Quote Originally Posted by liquidSamurai View Post
I've had this happen. It can be frustrating if what you want to read is interesting. I had a few dreams where I found and ancient tome that (supposedly) was full of occult knowledge. Trying to read it proved futile, as the characters just seemed to blur without blurring, hard to explain. Recently I had a dream where I needed to use a telephone but the numbers looked "foreign" with strange symbols in place of common numbers. I've plenty of dreams where store signs were legible, street signs, the interior of a car and the console on the dash, etc. It may be some mental thing where when you want to read something and really focus on it you don't have the power to, and maybe is metaphoric sign about how you view yourself?
That's when you need to get creative. Some things can't be done easily in dreams...for these, you can sometimes find a loophole. Pull out a device that will beam the information directly into your brain, or read it to you. Reading in dreams is notoriously difficult, and as people have mentioned, it is so hard and unpredictable that it actually makes a fantastic dream sign. I suppose if you're really determined and desperate to read, you can try and overcome it, but the text-to-speech solution just seems infinitely easier.