Thread: Never see self in dreams

So when I dream, I never see myself. I always like see through my eyes instead of like waching myself. How do you guys see yourselves? My friends all say that they see themselves like watching a movie almost.

Yeah, usually it is first-person for me, but I have had some where I see myself through somone els's eyes. It is sorta odd, for me it is always like looking at somone else. I never have control of myself when it is in these views, but it is always fun. ^_^ (That is how it is for ME anyway)

The easiest way, because it appeals to our sense of the logical, go find a mirror... or open a photo album.

It's not at all easy for me to, for example, float up and view myself below.. it doesn't make sense to me that I could do this, and this is despite the fact that I'm a big proponent of "nothing is impossible" in LD's. Well, while this is true, Our logical minds can still make some things damned difficult!

I usually switch back and forth often in my dreams. Part of the dream will be in first person, while the rest will switch in a third person view.

Often, when im having a nightmare and im about to get caught by whatever is chasing/scaring me, ill switch in a third person view and the character im watching will gradually change into someone else, allowing me to stay asleep because i would otherwise wake up.

I often have the third person "watching, but not being physically present" dreams and lucid dreams. There are also the "watching and physically present but aloof and non-involved" dreams.

Most common for me, I am there, in the first person, participating in the dream or lucid dream.

I'm having a hard time seeing how looking at myself from "outside the action" differs from a third-person dream where one of the DC's simply looks like me.

Seems like ripe fodder for some night-time experimentation in switching consciousness from first to third person and back, and see what I can come up with! Thanks for some fresh ideas!

cool, so its not just me! I'd rather watch myself in my dream but its always through my eyes, oh well!!

Hey Dream Weaver!

Something you might try if you've been at all successful with lucidity and control is to watch a dream character of yourself, and try to direct her words and actions.

I flip back and forth between 1st and third.

But am rarely myself in dreams, even in lucids I stay someone else.

hey dan, no i have yet to have a lucid dream.... still working with that one but tonight im going to try the WILD technique!!