Thread: Dream perspective

I switch between 3rd person and 1st person. I often switch who I am. Sometimes I am nobody.

lol, and I thought I was the only one!

Yeah I get that too, sometimes it's first person, and sometimes it's third. It switches back pretty frequently, I'll be watching myself doing something, and it can be from any angle, or it'll be first, OR it'll be first AND third. I'll be watching myself do stuff, but I'll FEEL everything as if I'm in first person. Weird stuff.

A really interesting perspective would be second person... I don't think it's physically possible though, unless you dream in text?

yes I also see my self doing things and sometimes are in first person. MOstly when I get threatened I switch to 3rd person.

Sometimes I have the feeling I have a twin brother that takes care of the real scary stuff.

It's good to know that I'm not the only one doing this; like Looms said. I thought that it was unnaturel or something. But yeh, It switches from 1st, 3rd and both.

This is similar to a discussion I had with 3 friends who all had the "teeth falling out" dream. My friend brought it up and all of us piped in with "ME TOO! OMG! NO WAY!". Recently, I've read that it's more common that just the 4 of us and reasons to why it possibly happens.

Originally Posted by Looms

This is similar to a discussion I had with 3 friends who all had the "teeth falling out" dream. My friend brought it up and all of us piped in with "ME TOO! OMG! NO WAY!". Recently, I've read that it's more common that just the 4 of us and reasons to why it possibly happens.

Never had that 0_o. I have fallen out of bed and simultaneously fell in a dream.

Haha, try that in a bunk bed on the top one...amazingly enough, I wasn't hurt at all...even with my old concrete floor. The thin mat must have broken my fall. I awoke midair too, facing down...

Originally Posted by Looms

Haha, try that in a bunk bed on the top one...amazingly enough, I wasn't hurt at all...even with my old concrete floor. The thin mat must have broken my fall. I awoke midair too, facing down...

LOL, just in time for one of those "oh shit" moments?

Haha, yeah! It was an amazingly quick way to wake up, though. Highly efficient. I don't think I'd try it again at this age, I'm less damage-resistant than I was at 13.

I never dream in 3rd person. 1st yes, not present at all yes, but never 3rd.

Originally Posted by Looms

Haha, try that in a bunk bed on the top one...amazingly enough, I wasn't hurt at all...even with my old concrete floor. The thin mat must have broken my fall. I awoke midair too, facing down...

A childhood friend of mine broke his arm falling out of a bunk bed like that.

That's rough, especially since I wasn't even sore. If it happened to me now though, I'd be aching for at least a week!

I find this really interestinig as i've never experienced this before and had many lucid dreams. I'm always in 1st person.

So how do you feel sensations? Do you still feel things as if you're in 1st person? How about thought processes? And has anyone read about why this might happen?

Originally Posted by someweirdsin

I find this really interestinig as i've never experienced this before and had many lucid dreams. I'm always in 1st person.

So how do you feel sensations? Do you still feel things as if you're in 1st person? How about thought processes? And has anyone read about why this might happen?

Thought processes are generally the same as they are in the 1st person dreams...it's hard to explain dream thought processes anyway(in a way that makes logical sense IRL). I feel things distantly...as if they take longer to get to my brain because I'm not really in the body. Think of a game where you are in control of multiple units. When one is 'selected', that would be 'you' for the moment. Control is usually limited to one DC at a time for me, but I am not really in control of my brain itself until I become lucid. If I want to experience something more fully, I have to enter the DC. I'm not quite sure how it happens, but I think it happens for me as a means to detach myself from the dream and not have to commit to one reality for the duration of the dream. I have had some problems with nightmares since I had a particular one and I believe this is a defense mechanism for me. I'm working on breaking it.

Originally Posted by Looms

A really interesting perspective would be second person... I don't think it's physically possible though, unless you dream in text?

well since second person (at least from what i know) is as you already said yourself more about narrative than about visual things, i guess visually it's not possible.

but... what if you really try to look at the "narrative" of a dream? if you assume your mind is the storyteller?
telling things from your own perspective is always easy - first person.
i suppose second person would be when you watch yourself from the outside. because then in the "story" there is a "you" you are looking at.
and third person would be the dreams where you only observe other people and in which you don't participate in any way.

i guess that this is probably useless brainfucking but i do enjoy it so much

Actually it's not as much of a brainfuck as I'd expect...Thanks for the perspective...err