You can’t read coherently, but its sort of a visual association where you look at something that should have words and read those words simply by thinking. If you were lucid and do this, then you would be able to tell the words can’t be read, but when you are just on auto-pilot like most dreams then your dream tends to fill in the blanks that maintain the illusion. They became lucid around the time the words became indecipherable, which could be at the same time or just anxiety making the words lose meaning, but either way the pacing checks out.
Matches my experiences with lucid dreaming and the reading I’ve done on lucid dreaming at least.
Gay: anon tried to read, like some kind of nerd homo
But also, I have absolutely read in dreams. Most of the time it’s frustrating or terrifying nonsense (like, an imperative to read or something bad will happen, and suddenly I can’t, or dial a phone number or something bad will happen, but the numbers won’t display correctly, or whatever), but on more than one occasion dreaming normally and lucidly, I have successfully read text in a dream.
I tried to read, fail and thus realize I’m dreaming in an attempt to lucid dream. But my mind fucked me over and had made the text appear in Asian instead of Latin symbols so I went “ah ok, technically I could read but not that. So I’m not dreaming, carry on then.”
Fake: you can’t actually read in your dreams
You can’t read coherently, but its sort of a visual association where you look at something that should have words and read those words simply by thinking. If you were lucid and do this, then you would be able to tell the words can’t be read, but when you are just on auto-pilot like most dreams then your dream tends to fill in the blanks that maintain the illusion. They became lucid around the time the words became indecipherable, which could be at the same time or just anxiety making the words lose meaning, but either way the pacing checks out.
Matches my experiences with lucid dreaming and the reading I’ve done on lucid dreaming at least.
Fake: you can’t read in dreams
Gay: anon tried to read, like some kind of nerd homo
But also, I have absolutely read in dreams. Most of the time it’s frustrating or terrifying nonsense (like, an imperative to read or something bad will happen, and suddenly I can’t, or dial a phone number or something bad will happen, but the numbers won’t display correctly, or whatever), but on more than one occasion dreaming normally and lucidly, I have successfully read text in a dream.
I tried to read, fail and thus realize I’m dreaming in an attempt to lucid dream. But my mind fucked me over and had made the text appear in Asian instead of Latin symbols so I went “ah ok, technically I could read but not that. So I’m not dreaming, carry on then.”
Oh that totally sounds like some of the shit my brain would do to me when I was into lucid dreaming haha
Isn’t it that you can read, but every time you look away it changes to something else?
I should note I’ve never had any vivid dreams or lucid dreams with which I could remember much of anything in the first place so… Idk