I have a recurring stress dream about needing to type a message urgently on my phone and the touch screen keyboard not registering any of the right letters.
It’s similar for me too, but a bit broader. My brain apparently can’t convincingly simulate any digital user interfaces. No PC, phone or anything else like that works correctly in my dreams.
It’s actually one of the most consistent ways I have to figure out that I am currently dreaming.
The parts of your brain involved in symbolic language are less active when you’re asleep, and since interfaces like that are basically all symbols your brain has a hard time understanding any symbols it remembers or making sense of anything it can put together. The part that remembers stuff is still going strong though.
So basically you know what a computer is and how it should work, but you’re trying to use an interface you’ve never used before in a language you don’t speak that was designed by a person with uncertain notions about where icons and windows should go or how they move.
In most cases it’s easier for the dream to just say “and then you clicked the button to do the thing”, like it does with signs and stuff.
Yeah, that’s mostly what happens in my dreams. I need to call someone, but the keyboard of the phone doesn’t work correctly, or only the last 1-2 digits stay on screen. Or I need to login and the keyboard doesn’t work correctly.
I think, I just don’t have enough space to keep that many things consistently in memory at the same time without forgetting something.
They literally do…
I have a recurring stress dream about needing to type a message urgently on my phone and the touch screen keyboard not registering any of the right letters.
I miss physical keyboards.
It’s similar for me too, but a bit broader. My brain apparently can’t convincingly simulate any digital user interfaces. No PC, phone or anything else like that works correctly in my dreams.
It’s actually one of the most consistent ways I have to figure out that I am currently dreaming.
The parts of your brain involved in symbolic language are less active when you’re asleep, and since interfaces like that are basically all symbols your brain has a hard time understanding any symbols it remembers or making sense of anything it can put together. The part that remembers stuff is still going strong though.
So basically you know what a computer is and how it should work, but you’re trying to use an interface you’ve never used before in a language you don’t speak that was designed by a person with uncertain notions about where icons and windows should go or how they move.
In most cases it’s easier for the dream to just say “and then you clicked the button to do the thing”, like it does with signs and stuff.
Makes a lot of sense.
My dreams managed to conjure my Mac login screen which, pretty impressive. Let me try to log in for quite a while as my panic increased.
Yeah, that’s mostly what happens in my dreams. I need to call someone, but the keyboard of the phone doesn’t work correctly, or only the last 1-2 digits stay on screen. Or I need to login and the keyboard doesn’t work correctly.
I think, I just don’t have enough space to keep that many things consistently in memory at the same time without forgetting something.
A few days ago, there was a post about a BlackBerry with an Android OS coming to market.
You can already get a unihertz titan, it is what i’m typing on now. :)
Hey, I’ve seen this one before!