Why is using phones or other means of technical communication (like chat prompts) so difficult if not impossible inside dreams?

Anyone ever succeeded...?

>>40651009 (OP)
I fairly often dream of computers and websites including chat rooms, the perspective can sometimes be weird in dreams like if I'm on a computer then the perspective might shift back and forth between first person human perspective and "fullscreen" computer perspective

>>40651009 (OP)
The fuck are you talking about? I always dream my phone is getting hacked and spamming lots of porn and weird hacker messages lol

>>40651009 (OP)
Lucid dreams you mean? Anything with numbers or letters is going to be unstable, but I don't know the reason.

>>40651009 (OP)
>>40651120
The part of the brain responsible for processing logic (and language, symbols, etc) is partially asleep during dreams

>>40651139
Makes sense.

Maybe you smoke too much weed before bed or something cause I've had dreams where I post in 4chan threads, I see myself typing word for word, I can tell if its a blue board or a red board. I've also had dreams where I'm scrolling through Instagram looking at my families profiles. In one of these dreams I had a terrible feeling my mom was dead or missing, and I was on her facebook and tears were streaming down my face looking at her post where she was describing each of me and my siblings and all that she loved about us. I woke up with my phone in my hands. I had to check my own Facebook to make sure I wasn't sleep posting or some shit. My dreams about technology are vivid. There was even a time where I dreamed I was working at mcdonalds but my coworkers were robots.

>>40651009 (OP)
Actually in my dream light switches usually don't work. Funny thing.

I often dream of checking time on my phone and it usually gives me some precise hour. When I wake up I have to focus to convince myself that was a dream and I'm not late for work etc.

I have dreams that are literally my phones scream

>>40651313
Same here.
I remember me being so pissed that I couldn't turn on the lights.

>>40651436
>>40651313
In my dreams I can't hurt people
My punches don't work, sometimes when I want to be violent I can't even move my arms.

The other day the aliens sent me a provocative dream and I tried to kick a guy only to wake up kicking my window

>>40651459
Same, even more annoying is when I want to scream, raise my voice, but I can't be heard. I am fuming because everyone around me is being a clown and I can only speak in whispers.

>>40651009 (OP)
Why would you need to use a telephone in your dream?

I see the numbers clearly to make a phone call but then as soon as I go to punch in the numbers, everything jumbles like it has a virus

>>40651009 (OP)
are you left-handed or right-handed?

>>40651337
>1337
There's your hint, do some research. Trust the process!

>>40652044
Your phone should know who you want to call; maybe you need to update the software?

I've taken photos using my phone while in a dream, unfortunately I wake up to find my phone doesn't have that photo or photos I took in the dream/s. It would be very interesting if the photos could somehow carry over into one's waking life but what would it take for that to happen I wonder..

>>40651009 (OP)
i dreamt of my phone only twice all my life so far, once it rang and i answered it the other time two girls asked me for directions so i opened gmaps on it

>>40651049
>"fullscreen" computer perspective
When this happens it seems so natural, yet looking back it feels like the weirdest shit

>>40651009 (OP)
I’ve had dreams where I’m using my phone from like fifteen years ago that had a physical QWERTY keyboard and was able to use it. Never a more modern slate design. Most of the time I would use it to make a call but it would not ring, one time it worked and it figures that I woke up once the call connected.

>>40651009 (OP)
In my dreams, calling a person (yes, I can do it) is a metaphor for connecting to their subconscious. If the call goes through then I know I’m directly linked to them. I suspect that there are certain firewalls that many people have around their subconscious that don’t let them dial in or out - once you’re connected to the subconscious mind of another there’s all kinds of havoc you can wreak (think Inception).

>>40651009 (OP)
Tech doesn't exist in dreams. It's unnatural.

>>40651009 (OP)
chat prompts? i've dreamed of discord chats before, as in like messages that other people send to influence me in a dream, to make a certain scenario happen, is this what you're talking about? these messages did seem real to me, messages of my friends, of people i don't like too, they had text in them that i was able to read in the dream.

>>40651009 (OP)
I take a bunch of photos with my phone in dreams.
Then when I wake up they're not in my phone gallery.
I hate it.
>>40651313
Light switches not working is usually my hint to realize I'm in a dream and things aren't real.

>>40652052
Right (I fail to see the relevance)

>>40654535
It certainly feels like trying to break a barrier of sorts. I've dreamed of traveling to beds of people I know and see them sleeping, trying to wake them up. Idk if making a phone call would be part of a similar event.

>>40651139
This makes sense. We also use fingers, hands with phones, keyboards... so the body being asleep would make this extra cumbersome on top of the logic part of brain being partly shut.

>>40654867
Discord, IRC etc. In dreams I can never seem to get a word or number right, feels like I'm trying to correct it forever. Maybe it's because... >>40654813 ...a fair point; everything else in (my) dreams is quite fluent, flowing and natural. If using tech comes easy for you while in dreams, perhaps your accustomed to using phones, computers and it is a second nature to you. Even guns or cars seem to function well compared to technical communications. Perhaps these limits are subjective, perhaps brain/subconscious is mixing tele-communication with some other sort of communication in dreams; using a phone is odd sort of magic if you take a look what is actually happening outside the practical side of it. We (most of us anyway) are also slaves to the fact we need to answer calls and reply to messages asap, when it is actually an unhealthy habit and disturbs our peace of mind day to day.