Are any of you able to read newspapers, books, movie marques, billboards, et cetera in your dreams. I mean really read for information content.

About a year or so ago, I had a dream in which I saw a movie marque. When I tried to read it to see what was being shown, I discovered that it was unintelligible. Until I tried to read it, it gave the impression ob being a legible marque with well formed block letters.

Since then I have been trying (with some success) to have dreams in which I try to read something. In a few dreams I have tried to read a newspaper or a billboard. In every case, the words and letters give the impression of being readable until actually try to get information from what is written. Then the words fade away or seem jumbled, or the letters do not seem like valid symbols, or my attention drifts to something else.

It is analogous to some art I have seen while awake. From a distance, there seems to be a detailed landscape, but up close everything is fuzzy and unrealistic looking. In my dreams a movie marque or a newspaper looks normal and seems to have detailed readable data. When I try to read it, there is nothing legible to be read or the writing conveys no information content.

BTW: When I was 5 or 6 years old, I was fascinated by dinosaurs and had nightmares about them. My father told me to concentrate while awake and decide that he would appear as a giant and rescue me in my dinosaur nightmares. He also suggested that some comic book hero could be the one to rescue me, in case I did not think my father was the one for this job. Damn if it did not work! When threatened in my nightmares, my father would turn up with a weapon or some tool usable as a weapon and save me.