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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cindy, I have a good visual memory, but not anything that could be described as eidetic.

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, 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.

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.

Really? Huh. Guess my dreams haven't read the rulebook.

It's not common to actually register the physical sensation of touch in one's dreams, hence the old saw about pinching yourself to see if you are dreaming. If you can feel the pinch, you must be awake (except, of course that it *is* possible to feel the pinch and still be asleep).