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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.
HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!
I also think I've never seen legible text in a dream. This "i know it's text but can't really read it" sounds a lot like the issues AI image generators have.
The rise of AI made me rethink many things about consciousness. It seem like our internal image generators and text generators are separate from "us" as in the "core personality".
not being able to read was how batman realized he was in a induced dream state by the scarecrow in TAS. I'm pretty sure I've been able to read in dreams before but apparently it is a thing.
I've had this same feeling. Stable diffusion really got me.
It is possible to see legible text in a dream or at least to think that you do, but it's difficult to keep it in place. It changes at the speed of thought...
Thank you for posting this, this is the first thing I thought of when this was brought up.
I think your brain spends more time focusing on the output of reading rather than the process of reading. So your dreams skip over that process and jump straight to the comprehension.
You reminded me of when I was cramming for CCNA like 10 years ago, and had a really bad cold for which I was given Codeine.
My girlfriend at the time told me that I was rambling about "spanning tree" in my sleep.
Years back, when I was working helpdesk and was on overtime, I traveled to visit my long-distance girlfriend. The first night, I was so tired that I quickly fell asleep. Apparently, in my sleep, I kept asking her for her username so that I could log the ticket.
I have quite literally dreamed about running neo/fastfetch 😭