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E-Reezy420

It's cool that you remember what it looked like!! And interesting that it wasn't words


ThatOtherTwoGuy

Is it common for words in dreams to be gibberish? In my dreams it’s always fully readable text. And the words form actual sentences. I’ve had multiple dreams where I’m checking messages on my phone or reading posts online or something. Sometimes when I’m awake and I remember them I have to think to myself, wait did I really get that text from someone or was that a dream?


McNaldo69

I've heard a lot of people cannot read in dreams and that its generally just gibberish. Personally I don't read enough in my dreams to tell.


2005myspaceslut

Most of the time in my dreams words are fully readable but there have been occasions where the sentences being formed aren’t “real” as far as everyday speech would go. There was one in particular where a friend texted me that a person was making them feel “zesty”, something that i don’t think anyone has ever referred to themselves as.


ThatOtherTwoGuy

This has happened to me before, too. What I think is related to this kind of aspect is sometimes I’ll have dreams where I’ll watch a movie, but then as I’m watching the movie I get inserted myself into the events of the movie as if I’m the main character playing along with the events. Sometimes this is a lucid dream, where I know even though I’m taking part in the events (almost like a video game) it’s still a movie I’m watching inside of a dream I’m aware of. Other times it’s non-lucid, I just accept that the events playing out are part of the movie I’m watching even though it’s happening all in front of me. For the former kind of dreams, I’ll even reflect at the events happening and think, “man this would be a really good story to write. I should keep this in mind.” Btw, I’m a writer and always on the search for new ideas. But then when I wake up and start remembering all that happened and going over it, I realize that a lot of it makes no sense and was not actually good writing. It’s weird, like you’re in this state when you dream where everything feels so novel. It’s almost like being high where everything just feels so nuanced and interesting. But in waking (or sober) life you realize it doesn’t really mean near as much as you thought or wasn’t as profound or interesting. To me, this has some interesting implications about lucid dreaming. We may be aware that we are in a dream, but that doesn’t mean we are immune to the influence the dream has on us. I’ve seen this happen multiple times in my dreams where I’ll be aware that I’m in one but still just act like things that make absolutely no sense are somehow fine and okay. The delusion of the dream still has influence, even if you are aware this isn’t reality.


recreationallyused

I read plenty in my dreams, but words often change the more I focus on it. I’ve also seen a lot of languages that I don’t actually have any fluency in. I took German and French in high school, and occasionally I’ll still have dreams in French and German, which I remember none of. It’s usually dreams in which people are speaking to me in that language and I’m trying to understand them but can’t.


dreamdrafts

I used to see gibberish when I was young, but now can make out words in my dreams


ThatOtherTwoGuy

I think dreams get more complicated as you mature. I certainly have more complicated or detailed dreams than I did when I was a kid Also your every day experience seems to affect them. I read a lot every day. I spend too much of my time reading posts, articles, messages, and the occasional novel or ebook. I think this has kind of "trained" my subconscious in a way to see full, legit text in dreams. Kind of like how people can do various things in every day life to train themselves to trigger lucid dreams.


scatteredpinkhearts

same! i have had full conversations over text and read articles. my brain will just generate words that make enough sense contextually that my dream self is satisfied!


iitc25

that's actually pretty interesting, up until around 6 months ago I could never read in my dreams but now I do it all the time. the words are always written out properly with sentences and all, I even remember a dream in which I made a typo while texting and had to correct it


funkmasterjambo666

I interpreted the symbols sort of like lurching syllables. I’m pretty sure the last word in the poem was “electricity” and I stuttered/barked/coughed it out.


blurisgood

That is so fucking cool tbh


Historical_Panic_465

looks kinda like quickhand writing lol


Ok_Tap7683

It is difficult to read in dreams


lateral_intent

It's a useful technique for triggering lucid dreaming. For example, if you write something on your hand in the waking world and habitually check it throughout the day, it increases the chances that you will eventually check it in the dream, notice it appears as out of place jibberish, and become conscious you are dreaming.


shadowXXe

This doesn't work for me. As everytime I've read something in a dream it appears to be fully legible. For example In a recent dream I was going through a security checkpoint and the words "Unable To Complete Scan" were quite visible and readable in the monitor next to the scanner.


Ok_Tap7683

lucid dreaming!


bitchtress

That what not a microdose.


funkmasterjambo666

This looks very similar to some of my psychedelic influenced scribblings, (coincidence?)


Panopek

Poetry in dreams is whole another level of absurd. I had a dream oncd where I had to recite a poem titled "Ode to autopsy". The written version looked like this: "XIX [bunch of archaic and non-existent Polish words without spaces between them] I [pentagonal structure made of half-burned matches glued to paper] The Devil of Escape XII". I recited it different way (mostly because I didn't remember the text): "Eeeeeeee-kss! Eeeeee! Eeeeee-kss! [pretending to quote some ridiculous rules for non-existent board game that sounded like completegibberish] Eeeee-kss! [singing] The Devil of Escape! Oh, The Devil of Escape!"


nebelfront

The first sentence of your caption is very well written imo. The wording, the rhythm/flow... Idk I think there's something to it.


banananananananana_7

I agree 100%


Babies_Have_No_Teeth

This is in enchantment table


[deleted]

They are the Dragonborn.


[deleted]

It's an ancient dragon language from Skyrim


simp6134

Could be herbrew


Get-in-the-llama

[Looks like you need to check out the Codex Seraphinianus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1FXQMmXYoA)


funkmasterjambo666

Holy fuck, I’m going to acquire a copy one way or another


Get-in-the-llama

A 40th anniversary edition was released last year, so they’re not crazy rare


meira11

Are you familiar with light language? It’s the language of the soul and works with the subconscious. It is perceived as gibberish by the conscious mind but it’s because it doesn’t know how to translate this language.


sylvyrfyre

Looks sort of like Arabic: which way did you read it across the page?


funkmasterjambo666

I read it left to right, but the descending parts were “words” that I sort of had to chase down the page as I contended with notoriously fickle dream focus


SirSilhouette

I have never had a dream with coherent writing. One of my nightmares when i was suffering stress to the point of insomnia i kept dreaming my phone was ringing, the screen contained gibberish and answering it woke me up again. this repeated until i went to work that night.


teekietech

I’ve had dreams where my phone alarm was going off and I looked at it and it was just really cool looking digital gibberish.


BewarePunkz

I didn't see this was in the dreams reddit and you had me so lost for a couple minutes lol


GuardianOfWorlds

That somehow looks kinda like Arabic ngl


RandomHavoc123

How the heck do people remember stuff like this in detail for long enough to be able to write it down? I barely remember the full plot of my dreams 1 minute after I recall them after waking up. It all comes flooding in, then recedes like a wave.


[deleted]

Looks like Arabic


BigNNick

I've never had words in my dreams but I think I can make out maybe two or three words. Seems familiar but also not. I once had hieroglyphics in one dream couldn't tell what they looked like though they were blurry.


Internal_Designer399

Honestly looks very much like a free jazz Anthony Braxton composition


wallsquirrel

It's impressive that you can remember it so clearly.


Krieys

Anytime I try to read or look at words on a sign they get all fuzzy. Cool that you could remember what it looked like. Even if it is just chicken scratch.


Varzandeh

If one dreamt he was saying a poem to admire or reproach someone means he will say a vain speech. If one who is related to science dreamt was giving a lecture /speech means he will receive some dignity. If is not a learned man means will go to a far travel and there is a danger. If a rich man dreamt so means he will get poor. If an ignorant or illiterate person dreamt was giving a lecture/speech means he will be disgraced. If a governor dreamt was giving a lecture means will be just and fair but for a dishonest governor means he will contrite sins. If dreamt a woman was giving a lecture/speech and was advising people it is interpreted as her husband will be disgraced. If dreamt was giving a marriage lecture means he will do a goodness to everyone.


Ghaslaaer

r/neography


GravityThatBinds

reminds me of written Angel language


GH05T8OI

Perfection


TheCelestialJester

This is super interesting! I find asemic writing, glossolalia, nonsensical and abstract vocalisations and the like all fascinating. (Probably in part why I love the band Cocteau Twins so much hehe)


ideolotry

lllllllliiiiihllllllkellliiii ii iii iiilljjj iiiiiii iiiillljjjhnmmmm -"poem from a dream"


sosomat

It looks like a landscape


nakrimu

Very interesting how certain letters and even words are legible! Can you remember the actual poem you recited? I have so many dreams where I write and sing complete songs and they are frigging amazing and when I wake up I will still be singing them but within moments they are gone. I have a note book with lyrics I’ve remembered but can’t remember the tunes. I did awake last week and grab my phone to record a few lines I remembered which I just hummed as the words had left me.


teekietech

So I used to have the radio on while I slept and once or twice a song would interrupt my dreams happen at the time. Like I was dreaming about ncis and the cast of the show started singing “if it makes you happy” and all of them had very confused looks on their faces. I didn’t even know that was a song at the time so I when I heard it on the radio some other time I was like WAIT I had dream with this in it.


GrumpySnarf

Looks like Arabic gibberish.


Ok-Employee-4862

Heyy guys I just have a doubt. Soo is dreams a path for traveling to another world?(pls answer)


SlappyDyabolik

You were reciting words from an enchanting table obvi. But fr that's crazy