Thread: Need Help! Dreams where your not even there!!

I've had these kinds of dreams. Sometimes I think it is just like watching a movie, like my mind decides to provide me a movie for that night's entertainment. At other times, I think it may be more complicated than that, like for example maybe if I actually were in the scene it would be too emotional and I need to distance myself, or at other times maybe my mind cannot decide which protagonist in the dream to pledge allegiance to by identifying with. Ultimately, all of the dream is in my mind, so does it really matter whether I identify my self with one of the characters or not: the dream is my self, or part of it. It may seem like all I am doing is watching, but that of course is just an illusion because far from just watching, I am creating it all in my mind.

I think JoannaB's answer covers it nicely. Just wanted to add: I think it's just the nature of dreaming, I would not over-think it. I also have these kind of experiences in ~1/10 of my dreams, I think it is natural from time to time. Especially when you dream about a movie, that you recently saw. I mean when watching a movie you are not really present with your other senses either, so when dreaming about that experience it shouldn't be a surprise when you don't have an active part in it (but you still could, of course).

Yeah now i get it. But what sucks is none of my dreams are very vivid so trying to watch a brain movie through what
i like to call a black haze is very annoying. any thoughts on making them more vivid

My dreams became more vivid when I drastically cut down my caffeine and started exercising, and my waking life became more vivid too. I don't know if you have these problems though.

Nope im a regular athlete at school and dont drink coke. but ive tried applejuice before going to bed it helps but not enough

I get this a lot. I play video games a lot and when I do it tends to absorb me, I don't have much awareness of anything else. It makes me think that in the dreams where I'm apparrantly not there (more often than not game based), I may be sat looking at a TV screen but the dream amplifies my unawareness of myself to the point where I only see the screen. Or maybe I'm literally just not there, I don't know really, something I wonder about sometimes.

WEird i same way by the way check out my dream journal last night i had a big MENTAL MOVIE