3rd person perspective

Can any of you purposely get into 3rd person perspective so you can look at yourself walking around your dream rather than looking through your own eyes?

I had 2 random 3rd person perspectives in regular dreams. A few days ago I dreamt the police were chasing me and I ran down an alley way and hit in the shadows under a bush. While I was down there my view switched and I was watching myself. I was glowing like I was looking at myself with night vision and I had this mad haircut like this
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...Kid_n_play.jpg
Like the guy on the left. What do they call that hairstyle anyway?

The second time I had this dream a good while ago that my head fell off but somehow I was holding my head and staring at it.

Boy, do I get that A LOT actually! Not in any LDs though, except for one that was too brief a lucid to count as one. I prefer seeing through my eyes though, but hey a 3rd person perspective could be useful in getting yourself out of random predicaments.

Seeing yourself in third person is something people sometimes do when in a dangerous situation. Not just in dreams. It provides a distance between "you" and what is happening to you. Of course in waking life you don't really see yourself in third person, but it feels as if "it's happening to someone else". I've experienced this myself when I was in a car accident. It's characteristic for dissociation.
It can also be used the other way around. For example, people having experienced a trauma earlier in life who are encouraged to write the event down in third person cope better with the memory afterwards. (I'm a psych student. :p)
Whether this is linked to seeing yourself in third person in your dreams or not I can't say for sure. However, I do remember two times when I experienced a third person perspective in my dreams, both of which were in threatening situations. Being chased by a cop doesn't seem like a very relaxing situation either.
As for doing it at will, I haven't. I'm still only a novice oneironaut.

P.S. Nice hair. ;)

I'd say you can sympathise with my situation in that dream psilocybin. The reason I was running from the police was because for some reason I was looking for a spore syringe I lost on the street and I asked two old ladies if they had seen a spore syringe anywhere and I showed them the other two I had. At the time I thought it wasn't stupid because the spores we're legal but one of the old ladies informed me of some loophole were it was illegal to carry the syringes and she called the police so I made a run for it.

Its called an "Eraser Cut" I believe. Or a "High Flat Top".

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Originally Posted by horsebucket

I'd say you can sympathise with my situation in that dream psilocybin. The reason I was running from the police was because for some reason I was looking for a spore syringe I lost on the street and I asked two old ladies if they had seen a spore syringe anywhere and I showed them the other two I had. At the time I thought it wasn't stupid because the spores we're legal but one of the old ladies informed me of some loophole were it was illegal to carry the syringes and she called the police so I made a run for it.

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Hah! I've never liked old ladies. :angry: For some reason they seem to like me though, but that's another subject.

how strange, i was thinking about asking this too. once i think about it, a ton of my dreams are in 3rd person. and most of my recaps are, like when i remember my dreams i recall them in 3rd person usually.

Yeah ive had that happen in LDs and normal dreams, it is a bit freaky when it happens in a dream but in LDs its useful. What i mean by this is that occasionally i will drop myself into a computer game situation (resident evil 4 is the most recent one) and "play" in third person for the whole pc game feel. For me when this happens all sensations are dulled massivly and i feel no pain at all ( i have felt pain in dreams, not nice but nice at the same time).

In normal dreams it usually happens when i am reliving an expirience i have had and i see myself going through it and i take on a narrators pov and can analyse it and at the same time i know what im thinking once i was joined by my Dream Guide and we sat and debated what was going on (had some fun with that) so its pretty normal for some i guess but its a bit weird the first few times it happens and you have to think of ur self as an NPC (for want of a better term).

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