Thread: Controlling a 3rd-person dream?

that happen to me too, but mostly i just imagine myself and my body appears and am me again. Or another thing is that you are there but you just can't see your body and your looking at someone, so if that's the case, imagine your body.

It all depends upon what you (ego self) take yourself to be. Most of us in the role of "ego self" believe we are the bodies we inhabit and we are used to "seeing" ourselves as such and used to "looking" at the world from the point of view of that body. It is only natural as we have been conditioned since birth in form to see ourselves as such and in such a way.

Third person dreams are most likely from the perspective of the "unbound Self" trapped within the body, not the "ego self" or embodied self. The only thing is that we are so conditioned that we are wanting to see from the perspective of the body we so inhabit.

Case in point, "I "(ego self mode) had a dream a few weeks ago, a rather lengthy dream , in which I was fighting against a large male opponent in a construction site. The man was armed with a knife. Eventually after what seemed like an eternity I suddenly got hold of the knife and stabbed the attacker. Upon stabbing the man, he jerked away and caused me to spin away from him, only I found that it wasnt me the body that was spun away, it was the awareness/consciousness that was spun away. I went from being in the fight embodied in the first person to being an observer in third person, a disembodied awareness.
This is not the first time "I" experienced "seeing" through the perspective of unbound Self, (an essence without a body or a real "me", "Myself", and "I" perspective)the Self I growingly believe to be true reality, therefore I knew what I was experiencing to a greater degree. What was most astounding about this experience was that I was looking at the persons in the conflict of the dream in thrid person now and the body I had been in was not the male body I have associated myself with from birth. Rather, it was that of a female. Furthermore, though my perception was removed from this female body The female kept on in the conflict with the male assailant as though "my" absence made no difference to or in her perspective.

Quite a shocking experience, with many ramifacations as to the unimportance of the physical self in relation to this greater "third person Self".
The whole experience opened up more questions to explore.

For a time I wanted to control the dreams when lcid, but it seems of greater value to simply maintain awareness in the lucidity and see what happens. Such exploration within seems to yield great results that serve to shatter many long held paradigms.
This experience brings about the urge to explore overlapping this "third person Self" point of view into/onto "other persons" in the dreams to see if it is possible to "see" through their experience without affecting such.

A whole new can of worms...

I had pretty messed dreams in which i am someone, but i make something and i become someone else.. For example: I see someone running from cops and after few minutes i am the one running, next i am not even running from cops, but from dog-killers.. and so on. I think this happend to me, when my mind was to tired to even made the dream scenes real..

Don't give up, get creative in how you can 'enter' the dream or at the very least get DCs to do whatever you want.

You can try summoning yourself into a dream (as you would summon any DC), you could also try leeching onto a DC like a parasite and then you could remove yourself once you get into the dream. Sometimes when I try to assert 'mind control' over the DCs I'm able to enter the dream through them.

I always dream of myself in 3rd person, I think it's from playing too much WoW.

The frustrating thing for me is that almost all of my dreams are 1st person, but I seem to become lucid only in 3rd person dreams. I'll try some of these suggestions.