Thread: Books in my dream?

Hey, something has been bugging me. If I manage to get a good lucid, can I read a book in it? I heard you can read extra fast, but how does one become able to do this? Thanks.

Hmm generally it's very hard to focus on words and write and read etc in dreams. I remember when I was young I used to fall asleep reading a book, and then have a dream where I was trying to read but I couldn't focus on the words. A while ago i had a dream where I was trying to chat up some girl in a deli and I tried giving her my number... it took me forever to write my phone number because I just couldn't focus on the writing... quite frustrating.

However, a while ago I had a dream where I was text messaging a girl and I could both write and read the messages clearly enough... strange.

Reading books is hard I have heard. Becouse letters arn't natural. Your mind can't make them up as easy... It's like the blind-point in your eyes, your brains can't create a triangle out of nothing, but it can fill in a part of a cow, I think at least.

So if you would be able to read you would have to know the text really good, know it visually. And becouse of that, yes you could read it fast.

But I do not really know. Never had an LD. I might try reading. It might be like a shortcut to find some awnsers or something.

Kind crazy but I wrote a dream journal about the dream I was dreaming, hahaha. I even add some information that I did not see in the dream but did make sense. I clearly remember the words and drawings, how can this be possible?

Originally posted by MCB
Kind crazy but I wrote a dream journal about the dream I was dreaming, hahaha. I even add some information that I did not see in the dream but did make sense. I clearly remember the words and drawings, how can this be possible?

I think becouse you wrote it yourself... and not Read it... Maybe becouse you wrote it down you Tough you know you could read it, but you just though what you wrote...

Or maybe, you have a brain that's good in what ever it needs to read in dreams.

Originally posted by blindside398
Hey, something has been bugging me. If I manage to get a good lucid, can I read a book in it? I heard you can read extra fast, but how does one become able to do this? Thanks.

Whoever told you that they could read extra fast, wasn't reading. The Dream decided to simply transfer a lot of info very quickly. Ordinarily in dreams it is difficult to read because the print keeps changing... it wiggles around. When Books are used in dreams as symbols, then often other modes besides printing are used to convey the necessary meanings. For Instance, in one dream in which I was reciting the Lord's Prayer (what the Catholics call the "Our Father") I was presented with a Holy Book which had a panel of light where the Title would have been expected to be. The Panel of Light seemed to be able to meter the intensity and vibrancy of the Prayer, because I noticed that at the more important words and phrases the light would increase, and on the more minor sections, decrease.

Besides, the Saints of all Religions have more or less agreed to downplay the importance of books, which will never suffer much for it, since so many more intellectuals will always come to swear by them. But it is a famous observation from the East that 'when one possesses the Consciousness of Truth, it is everywhere an ocean, when all the Vedas combined are as only a drop of water'. You see, books are a step away from Direct Knowledge. Books are helpful devices, certainly (or I would not be writing, for that matter), but they can be transcended.

Not being able to read in dreams is a complete myth, I have read many things(actually read it I still remember seeing the words on the box) like two nights ago, I was looking for a movie on these bookshelves, and they turn into like a store. So I kinda forget about the movie and start looking at different things and reading what they were. When I pick up the thing called "Jacob's Game (then some caption about dreams and no cd required)" Well I have never read a book in my dreams before though, that is probably a challenge in itself since you have to make the book up as you go and have entire pages imagined at once so you might end up making most of the page kinda weird like it was just out of your point of focus. But reading short things is definately posible.

I think where you heard of the reading fast has nothing to do with actually reading in your dream. It's when you "read" a large portion of text (in real life), although you don't remember any of it. I.E., pages of text is flashed at you or book pages being turned over one after another while you scan them quickly. If done right all the information you have "read" is stored in your subconcious. So then when in a lucid dream you can access the information, and it will be correct to what you have read in real-life. Quite fascinating, though I'm sure it's nearly impossible to achieve, though has been done.

Originally posted by blindside398
Hey, something has been bugging me. If I manage to get a good lucid, can I read a book in it? I heard you can read extra fast, but how does one become able to do this? Thanks.

not sure.

although i've had a lucid dream where i attempted, which might be of interest to you.

i was sitting in my kitchen, trying to read a book (not yet lucid). in my dream i made an effort to concentrate, as i do often while reading if i lose concentration and find my eyes passed over the last page, but i can't remember a word they read.

so, as i attempt to 'resume' reading, i notice the letters/words are all moving around. at this point i go 'aha, i must be dreaming'. so then i'm sitting there, lucid, trying to read. but everytime i focus on a particular point on the page, it goes kinda fuzzy, in a inch by inch square, and i can catch glimpses of simple words ("and', and "the' i'm pretty sure) moving away from where i am focusing. their movement is similar to how two positive magnets repel each other.
my point of awareness was like a magnetic forcefield an inch squared, and all the words were repelled by it.

i even thought in my dream ' c'mon asher, concentrate! just because some people claim you can't read in lucid dreams doesn't mean anything. its probably just a mindblock".

so, after a minute or so of this, i woke up.

in answer to your question, i think its possible. after all, i was catching short words every now and then, and everything was definitely letters, not wierd hyroglifecs (man, that's way off). it was definitely the trippiest LD i've had yet.

I've read text in an LD scenario several times. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's hard. Remembering what you've read? Sometimes easy, sometimes impossible.

Reading is difficult because focusing is difficult. Your brain works differently when you are asleep.

However, getting information from a book should not be difficult at all. For example, remember the way you get when you're in the middle of a good book? You're not really consciously focusing on the words at all. You could easily duplicate that in a dream by not really focusing on words and letters; focus on getting information instead. The letters might look hazy or fuzzy or might not even be there; but you'd still be reading, or at least what passes for it.