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.
I’m not even in my dreams half the time. More often than not my dreams feel more like something I’m watching as opposed to something I’m in. Tho every now and again I’ll randomly be in the dream, and it’s usually 1st person. Otherwise… 3rd I guess?
Both and neither?
Hell sometimes I’m not even the focus of my dreams. It’s sometimes like watching a movie without me in it, or in a third person omniscient point of view, and sometimes it’s like watching surrealism folding in on itself without any sense of form or even reasoning.
My dreams are all over the place, hell and sometimes my dreams will be like a continuous story or theme over multiple nights.
I do have to say though my dreams are way more intense (and memorable) on days when I focus hard on my cardio a few hours before bed. Like yesterday where I pushed my heart rate to about 180bmp (over double (about 2.5x) my resting rate) for 30min. Absolutely insanely vivid dreams and I slept like a stone.
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?!
First person, and an interesting note. I was experimenting with lucid dreaming for awhile, with some very minor success. One thing that ALWAYS woke me up though, was doing something I had never done in real life. I was unable to breathe underwater. The mere attempt would wake me.
Then I got scuba certified in real life, and like magic, I was suddenly able to breathe underwater in my dreams.
It makes me wonder how you think about yourself in real life.
I go back and forth within my dreams. Usually it’s first person, but sometimes I seem to be floating just above watching myself
Both! And only very occasionally does the 3rd person view look anything like me
@Wolfrasin so, when you dream in third person you tend to have a main character?
Yes. It’s a different avatar or character as me in different dreams. Sometimes there will be another person from life also in the dream as themselves, sometimes a person from life will be there in a different avatar then what they look like in life.