Fictional 2D Characters in dream?

[iamerror73]

So I just had a dream last night about a character from this Japanese animation show that I enjoy. It seemed normal in the dream as I pictured them as a 2D character in a 3D world but when I woke up I wasn't able to picture how it looked, without it looking strange in my head. Has anyone had something similar to this before?

[Letaali]

Yes, I think? Sometimes perspective in a dream is so bizarre that it can not be logically explained. You are not using your eyes to actually see the characters, it's just thoughts in your head forming into a clever illusion. But you could expand on what you mean by "strange". Seeing a 2D character in a 3D world is strange, yes. Not being able to picture it in your mind could be bad recall. If it's not bad recall, are you recalling two different looking characters and that causes a conflict?

[TravisE]

I suspect picturing 2D animated characters in a 3D world likely is a lot more tricky than it may sound. Doing it for a still image might be simple enough, but it's hard to imagine how it should work when throwing in things like perspective, walking around the scene, binocular vision, etc. The best I can do is just visualize the overall idea, but it's difficult to figure out details (though I've always suspected my visualization ability is a bit weak, which makes this difficult anyway). I've had this type of dream on a few valuable occasions (would like to have it happen much more often but have never managed to have much luck yet), even once or twice in LDs, but even when I tried to pay attention to details during the dreams, I still have a hard time trying to remember precisely how the “2D-on-3D” projection actually worked when I later woke.