zzz - dream

I've had dreams like that quite a bit, actually. I can never remember where exactly the viruses come from, but they're always some sort of porn adware or a general computer killer.

this hasn't happened to me, the dreams where I have been using computers / cellphones it was more like my conscious moved inside the computer - hard to explain, like I was just watching where my perception was going.

however when I dream I can't read anything, my dream self can but I get the same feeling of watching when that happens. mostly I just roll with it

>>1069
I think I understand, I had a dream many years ago where I was looking through Windows folders and realized after waking, the folders were my own memories and emotions or at least symbolized them in the dream. Also few people can read inside a dream, and when you have the experience of doing so just try to recount what you read or wrote later. It's usually gibberish. I did read a page of my favourite novel in a dream once but I'd read it hundreds of times and basically have it memorized so that's different. Same with music, it's not real music, more like something that fills a placeholder titled "music". Again, one exception was playing a guitar riff which I've played so many times it's like I have a muscle memory of it or something and in the dream could see my fingers on the frets in the right places.

>>1073
This idea of having placeholders titled with something happens all over dreams. It's simply easier to notice when it's something such a writing or music and even then only because we know to look for it specifically. The fact that this happens all the time in dreams without us noticing draws into question how much it happens when we're awake. When you're awake and you look closer at what's behind the label your brain can actually go and look at the detail and fill it in correctly, meaning you can't catch it out in the same way. The only sensible answer to the question of how often it happens is a complete shrug, but it's pretty common knowledge that people sometimes see what they expect to see rather than what's actually there so it's at least some of the time.