I can't sleep. Well, I can but after four hours I woke up from my somewhat weird dream (it involved Her, one of my university teachers and a Puppe book). I couldn't read the text in the book.

I once read a short story ('Yaguara' by Nicola Griffith) that explained why people, supposedly everyone, are not able to read or count anything in their dreams. As follows:

"Ever wondered why you can't read or do math in your dreams?"
Jane opened her mouth to say she had never noticed whether or not she could, then remembered countless dreams of opening books only to be frustrated by meaningless squiggles.
Cleis noticed and nodded. "The neocortex handles analytic recoleections. It's usually turned off when we dream. That's why dreams are so hard to remember.--"

I don't know if the background research actually took place or if the author used the creative freedom to invent such seemingly scientific basis. If that's an actual fact... well, I don't have that big troubles remembering my dreams so maybe in that respect it may explain why I've also been able to read in my dreams (a Shakespearian sonnet I thought it was).

In lucid dreams (the state in which you are yourself aware of dreaming while still dreaming) one of the reality check-ups is to read something, turn your head away for a while and then read the same thing again, to find that the text has changed when you weren't looking. Lucid dreaming is also connected to remembering your dreams. I guess those two are at least connected, if not through the neocortex.

"Blondes DO have more fun!" -Dr. Neo Cortex in 'Crash Twinsanity'