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

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.

I have a recurring nightmare where something awful has happened and I can’t get my phone to work to call for help. It just doesn’t work the way it is supposed to, or there’s a glitch, or I forgot how to use it. It is oddly horrifying.

I dream a lot about car related stuff. Accidents, getting lost, losing the car.

I don’t ever have any of that happen IRL.

But yeah, never my phone, maybe once or twice a pc

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.

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.

I had a dream a while back which I was recording an old CRT TV that was way too high to comfortably view and a friend of mine somehow grabbing a bag of what I’d presume was fairy floss from inside an empty cabinet. The phone worked pretty much the same as it does irl, and one of my teachers walked by and I got scared and hid my phone behind my jacket in fear of it getting confiscated, probably the most interesting one I’ve had in a while.

I had my phone in a dream for the first time yesterday! I only used it to call my partner, but it was definitely there.

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

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.

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.

I’ve had entire dreams in the command line, which was fairly incredible to me at the time because I still couldn’t read the characters consistently, and was only taken aback at the strangeness of such after the fact. I had a sense of what the commands meant and I knew what I was doing (hacking the planet), but while I couldn’t read it I knew what the output felt like. Dreams are weird.

Now that it’s been brought to my attention I will most certainly have a dream where I’m using my phone lol

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.

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.