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Dreaming that you cannot type or control a screen

What does it mean to dream you cannot type properly?

The third pattern and it is the effort-without-effect family in a modern setting.

Typing that produces nothing, or produces the wrong characters. A cursor that will not go where it is sent. A button pressed repeatedly with no response.

Typing is a fine motor sequence, and fine motor sequences are what dreaming renders worst, for the plain reason that the muscles are switched off and the intention returns nothing. It fails in exactly the way dialling a number fails, and the phone entry describes the same thing.

Logged next to the running, the gripping and the shouting, this stops looking like a dream about technology.

Where this reads well

A very easy one to place in the wider family, and dreamers usually have several versions of it on record.

Where it is harder

Small and maddening, and dreamers report waking still irritated.

Worth asking yourself

What exactly failed? Did anything appear? What else in my dreams fails like this?

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