Thread: Is there any reason that i only watch dreams?

How much do you sleep? is your dream recall good?

Hey Barry i get 8-11 hours sleep, too much. But i have been just watching for a long time, yeah just when i wake up the Dream recall is very good. But after 10 minuttes i Can only remember bits of information, or even nothing

then try dream incubation, use your visualization power ,visualize what you want to dream, before you go to sleep .

Originally Posted by Nap0d

Is there any reason i only watch dreams not like a movie but usually i dont have identity?

I also have dreams like that. Dreams in which I'm only an observer without even having a body, just watching what happens. A LOT of my dreams are like that. Sometimes I'm more than just an observer, but I see myself from a bird's-eye perspective, or a third-person perspective like in those games.
I often see myself in my dreams and sometimes I look different. Sometimes I'm older, sometimes I'm younger.
only half of my dreams are in a first-person perspective, the other half is observing and third-person perspective

I think it's because I also like observing in real life. I'm very analytic and I also reflect a lot and think about myself and how to improve myself
maybe that's why I see my dreams in the third-person perspective.

It probably depends on the way you process memories and ideas.

Interesting to know others have dreams like that.
I wonder if you have dreams like that is it going to be harder to become lucid? Because it's more abstract.

A lot of my dreams I get the birds-eye view, and a lot of times I'm actually watching myself which kind of confuses me but in the dream I don't care. I guess in those cases it's like I'm watching a movie and I'm the actor in the movie.

Some of the time I even am watching someone else that in the dream I believe is me, or I am playing a different character as well.

I tend to feel a lot more passive in these dreams, like just sitting back watching things happen. So maybe if one becomes more aware during life and during their dreams they will start to dream in a way that is less like observing, more like being?

Then again, maybe if you dream like that is is because the real 'self' has no identity and is just an observer. in this sense these types of dreams where you don't have a real identity could give a truer perception of consciousness?

I definitely think it makes becoming lucid a bit harder. Or at least you have to approach it differently. After all you can't do things like RCs if you're just an observer.
I had my first lucid dream today, and I was mostly observing too, so it definitely is possible, but I wasn't able to control much of the dream. Maybe it's because it was my first lucid dream, maybe it's because that kind of dream is harder to comprehend.
In any case being lucid in this "observing dream" today felt like being on a meta level of the dream. I was somewhat disconnected from it, but I could influence it using my thoughts.

But I'm just a noob at dreaming, some of the better Dreamers should be able to tell us more about this

Well that's interesting, and congratulations on your first lucid dream!

I think that one advantage of having a lucid dream from a more observing perspective even though you have less control is that you react less emotionally so from the perspective of not getting too scared/not getting too excited there are benefits.

What I find confusing is sometimes in my dreams I constantly flicker between perspectives and I think my lucid dream experience was like that too.

I have only had one lucid dream too so far so yes a noob with lots of questions and enthusiasm ^^

Today I noticed something I wanted to share with you here in this thread

I normally have about the same number of "bird's eye dreams" as normal first-person dreams

yesterday I did a body scan meditation (if you don't know it, it's a meditation that helps you being more aware of your own physical body and senses)

all 3 dreams I had today were in first-person perspective, my dream recall was a bit better and I was able to taste food and feel coldness, which is very rare for me.

So I highly recommend 30 minutes of body scan meditation. Not sure if it's a coincidence, but I'll definitely add this to my daily meditation to find out.

How interesting. Do you do it in a systematic fashion from the feet up to the head or vice versa or just becoming aware of sensations in the body where they arise? I am a bit familiar with this type of meditation but haven't done a lot of it myself.
I have heard that body scan meditations are also good for controlling the 'vibrational state'.

I do a scan from toes to face first and then finish off with a few minutes being aware of the whole body (especially gravity/the touch of my body on my seat)

I haven't tried meditating while falling asleep yet, but I figure it can be great for WILD because I do sometimes have minor visual hallucinations sometimes when I'm tired and thinking about common dream signs during meditation (like my family or girlfriend)