I've had entire dreams in the command line, which was fairly incredible to me at the time because I still couldn't read the characters consistently, and was only taken aback at the strangeness of such after the fact. I had a sense of what the commands meant and I knew what I was doing (hacking the planet), but while I couldn't read it I knew what the output felt like. Dreams are weird.

I think the issue is that devices with screens are usually meant to be your window to experience something else. When you get immersed in something, you forget about the device and focus on the experience.

I like playing games, and when I get into a game the focus is on the game itself, not the controller/TV/etc. I've had dreams about games, but it's always me experiencing the game directly and not focused at all on the details of how I'm accessing the game.

I think it's the same with phone use, but the experiences we get on a phone are harder to imagine as a"direct experience". Things like sending a text message don't convert well to a fully immersive experience, so I think our brain skips over them.

I have constant dreams behind the dashboard of an Airbus A320neo. It’s been a solid week of the same dream. The autopilot isn’t working so I have to manually do calculations of banking angles and then time it with my flight plan that I have no idea how to type into the flight computer.

I’m not a pilot at all. Help

Literally had one last night. I dreamt there were massive riots with sword and axe armed rioters were smashing up everything. Instead of a regular emergency alert, my phone had scrolling text on a blue background warning about the event.

One time I had a dream where I saw something really cool happening (can't remember what exactly) and I decided to take a picture with my phone to view it later.

I woke up disappointed that it wasn't saved to my camera roll.

Mobile phones haven't been around long enough to be a part of the Dreamlands, wait a couple of decades, maybe a powerful Dreamer introduces them.

They don't work right when I'm trying to use them in my dreams.

Me who often has super mundane, but extremely vivid dreams of just regular life, including using my phone: Why can't I dream about riding a dinosaur in a massive McDonald's warehouse like I did when I was 12? 😮‍💨

I have a recurring dream where I have trouble typing into my phone keyboard. Whatever I do, the text just won't get in there. Sometimes it's urgent. Other times I'm trying to show someone something and they're watching me fail.

I've had them. They usually involve me fumbling with it, unable to use it in some kind of emergency.

My dreams have no technology.

Lately too many have been about peeing, and I wake in a panic. I feel like I’m playing chicken with myself.

Ha! My phone was in my dream just last night. I was stuck on the home screen. I could swipe to other screens, but, it bounced back to home screen. Restart, same problem. Funny to see this post today.

I've had dreams that are just me lying in bed scrolling on my phone. They feel 100% real until I wake up and realise the content I was looking at was unintelligible

I think my brain knows it would solve too many plot points too easily. I'm stuck in a 90s dreamscape where all the pay phones are broken.

At least once a week, I have a dream where some piece of technology that I use every day just won't work properly. I was up frustrated.

Be me, dreaming.

Look up at phone.

Phone says I'm 4 hours late for work.

Wake up

It's 2 in the morning and I have 5 hours of sleep remaining.

Reading is hard in dreams and Mirrors/Displays turn into portals. It's fascinating how similar it is to nerfs when they reconstruct reflections/mirrors and stable Diffusion when it writes "text".

I have an infrequently recurring dream where I'm running late for work and I call in to say I'll be late, and then I blink and hours have passed and I'm freaking out because apparently I was in a fugue state and I call in to work again to try and update them and the whole cycle repeats until I finally wake up.

I have a recurring nightmare where something awful has happened and I can't get my phone to work to call for help. It just doesn't work the way it is supposed to, or there's a glitch, or I forgot how to use it. It is oddly horrifying.

Now that it's been brought to my attention I will most certainly have a dream where I'm using my phone lol

I did!

Not gonna tell you what I did though

I dream a lot about car related stuff. Accidents, getting lost, losing the car.

I don't ever have any of that happen IRL.

But yeah, never my phone, maybe once or twice a pc

The weird fever dream you get after writing code for too long...

Anytime I try to use my phone or any app, it won’t work and just pisses me off.

I had my phone in a dream for the first time yesterday! I only used it to call my partner, but it was definitely there.

I had a dream a while back which I was recording an old CRT TV that was way too high to comfortably view and a friend of mine somehow grabbing a bag of what I'd presume was fairy floss from inside an empty cabinet. The phone worked pretty much the same as it does irl, and one of my teachers walked by and I got scared and hid my phone behind my jacket in fear of it getting confiscated, probably the most interesting one I've had in a while.

Well my dreams last night were about a group of people that were having a competition in a barber shop to see who could cut out holes from the skin on the top of their heads without looking at how deep the incisions were and without any anesthetic...

So honestly - not looking at my phone is really the most reasonable part of the majority of my dreams.

I think it's an age thing. I bet the kids who grew up holding a cell phone have them in their dreams.