Thread: I can read...?!

As far as I know, some people can read in their dreams.

Yes, you can read in dreams and you don't even have to be lucid for that.

You can read in dreams, it's just rare. The text may change though, just like on a dream watch/clock. I've read about it, and also writing and doing math is rare too. I remember writing something in a dream before. Maybe it was just drawing.

I can 100% guarantee you that I've read in dreams, but the thing is that I've forgotten the words from the dreams. I distinctly remember waking up once and remembering how I read a word. I can't remember the full word, but I DO remember it started with "Ro".

You mentioning a tavern remind me of a dream I had about a year ago. I saw this written on a golden sign over the door of a cheap bar:

The Pirates
90% beer
All with straws

And the words are longer in my own language.

I've read in my dreams before. I was looking something up my notes, but all I found was a piece of paper saying to look at the first paper I'd written. o.0

I think it's fairly common to be able to read something the first time. I haven't heard many stories about people being able to read the same thing twice though.

I read the same thing written at two different points in the dream, but not when I looked away and then looked back.

And thanks for the replies y'all!

i can read in my dreams. the problem with words in dreams is that they are very unstable, if you look at a word once then look away and then look back it could be something entirely different, which is a great way to realize you are dreaming

Originally Posted by killguta

I can 100% guarantee you that I've read in dreams, but the thing is that I've forgotten the words from the dreams. I distinctly remember waking up once and remembering how I read a word. I can't remember the full word, but I DO remember it started with "Ro".

In a dream I had last night I read a full sentence, and it remained that way.

In another dream, I was fiddling with my alarm clock, trying to turn it off, and for the alarm button, instead of saying "alarm", it said "je dours", which is french gibberish. I put it down and walked away from it a few times yet the text remained the same.

It's possible to read, it's just impossible to re-read. The words will be different.

Originally Posted by Arutad

It's possible to read, it's just impossible to re-read. The words will be different.

In my doppelganger nightmare all the soldiers in my nightmare have names and rank on there uniforms that didnt morph. allthough i dont remember any of the names i know there was a major in command of our squad.

Originally Posted by Calypso

In my doppelganger nightmare all the soldiers in my nightmare have names and rank on there uniforms that didnt morph. allthough i dont remember any of the names i know there was a major in command of our squad.

Were those names written down, and did you read them and reread them a second time?

It is common for people to have trouble reading in dreams. Does not mean it is impossible. Does not mean it is unlikely, either... It happens often. To many people. And those with better dream recall (i.e. us.) would have a better chance of remembering it.

Originally Posted by Arutad

It's possible to read, it's just impossible to re-read. The words will be different.

Here, I have to disagree, I has re-read many times, up to 5 or 6 times, and the most change is a letter with no accent to one with accent... or "el" for "del"
But yeah, reading isn't impossible, just as electronics work for some people, just that its common they don't <.<

Originally Posted by Arutad

Were those names written down, and did you read them and reread them a second time?

they where on the uniforms and yes i read them multiple time, allthough i cant quite remember any of them excpet oberlies becuase hes a real person, but the major started with an L

there was a cupple of specialists and a cupple ncos, i remember them actually having names, like i knew them.

Yeah, it's definitely possible to re-read things Arutad. When it comes to dreaming, pretty much everything is.

You're scaring me slightly. I used the re-reading trick every time when I became confused and couldn't tell whether I was in a LD or reality. So far it never failed.

I re-read the time in a dream car last night and it was the same time, I checked it twice because right after I looked the first time, outside changed from pitch black to an extremely sunny O_o
I swear I must have done several things that should have made me lucid...but that's sort of off topic

I was scrapbooking in a dream, and one thing that I had done "previously" was a word stamp, and it said hello or something

Originally Posted by Arutad

You're scaring me slightly. I used the re-reading trick every time when I became confused and couldn't tell whether I was in a LD or reality. So far it never failed.

If you think the text will, change then it most likely will. And most dreams aren't stable enough for you to be able to re-read stuff anyway...

I can read in dreams too, but the text doesnt make sense when I read it.
Those who can read in dreams they are very advanced in LD's, or are just super talented and intellectual. Its a really rare thing indeed, sometimes the messages contain important information which could in reality change your entire human life.

Originally Posted by Hidden

If you think the text will, change then it most likely will. And most dreams aren't stable enough for you to be able to re-read stuff anyway...

I always thought that re-reading the text is not connected to the expectations but to the limits of brain-work in dreams and that it can't be a subject to the dream control. Now I'm not entirely convinced of that either, what people say is not completely convincing, one saw single names written, another time on the clock.

Single names' problem is that it's a small amount of information that can be visually imagined liek a picture instead of re-read. Counting is also visual in dreams, somehow I can only can there up to 6 or 7 (already without certainty whether it's 6 or 7 at this stage), and objects grouped in larger groups than 6-7 don't yield to precise counting. I think the explanation for this is that the memory for counting relies on visual representation: you remember how 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 objects look as a group. Could be the same with single names that consist of a limited number of letters, and with time on clock, which is comprised of only 4 digits.

So it would be more convincing if somebody, instead of giving an example with a limited quantity of characters\digits, would speak about re-reading the whole sentence...

Also before I had my final exam at math I actually did some practice in my dream. That involves both reading and writting. So it is posibble, however, usually it doesn't make sense but its still something interesting to do.

A couple nights ago, I had a very long dream, and I remember clearly reading big signs with lots of words. I don't remember the words, but they were clear.