Reading in a Dream?

[beachj]

Hey Everyone,
I have heard that you cannont read in a dream. But as I was sleeping, I was dreaming... I was in a libarary and this girl that I knew was there, and pulled a book off of one of the shelvs. The cover was grey and the title was "Romantic Chess" I somehow could read the title for some reason. Last week I played her in chess and lost because I kept makeing dumb mistakes. After I woke up I did some research and found that Romantic Chess is was a style of chess popular from the 1600s-1800s. I could not varify the existance of a book titled such however.
I wonder if the dream has any meaning at all.

[acorn elf]

I don't know if your dream has any meaning, but I've read in my dreams before. I never heard you couldn't. It's interesting that you found out about that kind of chess, though. Maybe you should go to that library and check it out if it's one you know.

[Spirited]

I also don't really know anything about the meaning of your dream, but it's funny - I had a dream about reading last night. I dreamt I was in the local library with my mother, and I picked up several books whilst I was there to flick through. The one I most remember was some kind of, fill-it-in-yourself readymade Book of Shadows. It was quite thin and made of very bendy paper - almost like a pamphlet. I went through it reading odd pages, it was all standard Book of Shadows Diary type stuff, except that it had spaces where you were meant to fill it in yourself.

I wonder whether such a book exists? Or perhaps it means I rely on others too much in my learning...? Anyway, perhaps you should learn some more about how to play Romantic Chess, or see whether the girl knows anything about it. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

[LyraDragonStar]

Interesting. I've never heard that, but it would make sense. I tend to notice that certain things are more.. blurry (harder to understand, harder to see, etc,) than others. Usually-for me-it's faces, words, and exact details... yes.

[Aidron]

Things for me can be fuzzy as well, as if they have an ethereal, gray glow surrounding them. More than this, it seems as though whether I view things from a third person perspective or a first person perspective, the entire border of my vision, regardless of what I'm viewing, has that same glow.

Though, I've read plenty of things in my dreams. I've even fallen in my dreams and hit the ground (and one of those times is the one and only time I've ever fallen out of a bed, and one of those older very high off the ground beds too). I remember on dream in particular where I was in a restaurant in a tree house that was being swarmed by crocodiles and I just sat there quietly humming and reading the menu, and I could make the selections out of at the time rather than simply knowing that in my dream I happened to be reading.

[RunningRiot]

The reason we aren't suppose to be able to read or write in our dreams: You dream with a different side of your brain, and you read/write with the other.

I've read and wrote in hundreds of my dreams, though.