Being someone else

[mcslurry]

In my dreams I've been someone else, but recognised myself, as...myself. I would be a completely different person. I would not even be able to see myself, but when I thought about myself in my dream I would see the face, figure, eyes of someone else. ie I have dark brown hair and light brown eyes and I'm 16. I remember seeing myself as a 20-something with blonde hair and hazel eyes (it wasn't lucid, so I didn't take advantage of my new self by going and doing everything a 20-something can do). I told someone else about this. They thought it was strange. Has this ever happened to you? Tell me about it

[Arra]

Yes, it seems to happen to me more often during intense, story-like dreams. I'm a 21 year old female, and something odd I've noticed is that it seems I've only become attached to my gender in dreams recently. I'll actually have dreams involving being a female, feeling like a female, DCs treating me like a female. Not always, not even often, but more than in the past. Until a year or so ago, I rarely felt like myself in my dreams. I remember a specific dream in which I was a male with short dark hair, wearing a cape, rescuing people from a building in an ocean. In about half of my dreams, I don't feel like me as I identify myself in real life, but I don't feel like any other specific person either. I'm just my awareness. But, again, I definitely feel like I associate more with my real life identity recently more than in the past. It might just be a result of living longer, becoming more attached to my identity in real life and that carrying on to the dream world.