Dreaming About Dreamwidth

[zavodilaterrarium]

I don't usually dream about the digital stuff (besides games, I dream so much about those), whether it's the internet in general or my online friends/mutuals, despite me being online quite near constantly, but I quite literally just woke from my first dream about Dreamwidth. Not sure how to describe it. It was like, focused on the physical environment of a house, with DW running on my brain instead of a computer*? Can't remember any posts in particular, but I do remember althea_valara being there.

*It's a weirdly common setup for my dreams about internet shenanigans, I guess my brain doesn't really like rendering phones/PCs/etc. Even when I dream about playing games, I tend to be inside the game, using my physical body to directly carry out actions. Anytime a device like a phone or even game controller comes into play, something goes wrong — not that my dreams are filled with things going right, but devices are almost exclusively finicky and broken. If attention is drawn to the fact that I am technically using a keyboard to play FFXIV in my dream, then I'll be awkwardly holding it, dealing with broken keybinds, and overall failing to play properly. If I'm using my phone to talk to someone, it'll have all sorts of weird trials to unlock and I'll pretty much always struggle to spell anything correctly.

Comments

[althea_valara]

I'm honored to have appeared in your dream!

Yeah, it's weird how doing common stuff in dreams often fails. I have repeated dreams about needing to phone someone, and in the dreams I can NEVER input the number correctly, or the phone is broken, or I'm using a device I last used 20 years ago, or or or...

I dream about games quite often (obviously! since they are a large part of my life!) and they're often a mix of FFXI and FFXIV, and about half of it is me playing the games with their regular interfaces (or a mashup between the two games) and half is me actually in the game doing stuff. It does amuse me when I see a chatbox in my dream, though usually I can't read what it says (reading ALSO rarely works correctly in my dreams.)

I've had Dreamdwidth dreams before but it's been a while, I think? Last night's sleep was frustrating because I kept dreaming of work spreadsheets but they also were connected to my hobbies and--you guessed it--the spreadsheet wouldn't balance correctly. ALL NIGHT of this.

[zavodilaterrarium]

My game-related dreams are mostly about FFXIV — no other game has compared to it in terms of dreaming, which is interesting because I've certainly loved and thought about other games a lot while conscious.

Reading is not common in my dreams, but it usually works fine when it does; it's writing that gets me.

Ouh, I'd lose it with a spreadsheet dream! My tech-related dreams mostly have to do with using Discord on my phone, or my laptop completely freaking out and not being able to change volume, not finding the thing I'm searching for, etc.