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.
The only times I’ve dreamt in 3rd person was when in 1st person I saw another me
1st
I switch between
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.
I used to dream all the time when I was a kid (mostly in 3rd person from what I can recall), but for quite a few years now, I just don’t even feel like I dream at all. It’s not even that I don’t remember what the dreams were (when I dreamt before, I could tell when I had a dream, even if it was just a vague notion that I couldn’t recall), I just don’t even have a sense that any dreams are happening period. Not sure if it was from all the drug & alcohol use during my teen/early 20s, but sleep for me now is like time travel. It just happens and suddenly I wake up a few hours in the future, assuming I’m able to actually get a good amount of sleep.
Not sure if it was from all the drug & alcohol use during my teen/early 20s
Most likely. When I was on psych drugs I had no dreams. But things improved when I quit them. You may have some long-lasting brain damage. I have anhedonia due to the drugs
Try some fat before bed. I used to do a pea size amount of coconut oil, or an egg at supper.
I’m almost exactly the same way, except I never dreamed in my youth either. As far I’m concerned I don’t dream, and sleep is far and away the fastest way to pass time.
Both! And only very occasionally does the 3rd person view look anything like me
@Wolfrasin so, when you dream in third person you tend to have a main character?
I dream exclusively in 2nd person.
@ivanafterall I knew someone out there was dreaming about me!
Actually you were the second person
Either. The third person ones tend to be long and involved eg murder mysteries.
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.
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.
My dreams sometimes seem like a well choreographed movie. happens both 1st person and 3rd person at times and often I’m also aware it’s a dream.
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.
My most vivid dreams have always been in first person. But I’m not always me. One dream I remember in particular is that I think I was a younger sister to an older brother? Other than that one time, all my dreams I have always been me. Even when I dream of movies or some some sort of third person narrative it feels like I’m watching a movie on a TV.
I recently dreamt that I was a Bulgarian guy in a series of comedy movies called The Adventures of The drizzle and it was fucking hilarious, at least in my dream, but it was so abstract and weird. I woke up kind of freaking out like what the fuck. Why am I dreaming about being some Bulgarian guy in a comedy movie?
Maybe you watched a comedy movie with a Bulgarian dude? I remember I was thinking of a new story about a younger sister and brother a few times so maybe that’s the reason? Either way, it’s a good way to break into writing comedy
A variably disassociated first person … sometimes like a third person that’s about to snap back to first any moment.
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
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
