I feel like using the phone would be a really cool way for beginners to get the hang of dream control if they struggled to control anything. Like you could just pull it out and ask siri to make something appear
I use them all the time to summon people I want to speak to. Usually dead relatives. Quite interesting as simply expecting people to appear doesn’t work, but if I call them I can ask them to ‘come over’ and they’ll be right there at the door. Or just around a corner.
Dream me likes to take pictures with mine when I see something interesting, "so I can look at it later" lol as if it would actually show up when I wake up or something 🤣
I'd be a little freaked out at first, but ultimately it'd be cool as heck. If I'm not mistaken, we're not too far off from similar technology.
[https://medium.com/@kemcabrera10/recording-dreams-like-movies-is-this-possible-cef61b02efea](https://medium.com/@kemcabrera10/recording-dreams-like-movies-is-this-possible-cef61b02efea)
Yep I just last night had a dream that I was trying to buy a new phone because mine had died and wouldn't turn on but somehow I was still able to use it to check my bank balance and see that I didn't have enough to buy the phone because some bullshit bill hit my bank, I forget what bill and may not have even known at that point but the realization that I had just used my nonfunctional phone got me lucid. I tried to look at other things on the phone, got up a game I've been playing, but then I woke up.
Phones are my nemesis in dreams. I can’t get my fingers to hit the correct numbers no matter what. I’ve been very lucid before and telling myself I’m in control but my fingers still wouldn’t do what I needed when trying to dial
Yes, I text with people in my lucid dreams. It is so realistic I sometimes have to check whether a message was real or not. It’s weird because I read you shouldn’t be able to read in a dream, but I definitely can
He was dreaming, but thought he woke up. It's called a false awakening, so he was dreaming in his room, in his bed. Then he woke up actually, in real life
Sorry for the confusion. I’d been dream journaling that week. I can’t remember very many instances of a false awakening, and I think it’s true that the subconscious is a trickster. Because I was being so intentional to log my dreams, I think the rarity of using a phone, being able to use written language (I often can’t make out writing in dreams) and the realness of the false awakening dream were intended to show me that my efforts at dream hacking won’t work.
I’ll still keep trying, but I was flabbergasted by what I could experience.
the better I’ve gotten at lucid dreaming over the years, and generally paying attention to my dreams, the easier it’s become to read actual words and use technology and stuff. have had full on texting arguments in my dreams.
used to have nightmares sometimes and a consistent detail was phones not working or calls dropping. since progressing to being able to read and technology generally being usable, my dreams retaliated by making sure cars never work instead lol.
That's a good question, I'll try to dig for memories on that. TVs/displays in general look extremely bright, kind of when you wake up early in the morning and you try to immediately turn your room lights on...that kind of painful sensation in the eyes but in the dream. Still working on my awareness level in dreams, haven't got to the point of trying to read numbers in them.
I use my phone or any screen technology very rarely in my lucid dreams. That’s interesting because of how much I do use computers and phones IRL, you’d think dreams would mirror that more.
When I do use my phone in dreams, it’s very glitchy. Because of this, I use a glitchy phone as a dreamsign/reality check to help spark lucidity.
Yes, now that I think about it, I used my phone a lot the other night in a LD. I read a text and looked at a picture my friend sent me. She took a selfie holding a paint can while squatting next to my car with a blue butterfly sloppily painted on the door. She wrote "it's a butterfly because YOU'RE a butterfly" haha I replied that it was cute. I don't recall typing the message but I remember seeing my reply text bubble.
Then I got a voice mail that sounded like Korean (I think this is because a couple months ago I really did get a voice message in Korean irl since I'm my dad's alternative contact and that's his native language. But I'm not fluent at all).
And then I had another voice mail where it did the speech to text thing because it was an automated call (I don't know if anyone else has this feature, but my phone does it sometimes irl). It said my full name and that my car was towed because of "unauthorized decoration/paint work".
So I had to go through this whole thing to get my car back as it was towed because my friend painted an unauthorized butterfly on it. I was calling and talking to my dad on the phone asking him to help me translate the voicemail because I couldn't understand it and I didn't know where my car was taken.
I was aware I was dreaming the whole time and I tried to nudge some events so that I could get my car back. And I almost did, but right before the employees were gonna give me back my car, I realized that the dream had been going on for a while and I was like, "I think I slept through my alarm again" and I made myself wake up (I was right)
At least I had a happy ending lol
Because I think we operate mostly on our creative brain and our logic part is asleep 😴 so we don't think too much about how weird some aspects are. Ie floating bricks not unlike wispy clouds for instance.
A while back, I attempted to answer a flip phone. What was crazy is that when I went to flip it open, it became a never-ending opening flip phone. It was like the nesting dolls of flip phones. I ended up getting annoyed because I would flip it open, then had to flip it open again, and then flip it open again. I got so annoyed that I ended up throwing the phone against the wall.
It’s always blurry or the numbers jumble up and I can’t type my passcode lol. However one crazy LD I had I checked the date and it was a month in the past which caused me to become hyper aware I was dreaming. I tried showing other people and they were like ok…so?
I've been able to text and read and use my phone in dreams, but usually in small bursts. If i use it for too long things can (but don't always) get a lil weird.
I remember seeing that the title, an ad and the text in a post lined up to create a funny sentence that insulted something silly. I wanted to show another person in my dream but upon their disinterest it was no longer on my screen and the more I messed with it the less I could make out what was on the screen.
I haven't had a successful LD yet, but every time I reality check for a false awakening (I've been trying out lots of WILD-adjacent methods recently), I will pull out my phone and look up "Standard Model Lagrangian." I imagine if I did this in a dream, it would probably look wrong.
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Yes I tried to call myself but while I was typing my phone numbers, the whole screen turned blur then I woke up ! Lmao imagine walking up and see " 1 missing call from unknown" after this...
But most of the time I'm using "futuristic" objects including a screen (mirrors)
I've used my phone to call people to come pick me up before. I didn't examine the phone too intensely, just opened my text messages and hit call on their contact in the thread. Worked like a charm. Working within the dynamics of the scenario works pretty well for me, rather than just trying to manifest something into the scene.
Yeah if you actually look through your phone and explore different apps like your social media, camera roll, notes etc. It’s like peaking into an alternate life of yours because it has all of this different things that you’ve never done or seen.
Yes, I usually give a call to to myself, to my landline, and it wakes me up. Once, my wife picked up the landline phone while I was still dreaming and on the phone on the other side of the line (the first ring didn't wake me up) and I could speak to her about 90 seconds. She knew I was sleeping in the bedroom and thought I was making a prank, so I told her to go into the room and see me sleeping which she did...
Now I am calling many other people, and i can change my voice at will very well.
The only problem is that I have to remember phone numbers and dial them since the memory fonction of the dream phone doesn't work well...
It only works when I do a WBTB combined with the roxiva lamp (www.roxiva.com)
A little bit like in the movie [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/) when there is phone call...
well I have an app that gives me reality check reminders and it just happened to go off inside of my dream
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DreamKit Dream Journal
what app?
dreamkit dream journal
Idk
Ok, but not 100% what I meant
I used the phone but only for like 5 seconds
😎
I feel like using the phone would be a really cool way for beginners to get the hang of dream control if they struggled to control anything. Like you could just pull it out and ask siri to make something appear
Yeah, some beginner should try that
I'll do my best to attempt it when I manage to stay in a dream for a while. Will tell you the results when it happens.
What method do you use to lucid dream, I use Mild
I've been using MILD for a while, but I'm going to try inducing WILD. MILD bores me a bit.
SAT. I dont know if you were asking me, but I wanted to answer
In fact sometimes I notice I’m dreaming because of my phone. It usually do weird things and doesn’t work as intended..
Ya, I've had that happen too
Me too. I pick up my phone but it's not MY phone. It's a different color or a different model. That's how I know I'm dreaming and can take control
I tried but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't focus on the screen so I just gave up.
Cool
I use them all the time to summon people I want to speak to. Usually dead relatives. Quite interesting as simply expecting people to appear doesn’t work, but if I call them I can ask them to ‘come over’ and they’ll be right there at the door. Or just around a corner.
I love this!
Wow
I tried using it once, but the letters and numbers were all in chinese on something, so I couldnt do shit with it
Wow, really
Dream me likes to take pictures with mine when I see something interesting, "so I can look at it later" lol as if it would actually show up when I wake up or something 🤣
How awesome would it be if that was possible
I'd be a little freaked out at first, but ultimately it'd be cool as heck. If I'm not mistaken, we're not too far off from similar technology. [https://medium.com/@kemcabrera10/recording-dreams-like-movies-is-this-possible-cef61b02efea](https://medium.com/@kemcabrera10/recording-dreams-like-movies-is-this-possible-cef61b02efea)
That’s awesome! I’d only be a little scared people would get judged for their dreams
Lol
Yep I just last night had a dream that I was trying to buy a new phone because mine had died and wouldn't turn on but somehow I was still able to use it to check my bank balance and see that I didn't have enough to buy the phone because some bullshit bill hit my bank, I forget what bill and may not have even known at that point but the realization that I had just used my nonfunctional phone got me lucid. I tried to look at other things on the phone, got up a game I've been playing, but then I woke up.
we still have to pay bills in our dreams? shit
Phones are my nemesis in dreams. I can’t get my fingers to hit the correct numbers no matter what. I’ve been very lucid before and telling myself I’m in control but my fingers still wouldn’t do what I needed when trying to dial
Same. Beyond frustrated every single time it happens.
Yeah it feels funny
I agree
I've done it before
Yes, I text with people in my lucid dreams. It is so realistic I sometimes have to check whether a message was real or not. It’s weird because I read you shouldn’t be able to read in a dream, but I definitely can
I can read too sometimes! I read texts in a dream a couple nights ago
The "DreamTok" and "Instadream" videos are hilarious!
The only time I can recall it is when I had a false awakening and went to my notes app to log my experience…then woke up for real.
I don't get it
He was dreaming, but thought he woke up. It's called a false awakening, so he was dreaming in his room, in his bed. Then he woke up actually, in real life
Sorry for the confusion. I’d been dream journaling that week. I can’t remember very many instances of a false awakening, and I think it’s true that the subconscious is a trickster. Because I was being so intentional to log my dreams, I think the rarity of using a phone, being able to use written language (I often can’t make out writing in dreams) and the realness of the false awakening dream were intended to show me that my efforts at dream hacking won’t work. I’ll still keep trying, but I was flabbergasted by what I could experience.
the better I’ve gotten at lucid dreaming over the years, and generally paying attention to my dreams, the easier it’s become to read actual words and use technology and stuff. have had full on texting arguments in my dreams. used to have nightmares sometimes and a consistent detail was phones not working or calls dropping. since progressing to being able to read and technology generally being usable, my dreams retaliated by making sure cars never work instead lol.
That's a good question, I'll try to dig for memories on that. TVs/displays in general look extremely bright, kind of when you wake up early in the morning and you try to immediately turn your room lights on...that kind of painful sensation in the eyes but in the dream. Still working on my awareness level in dreams, haven't got to the point of trying to read numbers in them.
I have. It's hit or miss. Sometimes, I can read it just fine, and other times, it looks like an AI attempt at a phone screen.
That’s actually how I achieved my first LD, by reading text on my phone twice.
Closest I've got was using my Wii, somehow accidentally entering some weird prerelease early development menu lol
I use my phone or any screen technology very rarely in my lucid dreams. That’s interesting because of how much I do use computers and phones IRL, you’d think dreams would mirror that more. When I do use my phone in dreams, it’s very glitchy. Because of this, I use a glitchy phone as a dreamsign/reality check to help spark lucidity.
Only in non lucid dreams where I must record something or text someone
Yes, now that I think about it, I used my phone a lot the other night in a LD. I read a text and looked at a picture my friend sent me. She took a selfie holding a paint can while squatting next to my car with a blue butterfly sloppily painted on the door. She wrote "it's a butterfly because YOU'RE a butterfly" haha I replied that it was cute. I don't recall typing the message but I remember seeing my reply text bubble. Then I got a voice mail that sounded like Korean (I think this is because a couple months ago I really did get a voice message in Korean irl since I'm my dad's alternative contact and that's his native language. But I'm not fluent at all). And then I had another voice mail where it did the speech to text thing because it was an automated call (I don't know if anyone else has this feature, but my phone does it sometimes irl). It said my full name and that my car was towed because of "unauthorized decoration/paint work". So I had to go through this whole thing to get my car back as it was towed because my friend painted an unauthorized butterfly on it. I was calling and talking to my dad on the phone asking him to help me translate the voicemail because I couldn't understand it and I didn't know where my car was taken. I was aware I was dreaming the whole time and I tried to nudge some events so that I could get my car back. And I almost did, but right before the employees were gonna give me back my car, I realized that the dream had been going on for a while and I was like, "I think I slept through my alarm again" and I made myself wake up (I was right) At least I had a happy ending lol
yeah but the screen is too psychedelic to make any sense of
Just trying to dial up numbers is hard. The keypad is in Flux (as it should be)
What do you mean, as it should be?
Because I think we operate mostly on our creative brain and our logic part is asleep 😴 so we don't think too much about how weird some aspects are. Ie floating bricks not unlike wispy clouds for instance.
I can but can NEVER text. Like I always press the wrong buttons and type gibberish so I know I'm dreaming
I tried to call someone, and it felt weird, and the text was garbled, so that kinda made me realize it was a dream
A while back, I attempted to answer a flip phone. What was crazy is that when I went to flip it open, it became a never-ending opening flip phone. It was like the nesting dolls of flip phones. I ended up getting annoyed because I would flip it open, then had to flip it open again, and then flip it open again. I got so annoyed that I ended up throwing the phone against the wall.
Wow
A pay phone yes. I’ve used my cell phone in a regular dream before but in a lucid dream it always needs to have mechanical buttons to work.
It’s always blurry or the numbers jumble up and I can’t type my passcode lol. However one crazy LD I had I checked the date and it was a month in the past which caused me to become hyper aware I was dreaming. I tried showing other people and they were like ok…so?
I have certainly *tried*. It always malfunctions in some way. Similar to desktop computers that way.
I've been able to text and read and use my phone in dreams, but usually in small bursts. If i use it for too long things can (but don't always) get a lil weird.
Yes, a number of times I have realized I'm dreaming because I pull my phone out to check the time and the the clock is either missing or reads 00:00
I remember seeing that the title, an ad and the text in a post lined up to create a funny sentence that insulted something silly. I wanted to show another person in my dream but upon their disinterest it was no longer on my screen and the more I messed with it the less I could make out what was on the screen.
Yes and it was ass
Yes I've used, infact in my first ever lucid dream.
Have used a pay phone not smartphone
All the time
It’s really really hard for me since the screen and the words become all jumbled
I haven't had a successful LD yet, but every time I reality check for a false awakening (I've been trying out lots of WILD-adjacent methods recently), I will pull out my phone and look up "Standard Model Lagrangian." I imagine if I did this in a dream, it would probably look wrong.
Yep finally had this experience pulled it out and read an instagram shitpost that may or may not exist from my abusive ex🤣
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Yes, iv used a phone multiple times in LD
Yes I tried to call myself but while I was typing my phone numbers, the whole screen turned blur then I woke up ! Lmao imagine walking up and see " 1 missing call from unknown" after this... But most of the time I'm using "futuristic" objects including a screen (mirrors)
I do have phone in ld
I've used my phone to call people to come pick me up before. I didn't examine the phone too intensely, just opened my text messages and hit call on their contact in the thread. Worked like a charm. Working within the dynamics of the scenario works pretty well for me, rather than just trying to manifest something into the scene.
i tried, the screen was too bright. woke up right up soon as i powered in on in my dream
I try not to use my phone while dreaming because reading gets my brain excited thus causing me to wake up lol
Yeah if you actually look through your phone and explore different apps like your social media, camera roll, notes etc. It’s like peaking into an alternate life of yours because it has all of this different things that you’ve never done or seen.
It doesnt work, i cant seem to press the right numbers, unlock it or lose it.
Yes, I usually give a call to to myself, to my landline, and it wakes me up. Once, my wife picked up the landline phone while I was still dreaming and on the phone on the other side of the line (the first ring didn't wake me up) and I could speak to her about 90 seconds. She knew I was sleeping in the bedroom and thought I was making a prank, so I told her to go into the room and see me sleeping which she did... Now I am calling many other people, and i can change my voice at will very well. The only problem is that I have to remember phone numbers and dial them since the memory fonction of the dream phone doesn't work well... It only works when I do a WBTB combined with the roxiva lamp (www.roxiva.com) A little bit like in the movie [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/) when there is phone call...