Text in dreams.

**Pinkey209** · 09-01-2013 01:16 AM

Has anyone been able to read text in their dream? In my dreams, everyone speaks english, but when I see text it is clear as day but it looks like its a different language.

**JoannaB** · 09-01-2013 02:16 AM

Yes, I have had dreams about DreamViews for example with entire threads. I remember especially one non-lucid dream in which I participated in a DV thread which included the post that this is so weird, it is likely a dream. And yet after reading that in my dream I did not become lucid. Here is my DJ entry about that: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/joan...f-aware-44769/

**Sivason** · 09-01-2013 03:20 AM

I can read text in my dreams, but I can not get the words to stay the same, or make lots of sense. I can read a few sentences and then try to re-read it, but new words take their place. Often some letters are upside down or back words, or replaced with symbols.

**Pinkey209** · 09-01-2013 10:47 PM

Wow Joanna that was a nice entry. And sivason, that's what happened to me. While I was reading the words would change everytime I looked back at the book. And in between words were like dashes and dots.

**duke396** · 09-01-2013 11:41 PM

It varies for me. Usually if I see text it's either blurry or looks like another language like you describe. In a particularly vivid dream many times I can read it but as others said, the words will change if I look away.

I never understood why the whole unreadable text thing didn't just automatically make me lucid, lol. "last time I checked I was literate, but oh well"

**Pinkey209** · 09-02-2013 05:04 AM

Yeah reading text doesnt work for me I have to tell myself.

**DrScrambles** · 09-02-2013 06:30 AM

Similar experience for me: In my dreams the writing is always in English, but for some strange reason I can never read it - it's either too blurry or the letters keeping morphing. This has become a great reality check for me now, a dead give away that I'm dreaming and it allows me to become lucid on occasions.

**Pinkey209** · 09-02-2013 04:23 PM

Nice! Glad that works for you so well

**user5659** · 09-03-2013 02:53 PM

Yea iv read text, saw a book one week ago, it was white and red cover names - "THE MULPS"

**duke396** · 09-03-2013 09:12 PM

Last night in a dream I looked at a car dash and there were dials for weeks, days, and hours. What I'm trying to figure out at this point is whether I actually read that or did I see some scribbles and just know what it was for because of its purpose in the dream which had nothing to do with the car... Lol.

**DreamHighlander** · 09-03-2013 11:23 PM

It's pretty hard for me to read something. The words keep chenging. And writing something is extremely frustrating. It's like i'm still learning how to write.

**realdealmagic** · 09-04-2013 12:07 AM

I have read text before, but if I look away and look back it will have changed, usually.

I also had a non-lucid dream recently where I was trying to read a bit of paper and I just couldn't, not for the life of me. It was really really frustrating

**Pinkey209** · 09-06-2013 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by realdealmagic

I have read text before, but if I look away and look back it will have changed, usually.

I also had a non-lucid dream recently where I was trying to read a bit of paper and I just couldn't, not for the life of me. It was really really frustrating

Wow that's awesome! That sounds exactly what happened to me in my dream. It is really cool to see how everyone has very similar experiences.