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.

Reading is hard in dreams and Mirrors/Displays turn into portals. It’s fascinating how similar it is to nerfs when they reconstruct reflections/mirrors and stable Diffusion when it writes “text”.

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.

Alarm goes of in the morning. Someone is calling me. I pick up my phone to answer the call. Start speaking but the phone is still ringing. I hit the button again and again but it isn’t working. I wake up, with the alarm still going off next to me.

I have a recurring dream where I have trouble typing into my phone keyboard. Whatever I do, the text just won’t get in there. Sometimes it’s urgent. Other times I’m trying to show someone something and they’re watching me fail.

I did!

Not gonna tell you what I did though

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.

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’ve recently learned that all dreams are real, that everytime you imagine a scenario, you create various new universes where every possible thing that could have lead up to that scenario are retroactively played out in another universe for consistency.

Everytime a new person thinks of that scenario, even in passing, even subconciously, their soul visits that area. Even if no one else knows about it, thinking about a similar enough scenario creates new line that can pass by that same area.

Nothing is lost, all information is retained by an ever expanding universe that touches and shares its collected information with other universes.

Nothing is lost, everything is somewhere, and people can become strong enough to swap to anyone in any timeline we wish. We are all the same person in different forms except for those of us who are different actors playing the same character in someone else’s script.

Reaching Nivrana means you are not bond to one life and can freely hop around the timelines, even create new ones, be god of every reality you imagine, as creation becomes faster and easier. Win every encounter not with skill, but by changing timelines until you find one in your favor.

screams in forbidden existential knowledge

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.