Thread: I could read in my dream but what i read was about dreaming

I think that sometimes you can read in a dream and other times you can't. I have been able to read before and other times I couldn't make anything out. I guess it just depends on the type of dream.

yea ive read stuff like stop signs in dreams but all letters are are little pictures that we asscoiate with sounds

Yeah, it always frustrates me that I can't read in dreams...whenever I try I find my eyes get all squinty, and i end up having to force my eyes open, which just wakes me up
But what about writing? I had a dream the other night where I was writing in a notebook...I have a feeling that it was really important or profound, but I can't remember what it was!
I can't remember a dream where I was able to write before, so that's what makes it so weird

I read the title of a book in a lucid dream once, I also looked at a pop up book once, but I'm sure that doesn't count as reading, I think you can read small amounts of words at one time.

letters are just pictures of lines arranged in a diffrent way thats all, so it's hard for your mind to keep track of what your reading.

I think the "reading small amount of words at a time" statement is true. I had a dream two days ago where I was holding a TI-83 calculator, (you know, one of those fancy expensive ones where you can type out messages), and I remember reading the word DENVER on someone's calculator when someone asked me a question about a sports team, and also the word KANSAS on mine as someone's last name.

I feel like an idiot, it only clicked now to me that they're both places.

re. Reading in dreams .Last night I dreamt I was reading a very ancient and sinister book in Latin which turned out to be a history of all evil .As I was half way through it I was so absorbed that I was taken into the narrative and became part of it .I was taken at night through the streets by a hideously decayed corpse Like a sort of Mephistopheles who led me past darkened houses . He whispered in my ear insinuating all the horrid events that were going on in them in secret . I was so disgusted and nauseated by the words in the book that they seemed to be physically in my own mouth like gobbets of his decaying flesh which I gagged on ,coughed up .and spat out , when I awoke I could not get rid of their bitter taste .

Necronomicon 101. How horrid!!