Skeptomania - Paranormal / UFOs, etc.

TheMadHobbit · Subway Tolkien

I have read elsehwere in various dream books that one cannot "read in dreams".

Yet the other night I had a pretty vivid dream about some surreal experience reading proposals and I awoke realizing that I was actually dreaming about READING the proposals.

So vivid was the dream that one particular word followed me into consciousness. It was typed in an appraisal of one of my idea proposals, and in the dream it struck me as an odd choice.

Now it is a cool word in my vocabulary - yup - that's right -

RIDICULOCITY

asmodee

I have noticed that I am completely unable to read in my dreams. It can be damned annoying. Sometimes I will look at the paper and know what it says and sometimes I have even seen the letters, but I was completely unable to make them out. That you can read in your dreams while the rest of us cannot proves that you are a witch. Wait right here while I get my pitch fork and fire.

chefkathleen

He's a Hobbit. That should explain everything. He has furry feet, likes elvin wine and tequila and lives in a hobbit hole. What'd you expect?

Yaish · Intel Chief

I heard it was because supposedly different parts of the brain are involved in each process.
However, I think like most brain processes, what was once thought the sole domain of one area is usually a concert of several parts at once. I'm not particularly surprised you could read Hob, though I can't remember reading in any of my dreams.

I also can't remember NOT being able to read, but then dreams are fairly new to me again, so I don't have a lot of history to go on.

Raven · Google Meister

I can only remember being able to clearly read anything in a dream once, that's where my full screen-name came from (RavenStarr—I wrote it as a signature, and remembered it all very clearly when I woke up, and I don’t remember ever seeing it before in any manner). Anything else I’ve ever "read" in a dream before came entirely out of memory... which is where the flaw in "reading" in a dream actually comes in... it's not so much that dreaming and reading are on "different sides of the brain", its more of the fact that dreams rely on memory. Basically, when you "read" in a dream, you're mostly just staring at stock-footage; people who can't "read" in a dream just have less stock-footage to work with...

Gren · God Of Oreos

Nobody sleeps in dreams either because then there'd be that sleep's dreams, and if that sleep's dreams also included sleeping, well, you'd get one of those infinity things going, like when two mirrors oppose. Insanity via neural meltdown, a cerebral explosion, would result.

chefkathleen

cool. would brains start leaking out ears? All melty and stuff?

I can hear the zombies now, "BRAINS, BRAINS!"