Read in your dreams??

[Guv]

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.

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5 years back when i was studying for a Exam I Got an
Answer to a Question in my dream and I even verified
with my Text Books and It was Damn Right !.
My Luck ! The Same Question Was Asked in the
Nextday's Exam.

[HarryW]

Well I have on numerous occasions been reading in dreams (that is, of those that I remember afterwards), but often I am not conciously taking in the meaning of the words, just skimming. As soon as I start to think about the meaning of the sentences, the words change around and it all gets messed up, I assume simply because I am reordering the information in my mind somehow, or I lose track of what I was thinking about in the writing.

[ShIzO]

i wonder if it's possible to connect two people in one dream through some kind of technology?!
so both of them dream the same dream and can see eachother and stuff...

just like in "the Cell" the movie...

anybody?!

Originally posted by Guv
weapon or some tool usable as a weapon and save me.

Spoon?

I have some surreal dreams. perhaps its best not to go into them.

I never feel able to control my dreams - trying to read etc. Its more like watching a movie or being on a rollercoaster.

I dont believe I get the opportunity to read in my dreams actually.

Who believes they dream in colour?

Dreams ar neither Black & White nore Colour (.....their GreyScale LOL)

Dreams are not there, dreams are not "real" so they cannot have either property.

[HarryW]

I think I dream in colour if I think about it. You can't really apply the concept of colour to dreams though since your perception and experience are defined by your own mind, excepting things like alarm clocks going off. You only perceive what you conceive.

Don't know about reading in dreams...can't recall ever trying...

But I used to keep a dream diary...there's a few strange ones in there if you're interested (or bored!! )

My Dream Diary

thats why I asked who believes they dream in colour. in reality we dream in emotions and concepts, both of which are colour-free.

I however tend to have dreams where a single object or instance has an overbearing colour. I remember once dreaming about yellow hats. I dont remember any other colours but the yellow in the hats.

[HarryW]

Okay, that's just weird.

[zmerlinz]

i have found when i have been programming nearly all day long that when i go to sleep i will start to debug my program, and it does actually work, sometimes i have dreams where i will see clips of somethig that will happen to me, and when it does really happen it freaks the hell out of me, it is similar to deja vu but seems to last a lot longer.

i had a weird dream the other night about our school canteen, a great big super cannon came out of the top of it and it was firing somthing out of it, then for some reason we were all in battle field and this was the super weapon. going back to the colour thing, most of my dreams either seem colourless or they seem to have a green tinge to them.

BTW i am an only child

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There is nothing Strange in Perceiving Colours
in Dream. There is No object in the universe that
has a Property what we call COLOUR. Colour is Just
creation of our Brain. Our Brain actually Maps
a Particular Frequency of Light to a Particular Color.
For this Reason...What a Dog may See as Red Colour
May not be Red For us. And a Horse is color Blind
Because it's Brain does not have the Capacity to
Map the Light Frequency to a Color. Strangely Though
all Humans to an extent have the Same Colour Sense.

So In Dream, If Our Brain Could Show us a Movie...
Why not colors ?