Scientists reveal why you’ll almost never see phones, numbers or yourself in dreams

You will almost never see smartphones, numbers or yourself in your dreams.

According to leading dream researchers at Harvard University, there are five things you will rarely see in a dream, those being smartphones, readable words, coherent numbers, smells or tastes and your own realistic reflection.

Despite the average Brit scrolling away for more than three hours a day, phones barely appear in dreamland.

An analysis of 16,000 dream reports found mobiles pop up in just 3.55 per cent of women’s dreams and 2.69 per cent of men’s.

Instead, cars, storms and snakes were found to be far more common, possibly due to the 'threat simulation hypothesis', which suggests dreams act as a built-in survival system to train our brains to rehearse and respond to threats we could encounter in real life