I'm actually reading the book in my dreams.
Kaylee: Captain seem a little funny to you at breakfast this morning? Wash: Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Jul 18, 2005 1:24:00 pm PDT #892 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
tommyrot - Jul 18, 2005 1:24:53 pm PDT #893 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I can't read in my dreams. If I stare really hard at text on a page the text never resolves into a stable, fixed image.
Vortex - Jul 18, 2005 1:26:38 pm PDT #894 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I once had a dream where I was looking at a sign or something, and it was gibberish, and I remember wondering if this is what letters looked like before I learned to read.
Sue - Jul 18, 2005 1:27:46 pm PDT #895 of 10002
hip deep in pie
The changing reading thing is supposed to be a signpost for people who are trying to lucid dream. The first step in trying to change your dreams is to make yourself aware that you are in the dream state.
Usually when I realize I'm dreaming I wake up. I have a friend who when he realizes "I'm in a dream," someone in the dream will talk him into believing he's not dreaming.
Burrell - Jul 18, 2005 1:28:09 pm PDT #896 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
One of Freud's famous dream interpretations involves a bit of text that he reads in his dream (it's a chemical formula). So, um, I'm guessing that it *is* possible to read in one's dreams. Why not? I've even *touched* things in mydreams and I know you aren't supposed to be able to do that, either.
ChiKat - Jul 18, 2005 1:29:35 pm PDT #897 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I've even *touched* things in mydreams and I know you aren't supposed to be able to do that, either
Really? Huh. Guess my dreams haven't read the rulebook.
P.M. Marc - Jul 18, 2005 1:30:19 pm PDT #898 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Cindy, I have a good visual memory, but not anything that could be described as eidetic.
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2005 1:30:38 pm PDT #899 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you read something in a dream, then try to read it again, it will have changed.
I find words no more or less changeable than anything else. It's a dream after all, and incredibly malleable. I've read, died, smelled, touched, loved ... done a million things.
On phone conference right now. Man, it's boring when you're there, worse now.
Connie Neil - Jul 18, 2005 1:33:15 pm PDT #900 of 10002
brillig
Connie, do you dream about the story, or are you actually reading the words in your dreams?
Both. I can see the comic book page, with the panels and word balloons. If I could draw I've got some great material.
And I always dream in color--at least, I perceive and remember it as color, and I remember reading somewhere that we don't dream in color. Of course, it's getting into the whole, "Is it there or do I just think it's there" paradox thing which makes irritable.
sarameg - Jul 18, 2005 1:36:59 pm PDT #901 of 10002
Hell, I've solved physics problems in my dreams. Of course, in the million times that happened, only once was it actually right. Usually they became bizarro-physics at some point. Like, involving a lemon and gluing squirrels to paper. But then, I've also tasted colors which tasted of a texture and a sound (btw, I advise AGAINST this. My head still hurts at the mention) and been in a whole helluva lot of pain...or so I thought. Cause I really wasn't in labor.