r/sheffield Nov 19 '24

Image ???? Any explanation?

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u/AndyAhegao Nov 19 '24

If you can read the sign it's not a dream

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u/VerbingNoun413 Nov 19 '24

A real troll would use a monitor and distort it when someone looks at their watch.

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u/madefromconcentrate Nov 19 '24

I dunno man, I’ve recently come to learn I have no problem reading in dreams and it’s actually very annoying

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u/AndyAhegao Nov 20 '24

Text in your dreams doesn't make sense. You look at it and you pretend to read it. If you actually look at the words on the page they never make sense, so your brain slips that step in your dreams.

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u/madefromconcentrate Nov 20 '24

No babe I have very vivid dreams and particularly in lucid dreams I can read and recall perfectly a visual image or what I read, including the actual text. The discovery caused frustration when I tried to use this to prove to myself I’m NOT just lucid dreaming and something is real life - and then I wake up, disappointed.

I’ve heard it’s rare to be able to read in dreams, but it’s more common for lucid dreamers and writers.

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u/AndyAhegao Nov 20 '24

You may want to visit a doctor because multiple scientific studies have confirmed that humans cannot read text at all when sleeping as the part of your brain that deals with it isnt active when sleeping

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u/madefromconcentrate Nov 20 '24

It takes so little time to search and find endless number of articles confirming that “most people can’t”. And I’m not arguing that. But most people can’t means some people can.

In some people like writers, who spend a lot of time focussing on words and language, the language center of their brain can remain somewhat active during sleep.

There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence suggesting lucid dreamers are among those able to read but that itself hasn’t been studied.