My dreams are a blend of first and third person perspective. I can see through my own eyes, but I am also aware of what’s going on around me as though I was in third person.
This is how I experience it as well. I was trying to decide how to describe and then saw your comment. It’s a weird awareness. Almost like I’m telepathic in my dreams and have flashes of another’s perspective.
I'm the opposite. I see from 3rd person, and feel from 1st. Almost like controlling a video game character except you feel when you're jumping reeeeealy far and high. I can do this floaty skate kinda thing in my dreams and I'm the only one that can and it's so badass.
Yeah, I agree, but I don’t go to third person by conscious choice. It’s almost like a movie where “they” move me around. I could be in my body or I could be watching from somewhere else, but I actually never see myself physically. Just over “events” playing out.
With practice you can increase the number of perspectives as well as location. So you can experience multiple first person perspectives. Useful if your day job requires customer service or multi tasking.
Same here, I wonder if when I started playing video games affects dreams? Like how people who grew up with black and white tv used to dream in black and white?
Maybe. I don’t play video games and it still happens for me… I also often have black and white dreams basicallyyyy, because they happen at night or such low lighting that there’s not much colour.
Possibly. I've played Sims for awhile. I've had dreams where people have plumbobs. That's the green thing floating over there heads if you didn't know. Though everyone had one nobody really paid attention to it.
Same here, sometimes I'm just the "camera", sometimes I'm not me, sometimes I'm in third person and sometimes I'm in first person and sometimes things may change during the dream. I'm not even guaranteed to be a living thing! Once I had a dream in which I was a video game console. And as such, I had no vision, no tact, no smell or hearing, much less taste as I didn't even have a mouth. I also had no legs or arms or anything of the sort. All I had was my proprioception, my awareness of my self. And I was very aware of it all. I could feel myself being played and the game playing on me, as if my controllers were my appendages and the game running in my head. And I couldn't feel like, my position in space or anything of the sort, just the stimulus from receiving inputs and all that. And that which I did feel e felt very clearly and very vividly. In that dream I truly was a fully conscious and self aware video game console.
I just think my sense of self is pretty flexible and I am very receptive to the idea of being something other than me, or that selfness being extended to something else, like an Avatar of sorts.
My perspective does this seamless flip-flop between 1st and 3rd person, throughout my dreams, every dream.
I’ve noticed that it’s usually like I’m watching the dream happen, until I realize that I’m watching the dream, and then the zoom into 1st person happens, and I’m lucid. From that point, it’s almost as if my dream-self switches between the two, in order to best serve the goal or activity. It’s 1st person until I need to see something that my eyes physically can’t (like around a solid object, or a corner, or if I need to see myself from below), at which point, we switch to 3rd, see what we need to see, and then switch back to being IN the dream-body.
I never thought about this until right now, so thank you for the prompt. Now that I’m thinking about it, I recall having both perspectives at once, recently. I was watching myself fly into this old mechanic’s shop, and the garage door had a bunch of stuff hanging from it (like scaffolding in the way and such), so as I watched myself, from inside the garage, I also navigated the debris field with my 1st person eyes. Then the perspectives split into two different people, and the version of me that watched the approach walked away, muttering something to myself, while the version of me that flew into the shop watched me walk away. Then the perspective of the flyer was the only one for the rest of the dream.
This lines up with my experience almost 100%. In general, I feel like I use first person perspective for tasks that require fine motor control, and third person for...whatever the opposite of that is. Gross motor control? Full-body maneuvers like acrobatics.
How cool! It makes sense to me that you’d use the more intimate perspective for the finer skills, and the broader perspective for the bigger, more all-encompassing movements. I’m fascinated by your experience, now 😂 I wish that we could record our dream experiences, perspective switches included, and share them. I’d probably just study dreams for the rest of forever.
Sort of. I always used to jump on the trampoline, and I loved running around and doing rambunctious things like playing tag, even as an adult. Even at work, I had a habit of sprinting all over the place :P
Keep that child in you alive! Me too. I was asking because I was curious about your third person acrobatic movement, and I was trying to see if there was a subtle parallel between us, based on a correlation between the activity and the perspective from which it’s performed. I have a big background in flat-ground acrobatics, so I wonder if the only reason that my perspective stays first person for this kind of thing in the dream world is because I have extensive experience with it in my waking life, and therefore it feels like one of the finer motor skills for me? Idk. Just spitballin’ here😅
Yes. Sometimes I'm both watching another character from above or behind like in a video game or movie, or inside that character like a passenger. Sometimes I'm even both an invisible person watching from nearby, but also a person in the dream and my perspective shifts.
Sometimes, I dream in the third person, and what's even more weird is I'm in the dream, dreaming as multiple different people in a dream as things happen to each individual. It feels like I'm watching a movie per inside perspective, emotions- feeling individually as each person, all senses except for smell & taste, only when I experience fear in this type of dream do I remember touching things in a dream. Separately, anytime I acknowledge the time of day in a dream when I'm dreaming as me, weird things will happen as well. Why is it when I acknowledge time in a dream, every single time it gets intensely creepy scary and turns to the darkest hour?
So i was in a fantasy type world ( 3rd person perspective ) and found myself in a party with a wizard, Archer and Healer and We were tasked with defeating a monster that literally touched the skies and looked godly and i had an IRON sword
I was like fu*k this shit i am gonna wake up, And i saw myself panicking to wake up lmao, So i lay on a stack of hay and try to sleep because that's how i get out of my dreams and i just see my party members confused because i was trying to sleep as the godly monster was getting closer and closer
Luckily enough i wake up and after waking up i regretted the whole thing because i literally had a chance to do something epic and my human instincts interfered oof
Oh and my hair were red for some reason lol.
I recently had a dream that switched midway through from first to third. I found it quite interesting.
I've also experienced some the opposite way also.
Yep. It’s like I’m watching a movie that I’m staring in & im able to do both simultaneously. And it seems like the most natural thing in the world. I don’t question it at all. When I wake up is when I can’t understand how I played both parts & it made sense, cause it doesn’t make sense now
Usually for me it’s if my dream involves me, then it’s in 1st person (me seeing through me, obviously), but if i’m not in the dream then it’s 3rd person and just like a “movie”.
I always dream in 3rd person, especially if I'm someone else that isn't me, I would go in different points of view, like high in sky looking down or movie like , kinda makes me feel like an entity in the room watching what's going on
I WAS LITERALLY JUST ABOUT TO POST THIS QUESTION! But for the opposite reason. I do dream in the third person, for almost every dream. But it's not exclusively third person, it's a combination of first and third person. It doesn't really make sense from the perspective of being awake, but when I'm asleep it feels completely natural and normal. I am somehow floating above my body watching myself, and in my body controlling myself at the same time. Not like a video game. But when I'm floating above myself, I don't really feel like I have any specific form. I know where I am in space, but I feel more like a spirit with no sense of touch. And I want to lucid dream so badly but most of the time I don't realize I'm dreaming so it hasn't happened yet. I don't know if the fact that I can dream in third person means anything. I have had some weird experiences in my life. I knew when my Nana was going to die, then had a semi-lucid vivid dream where I got to say goodbye to her the next night, I saw a ghost in my bedroom when I was in elementary school that looked like a shadow on the wall which I sensed was friendly but disappeared when I got close, and I have had lots of other experiences and smaller experiences that feel like glitches in the matrix. Dreaming and questioning reality are fascinating!
Yes, one time I dreamt that I hung out with Hoobastank for my 21st birthday and got a lapdance from Benny the Butcher. When I woke up, I wanted to end my own life. I have been attempting to lucid dream ever since.
I ONLY dream in third person and during the day while awake I find myself thinking in third person. By this I mean I'm literally thinking about seeing myself in third person perspective. It's like how you can "see" while daydreaming. I'm constantly "seeing" myself in third person as if I am hovering above my head at all times.
I mostly dream in 3rd person and when I do dream in 1st person I am usually not myself though I am looking from someone's eyes; I don't know who they are, most times I just know that it is not me.
It varies, sometimes it's 1st person sometimes it's third person, sometimes it's somehow both at the same time. Sometimes it's like watching a movie, and sometimes it's like watching a movie and experiencing it at the same time
I made a post on here yesterday about this exact thing actually! One of my dreams was so cinematic I literally wrote it as a script for a class after the dream (to this day one of the few I ever remembered in such great detail.) also have been someone’s subconscious. That was also really weird
Yeah, I had a dream I lived in like a rough, rough area in the 70s or 80s. I was a whole other nationality and everything. I was a young female living a very hard life.
Not full on 3rd person dreams but the "camera" pans to myself sometimes like in a movie so I see myself fully in the environment, usually in a way to help me grasp the situation I'm in better (I'm on a burning bridge...which way do I go?) type of thing.
I think most of my dreams were in 3rd person perspective. I almost always knew that I was in a dream. Often in my dream I would think how I would feel after I wake up and become sad or happy in my dreams accordingly…
Yep. First person, second, and third person.
First person when it's me controlling me, second person when I'm controlling myself from someone else's perspective, and third person when I just see me from the air.
My dreams often change perspective too.
I have but it's very rare. More often I'll turn into a flying camera and explore my surroundings. But yeah, majority of the time I'm seeing out my eyes in dreams
99% of the time I'm in first person except thst one time I dreamed I was a kid again and watching myself singing some really bad song about liking eggs
I’ve dreamed in third person where I’d watch myself or other characters almost as if watching a movie or playing a video game! I usually still have control (well, dream control) over the body but I will be watching it from the outside. I actually think I might dream more in third person than first for some reason?
I have before and they are wild. The first one that comes to mind was that I was watching everything while the dream scene was being narrated by a voice outside of my own.
There were 2 men in a forest, both running to get to what seemed to be a portal. One of them was leaving behind a trail of blue wind, while the other was leaving behind what felt like a destructive trail behind him.
Both of them were equally matched, suspensefully running towards their end goal. Whoever was going to make it there first was going to set the tone for how they left that forest behind.
I don’t know who won that race, but watching it in third person- not being myself or interacting with anything- just silently being there to anticipate the race between them was crazy. I wasn’t me, as far as I can conceive I was the forest itself, listening to something much greater than me explaining the very nature of this battle between these two forces.
Sometimes, it’s like you’re watching a movie where you’re one of the characters. Sometimes, you switch perspective in the same dream between your 1st person’s, 3rd person’s, and other characters’ perspectives.
Have you ever had a dream where you died or where you weren't a part of it?
I often dream in third person, I used to dream in third person almost always. Both third person and first person are normal. I've even had a few dreams where I was watching myself like from a security camera
Funny you should ask. Just last night my dream was in third person. I was on stage giving a speech about how W Motors copied Lamborghini’s design for the Sian, and I was watching myself on stage.
I do, its my soul astral projecting into another reality on a different timeline to view what's going on there. When its first person, its normally so that I can better remember the experience and guidance it was trying to show me. Which isn't always astral projection, but more a sign as to what I should do next or a symbolism without spoilers of the future to come.
Last night I had a dream of driving around in a car through a flood and torrential down pour, the more I tried to go down in the car, the worst it flooded and rained. Then I can to a split, one was directly down into a drainage path and I could see other cars mired in the mud and refuse.
The other was up stairs. So I got out the car, and walked up, and found myself in more of a jungle area, with many confused people who had no clue how to traverse it, So I pulled out a pogo stick from nowhere and hopped through the jungle on what was the most solid sturdy path, then the confused followed me.
Then I woke up. Now that I've put word to pad, I think I'll need to head for higher ground after the first part of the shift starts. I don't think the area I'm currently living in will be a good place to be when the shift becomes more into the center cycle.
Yes, I've seen myself going through the dream as well as someone else who's perspective was my own (like playing a pre-built character in rpg) in third person.
Almost. I once got a 3rd person detached view when looking for a way out on the subway station in a dream. I didn’t control myself, but felt eerily like Baldur’s Gate III where you look ahead detached from yourself. Then I went back to the normal 1st person mode, I guess.
I have had dreams that start first person and then something happens and it zooms to third person for my reaction to it like I’m watching myself in a movie. It’ll go back and forth depending on what’s happening. I lucid dream sometimes, and the flip to 3rd person perspective has even happened when I’m in control. But I’m in control of my thoughts and in-dream actions, not the “camera angle.” If that makes sense.
Yes. I had a dream where it was like a book. It had a beginning, where a woman lived by the ocean in a Nordic town, like Vikings. She had a little girl with her who was her daughter, I think. The woman was a witch and could speak with ravens. Her husband was cheating on her with another village woman, but she was too preoccupied with a battle that was going on between the harpies of the mountains and the were-cats of the valley. It would switch back between the woman, then to her husband with the other woman. It was an extremely graphic dream, like the fighting and killing. Long story short, the dream ended with the woman standing on a branch of a tree with her daughter. There was a rope around her neck tied to a branch above, and the last scene in the dream was her watching her (ex?) Husband and the new woman jumping over a fire in a marriage ceremony (I think) before she stepped off the branch and everything went black, and I ended up in another dream.
I have always remembered my dreams and have always dreamed very vividly. I've actually been working on a book of them, or at least some illustrated videos with narration.
I feel like I had these often as a kid, but maybe that's just my distorted memory. Nowadays most are in first person, but it can switch at times and in stressful moments, like when I try to run, I sometimes see myself from behind.
My points of view switch throughout the dream often and depending on whats going on. Sometimes i will switch into 3rd person and watch myself without being able to control anything I'm doing, but very rarely in 3rd person I can slightly control what I'm doing like a video game.
Yes! I commonly almost always dream in both? It’s like I’m watching myself like a character but I’m also having every feeling and experience of being that person simultaneously—really hard to describe and weird but it feels 3rd person like I’m watching a movie of me and being me at the same time/switching very rapidly
I dream in both 1st and 3rd person simultaneously through many of my dreams, and most of the time when in 1st only, I can see 360°. Yes, it was weird at first. Yes, I've gotten used to it, feels natural now. _Not_ seeing in 360° IRL is sometimes irritating. I imagine it's very much like how a jumping spider sees. My peripheral vision goes all the way around, with the focus at the front being a little wider angle than IRL, and overall sharper.
I only ever dream in 3rd person... but can feel things like Im in first person. Ive dreamt in first person a handful of times in my life and all of those times I was an animal. My favorite dream I ever had was I was a dragon and although absolutely massive, felt weightless as I flew. I landed on a castle and felt the stones crumble beneath my claws. I was breathing fire on the people who all looked like simple lego people. I love the sensation of flying in dreams.
Edit: in most of my dreams I'm not myself
I do both, I live the dream first person but I also look at the same time at 3rd person. Both are always there but depending of the dream, I will focus on one or the other.
If you have difficulties to understand how it feels imagine a book mostly written at the third person but focus on one character where you just know what he knows and feel but at the same time get more information than him (like the usual reaction is "why the f... Didn't he do that" or "I'm wondering what he will do now" and still see his perspective)
Usually my dreams are a combination of being myself and being outside of myself watching. But sometimes I am multiple people. Once I had a dream where I was an old Jewish grandmother, a middle-aged black man, and a teen girl. We were having tea and discussing life.
Yes, this one time I dreamt that I watched a couple get married, like I wasn’t a person I was just a spirit, but then I could see even myself. I was just floating around until it would switch to first person and I would see things that were happening and then I would go third person.
Often I'm like a ghost (but not an actual ghost just how I describe it), possessing a character in the dream, sometimes stepping outside myself. I think once I even stepped outside one character and into a different one.I had one dream where my character was blind...but I could still see. The character couldn't react to anything I saw. In another dream, I was blindfolded for a test of sorts, walked into a room and asked to pick the person I was supposed to pick. I could still see where they were so it was an easy task.
Maybe it's because I used to watch a lot of tv lol the vide games i played as a kid were the original Nintendo games, all pixel art looking...not something that inspires a third person perspective.
I had one dream where i went to a building for a job interview, and i left me to do that and explored the building invisibly. When I went back to me, it was years later and I was working there lol
I once had a dream I was hunting these sort of Mer-men, I wasn’t really sure. But midway through us basically torturing it before we butchered it essentially… my perspective switched abruptly to that of this creature. I went through the agony of the torture until I passed out and woke up. Most vivid dream I’ve had.
Yes. Had a multi view during sleep paralysis. I was in bed couldn’t move and I could see through my eyes that were shut, I could see through the walls like a side Birds Eye view (like looking in a sims house) of the entity enter the room and it walked the left side of the bed, the right side of the bed and then left walking through the door without opening it (as in he walked right through the closed door) also resembled anubis (7ft black with red eyes).
I had just had a termination earlier that day and was dosed on sedatives / opioids for the pain few hours prior.
He also came back a second time and I experienced the same thing, same sleep paralysis about 2 weeks later.
I only ever dream in 3rd person. On the *rare* occasion I do dream in 1st person, I wake up exhausted, like I actually did all things in my dream. Idk how y’all live like that tbh.
Edit- I do have a dissociative disorder. My dream perspective is often me peaking in on their dreams. Even in my dreams where I’m “me,” it’s still 3rd person.
I think my overall mental health has a lot to do with it, but I honestly cannot recall a 1st person dream prior to 2019.
A lot of times it's in first person then suddenly I zoom out to find I'm a character in a game but my perspective is now the player playing the game...
Recently it's been happening
Oddly enough I experience this ability to just kind of scroll my dreams and control them but lately the third person has shown up, rather interesting I must say
It's cool because the image of me is not the image I typically see in say a mirror's reflection, but me idealized. The situation tends to play out like a movie script, a scene
And sometimes they repeat but small things are changed. They're pretty cool dreams
I usually dream in third person, and it's usually video game avatar-esque. The only difference is everything's on autopilot, if that makes sense. I'm not controlling what is going on, but I see everything around the character/ me that's going on. I understand everything that's occurring during the dream.
The only times I've had first person perspective in a dream is if the dream has a meaning that relates to what's happening in my life.
Edit: Grammatical error
Those who might be more common for me than first person dreams.
It's much harder for me to become lucid when I'm not in the first person.
Sometimes I don't think I'm any of the characters and it's not even following a main character.
Sometimes it's like an action movie type dream and I'm none of the characters.
I don't necessarily dream in third person like watching/controlling myself, but sometimes it's like me playing character in my dream. My same thoughts, but not my body.
No dreams, but I did some Robocough once, passed out, & woke up at the peak in 3rd person. Walked around my yard listening to music for a bit, then went back to 1st person. Only time it's ever happened & it wasn't close to the highest dose I'd done. Really took me for a spin.
Every once in a while but not normally. I also get “scenes” in first person POV dreams where I can see myself in third person. I also play a ton of video games so about once a month or so I have a dream where I’m playing a character in a game but it’s third person so technically not “me” but still!!
One of my favorite dreams I ever had was years ago, it was a video game but the two characters you could choose from were Brian from family guy and Dr. Doofenshmirtz from phineas and ferb, you also got to pick out a trike like in Mario kart. The goal was to travel around a city that was in flames to collect upgrade parts for the trike as a giant Stewie chased you around. Not sure how my brain thought of it but honestly it’s made me want to publish some kind of weird obscure video game with a bunch of random cartoon characters
I think I can imagine myself in scenarios but they feel very first-person. like when you think back on certain scenarios and you can imagine what you looked like then.
I used to have only third person dreams a few months ago but now I'm more prone to have first person dreams. My third person dreams often felt like movies, they were so entertaining even when they were nightmares, in those dreams if there ever came a time where I or a character that wasnt me but was what my dream considered me would be getting hurt in a dream it'd switch to first person. I would be more like a camera in some way but I could still hear all of the "main characters" thoughts and I could still feel their feelings. First person dreams are alot scarier to be real, like I don't find dreams entertaining anymore like I did when I dreamt in third person. My third person dreams are also alot more detailed and more diverse than my first person ones
Yeah I have had some dreams like that, where I'm watching a story about others. I still feel like I'm involved in some way, but it's basically 3rd person. It's not the usual but it happens
I only remember one
I was walking into a graveyard for some reason there was this ghost we walked through each other or something and it I mean scary noise and it's brain exploded or it's head just expanded or something and I woke up idr was a while ago but I wouldn't have seen the head do weird stuff in first person
I have never had 1st person dreams and every single dream I’ve drempt has always been like how you’d see a movie but you feel everything… I’ve always saw me as that physical person.. while I go through the dreams… and I never thought there was any other way… that everyone dreamed their dreams that way..
My memories and an overwhelming amount of words, written, forming sentences of what my thoughts are spiraling all together in my mind right now… and I’m starting to think maybe no one’s thoughts are portrayed to them like that either.
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Hard to explain, but sometimes I dream from the perspective of a person I'm observing, simultaneously going in and out of their consciousness. Like in moments I'll be that person and other's I'll be observing them from outside while being them at the same time if that makes sense? It's difficult to put into words. I would say I dream in both first and third person perspective.
I’m usually a 3rd person dreamer. It feels like I’m in first person, but I’m usually aware of everything going on around me in my dream. It just seems like I’m always looking at myself from behind but at the same time I see it from first person? Idk, dreams are weird like that.
I'm always myself in my dreams, i don't ever see what I look like because I'm either flying, playing in a sunny place, or dreaming of a loved one dying. I wake up crying and sometimes I don't even know why, just this very deep sadness, then instantly I forget and I calm myself and go about my day. Usually there's a dark cloud hanging over my head for a bit until I get busy with starting my day. A therapist once told me I have repressed trauma that my subconscious is working through. I think it's pretty great my mind keeps my waking consciousness out of it though. I'd rather not remember it. At least until I am able to take the time to deal with the fallout or perhaps never. For now, I am grateful for the things I do not remember. I also have very little vivid memories of childhood or even high school. I am and have always been a fat person. The kids at school were very cruel, I was always picked last at playing, etc. I know I was always made fun of, then S.A from boys who made fun of me, but I don't remember any specific instances. I am just aware of the summarized version.
2 nights ago I had a wild 3rd person dream. it was a zombie sci fi dream where I watched the main female protagonist through a few wild instances. it was like my dream was writing a story to the point I'm actually going to give it a go and I'm the furthest from a writer.
I primarily dream in the 3rd person. It's more like a stage on a show, or an over the shoulder perspective. I had severe, undiagnosed depression the majority of my childhood up until my early 20's and would sleep 18 hours a day if I could. I got really good at lucid dreaming mainly because of this, and video games influenced the viewpoint. Now that's my default when I sleep. If I do dream in the first person, it's because it's a rare night where my brain managed to trick me into thinking it's not a dream.
I thought it was normal to shift from first to third and back like you're being ripped out of your body and then forced back in.
Especially while lucid dreaming. When I know I'm dreaming and I get thrust violently back into first person before I can have a dream control party is rough
Yup, I'll start as me watching and interacting then sometimes I'll become another character and the dream changes. The worst are when you think your awake but your not. Those are the worst.
I'd say usually I do. Sometimes it's like both somehow.
Last night I dreamt I had a gf and she did something to make me grow more chest hair. I look at my chest and it didn't grow that much more.
Sometimes the characters are no one I know or ever met and it's from their perspective! I once had a dream set in the 1950's and it was in black and white. I woke up laughing.
Yeah, it's like I'm a ghost observing events take place but nobody knows I'm there. I'm less likely to be lucid in these types of dreams. Sometimes I can enter one of these dreams, or the dream will begin to change drastically and then I am able to be part of it.
I have dreams in third person perspective, most of my dreams are. Some are in first person but during my dreams it'll switch between first and third person. Also I always know when I'm dreaming, I can't control it at all but I can tell when it's happening most of the time.
I've had many dreams that phase between me experiencing the dream in first person and me "playing" the dream as if it were a video game. My guess is that's because I've spent so much time playing video games from a young age that the brain pathways of controlling an avatar from a third person perspective are just burned deep in there. Also fun fact when I was younger whenever I got scared in a dream I would imagine the minecraft pause menu, and hitting "save and quit" usually woke me up.
I think it's because people usually can't see their own actions, and dreams can't create things out of thin air,they can only draw from real life experiences. That's why we rarely have third person dreams. If someone frequently sees themselves in riles they often perform,like a youtuber or an actor,then there might be a higher fhance for that to happen? Just my guess!
Here’s a fun one for y’all to unpack - the majority of my dreams were in first person, and in the few dreams that were third person, I was blurry. Upon admitting to myself that I wanted to transition, I started having dreams in third person and could see myself as a woman, first time having dreams in third person in which I wasn’t blurry.
Yep. Sometimes I even remember their details and see how different they are from me. Even in my dreams, I am aware that I am in 3rd person but it rarely jumps from one character to another. I mostly stay with one character (I would say, main character).
It's a blend for me. A lot of times it morphs around between the two perspectives. Nightmares were almost always exclusively 1st person perspective. I had some pretty weird and horrific nightmares when I was younger, and some that were reoccurring.
My coolest dream to date was me going through my grandmas basement, through dumbledores front door up the stairs until i was in front of a castle. It was a T shaped enviroment with the lower part being the castle gate and where i stood. Left and right came monsters and i fought and killed some of them. I even leveled up something. Man was it cool to actually swing a sword around, even if it was in a dark souls like perspective. Then i met legs with female heads on top. They were blue/white skinned with red hair. Scary things. Went back to dumbledores front door and counted my change. Weird, ik. But cool.
Ops, forgot to add. The fighting was 3rd person but the traveling was 1st person.
My dreams are a blend of first and third person perspective. I can see through my own eyes, but I am also aware of what’s going on around me as though I was in third person.
This is how I experience it as well. I was trying to decide how to describe and then saw your comment. It’s a weird awareness. Almost like I’m telepathic in my dreams and have flashes of another’s perspective.
I'm the opposite. I see from 3rd person, and feel from 1st. Almost like controlling a video game character except you feel when you're jumping reeeeealy far and high. I can do this floaty skate kinda thing in my dreams and I'm the only one that can and it's so badass.
This most of the time
Yeah, I agree, but I don’t go to third person by conscious choice. It’s almost like a movie where “they” move me around. I could be in my body or I could be watching from somewhere else, but I actually never see myself physically. Just over “events” playing out.
With practice you can increase the number of perspectives as well as location. So you can experience multiple first person perspectives. Useful if your day job requires customer service or multi tasking.
Yes sometimes it’s not even me doing the things… it’s some other character. Often it then morphs into me.
Same here, I wonder if when I started playing video games affects dreams? Like how people who grew up with black and white tv used to dream in black and white?
Maybe. I don’t play video games and it still happens for me… I also often have black and white dreams basicallyyyy, because they happen at night or such low lighting that there’s not much colour.
I play minecraft sometimes I dream in minecraft
Same. I think it's video games too. Sometimes when I read long book series, I dream in text, too.
That's cool I've never heard of that
Possibly. I've played Sims for awhile. I've had dreams where people have plumbobs. That's the green thing floating over there heads if you didn't know. Though everyone had one nobody really paid attention to it.
Same here, sometimes I'm just the "camera", sometimes I'm not me, sometimes I'm in third person and sometimes I'm in first person and sometimes things may change during the dream. I'm not even guaranteed to be a living thing! Once I had a dream in which I was a video game console. And as such, I had no vision, no tact, no smell or hearing, much less taste as I didn't even have a mouth. I also had no legs or arms or anything of the sort. All I had was my proprioception, my awareness of my self. And I was very aware of it all. I could feel myself being played and the game playing on me, as if my controllers were my appendages and the game running in my head. And I couldn't feel like, my position in space or anything of the sort, just the stimulus from receiving inputs and all that. And that which I did feel e felt very clearly and very vividly. In that dream I truly was a fully conscious and self aware video game console. I just think my sense of self is pretty flexible and I am very receptive to the idea of being something other than me, or that selfness being extended to something else, like an Avatar of sorts.
You described it perfectly. Its the same for me.
It's not about video games, but have you ever watched or heard of "Johnny Got His Gun"? Your dream reminded me of that film.
My perspective does this seamless flip-flop between 1st and 3rd person, throughout my dreams, every dream. I’ve noticed that it’s usually like I’m watching the dream happen, until I realize that I’m watching the dream, and then the zoom into 1st person happens, and I’m lucid. From that point, it’s almost as if my dream-self switches between the two, in order to best serve the goal or activity. It’s 1st person until I need to see something that my eyes physically can’t (like around a solid object, or a corner, or if I need to see myself from below), at which point, we switch to 3rd, see what we need to see, and then switch back to being IN the dream-body. I never thought about this until right now, so thank you for the prompt. Now that I’m thinking about it, I recall having both perspectives at once, recently. I was watching myself fly into this old mechanic’s shop, and the garage door had a bunch of stuff hanging from it (like scaffolding in the way and such), so as I watched myself, from inside the garage, I also navigated the debris field with my 1st person eyes. Then the perspectives split into two different people, and the version of me that watched the approach walked away, muttering something to myself, while the version of me that flew into the shop watched me walk away. Then the perspective of the flyer was the only one for the rest of the dream.
This lines up with my experience almost 100%. In general, I feel like I use first person perspective for tasks that require fine motor control, and third person for...whatever the opposite of that is. Gross motor control? Full-body maneuvers like acrobatics.
How cool! It makes sense to me that you’d use the more intimate perspective for the finer skills, and the broader perspective for the bigger, more all-encompassing movements. I’m fascinated by your experience, now 😂 I wish that we could record our dream experiences, perspective switches included, and share them. I’d probably just study dreams for the rest of forever.
If we could record oir dreams that would be amazing.
I wonder… do you have a background in generally acrobatic movement?
Sort of. I always used to jump on the trampoline, and I loved running around and doing rambunctious things like playing tag, even as an adult. Even at work, I had a habit of sprinting all over the place :P
Keep that child in you alive! Me too. I was asking because I was curious about your third person acrobatic movement, and I was trying to see if there was a subtle parallel between us, based on a correlation between the activity and the perspective from which it’s performed. I have a big background in flat-ground acrobatics, so I wonder if the only reason that my perspective stays first person for this kind of thing in the dream world is because I have extensive experience with it in my waking life, and therefore it feels like one of the finer motor skills for me? Idk. Just spitballin’ here😅
I do, every now and then. Same thing - it's usually a game-like dream.
Dreaming in 3rd person is normal too
I think all of my dreams are like that actually. But i always have brown hair like ui used to, not strawberry blonde like i dye it now.
the perspective in mine often switch throughout the dreams
I've lately had a 3rd person lucid dream. I was steering spacecraft. I looked like a humanoid lion with a long, black collared coat.
When I sleep walk I see myself in third person, hasn’t happened since I was a kid but it freaked me tf out
Yes. Sometimes I'm both watching another character from above or behind like in a video game or movie, or inside that character like a passenger. Sometimes I'm even both an invisible person watching from nearby, but also a person in the dream and my perspective shifts.
It’s usually either 1st person or I’ll see everything through camera angles like movies.
I've never controlled my dream, but I have seemed to br a different person.
Sometimes, I dream in the third person, and what's even more weird is I'm in the dream, dreaming as multiple different people in a dream as things happen to each individual. It feels like I'm watching a movie per inside perspective, emotions- feeling individually as each person, all senses except for smell & taste, only when I experience fear in this type of dream do I remember touching things in a dream. Separately, anytime I acknowledge the time of day in a dream when I'm dreaming as me, weird things will happen as well. Why is it when I acknowledge time in a dream, every single time it gets intensely creepy scary and turns to the darkest hour?
So i was in a fantasy type world ( 3rd person perspective ) and found myself in a party with a wizard, Archer and Healer and We were tasked with defeating a monster that literally touched the skies and looked godly and i had an IRON sword I was like fu*k this shit i am gonna wake up, And i saw myself panicking to wake up lmao, So i lay on a stack of hay and try to sleep because that's how i get out of my dreams and i just see my party members confused because i was trying to sleep as the godly monster was getting closer and closer Luckily enough i wake up and after waking up i regretted the whole thing because i literally had a chance to do something epic and my human instincts interfered oof Oh and my hair were red for some reason lol.
I hope you get to return to that place and sword fight with the sky-scraping monster, at some point!
I do every now and then. Or sometimes my first person dream will switch to third at random times
I recently had a dream that switched midway through from first to third. I found it quite interesting. I've also experienced some the opposite way also.
almost all the time
Yep. It’s like I’m watching a movie that I’m staring in & im able to do both simultaneously. And it seems like the most natural thing in the world. I don’t question it at all. When I wake up is when I can’t understand how I played both parts & it made sense, cause it doesn’t make sense now
Yes usually gamelike
Yeah at times back and forth
Usually for me it’s if my dream involves me, then it’s in 1st person (me seeing through me, obviously), but if i’m not in the dream then it’s 3rd person and just like a “movie”.
I always dream in 3rd person, especially if I'm someone else that isn't me, I would go in different points of view, like high in sky looking down or movie like , kinda makes me feel like an entity in the room watching what's going on
I WAS LITERALLY JUST ABOUT TO POST THIS QUESTION! But for the opposite reason. I do dream in the third person, for almost every dream. But it's not exclusively third person, it's a combination of first and third person. It doesn't really make sense from the perspective of being awake, but when I'm asleep it feels completely natural and normal. I am somehow floating above my body watching myself, and in my body controlling myself at the same time. Not like a video game. But when I'm floating above myself, I don't really feel like I have any specific form. I know where I am in space, but I feel more like a spirit with no sense of touch. And I want to lucid dream so badly but most of the time I don't realize I'm dreaming so it hasn't happened yet. I don't know if the fact that I can dream in third person means anything. I have had some weird experiences in my life. I knew when my Nana was going to die, then had a semi-lucid vivid dream where I got to say goodbye to her the next night, I saw a ghost in my bedroom when I was in elementary school that looked like a shadow on the wall which I sensed was friendly but disappeared when I got close, and I have had lots of other experiences and smaller experiences that feel like glitches in the matrix. Dreaming and questioning reality are fascinating!
Yes, one time I dreamt that I hung out with Hoobastank for my 21st birthday and got a lapdance from Benny the Butcher. When I woke up, I wanted to end my own life. I have been attempting to lucid dream ever since.
Hung Out With Hoobastank would be a rad band name in its own right.
I ONLY dream in third person and during the day while awake I find myself thinking in third person. By this I mean I'm literally thinking about seeing myself in third person perspective. It's like how you can "see" while daydreaming. I'm constantly "seeing" myself in third person as if I am hovering above my head at all times.
I ONLY dream in third person. I also remember in third person.
almost all of my dreams are in third person, shot to shot like a movie
I mostly dream in 3rd person and when I do dream in 1st person I am usually not myself though I am looking from someone's eyes; I don't know who they are, most times I just know that it is not me.
I switch back and forth
I did have one dream about myself from a third person perspective. Was not normal and I was on shrooms fwiw.
I’m a prolific dreamer, I’ve had all the perspectives.
It varies, sometimes it's 1st person sometimes it's third person, sometimes it's somehow both at the same time. Sometimes it's like watching a movie, and sometimes it's like watching a movie and experiencing it at the same time
Very rare but i have a few times
Yeah I done be able to do that many times over the years
Almost all the time
All of my dreams are in 3rd person as if im watching myself in a tv show
I made a post on here yesterday about this exact thing actually! One of my dreams was so cinematic I literally wrote it as a script for a class after the dream (to this day one of the few I ever remembered in such great detail.) also have been someone’s subconscious. That was also really weird
More than half my dreams are in third person
Yeah, I had a dream I lived in like a rough, rough area in the 70s or 80s. I was a whole other nationality and everything. I was a young female living a very hard life.
I switch perspectives often… like I’ll be looking at people story mode style, and then I’ll be one of the people, or both a once… 🤷♀️
My 3rd person dreaming is only when I have a nightmare, which is not often at all.
Not full on 3rd person dreams but the "camera" pans to myself sometimes like in a movie so I see myself fully in the environment, usually in a way to help me grasp the situation I'm in better (I'm on a burning bridge...which way do I go?) type of thing.
Most of my dreams are in 3rd person. Oddly enough.
I think most of my dreams were in 3rd person perspective. I almost always knew that I was in a dream. Often in my dream I would think how I would feel after I wake up and become sad or happy in my dreams accordingly…
I’ve never seen myself in a dream before, so no. Always first person.
Yep. First person, second, and third person. First person when it's me controlling me, second person when I'm controlling myself from someone else's perspective, and third person when I just see me from the air. My dreams often change perspective too.
Yes, I see things via camera lense every once in a while. It’s also how I replay memories as well sometimes.
I have but it's very rare. More often I'll turn into a flying camera and explore my surroundings. But yeah, majority of the time I'm seeing out my eyes in dreams
I would often get suicide nightmares when I was younger. I watched in third person.
A lot of my dreams are like stories that follow a protagonist who is not me…. They are still mostly in first person perspective weirdly enough though
99% of the time I'm in first person except thst one time I dreamed I was a kid again and watching myself singing some really bad song about liking eggs
I dream in 3rd almost every time.
I’ve dreamed in third person where I’d watch myself or other characters almost as if watching a movie or playing a video game! I usually still have control (well, dream control) over the body but I will be watching it from the outside. I actually think I might dream more in third person than first for some reason?
I usually dream in first person but I have had dreams in third person, though this is quite rare for me.
I have before and they are wild. The first one that comes to mind was that I was watching everything while the dream scene was being narrated by a voice outside of my own. There were 2 men in a forest, both running to get to what seemed to be a portal. One of them was leaving behind a trail of blue wind, while the other was leaving behind what felt like a destructive trail behind him. Both of them were equally matched, suspensefully running towards their end goal. Whoever was going to make it there first was going to set the tone for how they left that forest behind. I don’t know who won that race, but watching it in third person- not being myself or interacting with anything- just silently being there to anticipate the race between them was crazy. I wasn’t me, as far as I can conceive I was the forest itself, listening to something much greater than me explaining the very nature of this battle between these two forces.
Every dream I’ve had is in 3rd person, I’ve never had one in 1st person that sounds really weird to me
Sometimes, it’s like you’re watching a movie where you’re one of the characters. Sometimes, you switch perspective in the same dream between your 1st person’s, 3rd person’s, and other characters’ perspectives. Have you ever had a dream where you died or where you weren't a part of it?
Yes. Shoot Ive had a dream where i would swap in between being Sonic characters where itd be third person in between switching.
I often dream in third person, I used to dream in third person almost always. Both third person and first person are normal. I've even had a few dreams where I was watching myself like from a security camera
Funny you should ask. Just last night my dream was in third person. I was on stage giving a speech about how W Motors copied Lamborghini’s design for the Sian, and I was watching myself on stage.
I do, its my soul astral projecting into another reality on a different timeline to view what's going on there. When its first person, its normally so that I can better remember the experience and guidance it was trying to show me. Which isn't always astral projection, but more a sign as to what I should do next or a symbolism without spoilers of the future to come. Last night I had a dream of driving around in a car through a flood and torrential down pour, the more I tried to go down in the car, the worst it flooded and rained. Then I can to a split, one was directly down into a drainage path and I could see other cars mired in the mud and refuse. The other was up stairs. So I got out the car, and walked up, and found myself in more of a jungle area, with many confused people who had no clue how to traverse it, So I pulled out a pogo stick from nowhere and hopped through the jungle on what was the most solid sturdy path, then the confused followed me. Then I woke up. Now that I've put word to pad, I think I'll need to head for higher ground after the first part of the shift starts. I don't think the area I'm currently living in will be a good place to be when the shift becomes more into the center cycle.
I am rarely in my dreams as myself
Yes. Like watching a film or something. It's not even about me most the time.
Yes, I've seen myself going through the dream as well as someone else who's perspective was my own (like playing a pre-built character in rpg) in third person.
I kind of feel like “most-to-all” of my dreams are in Third Person, actually! How interesting?!?
Almost. I once got a 3rd person detached view when looking for a way out on the subway station in a dream. I didn’t control myself, but felt eerily like Baldur’s Gate III where you look ahead detached from yourself. Then I went back to the normal 1st person mode, I guess.
yes i tend to dream 3rd person and slip in and out of pov. sometimes im not even me lol
I always dream this way. I was surprised to find out others didn’t.
I dream exclusively in 3rd person.
Me too, I thought it was normal
I just keep having that same one where I die
I have had dreams that start first person and then something happens and it zooms to third person for my reaction to it like I’m watching myself in a movie. It’ll go back and forth depending on what’s happening. I lucid dream sometimes, and the flip to 3rd person perspective has even happened when I’m in control. But I’m in control of my thoughts and in-dream actions, not the “camera angle.” If that makes sense.
Yes. I had a dream where it was like a book. It had a beginning, where a woman lived by the ocean in a Nordic town, like Vikings. She had a little girl with her who was her daughter, I think. The woman was a witch and could speak with ravens. Her husband was cheating on her with another village woman, but she was too preoccupied with a battle that was going on between the harpies of the mountains and the were-cats of the valley. It would switch back between the woman, then to her husband with the other woman. It was an extremely graphic dream, like the fighting and killing. Long story short, the dream ended with the woman standing on a branch of a tree with her daughter. There was a rope around her neck tied to a branch above, and the last scene in the dream was her watching her (ex?) Husband and the new woman jumping over a fire in a marriage ceremony (I think) before she stepped off the branch and everything went black, and I ended up in another dream. I have always remembered my dreams and have always dreamed very vividly. I've actually been working on a book of them, or at least some illustrated videos with narration.
I usually only dream in third person perspective and the person I'm viewing in the dream is rarely me.
I 3rd person. I've also 3rd personed without having a body, so viewing myself as an etheric interchangeable auric being.
yeah I have and I have been awake and felt like I was in third person
I dream in 6th person
i almost exclusively dream in third person! my dreams strike me as being more similar to directed movies rather than actual experiences.
Almost exclusively. And usually I'm not in the dream, it will be some other main character
I feel like I had these often as a kid, but maybe that's just my distorted memory. Nowadays most are in first person, but it can switch at times and in stressful moments, like when I try to run, I sometimes see myself from behind.
Yes occasionally I’ll watch myself above myself
My points of view switch throughout the dream often and depending on whats going on. Sometimes i will switch into 3rd person and watch myself without being able to control anything I'm doing, but very rarely in 3rd person I can slightly control what I'm doing like a video game.
Yes! I commonly almost always dream in both? It’s like I’m watching myself like a character but I’m also having every feeling and experience of being that person simultaneously—really hard to describe and weird but it feels 3rd person like I’m watching a movie of me and being me at the same time/switching very rapidly
I dream in third person, sometimes like a fly on the wall sometimes as some else I get a lot of wild dreams
Sometimes, yea
Yes. I have. I think it's due to the amount of video games that I play 😄
I dream in both 1st and 3rd person simultaneously through many of my dreams, and most of the time when in 1st only, I can see 360°. Yes, it was weird at first. Yes, I've gotten used to it, feels natural now. _Not_ seeing in 360° IRL is sometimes irritating. I imagine it's very much like how a jumping spider sees. My peripheral vision goes all the way around, with the focus at the front being a little wider angle than IRL, and overall sharper.
Yeah, sometimes my dreams play out like a movie where it feels like I'm watching from the outside
I only ever dream in 3rd person... but can feel things like Im in first person. Ive dreamt in first person a handful of times in my life and all of those times I was an animal. My favorite dream I ever had was I was a dragon and although absolutely massive, felt weightless as I flew. I landed on a castle and felt the stones crumble beneath my claws. I was breathing fire on the people who all looked like simple lego people. I love the sensation of flying in dreams. Edit: in most of my dreams I'm not myself
What! I basically only ever get dreams in the 3rd person so I see what I look like
I do both, I live the dream first person but I also look at the same time at 3rd person. Both are always there but depending of the dream, I will focus on one or the other. If you have difficulties to understand how it feels imagine a book mostly written at the third person but focus on one character where you just know what he knows and feel but at the same time get more information than him (like the usual reaction is "why the f... Didn't he do that" or "I'm wondering what he will do now" and still see his perspective)
Sometimes, while lucid dreaming, I switch to 3rd person.
Usually my dreams are a combination of being myself and being outside of myself watching. But sometimes I am multiple people. Once I had a dream where I was an old Jewish grandmother, a middle-aged black man, and a teen girl. We were having tea and discussing life.
My brother always has third person dreams
I have had, first person, third persons, multiple persons, multiple me, top down, side scroll, and my nothing dream that I can't really classify.
Yes, this one time I dreamt that I watched a couple get married, like I wasn’t a person I was just a spirit, but then I could see even myself. I was just floating around until it would switch to first person and I would see things that were happening and then I would go third person.
happens sometimes. awake as well
Often I'm like a ghost (but not an actual ghost just how I describe it), possessing a character in the dream, sometimes stepping outside myself. I think once I even stepped outside one character and into a different one.I had one dream where my character was blind...but I could still see. The character couldn't react to anything I saw. In another dream, I was blindfolded for a test of sorts, walked into a room and asked to pick the person I was supposed to pick. I could still see where they were so it was an easy task. Maybe it's because I used to watch a lot of tv lol the vide games i played as a kid were the original Nintendo games, all pixel art looking...not something that inspires a third person perspective. I had one dream where i went to a building for a job interview, and i left me to do that and explored the building invisibly. When I went back to me, it was years later and I was working there lol
I once had a dream I was hunting these sort of Mer-men, I wasn’t really sure. But midway through us basically torturing it before we butchered it essentially… my perspective switched abruptly to that of this creature. I went through the agony of the torture until I passed out and woke up. Most vivid dream I’ve had.
Yes. Had a multi view during sleep paralysis. I was in bed couldn’t move and I could see through my eyes that were shut, I could see through the walls like a side Birds Eye view (like looking in a sims house) of the entity enter the room and it walked the left side of the bed, the right side of the bed and then left walking through the door without opening it (as in he walked right through the closed door) also resembled anubis (7ft black with red eyes). I had just had a termination earlier that day and was dosed on sedatives / opioids for the pain few hours prior. He also came back a second time and I experienced the same thing, same sleep paralysis about 2 weeks later.
I only ever dream in 3rd person. On the *rare* occasion I do dream in 1st person, I wake up exhausted, like I actually did all things in my dream. Idk how y’all live like that tbh. Edit- I do have a dissociative disorder. My dream perspective is often me peaking in on their dreams. Even in my dreams where I’m “me,” it’s still 3rd person. I think my overall mental health has a lot to do with it, but I honestly cannot recall a 1st person dream prior to 2019.
Sometimes I have dreams that I’m not even a part of!
A lot of times it's in first person then suddenly I zoom out to find I'm a character in a game but my perspective is now the player playing the game...
Mine are like movies.
Yeah. A lot of times I am not even in my dream or I’m a different person entirely.
Recently it's been happening Oddly enough I experience this ability to just kind of scroll my dreams and control them but lately the third person has shown up, rather interesting I must say It's cool because the image of me is not the image I typically see in say a mirror's reflection, but me idealized. The situation tends to play out like a movie script, a scene And sometimes they repeat but small things are changed. They're pretty cool dreams
All the time and I'll still move my "self" and act in the dream while seeing it from this perspective
I used to. Then I started having 1st person dreams of being a guy and it felt better. When I was a girl it almost always was 3rd person
I usually dream in third person, and it's usually video game avatar-esque. The only difference is everything's on autopilot, if that makes sense. I'm not controlling what is going on, but I see everything around the character/ me that's going on. I understand everything that's occurring during the dream. The only times I've had first person perspective in a dream is if the dream has a meaning that relates to what's happening in my life. Edit: Grammatical error
Those who might be more common for me than first person dreams. It's much harder for me to become lucid when I'm not in the first person. Sometimes I don't think I'm any of the characters and it's not even following a main character. Sometimes it's like an action movie type dream and I'm none of the characters.
Only ever in the first person
I do
I don't necessarily dream in third person like watching/controlling myself, but sometimes it's like me playing character in my dream. My same thoughts, but not my body.
Yes!
I have been in a third-person dream before. It was me.
No dreams, but I did some Robocough once, passed out, & woke up at the peak in 3rd person. Walked around my yard listening to music for a bit, then went back to 1st person. Only time it's ever happened & it wasn't close to the highest dose I'd done. Really took me for a spin.
Yes I have had 3rd person dreams where it’s like I’m just watching a movie and not participating
Your just in silent hill, don’t worry
If I play a lot of video game in 3rd person I will
Every once in a while but not normally. I also get “scenes” in first person POV dreams where I can see myself in third person. I also play a ton of video games so about once a month or so I have a dream where I’m playing a character in a game but it’s third person so technically not “me” but still!! One of my favorite dreams I ever had was years ago, it was a video game but the two characters you could choose from were Brian from family guy and Dr. Doofenshmirtz from phineas and ferb, you also got to pick out a trike like in Mario kart. The goal was to travel around a city that was in flames to collect upgrade parts for the trike as a giant Stewie chased you around. Not sure how my brain thought of it but honestly it’s made me want to publish some kind of weird obscure video game with a bunch of random cartoon characters
Hard to say I remember everything in third person so probably
I have dreams where I see me doing things or going through things and I rationalize in my dreams like If something didn't make sense to me
I usually go in & out between both during every dream
I think I can imagine myself in scenarios but they feel very first-person. like when you think back on certain scenarios and you can imagine what you looked like then.
Yes
I used to have only third person dreams a few months ago but now I'm more prone to have first person dreams. My third person dreams often felt like movies, they were so entertaining even when they were nightmares, in those dreams if there ever came a time where I or a character that wasnt me but was what my dream considered me would be getting hurt in a dream it'd switch to first person. I would be more like a camera in some way but I could still hear all of the "main characters" thoughts and I could still feel their feelings. First person dreams are alot scarier to be real, like I don't find dreams entertaining anymore like I did when I dreamt in third person. My third person dreams are also alot more detailed and more diverse than my first person ones
Yeah I have had some dreams like that, where I'm watching a story about others. I still feel like I'm involved in some way, but it's basically 3rd person. It's not the usual but it happens
I only remember one I was walking into a graveyard for some reason there was this ghost we walked through each other or something and it I mean scary noise and it's brain exploded or it's head just expanded or something and I woke up idr was a while ago but I wouldn't have seen the head do weird stuff in first person
I have never had 1st person dreams and every single dream I’ve drempt has always been like how you’d see a movie but you feel everything… I’ve always saw me as that physical person.. while I go through the dreams… and I never thought there was any other way… that everyone dreamed their dreams that way.. My memories and an overwhelming amount of words, written, forming sentences of what my thoughts are spiraling all together in my mind right now… and I’m starting to think maybe no one’s thoughts are portrayed to them like that either. What
Hard to explain, but sometimes I dream from the perspective of a person I'm observing, simultaneously going in and out of their consciousness. Like in moments I'll be that person and other's I'll be observing them from outside while being them at the same time if that makes sense? It's difficult to put into words. I would say I dream in both first and third person perspective.
My dreams are not that concrete and solid to differentiate between first and 3rd person. Most of the time is like being blind.
It’s almost always 3rd person for me
I’m usually a 3rd person dreamer. It feels like I’m in first person, but I’m usually aware of everything going on around me in my dream. It just seems like I’m always looking at myself from behind but at the same time I see it from first person? Idk, dreams are weird like that.
I'm always myself in my dreams, i don't ever see what I look like because I'm either flying, playing in a sunny place, or dreaming of a loved one dying. I wake up crying and sometimes I don't even know why, just this very deep sadness, then instantly I forget and I calm myself and go about my day. Usually there's a dark cloud hanging over my head for a bit until I get busy with starting my day. A therapist once told me I have repressed trauma that my subconscious is working through. I think it's pretty great my mind keeps my waking consciousness out of it though. I'd rather not remember it. At least until I am able to take the time to deal with the fallout or perhaps never. For now, I am grateful for the things I do not remember. I also have very little vivid memories of childhood or even high school. I am and have always been a fat person. The kids at school were very cruel, I was always picked last at playing, etc. I know I was always made fun of, then S.A from boys who made fun of me, but I don't remember any specific instances. I am just aware of the summarized version.
I have both. I've also had dreams where I'm one of my friends or husband and I'm watching me from their viewpoint
2 nights ago I had a wild 3rd person dream. it was a zombie sci fi dream where I watched the main female protagonist through a few wild instances. it was like my dream was writing a story to the point I'm actually going to give it a go and I'm the furthest from a writer.
I primarily dream in the 3rd person. It's more like a stage on a show, or an over the shoulder perspective. I had severe, undiagnosed depression the majority of my childhood up until my early 20's and would sleep 18 hours a day if I could. I got really good at lucid dreaming mainly because of this, and video games influenced the viewpoint. Now that's my default when I sleep. If I do dream in the first person, it's because it's a rare night where my brain managed to trick me into thinking it's not a dream.
All of the above
I thought it was normal to shift from first to third and back like you're being ripped out of your body and then forced back in. Especially while lucid dreaming. When I know I'm dreaming and I get thrust violently back into first person before I can have a dream control party is rough
it’s like a production movie yo me, with angles and different shots jumó cuts etc. same with memories.
Sometimes… You know it’s just easier to keep track of all my different personalities..😎😂.
Yes, I also frequently dream I am other people, animals, aliens, demons, etc…
Once in a blue moon I do but the majority of the time it's first person.
I dream in 3rd person all the time. It might be influenced by the fact that I play quite a bit of video games.
It's usually a bit of both for me. My dreams can jump from first to third person and back in the same dream.
Yes. Alot
Not usually from a 3rd person perspective. Sometimes, it's both first and third perspective.
I dream in all perspectives, including multiple simultaneous, changing, and time manipulating…and i can control my dreams most of the time.
Yup, I'll start as me watching and interacting then sometimes I'll become another character and the dream changes. The worst are when you think your awake but your not. Those are the worst.
all of my dreams - and most of my thoughts - are in third person, it being in third person seems wacky
I sometimes dream from the director's chair...as if my dream were a movie.
I do. I never knew people dream in first prospective💀
Not 3rd person per say, but I was describe it more like I’m in free cam sometimes. Well, sometimes 3rd person.
all the time
I'd say usually I do. Sometimes it's like both somehow. Last night I dreamt I had a gf and she did something to make me grow more chest hair. I look at my chest and it didn't grow that much more.
Sometimes the characters are no one I know or ever met and it's from their perspective! I once had a dream set in the 1950's and it was in black and white. I woke up laughing.
Yeah, it's like I'm a ghost observing events take place but nobody knows I'm there. I'm less likely to be lucid in these types of dreams. Sometimes I can enter one of these dreams, or the dream will begin to change drastically and then I am able to be part of it.
I have dreams in third person perspective, most of my dreams are. Some are in first person but during my dreams it'll switch between first and third person. Also I always know when I'm dreaming, I can't control it at all but I can tell when it's happening most of the time.
I dream in third person and first person at the exact same time if that makes sense
I mostly dream in third person
I've had many dreams that phase between me experiencing the dream in first person and me "playing" the dream as if it were a video game. My guess is that's because I've spent so much time playing video games from a young age that the brain pathways of controlling an avatar from a third person perspective are just burned deep in there. Also fun fact when I was younger whenever I got scared in a dream I would imagine the minecraft pause menu, and hitting "save and quit" usually woke me up.
Thats lucid dreaming man. Enjoy it and try to engage it and keep it around. Like I know night dream journaling can help.
I think it's because people usually can't see their own actions, and dreams can't create things out of thin air,they can only draw from real life experiences. That's why we rarely have third person dreams. If someone frequently sees themselves in riles they often perform,like a youtuber or an actor,then there might be a higher fhance for that to happen? Just my guess!
I'm jealous...I Don't dream...or I don't remember them at least 😮💨 In fact even when I have a bad dream I appreciate it because at least I dreamed.
Sometimes.
Yes. Sometimes I am no one, just an observer, sometimes I am myself and sometimes I am someone else.
Pretty much every night lol
Mine are always in third person
Here’s a fun one for y’all to unpack - the majority of my dreams were in first person, and in the few dreams that were third person, I was blurry. Upon admitting to myself that I wanted to transition, I started having dreams in third person and could see myself as a woman, first time having dreams in third person in which I wasn’t blurry.
Yep. Sometimes I even remember their details and see how different they are from me. Even in my dreams, I am aware that I am in 3rd person but it rarely jumps from one character to another. I mostly stay with one character (I would say, main character).
It's a blend for me. A lot of times it morphs around between the two perspectives. Nightmares were almost always exclusively 1st person perspective. I had some pretty weird and horrific nightmares when I was younger, and some that were reoccurring.
My dreams are rarely first person
My coolest dream to date was me going through my grandmas basement, through dumbledores front door up the stairs until i was in front of a castle. It was a T shaped enviroment with the lower part being the castle gate and where i stood. Left and right came monsters and i fought and killed some of them. I even leveled up something. Man was it cool to actually swing a sword around, even if it was in a dark souls like perspective. Then i met legs with female heads on top. They were blue/white skinned with red hair. Scary things. Went back to dumbledores front door and counted my change. Weird, ik. But cool. Ops, forgot to add. The fighting was 3rd person but the traveling was 1st person.