Thread: Can't Read in LD's...

you're not supposed/shouldn't to be able to read in dreams, lucid or not. Text is one the few trusty tale-tale signs that you're dreaming. It's usually never legible, unstable and changes every time you look at it, so don't bother.

Originally Posted by reapsltd666

you're not supposed/shouldn't to be able to read in dreams, lucid or not. Text is one the few trusty tale-tale signs that you're dreaming. It's usually never legible, unstable and changes every time you look at it, so don't bother.

It is sometimes stable and a few people can read it, though. Gotta keep that in mind. Though it's a great RC for most, it can still fail, but for other people text is often very stable. For me it's like 30:70... every so often I can easily read something in a dream. I just don't come across text all that often. Last night I had a dream that I was logging into lucid dreaming chatrooms, and my name was "Shift" on DV and "Shift1" on another website, and I could read the chat and what all the other people were writing.

Originally Posted by reapsltd666

you're not supposed/shouldn't to be able to read in dreams, lucid or not. Text is one the few trusty tale-tale signs that you're dreaming. It's usually never legible, unstable and changes every time you look at it, so don't bother.

Why not bother? I always do. It's fun, even though half the time I can't read anything. BUT, half the time I can. So, in my opinion, I say, go ahead and bother...you never know what you might run into.

It's better to be an optimist than a pessimist.

I had a LD tonight.

I was doing an RC and found this book, most of the text were:

gghhg ghh ghhg hh and such.

Then I boosted my concencration and I could read the whole page in the book.

All the words were correct. (The book was about psychology )

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

I had a LD tonight.

I was doing an RC and found this book, most of the text were:

gghhg ghh ghhg hh and such.

Then I boosted my concencration and I could read the whole page in the book.

All the words were correct. (The book was about psychology )

Hmmm dream associations are fun.

That just made me realize. It would be cool to open a book in a lucid dream and have it in real time with the words showing up as you think your thoughts. Like, "Wow, I just opened this book, I thought it would be heavier. I wonder what it's gonna say inside- wait a sec... omg... it says whatever I think!" all written on the page hahaha