Cracked screen
A device screen with a network of fractures — the surface you read through, now read through damage.
A cracked screen in a dream is the dream's image of the surface you read through, now read through damage. The screen still shows; the lines of the crack are part of every image now. The dream brings the cracked screen when something in your life — a way of seeing, an intermediating habit, a particular news source — has been damaged and is still being used as though it were intact. A cracked screen replaced or repaired is the dream affirming the repair. A cracked screen used for months without replacement is the dream noting that the damage is being absorbed into your seeing, and what you read is now arriving through a broken interface as if that were normal.