self not usually in dream

[carthage121]

Hi, I'm new hear so sorry if this kind of thing has usually been posted. Here is the situation, most of the dreams I have (or at least I remember) don't usually have me in it. I view other people from 3rd person, and there is always one person who kind of acts as a surragate me. He (always a he, since I'm a male) acts as I think. For example, in my dream last night I was in a class and we were formed into groups to solve a puzzle (a common theme in my dreams). The three of us did the math problems and got a string of 12 numbers. I deduced that they were locations in the city, with the first number being the floor the place was on, with 0 being in the water canals in the city and 1 being ground level. I went on to figure out all the areas, or at least I thought until my teacher said we were slightly off. Also before figuring out the numbers someone else nearly compleated the puzzle, but in a short moment of lucidity I thought that it wouldn't be fun if the dream ended so soon. There were lots of other parts of the dream, being chased by tons of 1 foot high things, that I don't remember. Anyway, I went on a tangent. The point is that my mind deduced all of the solutions (even though in the real world the "solutions" make no sense) but a person who looked nothing like me acted on not just my thoughts, but my feelings and everything. He acted 99% of how I would, he just, didn't look anything like me. In the times I am in the dream, it is always in 3rd person. I remember 1 dream I had when I was 5 or something when it was in 1st person, and maybe for short periods of time its 1st person, but 99% of the time in dreams in all but one of my dreams if I am physically in the dream, its in 3rd person. So in conclusion, my question is, why is this? and does it means something about me? p.s- come to think of it I'm not sure if the person in the dream isn't usually me, it may be just because last night that happened, and I think in most of the dreams I remember, come to think of it, its physically me doing what I think and feel, but I also see myself in 3rd person, but my gut tells me that the person usually doesn't physically look like me, and considering I don't remember most of my dreams, I trust my gut.

[Diamondec]

He could be the person you wish to be or will be. Also if you tend to think of others more then yourself this could result in a lot of second or third person dreams. Of course I'm no expert and I almost never have third person dreams.