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    Completely false. They don’t show up in YOUR dreams. They definitely do in mine.

    You might just be bad at dreaming and don’t have vivid dreams. Don’t worry, you can train that

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      Yeah I think this is it, some people don’t dream vividly and assume that’s how everyone’s dreams are.

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        In the last few days, I have lucid dreams almost every night, but I also wake up midnight and then fall asleep pretty easily again so I basically use WBTB without noticing it. Still can’t control it and I really should start keeping a dream diary again. The dreams were incredibly vivid and I still remember actually walking and the feeling of touching things.

        Just today I had a lucid dream and looked at my phone to tell the time. Then I remembered this post and thought “ha, I can use my phone in dreams”

        I just always forget to stabilize my dream and wake up when closing my eyes.

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          Awesome :) I used to lucid dream all the time as a kid, it was amazing. It seemed to stop as I got older though I’m sure if I practiced I could get it back.

          My dreams are always incredibly vivid and clear, and long though. Last night my dream was over a week or so in dream time 😆

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      Phone breaking anxiety, anyone? I have broken several phones by dropping them in my dreams. I got my first in ~2002 and I haven’t broken a single phone since then. I guess I just jinxed it, but still… I definitely dream about phones about once a year.

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    Not in regular dreams for me. However i used to habe a recurring dream where i accidentally broke my phone display every time. I thibk it’s because I was poor and broke my phone display a lot.

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      I’ve had many dreams where I’ve tried to use my phone but the display is all glitched out and distorted, or totally non responsive, or the battery immediately dies. Phones are never useful and always frustrating in my dreams.

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      My only guess for why my phone never shows up is that it just works. I never really drop it and I don’t spend much of my day on it. But I can understand if you drop your phone a lot why it might be popping up!

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    I’ve definitely used my phone in dreams before. People have also said that you can’t read properly in dreams and that’s one way to know you’re dreaming (I was interested in lucid dreaming for a bit), but words look just fine to me when I’m dreaming

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      Same. I’ve had phones and text in dreams. Another trigger is supposed to be looking at a clock and it won’t look right but I’ve checked the time in dreams many times.

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      When I was around 8 years old, I lost a new issue of Nintendo Power in a Service Merchandise store. That may be the most aged statement I’ve ever made.

      Anyway, this was a very distressing experience for me; my disappointment and loss of hope sticks with me to this day. I vividly remember dreaming about finding it some time after. However, in my dream I recall flipping through the pages only to find garbled nonsense, page after page.

      This was actually more distressing to my confused, young mind. I don’t even try to read in dreams anymore, but maybe I should; it would be a dead giveaway.

      I still miss that issue. It was the Dr. Mario issue for anyone wondering.

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      Well it really depends. When dreaming you mostly see what you expect to see. I sometimes can read and sometimes can’t.

      I can certainly say that my short term memory in dreams is really bad. It’s like you’re tripping balls on LSD or something. (at least in my experience. It might be different for you)

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    I dreamt about my phone. I sometimes suffer from false awakenings (thinking you have woken up, bit you are still dreaming). So, I thought that I had woken up and everything looked like normal. Then I got my phone to check the time and instead of the time, there was a weird cube swirling around on my phone. So, then I knew I was still dreaming.

    Then I wanted to wake up, but I couldn’t, so I panicked and it became a nightmare where I suddenly saw a ghost in my room that was floating around with her head in a very unnatural position. Then she started screaming and I woke up. (But this is not the important part, the important part is that there was a phone in my dream.)

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        Yes, it was very scary. Maybe that is why I still remember it and the phone.

        Maybe you have nicer stuff to dream about than phones. :-)

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      I false awaken every night and basically every time I have a lucid dream. So the first thing I ask myself when waking up is if everything makes sense

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        I found it really scary. It think it is horrible to have that every night. I used to do the same thing. However, I found that the only times I felt I needed to check, I was sleeping. So, being unsure about whether I am asleep is actually already a good indicator.

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          Same. I just assume I’m dreaming. Not really scary though. I can easily turn it into a lucid dream

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            I think what happens with me is that I want to wake up and I can’t and then I panic and everything becomes scary. So, it is probably just that I want to wake up and I cannot.

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    I have dreamed I was sitting using my phone and messaging friends and family before.

    It was odd too because they were legit conversations that would be things my actual friends and family would talk about or bring up but when I would make up, confused at why I was asleep, I’d look at my phone and find these conversations never actually happened.

    When I try to remember the conversations it all comes out as upper and lowercase letters and numbers. Like my brain is trying to encrypt the messages I got in these dreams.

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    I worked at a Verizon store for 9 years. I definitely had dreams about phones. Usually them getting wet.

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    Whenever I have a phone in my dream I can’t type on it. Just endless typos and gibberish and frustration. Sometimes kicks me into lucid dreaming if I pick up on it not working

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    For me I had a phone trigger a lucid dream because I noticed a small discrepancy. Guess that proves how much I’m on it.

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      Same, a phone triggered lucidity for me too. But in this case it was an office desk phone, and the text was just wrong on the screen.