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?!
I do this all the time even when I am awake. I try to look at myself from a camera above me.
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 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.
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 usualy don’t remember my dreams. But sometimes when I wake up suddenly in the middle of the night I can remember for a short time and forget after a few minutes.
Yeah, I can remember dreaming (waking up and knowing I had dreamt) only a half dozen times in my life. It sounds fun.
A variably disassociated first person … sometimes like a third person that’s about to snap back to first any moment.
I switch between
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.
Can relate to the surrealism one, it gives me such strange vibes when I’m half waken up yet still dreaming
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Same, has only ever been first person
My dreams sometimes seem like a well choreographed movie. happens both in 1st person and 3rd person at times and often I’m also aware it’s a dream.
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.
Both, usually 1st. Except when I’m in 3rd person, I usually morph back into first. Usually happens when I’m not “me” and following someone else. I may hop from multiple people in the same dream. It’s the weirdest when they are different genders lol.
People mentioned not seeing in color - I usually don’t have sound. Like people “talk” sure, but not really? Idk how to explain it. I only realized this when I had one dream with sound, a little music box, and it was wonderful.
Always first-person. But my dreams are like movies with no special effects. There’s no fire, no gunshot, no blood, etc. It’s weird
Same, its rare for me
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.
Either. The third person ones tend to be long and involved eg murder mysteries and they don’t have me in them at all. I just sort of watch it unfold.
In first person I’m not always me. I remember once in a dream I looked at my hands to see who I was and they were paws, the dream turned out to just be about trying to hunt antelope.
I also have lucid dreams sometimes.
And sometimes I dream I don’t exist which is a hard one to explain. Nothing happens in those dreams except knowing that there is nothing.
But that still sounds first person to me. If you’re not in the events then “you” are still inside your singular consciousness as you watch events unfolding in from of you. It sounds more like you’re an invisible observer, but you’re still seeing these events from behind your own eyes (so to speak)
@LanternEverywhere Not really because it’s more like reading a book insfar as there’s a lot of stuff I “know” instead of see.
It’s hard to explain but I’m one of those people who doesn’t have an interior monologue and a lot of my thoughts are more like spatial/kinetic maps. So when I’m dreaming there can be things I’m looking at and other things I just know are happening without seeing them.
So that’s like 3rd person in a book. First person is where there’s a “me” of some kind that has consciousness.
I don’t recall ever being in third person in a dream. Though sometimes the camera changes. Like when I fell in the ice at the football game, there was a floating loading screen before the respawn. And once there was rolling credits with an unknown Rush song playing. Those weren’t really my views.
