People dream?
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Both actually. It’s really weird when I think about it
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.
First person I guess, because I don't remember shit. Also I don't really dream that much, but still more than a decade ago.
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 😬
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.
Most, if not all, of my experienced dreams so far, have been in 1st person, as if I'm the one living through whatever realism-fantasy-scifi shenanigans I'm in; thing is, most of the time, they're almost exclusively set within my home province, including the central capital city, highways and all.
Consuming and creating various creative media also has its own part in aligning perspectives in those dreams, as well as how the supposed "plot"/"storyline" plays out in its entirety.
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.
The only dreams I remember are those where I'm stabbed or punched in the back because I wake up with back pain.
Most of the time 1st person, sometimes 3rd person like a TV or drone camera showing me with the scenery around, like I'm watching a movie. Very rarely is it following behind my head like in a 3D video game.
I dream in 2nd person.
I dream mostly in 3rd and often my physical self is not in it.
For example I just dreamed about a being a worker in a warehouse. I never seen that dude before in my life but "camera" and I controlled him so that was me.
Both. My vivid dreams tend to be in first person (one way to recognize the vividness) while a lot of my just weird ass dreams are in 3rd person.
The time I woke myself up by talking in my sleep, it was in first person and I walked down the street to a friend's house and when his mom answered the door I spoke in my sleep "can Shane play?" And my own voice woke me up.
But the dream I once had of riding a T-Rex through a McDonald's warehouse was in 3rd person.
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.
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.
My dreams are what I can only describe as what it would look like for a 4th dimensional being looking into the 3rd dimensional world.
I can see every part of my body while also seeing from my personal perspective. It took me years to make sense of any of my dreams because of how confusing it all was.
The only times I've dreamt in 3rd person was when in 1st person I saw another me
For me, it changes a lot, sometimes multiple times in the same dream. Rarely I see dreams where I'm not involved at all and just watch other people do stuff.
4th. Like deadpool.
Found the lucid dreamer
Is that what that is? It's not like It actively consciously controlling it from my world but I am from their end, if that makes sense. I get to change things but I have to respect He Who Remains. Gotta say how much Loki is though. Gonna leave it at that.
I think, based on your description.
If your dreams are like Deadpool, where he is aware he's in a comic and likewise you're aware you're in a dream I would say that's technically lucid dreaming, and you can technically "control" your dream, to an extent.
If, however, you're viewing yourself in your dream but from the perspective of others, that's second person pov. There's a really cool video about what that would look like in a video game: https://youtu.be/mC8QoRa8y_Q?si=9TJdB7md7f1h9Okq
I'm not fully aware I'm dreaming but I always know right off the bat that I can edit shit at any point but also that all lose all observation if I kill the relevance of the story going on to the story I want it to be.
It's like being a juggler with events oncoming as the go along.
You're thinking of walls.
Yeah but Kali said it was acceptable. So did Dr Who. He was traveling through a black hole though. 'Twas even Math Smith no less. And David Tennant. Kind switched and back as the story went along too.
I have dreamed in third person, but I don't think I could tell when the last time was. I dream a lot more often in first person.
Either like cinematic or just first person view
I have no idea what's happening in most of my dreams and never remember anything concrete.
In my last vivid dream I was both. Initially it was first person, but then the scene changed and I was watching myself.
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