Does anyone else find that they are often not themselves in dreams? And is this an issue when trying to LD? Last night I had a dream where I was a young boy and as I am a girl that was a bit weird, and later on I switched bodies to his father in the dream, then a DO and later myself again. I’m pretty sure I’m remember it right as I can remember the different thoughts I was having as the different characters. Does it happen to everyone? I tend to get one dream like this a week so I guess its probably a good DS for me.
I often get DO and it switches to 1st person. I also get 3rd person and been the opposite gender. Im however unmotivated and no DS helps me, even the RC’s suck
And it is a good idea to use that as a DS, good luck
I’m a DO in dreams many times, too. Like Ghostie, I switch to 1st person most of the time. I like DO dreams, it lets me see things from a different perspective than I normally would.
Yup. Not very often, but yeah… I’d be a character that I’m not, and then become another character without noticing, and then shift into a DO. That character’s point of view can be that of another gender, a different race, a species I’m not, even a fictional character. They have their own attitudes and history, and while I don’t want to discourage you, it’s hard enough to get a word in edgewise when I dream of being myself.
I used to have 3rd person dreams every now and then, and I observed it was quite harder for me to get lucid in them, also because I associated them with videogames and the lack of awareness of the surroundings while playing them, so I decided it was a bad thing, and went on to eradicate it. I practiced awareness even while playing, and resolved to always dream in 1st person, and now I really do.
I’m always myself in dreams, and 3rd person is really rare, except for important/symbolical scenes, I barely get any DO, and even if I’m playing some kind of game, I feel myself playing (and often go in and out of the game, like for discussing with some DC about it).
Thanks for the comments! I think I’ll wait and see if it affects LDs (when I start getting them!) for me then. I think it could be kind of fun, to be someone else in a dream or an animal or something…
I think that for a while, it might be really beneficial to, as tosxyChor mentioned, always try to be in 1st person and also always be yourself (not just in life but in dreams too )
Though, somewhere down the line, maybe I’m gonna wanna be a different animal/person/disembodied p.o.v.
But maybe it’s best to hold some things constant while trying to learn, so trying to will always being 1st person & yourself seems like a pretty good one to keep constant.
A lot of times I am both myself and a DO. Or i’ll be a different person and a DO. Then whoever I am and the DO have weird conversations about the structure of the dream.
Most of the time that I am a DO, I am trying to edit my dream as I go along, or I’m analyzing what these things could mean.
Sometimes when I’m one of my DCs, I know things that the DO would know, but I don’t know that as often. And sometimes as DO, I get to feel the dream like a DC would, but not as often.
Yeah I get what you mean, Deusabscondidum. I think thats happened to me before.
Well I kind of had success last night. I was a boy (again!) and I realised that I am not usually a boy, but I ended up concluding that I obviously just switched bodies with someone and then I got distracted.
To be honest I don’t think I can really control who I am (while I’m dreaming ) just yet, I’ll give it a go though.
Yes! Last night I was attempting to do a W.I.L.D. I managed to do it, but my dream was completly boring!! I was doing a math problem in my dream! And that’s not like me. It was really strange. And I knew the answer! Really weird…
Well i’m only 1st person in vivid dreams or LDs otherwise i’m myself 3rd or have no clue who i am might be myself though kindof like watchin a movie play out
matt94 - Yep, now I’ve started having LDs I’m pretty much the same as that. In LDs I’m always 1st person, don’t get discourage though if your NDs feel like movies. Last night I had an ND like that and I managed to get lucid in it.
Unless it’s an LD, my perception shifts all the time in dreams. Half the dream could be in first then the rest in third. I had a dream recently where near the end it did some kinda camera thing and I ended up looking at myself from the front (I was a woman with blood all on me XD)
I’ve had both first and third person dreams with plenty of mixed ones (though all of my LDs are in first - a third-person LD sounds pretty odd), and my dreams seem pretty evenly split between “me playing myself” and “me playing somebody else,” that is, I physically am another character. Whether I behave as I would normally or it changes because I’m a different character varies.
I do remember one dream in which I was “playing” somebody else, and when it turned lucid I’m pretty sure I kept the same body. It didn’t really change anything though, since I was in first person by that point and couldn’t actually see myself.
I usually dream in 1st person, though I have had a few 3rd person dreams. The strangest thing though is when the dream’s in 1st person and I’m not actually inside my body, I’m someone else. I’ve even dreamt I was a man a few times. Talk about disturbing.
I often get DO and it switches to 1st person. I also get 3rd person 
and been the opposite gender. Im however unmotivated and no DS helps me, even the RC’s suck 
I’m a DO in dreams many times, too. Like Ghostie, I switch to 1st person most of the time. I like DO dreams, it lets me see things from a different perspective than I normally would.
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