So, Is It Possible To Read In An Ld?

. . .but I haven't seen this exact topic so far.

I was wondering if it's possible to read something coherent in an LD. I've tried to read in dreams before, but the text is swimmy, or it shifts, or it changes a minute later. That seems pretty common with other people, too. So much so that trying to read is a pretty reliable reality test. I'm just curious to see if anyone's had luck with "creating" text that's readable and memorable in a lucid dream and, if so, what their process was.

~Jacqui

I've had small pieces of text like the time be coherent in lucids. For example I remember the clock read 26:00 and I knew it was a dream because the day only has 24 hours.

I've never tried anything more advanced than that like a text but it's most certainly worth a go.

Reading is pretty easy after some practice. In the beginning when I looked at text all I saw were hyeroglyphs. Right now I can read and comprehend normal text just fine.

The rule #1 when trying to read something in a LD (not as a RC) is to never look back at the sentence. If you do so you will confuse yorself and wont be able to understand stuff.

The problem with reading is retaining stuff - anything over a few words is pretty hard to recall even if you choose to wake up immidiately after reading. Another problem is that the material is random and unexpected. Therefore there's an urge to reread the material, but remember, rereading is not desireable or impossible.


One of the experiments I've performed involved reading a cover of a book I found somewhere in my LD house. I picked up a book and looked at the cover. It didnt make much sense, but I woke up immidiately and wrote down what I remember. The cover read "German Landless Metals"... Googling the answer returned 0 results :(

really cool idea. I have read calculus books in my dreams, but comprehended very little other than a few equations. I am definately going to look through random books in my next dream!

I've read programming code in my dreams. When I first started in College in computer science, we were working on recursion. I just didn't get it. I tried and tried, but it didn't click.

Ihad a dream one night where I was still working on it, and in my dream it "clicked". I work up, made a small change to my program assignment, and it worked great. :)

I never thought of trying to read in my dreams until my husband told me I couldn't because that part of the brain is resting while your dreaming (or something like that). Ever since then I've been trying to do it. At first when I would look at a street sign, it would be a moving mess of just shapes. Eventually the letters started to make sense and now I can read headings and story titles in the newspaper, but not the actual article. It's definitely an effort to try to read, but it's getting easier.

It's totally possible to read in LDs.

In my last one I wandered through a mess of machinery looking for a specific thing. Everything was labelled and readable.

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Originally Posted by legbuh

I've read programming code in my dreams. When I first started in College in computer science, we were working on recursion. I just didn't get it. I tried and tried, but it didn't click.

Ihad a dream one night where I was still working on it, and in my dream it "clicked". I work up, made a small change to my program assignment, and it worked great. :)
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Oh man. I was once working on a Solitaire-esque game once and had some terrible problem that I couldn't resolve. I spent several hours before bed just looking through code and running the program again and again. That night, I had an extremely long and tedious dream that I was looping through my code over and over and over! It was almost worse than the night before the calculus exam that was spent doing dozens of derivatives in my dreams. :(

I also once thought I had solved a problem with a program in my dream. I woke up, turned on the light, and wrote the solution directly on my night table. Then I fell asleep again. The next morning I looked at it and it said:

Facts don't insert
further
place holding zell
end, de lete;
flip() should upartershend

Heh. :D

I've heard of people writing essays in their dreams, They imagine themselves holding it finished, they then read an memorize it, wake up and write it down.