Thread: Third-person view

I actually had a 3rd-person dream last night. Granted, I was watching other people, so it was more like I was invisible instead of floating outside my own skull, but it was still unusual. I actually had a camera change! I was watching this guy move away from me, and suddenly I'm watching him come toward me. It was the most unusual thing. I think I've been watching too much TV...

Sorry PeaceL, this happens to me too, but I have also been unable to induce lucidity out of it. Recently (as of about two or three days ago) I decided that whenever I watch a movie, see a play, or play a game (in which things are happening, and I'm an observer) I'll do regular reality checks. It hasn't worked so far, but I think I'll give it more than two days to work. Perhaps you could try this.

Yeah hahah, I have been watching too much movies!

I didn't think of doing RC during movies, great idea. Although I have been doing normal RC's for a long time and never it never got me a DILD :_(. I am still a noob.

Yea I get third person views all the time in my dreams, and don't get lucid in them. I have gotten lucid only in the first person. It would be interesting to be lucid in the third person though.

It would be really weird because (for me), the 'camera' view isn't always directly behind my head, meaning I could turn my head and look at me.. the camera..?!?! lol

I remember I had a dream pretty recently where I was at a pool and I was jumping really high off the diving board (easily 20 meters). But when I dived, the viewing point was following my body a bit, but not the movements of my head (the 'camera' was always pointing in the same direction, kind of like the Olympics replay of diving competitions)... so technically I should have seen my face when doing the dive, BUT I did a half twist so I did not. So I was looking at my back and the back of my head, diving. I don't know if you understand what I mean. Anyways, the next thing I remember is that I was out of the water, didn't have to swim and get out or what-not, with the 3rd person view still.

So maybe a question to all: did you ever see your face directly when in 3rd person? Not from a mirror or any kind of reflection. If so, how was it? Pretty freaky I would predict. Not your face.. I meant the feeling

And.. is there a way to search with "All these words:" in the search option?


Oh and I just thought of another thing. I had a bad experience in 2006 with blood which caused my heart to be a little more sensitve now, and I have become somewhat afraid of heights like any 'normal' person, the little uplift of the heart, you know I was completly unaffected by it before the infamous event though. The thing is I don't recall any fear in my dreams related to heights. So is there a way I could learn from my dreams and reduce or even eventually dissipate my real life acrophobia?

Originally Posted by RetroReality

Yea I get third person views all the time in my dreams, and don't get lucid in them. I have gotten lucid only in the first person. It would be interesting to be lucid in the third person though.

I think that most of my lucids as a child were in the third person actually...and I can't recall off the top of my head what perspective my more recent lucids were in...(goes off to search for dream journals...)

The thing is I don't recall any fear in my dreams related to heights. So is there a way I could learn from my dreams and reduce or even eventually dissipate my real life acrophobia?

Yeah there is. In fact, in Stephen LaBerge's book "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams" I think that he addresses the possibility of conquering one's fears!

It would be really weird because (for me), the 'camera' view isn't always directly behind my head, meaning I could turn my head and look at me.. the camera..?!?! lol

The "view" changes for me...

So maybe a question to all: did you ever see your face directly when in 3rd person? Not from a mirror or any kind of reflection. If so, how was it? Pretty freaky I would predict. Not your face.. I meant the feeling

And seeing myself was pretty normal for me...I wasn't disturbed by it.

Hi Peace, welcome to Dreamviews!

Third person dreams always fascinate me. It's kind of like watching a movie of yourself.

I would try doing RCs throughout the day simply asking yourself "Am I seeing the world through the first person, or the third person?" and ask a few other RC questions such as "How did I get here? What was I last doing? Where am I going? Is that loical?"

Also, like someone else suggested, being on the computer, watching TV and movies a lot can bleed over into your dreams. When I spend too much time on the computer ! RC! ) I tend to dream about a computer screen or chatroom (usually DV, to boot). Curiously, I don't get lucid from this, even though I'm an avid lucid dreamer. I think it may just be that my brain sort of shuts down or goes into autopilot mode when I'm staring at a screen, so I never step back to RC or be aware of the larger view of my reality.

Maybe we should both RC more when we're looking at a screen. Hopefully it will help!

I've seen myself twice in dreams. The first was about 2 weeks ago, and I did not look like me at all, but somehow I knew it was me. I looked like Clear Rivers from Final Destination (even though I haven't seen that movie in a while), and I had really light blond hair.
The second one was just this morning, but it was an extremely far away veiw and I could only see a silhouette of myself hanging from a ladder 300ft in the air.