For me it is always 3rd. Its almost like I’m an actor in my own dream. Few times I realize it, but then just wake up.
Wow this is so interesting. Always first person for me - maybe there were other times otherwise but I don’t remember. Wow I never imagined people would dream otherwise.
I shocked me when I read somewhere else that a lot of people don’t dream in color. What the hey?
Yeah this is blowing my brain! Literally 100% of my dreams are first person. I don’t even understand how you can dream in 3rd person. Like, you’re seeing yourself from a distance? But like, then there are two of you - the one you’re looking at, and also the floating you that’s doing the looking.
WHAT?!
Yup. I practically never dream in first person perspective and that’s about it. Think of it like watching a tv show or a movie and accepting uncritically that the character on the screen is you.
Funnily enough I have another weird aspect of dreaming that I have discovered is very common amongst other trans people. My dream self used to roughly 95% of the time used to be represented physically as my internalized gender…or sometimes would just be rendered as a featureless void capable of interacting with the world and recognized internally as me I suppose is the best way to explain it. Probably sounds a bit Magnus Archives. However post social transition the ratio has changed the opposite direction and now I am represented in dreams by my real world like appearance about 60% of the time… Which I am not the biggest fan of to be honest but my waking world comfort levels have increased so it’s not the worst.
I do this all the time even when I am awake. I try to look at myself from a camera above me.
First person, and an interesting note. I was experimenting with lucid dreaming for awhile, with some very minor success. One thing that ALWAYS woke me up though, was doing something I had never done in real life. I was unable to breathe underwater. The mere attempt would wake me.
Then I got scuba certified in real life, and like magic, I was suddenly able to breathe underwater in my dreams.
It makes me wonder how you think about yourself in real life.
I go back and forth within my dreams. Usually it’s first person, but sometimes I seem to be floating just above watching myself
Same; except I’m to the side, like another person watching.
Mostly, but not always first person. But I’m not always the same person - my age and sex isn’t at all consistent in my dreams. I’ve been an old woman or a baby boy, and pretty much everything across those spectrums. In my dreams it’s completely unremarkable.
Same but when I was 13 I believe for some reason I was always a girl in my dreams. It just kept on happening until it just kinda stopped happening. I’m still wondering wtf was my brain doing then.
Interesting, I’ve definitely been other dudes (I kind of see as other versions/images of myself – ?). I also tend to dream in first person but occasionally third person. I don’t think I’ve ever been a woman or a baby in any of my dreams though.
Most of my dreams tend to be ridiculous action-film like stuff. If dreams are a portal into alternative realities/versions of yourself, I’m the most boring version of me 😂 And maybe I’ve never dreamed of being old because those versions of me don’t live to an old age 😬
Either I don’t remember my dreams or I don’t dream. Last dream I had was when I was like 8 and I still remember it 26 years later. Sleep for me is like sleep in Skyrim. Close eyes. Try not to think about anything, blackness then like a snap I’m awake again. Even my train of thought just picks pack up from before I fell asleep.
I will say that the one dream I remember was in 1st person.
Why was my dick a gas pump nozzle…Fill er up!
But for real though, I remember reading somewhere that even people who think they don’t dream are actually dreaming, they just can’t remember any of it. My wife is the same way but I’ve seen her say shit and act stuff out in her sleep so I know she’s dreaming but she doesn’t remember anything.
Sometimes not remebering dreams can happen due to medication, recreational drugs or alcohol consumption. Not getting aproper sleep and interrupting the sleep cycle makes it difficult to remember.
Anecdotally i “stopped dreaming” or at least remembering them when i started smoking weed. For years i didnt remember a dream. When i stopped smoking i suddenly started dreaming alot.
I like dreams.
I dream in 2nd person.
Both actually. It’s really weird when I think about it
Unless there is some sort of cinematic scene or I am not the focus of the dream, the dream is 100% first person.
I have found a bit of a way for me at least to control wether it’s first person or theird person. Often when I’m just daydreaming some fantasy until I fall asleep the dream is 70% of the time first person. But when I’m daydreaming some sort of movie until I fall asleep 70% of the time my dream is theird person and if I’m just thinking random thoughts like who am I gonna take my car to get it’s oil changed 70% of the time there’s no dream. I just open my eyes and now it’s mid day.
A little of both. I remember sometimes being surprised while dreaming because it’s suddenly shifted to 3rd person. Usually when that happens I’m no longer physically present in the dream, just watching it like a movie.
A mixture of both 1st and 3rd person when my mind decides to fashion me a body. When my mind forgets to give me a body and I’m just an orb, it’s always 1st person.
People dream?
I’m not even in my dreams half the time. More often than not my dreams feel more like something I’m watching as opposed to something I’m in. Tho every now and again I’ll randomly be in the dream, and it’s usually 1st person. Otherwise… 3rd I guess?
Both and neither?
Hell sometimes I’m not even the focus of my dreams. It’s sometimes like watching a movie without me in it, or in a third person omniscient point of view, and sometimes it’s like watching surrealism folding in on itself without any sense of form or even reasoning.
My dreams are all over the place, hell and sometimes my dreams will be like a continuous story or theme over multiple nights.
I do have to say though my dreams are way more intense (and memorable) on days when I focus hard on my cardio a few hours before bed. Like yesterday where I pushed my heart rate to about 180bmp (over double (about 2.5x) my resting rate) for 30min. Absolutely insanely vivid dreams and I slept like a stone.
Funny you ask. Most of the time I dream in the first person but I recently had one where it was in the third person. It was strange - almost felt like watching a movie. I tried to analyze or read more deeply into the dream to think if I could connect myself to it but nope. Just a random mind-movie.
I get these often and I wouldn’t define them as third person but more “non-person”. To me first person dreams are where I’m watching it through my eyes and Thurs person would be watching myself as I do things (like third person video games). Not even being in the dream, just a mind movie as you called it, seems like another level removed.
I wonder how much the amount of movies and video games around these days has changed this - whether dreams in the past would have only been first person because that’s the only thing people had experienced.
You mean like seeing the back of your head? I never understood how people can do that. I dream through the same eyes I see things with in the waking world.
I see the back of my head and back just like 3 person video game and the camera can rotate so I see my self from the side.
When you’re looking at the back of yourself, is it 2D or 3D? Stylized or realistic? Up to date? Different clothing-wise each time?
It is like a real camera filming so 3d realistic. It never deviates in quality except that the camera can be a super 8ish.
From 1990 to today. Yes a big variation in cloths races, genders and group size but never bigger then 4.
I find it intriguing how, in a world where we consider our dream adventures a figment of ourselves, dreams would have that level of detail foresight. Like why does the cookie crumble how it does?
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I dream in 3rd person primarily and the sort of video game-ish angle you’re thinking of isn’t my experience. It’s more like watching a tv show of yourself with you as the main character. You are in control of your actions in the dream and accept that wholly as you but it’s like your veiw point changes like a series of fixed camera angles… But still seems fluid.
When you do that, does it involve a depiction of how you look from behind the back of your head (or from any other angle) that is true to how you look in the waking world, or are there differences? One thing that comes to mind is how people with DID say they dream, and I am intrigued to what’s going on.
I would say over the shoulder is a veiw point I know but the back of my head as in a video game veiwpoint is kind of a rarity. More of a side on situation is the norm but sometimes the focus can frame me out as well.
I would say that maybe my film career might be relevant because it has the conventions of camera work but it’s been that way since I was a child.
But my physicality is usually not “me” in the sense if what I see in the mirror every morning but a way more comfortable conception of me basically like you swapped a body type in a video game but things like skin, eye color and hair color are all basically the same… Most of the time anyway. I have definitely had some odd presentations of dream me.
So then you see yourself to a degree where you always notice what you’re wearing?
Definitely. For the most part head to foot.
