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?
It probably happens sometimes but more often than not I cannot. The way it manifests in the dream is usually DreaMe gets distracted or is “too tired” to focus the text into something coherent. Seldom is it a case of me looking at written information and it appearing as nonsense squiggles or something of that nature. Likely a reflection of my waking life where I basically don’t read physical books at all. (Read plenty of other garbage however).