I’m using my phone lol
I’ve had dreams that are just me lying in bed scrolling on my phone. They feel 100% real until I wake up and realise the content I was looking at was unintelligible
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I have an infrequently recurring dream where I’m running late for work and I call in to say I’ll be late, and then I blink and hours have passed and I’m freaking out because apparently I was in a fugue state and I call in to work again to try and update them and the whole cycle repeats until I finally wake up.
You need a new job.
