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  • What do you mean? Read and dream at the same time? Or read something within a dream? I can read house numbers and roadside billboards in my dreams. I once remember dreaming about scanning a phonebook looking for the name of a friend. swabby
  • When i dream i am asleep so i don't read.
  • No, but I have heard it mentioned before. In such reputable sources as a Batman cartoon, as well. However, I distinctly remember reading words and names in dreams.
  • i remember hearing that your visual imagination can not go into as much detail to create say a book in a dream, so no you can't read. but you can dream you look at something and understand it without the dream persona actually having to read it. sorry im a bit shady on the details, maybe im dreaming now?
  • Dreaming is a function of the right hemisphere of the brain, and language is a function of the left side. So NO, you cannot see letters or numbers in your dreams (that Batman episode was right on). If you're seeing letters or numbers then you're probably not dreaming, at least not REM-state dreaming, but just imagining while half-asleep.
  • I have been aware of reading in my dreams, but when I awaken I don't remember what I read . I think we can read when dreaming, it's the remembering that's the obstacle. The only word I ever can remember reading in a dream was the name Bauer. Bauer was William DeVane (actor that played Greg Sumner on Knots Landing) and he was rowing in a canoe. I dreamed this several years ago and I have no clue why I am still able to recall it.
  • i dont think ive ever dreamed that i was reading but it is possible ive just looked it up in my dream book
  • I've heard that, but I think it's more of a pop cultural thing than something real. I know that I, for one, have been able to read words that appear in my dreams. But, it may be different between individuals.
  • I have tried to read notes or words in a dream before and I am unable to. If you have say a note in your hand you know what the note says but if you open it and try to read it the words look more like marks or scratches. I am a lucid dreamer and can remember most of my dreams also I saw the same batman cartoon too. Try to keep a log book by the bed to write down your dreams sometime they come true (I think it’s a form of ESP)
  • Yes, becuase you're lying down in the dark with your eyes closed! LOL
  • yeah absoulutely correct. It is impossible to read while dreaming.
  • It is not possible to dream of reading a book, however we can read street signs, all road signs, and house numbers and things of that nature. If in a dream you picked up a book, you could read the name of the cover.
  • "Dreaming is a function of the right hemisphere of the brain", posted by user joeyfg, is a false statement. Don't trust an internet stranger, though- the following papers, provided as evidence, can be accessed on pubmed.com (though depending on your resources you may be limited to the abstracts- that's okay, I'm quoting from abstracts). "Dreams and interhemispheric asymmetry" published in the Russian journal of Neurology/Psychiatry Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova, has this to say: "Right and left hemispheres seem to contribute in different ways to a dream formation. In authors believe that the left hemisphere seems to provide dream origin while the right hemisphere provides dream vividness, figurativeness and affective activation level." Both hemispheres contribute to dreaming -NOT just the right-, and the actual origin of dreams (while postulated upon in this article) is undetermined. In fact, it seems that people who are right handed (and thus left-hemisphere dominant) have more consistant dream recall: "Hemispheric differentiation and dream recall: subjective estimates of sleep and dreams in different handedness groups.", published in The International Journal of Neuroscience, says this: "Results showed that significantly more dreams are recalled ... by right-handers compared to mixed-handers and left-handers. The latter finding is tentatively interpreted as due to a more direct access to aspects of oneiric material structured in the left hemisphere by right-handers, whose language centers are located in the same hemisphere." Maybe there's a link between handedness and who can "read" in their dreams -as best as I can tell that question has yet to be addressed by science- but it's utterly false to claim dreams have been pinned down to a specific hemisphere of the brain.
  • No it is not true , cartoons are just that cartoons imagery
  • I just had a dream a couple nights ago that I had to give a presentation, but my lap top made no sense to me so I couldn't project my slides and I had to give my presentation using the black board. But it was impossible because I couldn't read anything I was writing. Anyways, I told my friend about this and he mentioned the Batman episode which got me curious so I started checking into it online. I remember in university that I used to have dreams the night before an exam that I was solving problems, so I feel like I must have read in a dream before but can't recall specifically.

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