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 have trouble reading in my dreams, but not very often. I’ve also heard about the whole “if you try to read something twice, you’ll different words the second time”, but I’m quite certain not infrequently when I’ve reread things I’ve gotten the same thing in dreams. If I had to guess, I’d say that about a third of the dreams in which I reread something, I get the same result. Two thirds I get different results.