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If a mobile (cell, handy) phone is part of your life, do your dreams include reference to it?

The other night I dreamed that I left mine in someone's car. That struck me as odd because it may have been the first time one of my dreams included such a reference - even though I'm constantly on my phone during waking hours.

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[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Almost never. And neither do computers in general, now that I think about it. Which is weird considering how much time I spend using them.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Same here come to think about it. That's weird too.

[-] kindenough@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago

Yes and they are always broken. I can never contact anyone.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

That's weird. Is it because your simulation server is offline for maintenance?

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

They didn't pay for premium dreams

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I used to keep my phone under my pillow(no night table) with an alarm on it.

“Stressed” is not lightly used when I talk about how it felt for my phone to go off and not stop. Alarm off, power off, under a pillow, thrown away, even smashed and snapped in two it would always keep ringing because, of course, in the real world it was under my head and never changing. Once I woke up proper and turned it off the silence was painful and I felt so unrested I very nearly cried.

It’s not an “emotional” nightmare, i.e. it didn’t pull at anything heavy on my mind or anything, but it was torturous as a “physical” one.

[-] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I've had this same dream but with an old clock radio I used as an alarm. Not even removing the 9v battery would shut it off in my dream.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Haha you get me. But man, just the battery? I would have eventually smashed it to pieces with my bare hands, blinked, and it’d still be there like nothing had happened at all.

[-] swiftcasty@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

One time I knew I was dreaming and I dreamt something I wanted to remember when I was awake. So I whipped out my iPhone and opened up the notes tab. I was halfway through writing when I realized it wouldn't be on my waking life phone when I awoke.

[-] Pietson@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

I don't usually dream but I did have a dream recently where my phone got totally destroyed and it bummed me out since I wouldn't be eligible for the Google pixel 8a trade-in anymore

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

jesus fucking christ

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

I don't recall ever interacting with my phone in my dreams.

[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 9 points 5 months ago

Usually not and I always found it weird. In the rare occasion a smartphone appears in a dream it's always impossible to use, like nothing works correctly. I actually had a dream today where I was lost and Google Maps was giving some very bad instructions.

Strangely enough I don't think I've ever dreamt of a computer even though most of my day is spent in front of one.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yes. But usually it doesn’t want to work (try to dial someone and I can’t dial properly or trying to find my car and Siri or maps won’t work).

[-] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

This is usually a tell for me that I'm dreaming. I frequently try to check the time only to find that it doesn't make any sense.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

I wonder how much your age has to do with it?

I'm in my mid 40s, and didn't have a mobile until I was about 19 or 20, and smart phones didn't become popular until I was probably in my mid 20s. They just weren't a part of my formative years.

[-] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

Never thought about it till now but that's strange. I dream often and I spend at least 8 hours working on the computer each day. But I never came across one in my dream. I also never used a phone in my dreams.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

They will now.

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 6 points 5 months ago

Never, and I remember my dreams every night. Interesting question that I had never thought about.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

No, but what about my wake dreams?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Never, which is weird because I'm on my phone all day long. I never dream about phones or computers.

[-] EssentialNPC@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Generally, no, but it did last night. We had moved into a new house, and we were trying to tell Uber Eats which train station we were closest to so our delivery person could get off at that station before driving to our house.

We do not love near a train station. It was weird as dreams tend to be.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

Yes. In fact I've heard that being unable to dial a phone is something that is common in dreams. That's how I wake up in a lot of dreams. I'm trying to text someone or dial a phone number and can't do it.

[-] Acamon@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Very rarely. Which is odd now you point it out!

[-] Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Yes, but I can never type in the password correctly. So I don't get to use it when it does appear.

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I never dream.

[-] pixeltree 3 points 5 months ago

I'll dream that I check the time on my phone when I'm laying in bed in the morning and it'll say something an hour or two after I'm supposed to be up and working and I'll wake up without realizing I was asleep and start getting up before realizing what just happened

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Yes and no. You could technically say I would be on it in my dreams as a kind of interpretation, but I never see what I'm on if on anything, just that I'm browsing in the dream equivalent of fullscreen.

[-] Handrahen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I have had several nightmares where I lost my phone and embarked on progressively hellish journeys to get it back. The details of these nightmares are hazy in my memory now, I only really remember feeling lost and afraid, and enormously relieved when I woke up.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, sometimes.

[-] classic@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

Just this morning, in a dream, my friends and I were recording a Sasquatch like creature on our phones

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Sometimes, my worst nightmare is dropping my phone and shattering.

[-] Marighost@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I've had at least one dream where I used my phone to message a friend something (which is something I do every day). I can't recall any other specific times, but I feel like I've seen it a few times.

Don't think I've seen my computer though.

[-] uriel238 2 points 5 months ago

Yep. But it has an unusable interface. And I'll try the LLM, Call mom! and find that I can't get it to place a call.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I only ever really noticed them when I was actively lucid dreaming and my subconscious was feeding them to me as lucidity hooks. Using technology in dreams doesn't really work and telling time is the most basic regular thing you could check if you're dreaming with.

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