When I came to the forum a while ago, one of the things I read before on this site, was reading in dreams is almost impossible or is. I remember reading something saying when you try to take the time to read something, you cant focus, or the letters move around or something. Ok I experienced that a lot of times. But there is something else. I can read in my dreams, i’ve notice alot lately that i actually understand what im trying to read.
Now my question is: is this considers reading in dreams? for all i know, subconsciously i could want something to say what i think it says on the ticket. For example, my dad came back home with concert tickets (in the dream of course) and i grabbed the whole pile of them, i remember reading through each ticket and i remember stopping at the one ticket that i liked(and i read) could i just know what the ticket means? or did i read it? I think i read it(who would of thought this post would of showed up)
So lets re-phrase my question, do you think reading in dreams is possible?
Btw, so many threads these days, all these newbies are multiplying the topics…ahhhhhhhhhhh
Yes, im definitely sure reading is possible. I have experienced this myself, i have even been on this very forum and read whole posts in my NON lds.
I have also been on the ld4all chat in some of my lucid dreams, and have spoken with the dreamchars there. But yeah, if you use it as an reality check and expect words, letters to change, then they will probably do.
remember just because some people can’t read in dreams doesn’t mean its the same for everybody. For example - people say in dreams light switches don’t work properly. In my case they work just fine (except for in nightmares)
don’t fall into the trap of the Xfactor (that’s what i call it) in which someone says “you can’t do “X” in dreams because…” and then it happens to you.
I never had a problem reading in dreams until i read it here, now on occation i can’t read in dreams - thankfully sometimes i can.
over a period of 3weeks, i read banners, posters, pages in books etc. and all the time they were perfect. So yes it is deffinately possible, at least it is for me - though i do find that if i “try” to read something too hard that it becomes unclear.
I guess if you want to read properly in a dream you have to photoread it in a sence.
I can read in my dreams also. I read someplace that you aren’t supossed to be able to read in dreams because it uses one side of the brain, while dreaming uses the other. I don’t agree with this at all. I think that you use your whole brain while dreaming. Besides they say a lot of stuff is impossible but we end up doing it anyway. Shows what they know. haha
that said i’m betting a few years back Lucid Dreaming would have been “impossible” too.
they say we only use one side of our brain for things. But with breathing we alternate between sides - so why not with dreaming/writing/reading etc?
That said, just because we dream with one side of our brain it doesn’t mean the other side is inactive does it?
if you’re interested; during the day we breathe for about 40-60mins via our left nostril. then our brain swaps this function from the right side of our brain to the left, causing us to breathe through our right nostril. this changing proccess takes about 10minutes to complete.
This proccess is noticable when you have a cold as one side of your nose seems more blocked than the other, then for a brief time both feel okish then the other feels more blocked. Its the proccess of the change causing that sensation.
Ok, I think it is possible to read in dreams in a way. For those who don’t know, the left side of the brain is used for more artsy imaginative type stuff (dreams), and the right side is used for more logical, routine type stuff (reading). Now, while reading in dreams is mostly impossible, it sometimes works ok. I think this is because it’s the actual reading of the characters and translating them into letters, then words that takes place on the right side - which is why it sometimes appears jumbled and wierdy in dreams, because your left brain can’t cope all that well without the right side’s help. However, the actual intake of the meaning of writing takes place on the left side (that is, once you’ve worked out what the words are in the right side, the left side works out what they mean). So, if what you’re reading is simple then there’s a good chance you’ll be able to read it (or at least get the meaning of it) in a dream.
either my IQ went up at some point or you explained that well - cos i understood it perfectly
quite a good explination actually, makes sense.
here’s one for ya though.
About 3yrs ago i had a dream and in this dream was the formula for a new stealth aircraft that was capable of chronoshifting (time travel) and the US military guys were talking to me and a few others.
on the black/chalk board were the mathematical equations that made it possible. (clearly advanced maths, or quantum mechanics/physics) now in the dream they equations were very clear. However on waking that knowledge quickly left my memory (possibly because i don’t understand such advanced maths)
But if i close my eyes i can still picture the equations like looking at a photo negative, but i can’t copy what i am visualising onto paper. As soon as i consciously think “write that” the image vanishes (i can write fine with my eyes closed) But it’s like i am blocked from writing this math equation onto paper.
Thanks. I pride myself on my explanative abilities. Well, ok, not really. But people say I’m good at it.
Hmmm, that’s a shame - you could sell it for millions if only you could write it down! Maybe it’s because when it’s in your dream (or, indeed, when you’re imagining it) it’s sort of idunno, flexible? It’s more of an idea or concept than an actual formula, something that represents complicated maths to you, but when you try to pin it down via writing, it just vanishes. shrug
About a month ago I had a dream (not an LD) in which I was trying to solve some kind of mystery, and I found this piece of paper which was supposedly a hint. I remember picking that paper and reading it, it contained some kind of a song. I even remember what the song was about and what was its headline. But when I tried looking at it again, the text was all messed up and I couldn’t figure it out (unfortunately, it didn’t some to my mind that it’s a dream).
So in my opinion, as long as you can view the text normally, it can be read. But once it scrambles up, nothing can be done…
Thats a good question, can a cold change the outcome of how we dream? But i notice what you mean, when you cant breathe out of your nostril when you have a cold.
Is that true that we only use one side of our brain when we dream??? Im not sure if we are reading in dreams myself, i think we just manifest what we are thinking what we are seeing, and just go with the flow of how are dream is occurring.(if that made sense) Because it actually takes time to think of how or what to pronounce, unless its just a natural instinct we grow. Who knows
I can read too… and if it is something short I will remeber it. However if it is pages of scrolling text ( as I get a bit) I can read it but I seem to forget the exact words by the end of the sentance but I seem to still know the general idea of what it is about.
Yep, congradulations on your 100th.
so when we are readin, technically its just an old memories in our head, that your so used to seeing, you actually think that your reading in a dream.(ahh i think i lost myself)
once i read perfectly the word(i don´t know f is the correct term in english)PIROMANIA ;it was written in a wall and i became lucid in that moment
And usually i am writting in my dream journal…and then i wake up.this happens to me many times
In fact i don´t know why the word piromania had appear with such a strong impact in tj«hat dream , i was simply having a quiet walk in my village.
And no , i am not a pyro… but it is true that i have a lot of dreams related with fire…
For the most part I believe that we can’t really read as in take text part word by word, letter by letter. I think there’s somekind of compensation with left and right brain. For some reason we’re convinced that we can read because somehow we understand what something says, and the left brain fills in the blanks. I know when I actually try to read text I usually strain my eyes and everything is all blury or jumbled.
I had this strange dream involving cell phone text message. I lost track of a friend and then received a text message on my cell, hoping it would be her. I kinda looked at it, I couldn’t really read it, but I just somehow knew it was spam and ignored it. Now that I think back, I don’t recall actually reading any text or seeing anything clearly.
