I had a dream last night which was in the 3rd person perspective, ie. I wasn’t me in the dream, I didn’t exist. As the dream was going on I was just spectating it as if I were watching a film or as if I was the video camera capturing it. Not that it felt like it was video’d, just that I was viewing what was happening but other than that I didn’t have a physical body in order to interact with the dream at all. This wasn’t a lucid dream, and I wasn’t conciously aware that I didn’t exist, I just remember waking up and thinking about what I just dreamt about and then realising that it only involved other people, not myself.
Is that strange? It’s a completely new experience for me (as far as I can remember that is). All other dreams that I can remember (and I generally remember what I dream about every night) seem to be in the 1st person where I am myself and am fully interacting with what’s happening, lucid or not(such as a replication of waking reality).
i feel as though some of the most important dreams ive had have been in third person perspective, and not lucid. the cinematic view if often very useful for understanding, and stabalizing the dream. Its also a very strange experience, but i feel, for myself at least, that there is a reason that it happens. the next time this happens, theres probobly a reason. i would say taht someone, or something, brought you there to see something, or learn something.
i feel as though some of the most important dreams ive had have been in third person perspective, and not lucid. the cinematic view if often very useful for understanding, and stabalizing the dream. Its also a very strange experience, but i feel, for myself at least, that there is a reason that it happens. the next time this happens, theres probobly a reason. i would say taht someone, or something, brought you there to see something, or learn something.
One of my LD’s actually started from 3rd person view. I saw myself from birdview parking a car and coming out from it. It made me lucid, and i continued my LD from where i saw myself from 3rd view. In other words, when in ND i was on ground, then i “switched” myself to the place i looked down at myself.
I have a lot of dreams in 3rd person view, i think it may be caused by extensive video game playing, im not sure.
The weirdest one i ever had was having my big toes veiw of the world, occasionally it would look up at me and then i would look down at it. Havent had one of those since though…
3rd person dreams can be odd. Sometimes it’s you you’re watching, sometimes it’s someone else. If it’s you, you may even feel the sensations as well (so, if you got stabbed, you’d feel yourself getting stabbed, even though you’re in a 3rd person view). Odd.
It’s a completely new experience for me (as far as I can remember that is). All other dreams that I can remember (and I generally remember what I dream about every night) seem to be in the 1st person where I am myself and am fully interacting with what’s happening, lucid or not(such as a replication of waking reality).