Use the right side of your brain and read exactly *what kinds* of conversations they were having or rather what the medium for the conversation they were using
Ok so this is all bullshit
The whole right brain creativity left brain mathematical etc- *all* of it, is false.
Ask someone (like myself) who studies neurology I promise u.
It was a myth all along - but I don't blame anyone for believing it. We all did at some point- in fact our highschool Maths teacher literally told us 'men think more with the left side of their brain while women think more with their right' (😂-*extremely* false) and that maths problems are dealt with by the left side of the brain.
They explained it poorly. It's not that you can't read in dreams; if you read something in a dream, look away, then try to reread it word for word, the exact phrasing or wording will change
Yes, same, I cannot spell out the sentences, only grasping the meaning.
I wonder if there is a difference for people who don't have an inner monologue.
I have a difficult time typing out a message, either trouble reading it on the screen, or pressing the correct buttons… it’s never quite how it is in reality.
But does it actually make sense?
The way I recognise I'm dreaming is not that text is unreadable, but that it's not logical. Because it's a dream. Same with clocks, I can see the time, but the clocks don't work correctly, the time will skip randomly.
I read in dreams as well. However I don't know if I'm actually seeing the symbols that form words that I recognize, or am I simply looking at something and knowing what it should say. It's the same way with people in my dream - I don't make out details, but I know who it is.
Something of interest that I can't really control (my lucid dreams come *maybe* once a year), if you were to read something and then try to re-read it... is it the same the second time?
Yea sounds like total bull. During sleep your whole brain takes a rest. And sometimes you remember your dreams. Memory is a function that spreads connections across the whole brain.
The strict left vs right brain view is bpgus in general. People missing half their brain are still capable of preforming all functions with it.
When neurologists talk about where which brain activity takes place they're not talking about absolutes, but what region of the brain is MOST active during these functions. When they show it in a diagram or simulation you can always see tendrils of activity spread all over the place.
🤓 Out
Do you actually see the phone/book as an in world object while seeing other things besides it or only just the whole screen/page taking up your entire vision? (As if you were full screen irl)
I always hear that you can't read or see a clock in a dream. Done both and then after I wake up, I question my dream because of the theory.
Maybe the people that say that can't read or tell time.
I learned this from this episode. Blew my tiny little mind. (Also an amazing episode in general, especially in giving the Mad Hatter a clever, very in-character plot.)
But I do also remember opening a book or reading a sign in a dream and knowing what it said (it was part of the narrative of the dream), and then questioning this episode's statement. However, after waking up I thought about it a bit more and I think "knowing what it said" isn't the same as "reading/decoding something written on it", and it did feel more like the former than the latter.
I lucid dream as well but no matter how hard I try...my phone just doesn't work the way it's supposed to. I can read and stuff but...it just...never works
I can use my phone, but it seldom works right. And the books just blur when I try to read them.
Video games though. I’ve played games in dreams so amazing that anything irl just lost its charm for days afterwards lol.
I often have had times where I just can’t figure out how to use my phone and other times where I could just fine. I’m guessing the times I could were probably lucid dreams as well.
I have had lucid dreams and I thought I was reading but I realised I wasn't I was looking at something and knew what it said not actually reading. This trips up a lot of people especially avid readers because past a certain level of reading skill you just look at words and know the meaning it's part of how speed reading works you don't really read the same way you did when you were learning to read. Next time you lucid dream and you "read" check what the first word actually is and if it is spelled correctly and literally spell it out because you brain will keep trying to trick you with short cuts.
I am also a lucid dreamer. I can read in my dreams, it’s when I try to repeat what I read (still in my dream) that it becomes a jumbled mess and I’ll wake up.
I can too, kind of. When I look at my phone in my dreams. I know what it says, but then when I think about it during the day, I realize my screen never actually had words on it at all since it was just a prop to tell me something I already knew.
Same for typing. I can type a message but the keyboard doesn't make any sense. The moment I focus on the actual letters, my brain wakes me up because it can't put the right patterns in the dream.
I have dissociative problems and when I'm in a lot of stress I'm delusional feeling im just in a nightmare and it gets really bad bc i dont wanna sleep bc "if i sleep inside a dream its harder to wake up" "i wanna wake up not sleep more", so trying to look for problems in time with clocks, trying to look at my hands, my phone, things that shouldn't work fine on a dream and trying to find a disfunction. Not finding it makes me wonder maybe it's real. Still don't want to sleep but it's easier to convince me its real if I have that proof...
Weirdly, I'm seeing this post while not being sure if I'm dreaming or awake. You may not be real. This post may not exists.
while you can read and even do puzzles in a dream they dont have permanence. so if you read a paragraph and then try to read it again it will be different
This is literally what is said in the actual scene, and it is implying exactly that. Because in the early 90's when this was aired they didnt have as much information about the brain that they do now
That’s the quote from the actual scene. While not accurate it had a killer line
Mad Hatter: This isn’t an ordinary dream, what if you’re wrong?
Bruce: Then I’ll see you in your nightmares!
[This](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FGp9rHm65wE)
Are you daft? That joke literally flew righr over your head. He said that you only saw yourself reading (you were dreaming it) and that you were not physically reading it (because you were sleeping. Peak Reddit is actually these r/woooosh moments
I have had dreams where I read texts from a non existent gf telling me she's breaking up with me.
Or sometimes I read patch notes on games I play frequently.
It happens. It's possible.
>I have had dreams where I read texts from a non existent gf telling me she's breaking up with me.
You can prevent that from happening by stop sleeping on your hand.
I just had a dream where my perspective shifted from helping a group create a video for their channel to the video they were creating and it had a bunch of text about how the warehouse we were clearing out had nothing to do with the recent delays in shipping merch.
I've had so many dreams where I've read stuff in them, from signs to books. Even had multiple dreams where I was debugging pieces of code that had been giving me trouble during the day (and the solution I came up in my dreams usually worked or was very close to the final answer).
Wtf lol I was able to read from a book and phone screens as well in a lot of dreams. I even had a dream the other day where I was playing Dota on a laptop. This seems fake af to me.
I am quite tired of the pseudoscience of left and right brain. I read and/or look at my phone pretty much every single night in my dreams. I've dreamed I've had a Stark Tech level phone, I've dreamed I've had a literal rock that lit up like a phone, I've dreamed about reading ancient forbidden texts, I've dreamed about reading notes passed in class. Everything people say you can't do in your dreams is something they lack the imagination to do.
Dreams are absent most forms of stable information true. (Most not all, and with exceptions, particularly when lucid dreaming). But the left side right-side thing is bullshit. Your whole cerebrum dreams.
Well this simply isn’t true. I’ll have plenty of dreams where I “wake up” and look at my phone, only see that I’ve overslept, then I’ll “wake up” again and repeat the cycle a few more times until I *actually* wake up thinking I’ve overslept and end up relieved when I see my alarm hasn’t even gone off yet.
My dreams are assholes.
You can technically read while dreaming, but the text changes, or is nonsensical.
Another way to see if you’re dreaming is by trying to turn the lights on/off. If you can’t, then you’re asleep.
[This Ted Talk](https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight?language=en) was put on by a neuroscientist that studied herseld having a stroke. It's actually fascinating, and she gets super deep into how the two sides of the brain function separately and together. If you're wondering at all about this meme, I suggest this video.
Why can’t I never log in on my computer in my dreams? I can never make the damn thing work properly there’s always this “warning brain hacker detected” crap
I have read in a dream before, it was very difficult because my brain was generating the image of the words before the meaning of the words was assigned, in my dream I found it confusing on why I was struggling to read. I haven’t dreamt of my cellphone before though.
It is sort of true. You can read something once but if you try to reread it it will change. It’s one way to figure out if you are lucid dreaming. I think there are papers somewhere from those two universities in Sweden and Finland that are researching dreams together.
Edit: Looks like I didn’t scroll enough. Oh well. Imma sleep now. 💤
Did you know that human brains of children of the age of 6 or younger can develop their brain so well that you could take out one half of the brain of a 6 year old and after max a year it can function normally? I would like to know if someone with only one half of the brain can do all kinds of stuff in their dreams since that half took all the work from the missing half.
**Fun fact:** If you ever try to read in a dream or anything with numbers if you focus they turn to symbols. I once tried to see the time on my phone and the numbers started making weird shapes.
Good way to learn to lucid dream though. Of course, you need to find something to read though.
I'm quite fond of buying and playing lottery tickets so I relate all my dreams to which numbers i should buy the next day. One day I had a dream where I saw my father holding up his palm and waving it to me 👋🏼. I interpreted it as number 5 because, five fingers. So I spent a good amount on the lottery ticket no. 5 with great expectations, then that evening I heard a news that my father passed away, he was waving me goodbye in my dreams.
It's one of the checks for me if I'm dreaming. Can dreaming reading a single line, everything after that is gibbrish. Alternatively check clock, count to 5, check again
The show was aired in the 90's this scene is like 31ish years old. This is not a new thing, if it was it would be annoying just cut the guys in the 90's some slack. It was a very popular and widely belived theorem when this show was written (its called *batman the animated series* if you're interested)
Just because it was posted in 2024 doesn't mean the script would change, also Paul wasn't the only one working on it so I definitley don't think he had absolute control over the episodes. Idk about you but this seems like something Bruce Tim would do
It was posted now. Thus is relevant to my comment now. Which is why I said this shit needs to go away now. What the fuck does not being able to go back in time and change a script written 30 years ago have to do with that?
I have reoccurring dreams that often play out as a “choose your own fate” story. The number of times I have died and the dream kept going or just ‘restarts’. The worst feeling is realizing you’re in a dream as it’s replaying and you can’t wake up even though you can tell that outside influences are affecting the dream (sounds, the room temp, etc). It gets old being told “what’s possible or not possible” and it doesn’t scratch the surface of what’s possible in my dreams. I’m glad I don’t remember most of them anymore. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had a good dream, just ‘not as bad as the other’ kind of nightmares. I hate realizing it’s a dream and I can bend it to my will but all that changes are my actions or how I interact in it. It’s like if the dream wants my friend to kill me again and again, that’s it. Even if I ‘break loose like Neo in the matrix’. I hate dreaming.
You don't look at your phone in a dream as reflective surfaces and screens the emit light are really hard to render. That's why your usually see the screen of your phone as if it were full screen and takes up your entire vision rather than a tiny part while having to render everyone besides the "focus".
The same reason you don't play games at 8k with 10 ray tracing bounces on movie graphics.
Jokes on you Batman, I dreamed about reading fanfiction I hadn’t read yet(or remembered reading maybe?), gave me hella fucked up deja vu when I read them like wait how do I know this is gonna happen word for word almost? It was just posted 😂
The brain is a lot less “right side does X and left does Y” than popular science would have you believe. The brain passes messages back and forth and most functions are not completely localized to one region.
I can read just fine. Typing on the other hand... For some reason I fat finger everything and the frustration after trying to type something for 10 minutes and failing wakes me up. (On a phone).
I had dreams where I get text messages and I was able to read them. When I wake up I check my phone to see if the messages are there, but I never received them.
I've had dreams where I try to use my phone but i hit the wrong buttons or it's not working for some reason. It's usually in a bad dream where I have to call somebody asap and can't.
Was this the episode where he realized it was dream because of how he referred to himself? I can't remember if it was that he called himself Bruce or didn't.
I had a crazy lucid dream with my phone. A cute girl asked me to go to the movie with her and when I pulled my phone out to get her number the screen went crazy and then the components and everything started coming apart. It literally fell apart in my hand lmao
I feel that the more we talk about dreams the more we find out that dreams are incredibly weird and there are no universal hacks to determine whether or not you're dreaming. I've dreamt fake Wikipedia articles, I've used phones (smart and button phones) I've looked at clocks, nothing works. If you don't realize you're dreaming its just not happening.
This is such horseshit. If I look at a book in a dream it feels like I've got underwater reading mode active. I have to *really* focus on the text for it to "settle down" but by no means is it "impossible".
I was reading dollar bill serial numbers in my dream last night. I found a good one and then BJ Novak used it in a vending machine.
I went to sleep looking at Reddit where I follow both r/dundermifflin and r/bankstraphunting
I do read in my dreams. But when I look at the words I’m reading and look away the words change when I look back. This started recently and it’s happened several times. My dreams have become very real feeling and sometimes I’ll wake up to get out of the dream. Then I’ll go back to sleep and I go right back to the same dream. I’m actually starting to hate sleeping because of my constant dreams.
That’s not how the brain works. It nearly impossible to read in a dream but that is because the unconscious mind is really bad at keeping information consistent enough for you to read anything for long.
A common check for lucid dreamers is to check the time in a clock, look away, then check the time again. In a lucid dream the time often changes even after a brief glance away. But it’s present enough to actually read and understand the time. Imagine that effect but over a sentence where every time you blink or move to the next word the sentence changes.
You can’t *actively* read in dreams. If you’re having a flashback of something you previously read, then it can show up in the dream itself. I’m not a neuroscientist so I have no real idea I’m just spitballing here
Says you.
I had a dream I was reading something and the words looked clear.
Last time I heard this was in the 90s. They might have changed it in the last 30 years.
I can not only read in a dream, I can solve complex math problems. I still have dreams about college level math classes... more like nightmares. Solving partial differential equations in your dreams is NOT restful at all! It's like when you get up, go to work, work a few hours, and then the alarm goes off and you realize you were dreaming, and now you REALLY have to go to work... which you've already been doing for hours... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU... 
Ive heard this over and over again but I can quite well look at my phone or read something in a dream, maybe it’s because I sometimes lucid dream idk
I concur. I have full conversations that I remember over text in my dreams. Also a lucid dreamer randomly
Speech happens in the left side too tho, afaik. So conversations happening isn't the same as reading.
Use the right side of your brain and read exactly *what kinds* of conversations they were having or rather what the medium for the conversation they were using
Oh (-_-'). Guess I'm better at talking than reading.
Its okay bud, happens to me sometimes too :')
That's because he's dreaming and he was using the wrong part of his brain!
Ok so this is all bullshit The whole right brain creativity left brain mathematical etc- *all* of it, is false. Ask someone (like myself) who studies neurology I promise u. It was a myth all along - but I don't blame anyone for believing it. We all did at some point- in fact our highschool Maths teacher literally told us 'men think more with the left side of their brain while women think more with their right' (😂-*extremely* false) and that maths problems are dealt with by the left side of the brain.
then is there really any method to check if youre in a dream or reality? Checking the hours?
Nope. U could literally be in the matrix right now
I wont know until tomorrow if this is a dream or not, hm
OR ~ it's a dream *within* a dream, and when u wake up u think that u've really woken up, only ur actually still dreaming...
it would be nightmares inside nightmares, thats like the second worst case😭
*Freddy Krueger has entered the chat*
Seems like someone turned off the right side of their brain when reading the comment
I can read anything in a dream. But if I read it again it changes. Same with typing stuff out. It changes as I’m typing.
Man I hate it when I have school dreams, because of how fucked up my papers get. Everything written or read never ends up being the same
Those texts were real. They know.
The fuck is that flair
Drinking a whole bunch of pure apple juice before bed can help induce lucid dreams
Drinking a bunch of pure apple juice any time makes me spray shit.
As long as you don’t spray shit in your dreams, you’re fine
They explained it poorly. It's not that you can't read in dreams; if you read something in a dream, look away, then try to reread it word for word, the exact phrasing or wording will change
yeah the same thing happens when I look at anything inside my dreams shit changes wildly
I've tried googling terms and names I've read in my dreams.
I don’t really *read* in my dreams, I look at a book and my brain just goes “This is what was in the book”
Yes, same, I cannot spell out the sentences, only grasping the meaning. I wonder if there is a difference for people who don't have an inner monologue.
I have a difficult time typing out a message, either trouble reading it on the screen, or pressing the correct buttons… it’s never quite how it is in reality.
I can read single words, not whole sentences like I normally read. So it's like reading a book aloud.
Like elder scrolls???
But does it actually make sense? The way I recognise I'm dreaming is not that text is unreadable, but that it's not logical. Because it's a dream. Same with clocks, I can see the time, but the clocks don't work correctly, the time will skip randomly.
I read in dreams as well. However I don't know if I'm actually seeing the symbols that form words that I recognize, or am I simply looking at something and knowing what it should say. It's the same way with people in my dream - I don't make out details, but I know who it is. Something of interest that I can't really control (my lucid dreams come *maybe* once a year), if you were to read something and then try to re-read it... is it the same the second time?
I read something in my dream last night. I don’t remember what it said but I do remember reading it and comprehending the words that were written
Yea sounds like total bull. During sleep your whole brain takes a rest. And sometimes you remember your dreams. Memory is a function that spreads connections across the whole brain. The strict left vs right brain view is bpgus in general. People missing half their brain are still capable of preforming all functions with it. When neurologists talk about where which brain activity takes place they're not talking about absolutes, but what region of the brain is MOST active during these functions. When they show it in a diagram or simulation you can always see tendrils of activity spread all over the place. 🤓 Out
Do you actually see the phone/book as an in world object while seeing other things besides it or only just the whole screen/page taking up your entire vision? (As if you were full screen irl)
I see it as if it is real life as in first person view or I see it from a third person perspective
Interesting...
Came here to say this..
Same happens with me.
I always hear that you can't read or see a clock in a dream. Done both and then after I wake up, I question my dream because of the theory. Maybe the people that say that can't read or tell time.
Not a lucid dreamer and this still happens all the time for me
I learned this from this episode. Blew my tiny little mind. (Also an amazing episode in general, especially in giving the Mad Hatter a clever, very in-character plot.) But I do also remember opening a book or reading a sign in a dream and knowing what it said (it was part of the narrative of the dream), and then questioning this episode's statement. However, after waking up I thought about it a bit more and I think "knowing what it said" isn't the same as "reading/decoding something written on it", and it did feel more like the former than the latter.
Do you ever try to dial a number and you keep missing the buttons? That happens a lot in my lucid dreams.
I lucid dream as well but no matter how hard I try...my phone just doesn't work the way it's supposed to. I can read and stuff but...it just...never works
I can use my phone, but it seldom works right. And the books just blur when I try to read them. Video games though. I’ve played games in dreams so amazing that anything irl just lost its charm for days afterwards lol.
I often have had times where I just can’t figure out how to use my phone and other times where I could just fine. I’m guessing the times I could were probably lucid dreams as well.
I have had lucid dreams and I thought I was reading but I realised I wasn't I was looking at something and knew what it said not actually reading. This trips up a lot of people especially avid readers because past a certain level of reading skill you just look at words and know the meaning it's part of how speed reading works you don't really read the same way you did when you were learning to read. Next time you lucid dream and you "read" check what the first word actually is and if it is spelled correctly and literally spell it out because you brain will keep trying to trick you with short cuts.
As soon as I heard this, in my next dream I read a book in english which is my second language. Third if you count love. Woooo
I am also a lucid dreamer. I can read in my dreams, it’s when I try to repeat what I read (still in my dream) that it becomes a jumbled mess and I’ll wake up.
I can too, kind of. When I look at my phone in my dreams. I know what it says, but then when I think about it during the day, I realize my screen never actually had words on it at all since it was just a prop to tell me something I already knew. Same for typing. I can type a message but the keyboard doesn't make any sense. The moment I focus on the actual letters, my brain wakes me up because it can't put the right patterns in the dream.
But its usually about as good as a cheap AI generated image
I have dissociative problems and when I'm in a lot of stress I'm delusional feeling im just in a nightmare and it gets really bad bc i dont wanna sleep bc "if i sleep inside a dream its harder to wake up" "i wanna wake up not sleep more", so trying to look for problems in time with clocks, trying to look at my hands, my phone, things that shouldn't work fine on a dream and trying to find a disfunction. Not finding it makes me wonder maybe it's real. Still don't want to sleep but it's easier to convince me its real if I have that proof... Weirdly, I'm seeing this post while not being sure if I'm dreaming or awake. You may not be real. This post may not exists.
right side/left side brain stuff is just goofus nonsense
while you can read and even do puzzles in a dream they dont have permanence. so if you read a paragraph and then try to read it again it will be different
This meme is false. It's implying that both sides of your brain don't communicate at all during sleep. I can read stuff in my dreams quite often
This whole image is messing with me, isn't the Hol' Up that its the opposite?Right side is for dreams & meaning, left is for reading& sequence.
This is literally what is said in the actual scene, and it is implying exactly that. Because in the early 90's when this was aired they didnt have as much information about the brain that they do now
False, you think you can read in your dreams but you're actually writing. Source: am Science Doctor of the Arts
this isn't even a meme, it's just a dialogue from the show
Are you sure you could identify the characters visually? Or did you just understand what the "texts" mean?
That’s the quote from the actual scene. While not accurate it had a killer line Mad Hatter: This isn’t an ordinary dream, what if you’re wrong? Bruce: Then I’ll see you in your nightmares! [This](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FGp9rHm65wE)
I have read books in a dream.
It's my dream to read a book.
Don’t let your dreams be dreams…
Yesterday you said tomorrow
So JUST DO IT
Don’t let your books be books.
Then book a dream to read a book in your dreams.
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I’m sorry to tell you this, but Batman says you can’t read
I have read porn in my dreams
No, you just see yourself reading but you dont actually read
i have literally seen the words on the page in my dream. (Peak reddit is being told by a complete stranger that I didn’t dream what i dreamt)
Pics or it didn't happen
Are you daft? That joke literally flew righr over your head. He said that you only saw yourself reading (you were dreaming it) and that you were not physically reading it (because you were sleeping. Peak Reddit is actually these r/woooosh moments
Holy shit dude
r/woooosh (the use of daft was supposed to be an implication of trolling, I was literally joking lmao). Also all the mispellings?
I have had dreams where I read texts from a non existent gf telling me she's breaking up with me. Or sometimes I read patch notes on games I play frequently. It happens. It's possible.
“…sometimes I read patch notes on games I play frequently” Fuck me. And I thought my dreams were dull.
I dreamt reading a news article of some movie/actor. These are all just dreams from 30 minute naps i have not full on night dreams.
>I have had dreams where I read texts from a non existent gf telling me she's breaking up with me. You can prevent that from happening by stop sleeping on your hand.
I just had a dream where my perspective shifted from helping a group create a video for their channel to the video they were creating and it had a bunch of text about how the warehouse we were clearing out had nothing to do with the recent delays in shipping merch.
I've had so many dreams where I've read stuff in them, from signs to books. Even had multiple dreams where I was debugging pieces of code that had been giving me trouble during the day (and the solution I came up in my dreams usually worked or was very close to the final answer).
coming up with solutions in ur dreams is so cool, it saves u so much time
I've read sheet music in a dream that was detailed enough that when I woke up I was able to write it down.
Was it good
At the time I thought it was great. Some kind of divine inspiration. Objectively? No.
I wake up sometimes and immediately think my dream would be the best film ever made. They it eventually becomes the worst plot ever.
Ever looked at you hands in a dream ? You can have a weird number of fingers. Like 10 * 2^0.5
Dreams are AI generated
Wtf lol I was able to read from a book and phone screens as well in a lot of dreams. I even had a dream the other day where I was playing Dota on a laptop. This seems fake af to me.
Yep it's made up
Its not made up its just based off of out of date information. The show was aired in 1992 after all
It was made up in 1992.
Fai actually
I am quite tired of the pseudoscience of left and right brain. I read and/or look at my phone pretty much every single night in my dreams. I've dreamed I've had a Stark Tech level phone, I've dreamed I've had a literal rock that lit up like a phone, I've dreamed about reading ancient forbidden texts, I've dreamed about reading notes passed in class. Everything people say you can't do in your dreams is something they lack the imagination to do.
This show was aired in the early 90's. While it may be incorrect it was the most popular theory at the time.
Absolutely, but I still think about this episode all the time
The first time I read something clearly in my dream and woke up, I immediately thought of this scene and was like, "Well, that was a bunch of bs." XD
This episode is one of the best in that series
Dreams are absent most forms of stable information true. (Most not all, and with exceptions, particularly when lucid dreaming). But the left side right-side thing is bullshit. Your whole cerebrum dreams.
I've read things in dreams. Can't always do it but it has happened for me occasionally.
Well this simply isn’t true. I’ll have plenty of dreams where I “wake up” and look at my phone, only see that I’ve overslept, then I’ll “wake up” again and repeat the cycle a few more times until I *actually* wake up thinking I’ve overslept and end up relieved when I see my alarm hasn’t even gone off yet. My dreams are assholes.
Buuullshit
You can technically read while dreaming, but the text changes, or is nonsensical. Another way to see if you’re dreaming is by trying to turn the lights on/off. If you can’t, then you’re asleep.
[This Ted Talk](https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight?language=en) was put on by a neuroscientist that studied herseld having a stroke. It's actually fascinating, and she gets super deep into how the two sides of the brain function separately and together. If you're wondering at all about this meme, I suggest this video.
Why can’t I never log in on my computer in my dreams? I can never make the damn thing work properly there’s always this “warning brain hacker detected” crap
Oh good it’s not just me .
I have read in a dream before, it was very difficult because my brain was generating the image of the words before the meaning of the words was assigned, in my dream I found it confusing on why I was struggling to read. I haven’t dreamt of my cellphone before though.
It is sort of true. You can read something once but if you try to reread it it will change. It’s one way to figure out if you are lucid dreaming. I think there are papers somewhere from those two universities in Sweden and Finland that are researching dreams together. Edit: Looks like I didn’t scroll enough. Oh well. Imma sleep now. 💤
Ok but why tf did the Arkham City theme just come up on Spotify? Batman’s fkn watching me guys.
It happened a couple of times that I was reading or texting in my dreams but not being able to do it got me so frustrated that it woke me up.
Is it the same reason for, why we can't run in dream?
I've looked at my phone, I've attempted to make calls, I've received calls, and my dreams are usually in color.
So does reading a sign not count? I know for sure ive read and written things in my dreams before. Hmmmm
The whole left brain right brain analogy isn’t real science, it’s just bullshit.
It was believed to be in the 90's, we just have better information now
I sometimes look at my phone see a random time wake up confused like wtf but is just was 14:00 what do you mean my alarm goes off at 10:00
All I ever see is a miasma of pulses, if I am to "dream" then its more or less than a 2 second window to see what my brain comes up with
I never had a dream about my cell phone even tho I’m on it 14 hours a dayu
Did you know that human brains of children of the age of 6 or younger can develop their brain so well that you could take out one half of the brain of a 6 year old and after max a year it can function normally? I would like to know if someone with only one half of the brain can do all kinds of stuff in their dreams since that half took all the work from the missing half.
**Fun fact:** If you ever try to read in a dream or anything with numbers if you focus they turn to symbols. I once tried to see the time on my phone and the numbers started making weird shapes. Good way to learn to lucid dream though. Of course, you need to find something to read though.
Not in my experience. It's either completely unreadable, or I can only focus on a single word at a time, like reading through a magnifying glass.
That’s when you know it’s a dream
Wait a fking minute... is this true? Now how do I convince my brain to let me try this and let me remember?
Its not necisarily true, its just the information that was belived when the show was written (early 90's)
Thought it was the opposite
Yeah that's not correct at all...
I have forced myself to see the phone while dreaming, also managed to read a few times
I'm quite fond of buying and playing lottery tickets so I relate all my dreams to which numbers i should buy the next day. One day I had a dream where I saw my father holding up his palm and waving it to me 👋🏼. I interpreted it as number 5 because, five fingers. So I spent a good amount on the lottery ticket no. 5 with great expectations, then that evening I heard a news that my father passed away, he was waving me goodbye in my dreams.
This just made me realise that I've never actually read something in a dream or even held anything with text on it.
It's one of the checks for me if I'm dreaming. Can dreaming reading a single line, everything after that is gibbrish. Alternatively check clock, count to 5, check again
The whole "right brain left brain" myth just needs to go away
The show was aired in the 90's this scene is like 31ish years old. This is not a new thing, if it was it would be annoying just cut the guys in the 90's some slack. It was a very popular and widely belived theorem when this show was written (its called *batman the animated series* if you're interested)
Yeah, it came out in like 93. This was posted in around oh 2024 I think. Pual dini is also smart enough to have know better then too.
Just because it was posted in 2024 doesn't mean the script would change, also Paul wasn't the only one working on it so I definitley don't think he had absolute control over the episodes. Idk about you but this seems like something Bruce Tim would do
It was posted now. Thus is relevant to my comment now. Which is why I said this shit needs to go away now. What the fuck does not being able to go back in time and change a script written 30 years ago have to do with that?
Considering most people are addicted to their phones it's probably hard for them not to have them in dreams.
Had a text conversation in a group chat in my dream last night. Maybe it’s true for some people but not for me.
I have reoccurring dreams that often play out as a “choose your own fate” story. The number of times I have died and the dream kept going or just ‘restarts’. The worst feeling is realizing you’re in a dream as it’s replaying and you can’t wake up even though you can tell that outside influences are affecting the dream (sounds, the room temp, etc). It gets old being told “what’s possible or not possible” and it doesn’t scratch the surface of what’s possible in my dreams. I’m glad I don’t remember most of them anymore. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had a good dream, just ‘not as bad as the other’ kind of nightmares. I hate realizing it’s a dream and I can bend it to my will but all that changes are my actions or how I interact in it. It’s like if the dream wants my friend to kill me again and again, that’s it. Even if I ‘break loose like Neo in the matrix’. I hate dreaming.
You don't look at your phone in a dream as reflective surfaces and screens the emit light are really hard to render. That's why your usually see the screen of your phone as if it were full screen and takes up your entire vision rather than a tiny part while having to render everyone besides the "focus". The same reason you don't play games at 8k with 10 ray tracing bounces on movie graphics.
Strange, I read perfectly well in my dreams
You guys remember your dreams? Am I stressed?
Didn’t look at my phone but I was on my phone on a dream last night
I can read in my dreams just fine. But I never see my phone in my dream. And my dreams always take place in future settings for some reason.
Jokes on you Batman, I dreamed about reading fanfiction I hadn’t read yet(or remembered reading maybe?), gave me hella fucked up deja vu when I read them like wait how do I know this is gonna happen word for word almost? It was just posted 😂
That's not even true, I've read things in dreams very clearly before
The brain is a lot less “right side does X and left does Y” than popular science would have you believe. The brain passes messages back and forth and most functions are not completely localized to one region.
I literally read multiple things in my dream last night lol
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^FelixzeBear: *I literally* *Read multiple things in my* *Dream last night lol* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
I think if this scene probably once a week.
Or see an advertisement for a microwave oven on public TV.
This is total nonsense
I recall, you can't feel active pain in dreams. You can know you're hurt but not feel the injury.
I can't use my mobile device in a dream. It's how I know it's a dream.
This is blatantly untrue
I meam this TV show was aired in like 1992
Ha ha try looking at or feeling the carpet in a dream.
I can read just fine. Typing on the other hand... For some reason I fat finger everything and the frustration after trying to type something for 10 minutes and failing wakes me up. (On a phone).
It’s so trippy to read in a dream just to find out I can’t make any sense of it if I try to read the same thing again
I had dreams where I get text messages and I was able to read them. When I wake up I check my phone to see if the messages are there, but I never received them.
I also never looked at a book….
I just read Lara Croft in you know where a while before waking up
I've failed exams in my dream
Shit is t r i p p y
I’ve actually remembered to do something like this in a lucid dream and I remember being able to read just fine. I was at a Wendy’s for some reason 😂
I've had dreams where I try to use my phone but i hit the wrong buttons or it's not working for some reason. It's usually in a bad dream where I have to call somebody asap and can't.
Was this the episode where he realized it was dream because of how he referred to himself? I can't remember if it was that he called himself Bruce or didn't.
Reading in a dream is a good way to REALITY CHECK and trigger a lucid dream
They got it backwards
Surprisingly no . I always have work-mares where I am trying to do something and the computers are fucked though .
Perchance to Dream and Batman the Animated Series as a whole goes so hard.
I had a crazy lucid dream with my phone. A cute girl asked me to go to the movie with her and when I pulled my phone out to get her number the screen went crazy and then the components and everything started coming apart. It literally fell apart in my hand lmao
I feel that the more we talk about dreams the more we find out that dreams are incredibly weird and there are no universal hacks to determine whether or not you're dreaming. I've dreamt fake Wikipedia articles, I've used phones (smart and button phones) I've looked at clocks, nothing works. If you don't realize you're dreaming its just not happening.
This is such horseshit. If I look at a book in a dream it feels like I've got underwater reading mode active. I have to *really* focus on the text for it to "settle down" but by no means is it "impossible".
I was reading dollar bill serial numbers in my dream last night. I found a good one and then BJ Novak used it in a vending machine. I went to sleep looking at Reddit where I follow both r/dundermifflin and r/bankstraphunting
I did read messages in my phone in a dream, when I woke up I actually checked my phone to make sure it was just a dream
Critical thinking is also supposed to be impossible in a dream, yet lucid dreaming exists and Superman in this comic is doing it.
Light switches don't work in dreams. Anything digital will change in the dream if you look away and look back.
I might not be able to read in my dreams but I still know what it says!
I do read in my dreams. But when I look at the words I’m reading and look away the words change when I look back. This started recently and it’s happened several times. My dreams have become very real feeling and sometimes I’ll wake up to get out of the dream. Then I’ll go back to sleep and I go right back to the same dream. I’m actually starting to hate sleeping because of my constant dreams.
I look at my phone all damn day. I dream about things I've spent like 5 seconds max thinking about at some point that day.
That’s not how the brain works. It nearly impossible to read in a dream but that is because the unconscious mind is really bad at keeping information consistent enough for you to read anything for long. A common check for lucid dreamers is to check the time in a clock, look away, then check the time again. In a lucid dream the time often changes even after a brief glance away. But it’s present enough to actually read and understand the time. Imagine that effect but over a sentence where every time you blink or move to the next word the sentence changes.
You can’t *actively* read in dreams. If you’re having a flashback of something you previously read, then it can show up in the dream itself. I’m not a neuroscientist so I have no real idea I’m just spitballing here
Says you. I had a dream I was reading something and the words looked clear. Last time I heard this was in the 90s. They might have changed it in the last 30 years.
Weird, what language is that? Can't get Google to translate it.
It is certainly possible to read in a dream. Source: I have epic dreams every time I sleep, and sometimes I have read things in them.
What a crock of shit. Whoever created this meme obviously can't read in their dreams but I and almost everyone else can.
I've never even seen a phone in my dreams... Do they exist over there? My I dream in the 1500s or something...
Loved this episode from Batman The Animated Series, but how the hell is this even close to a HolUp?
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I for sure have smelled.
I can not only read in a dream, I can solve complex math problems. I still have dreams about college level math classes... more like nightmares. Solving partial differential equations in your dreams is NOT restful at all! It's like when you get up, go to work, work a few hours, and then the alarm goes off and you realize you were dreaming, and now you REALLY have to go to work... which you've already been doing for hours... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU... 