For me it is always 3rd. Its almost like I’m an actor in my own dream. Few times I realize it, but then just wake up.
Wow this is so interesting. Always first person for me - maybe there were other times otherwise but I don’t remember. Wow I never imagined people would dream otherwise.
I shocked me when I read somewhere else that a lot of people don’t dream in color. What the hey?
Yeah this is blowing my brain! Literally 100% of my dreams are first person. I don’t even understand how you can dream in 3rd person. Like, you’re seeing yourself from a distance? But like, then there are two of you - the one you’re looking at, and also the floating you that’s doing the looking.
WHAT?!
Yup. I practically never dream in first person perspective and that’s about it. Think of it like watching a tv show or a movie and accepting uncritically that the character on the screen is you.
Funnily enough I have another weird aspect of dreaming that I have discovered is very common amongst other trans people. My dream self used to roughly 95% of the time used to be represented physically as my internalized gender…or sometimes would just be rendered as a featureless void capable of interacting with the world and recognized internally as me I suppose is the best way to explain it. Probably sounds a bit Magnus Archives. However post social transition the ratio has changed the opposite direction and now I am represented in dreams by my real world like appearance about 60% of the time… Which I am not the biggest fan of to be honest but my waking world comfort levels have increased so it’s not the worst.
I go back and forth within my dreams. Usually it’s first person, but sometimes I seem to be floating just above watching myself
Either I don’t remember my dreams or I don’t dream. Last dream I had was when I was like 8 and I still remember it 26 years later. Sleep for me is like sleep in Skyrim. Close eyes. Try not to think about anything, blackness then like a snap I’m awake again. Even my train of thought just picks pack up from before I fell asleep.
I will say that the one dream I remember was in 1st person.
Why was my dick a gas pump nozzle…
Fill er up!
But for real though, I remember reading somewhere that even people who think they don’t dream are actually dreaming, they just can’t remember any of it. My wife is the same way but I’ve seen her say shit and act stuff out in her sleep so I know she’s dreaming but she doesn’t remember anything.
Sometimes not remebering dreams can happen due to medication, recreational drugs or alcohol consumption. Not getting aproper sleep and interrupting the sleep cycle makes it difficult to remember.
Anecdotally i “stopped dreaming” or at least remembering them when i started smoking weed. For years i didnt remember a dream. When i stopped smoking i suddenly started dreaming alot.
I like dreams.
A variably disassociated first person … sometimes like a third person that’s about to snap back to first any moment.
I switch between
