It Is Impossible To Read While Dreaming?!?

To start off: I have never had a lucid dream. I am quite knew to the idea of lucid dreaming and had a question.

A friend fo mine who read several books on lucid dreaming said that one technique used to "trigger" you mind into knowing you are dreaming is to try and read in your sleep. Appearently text in dreams is never the same twice. So if you looked at a stop sign it might say STOP the first time and if you looked at it again it would say TOSP or something like that.

So, he said that while you are awake everytime you read something you should look away and then look back and reread it. This will train you that everytime you read something you will automatically reread it. When you are asleep you will read something look back and see it has changed... then you know you are dreaming and can have a lucid dream.

Is this a true and documented fact that text changes in your dreams?? I wonder why if it is true.

Yup its true but theres more to learning lucid dreaming than simply reading everything twice :D

If you want to learn take a look at the main site at some of the info and tutorials.

Its not 100% but it does change a lot. For some people its almost always. The same works for looking at digital clocks, the time will change each time you look. I remeber a long time ago I went lucid looking at a stop sign, the second time I looked at it, it said toast.

Its not nessisarily true. I knwo this beacse I read in my lucid dreams sometimes. Ill pick up a magazine article and read it, so i knwo im dreaming, but can still read...

i havent done much reading in my lucid dreams, only to determine if its actually a dream. sometimes i can read words but if i look away and then back it is always scrambled and doesn't want to change back to legible english. i guess its your level of control which can determine if you can read in a lucid dream, just like other tasks.

once in a normal dream, i read some text on a paint can like, 5 times, and it was the same (still not convinced i was dreaming or not, i tried putting my finger through my hand and that didnt work either.) when i am dreaming and i am about to become lucid, its more of the "feeling" you are dreaming (this may not be the same for you)

I suppose that it depends on how powerful your mind is, or the strength of the lucid dream that determines weather or not you can read in your dreams.

btw peoples: soth is back for a while :wink:

Nope, you can definitely read in dreams, more successfully in non-lucid ones though. Reading is a lot about what you expect to see, rather than what's actually in front of your eyes. We've all seen the example with some text of jumbled up words, with just the first and last letter in the correct places, and we all know that we can read that.

In case you haven't all seen it, read this:

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch cmopleetd at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod aearpr, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig isn't it?"

You should be able to read that more or less fine, except maybe if you don't speak English too well. :wink: We can read this basically because our brain makes a guess at what the word is without paying much attention to it. The same is true during dreams; you'll be able to read casually because it's more your mind making up the text than you actually seeing it.

However, it is true that if you try to read something, and look away then read it again, it's likely to change. This is because when you do that you're really concentrating on reading the word, not just reading it casually. So you'll notice that it does change in a dream.

And...finally, I think that the reason text and numbers aren't constant in a dream is either that your mind is creating the world around you dynamically, and not keeping many things constant, or it could be that the parts of your brain that recognise symbols aren't fully active whilst you sleep.

If there was a topic of "Common Misconceptions about Lucid Dreaming", this one would be relatively close to the top. Stephen LaBerge himself in EWLD writes that he was able to read in dreams despite what other people said later, so it's probably something to do with what your mind expects and thus that being what it provides.

I read in my dreams all the time; books, mags, emails. I've learned to go back to pages I've read as a test and text is the same.

Happened last night which is why I decided to research it again. I had a dream my new boyfriend was cheating on me. I caught him and he kept emailing me to apologize. I could go back and read the sentences and all the details on the email. There were graphics and all. Is that a sign or just new relationship jitters? LOL

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Originally Posted by missladyklm

I read in my dreams all the time; books, mags, emails. I've learned to go back to pages I've read as a test and text is the same.

Happened last night which is why I decided to research it again. I had a dream my new boyfriend was cheating on me. I caught him and he kept emailing me to apologize. I could go back and read the sentences and all the details on the email. There were graphics and all. Is that a sign or just new relationship jitters? LOL

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You know... The last post was six years ago, so I don't think it's necessary to post an answer:cheeky:

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Originally Posted by Raylin

And...finally, I think that the reason text and numbers aren't constant in a dream is either that your mind is creating the world around you dynamically, and not keeping many things constant, or it could be that the parts of your brain that recognise symbols aren't fully active whilst you sleep.

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The second idea is like we having a dyslexia problem :D, i prefer to the first one :D

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Originally Posted by Kaniaz

If there was a topic of "Common Misconceptions about Lucid Dreaming", this one would be relatively close to the top. Stephen LaBerge himself in EWLD writes that he was able to read in dreams despite what other people said later, so it's probably something to do with what your mind expects and thus that being what it provides.

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