Thread: Your point of view, in and out

I alternate between first person and spectator. Generally the spectator dreams consists of dreamings involving movies or video games. It's almost as if I'm playing or watching the character whom I relate to be myself.

While awake I also often have a spectator view, like yourself.

I normally just have a first person view on things in both reality/dreams but occasionally Ill get the ones where i have an above/semi above view of the actions being performed in the dream

It usually depends on the dream. Half the time I am unable to tell for some odd reason.

I think it also has to do with dream recall. I think when you remember a dream you mind puts you as a spectator because that is the only way it makes sense. Its like your brain knows that it was not these eyes that saw so it assumes it was watching it all happen. like a movie

I'm very much always in my own head (extreme introvert with no social ties), so naturally, that's where I am usually in my dreams. Even in dreams where I don't actively participate in things, I see it from my own POV, just like in real life where even if I'm only a spectator, I see events through my own eyes.

My own POV can shift throughout a dream, though...still always my POV, but from other characters. I sometimes call this "roleplaying"--I basically become a different character in my dream, though I still have my own thoughts and reactions; I just play the part like I'm acting in a role, and often the others around me will view me as this other character and not myself. Sometimes I shift between two or more people...just last night I was myself, then I was one of my characters, then I was apparently both him and a child at the same time (though of course I could only see from one character's eyes at a time). Then some other times I seem to "direct" what other characters apart from me will say or do. This has nothing to do with lucidity of any sort, it's just "normal" in the dream.