I ask because it’s considered common knowledge that you can’t but I regularly have dreams where I continue books I’m reading irl (they usually devolve into naritive nonsense over time and then sometimes to blank pages, but the actual text is definitely deciferable), text messages, computer screens, and road signs, in both lucid and regular dreams. Am I the odd man out or is it actually just something people say?
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Often times, the second and third reading is different and less coherent than the first one. Sometimes, whatever I’m reading stays constant. Sometimes, I’m trying to read but it doesn’t work. Either it’s blurry or I see the letters scrambling around the page in front of me.
If I remember a number or word from a dream, it’s usually something another person in the dream said to me.