Poll: Do you dream in First-Person or Third-Person?

[Reallink]

I would say second person more often than not. Leaning towards 3rd, but its pretty much always directed at me rather than from behind

 

[Android2137]

I've been curious for awhile about this. I, personally, tend to dream in third-person. It's usually like I'm filming the dream or playing it like a third-person video game. I was wondering if all the gaming had something to do with it, actually. It's about 50/50 whether I'm the character or not. I'm normally a female (which I am irl), but I've been a male plenty of times as well.

...I should have read your OP before I voted. I dream much the same way. I was originally fully involved in my dreams (i.e. First person), but ever since I started keeping a dream diary, I had begun dreaming that I was watching/making/reading/playing a movie/show/comic book/game (technically First Person, but the real action is Third Person). I kinda miss being in the thick of the dream action, but then again, my horror movie dreams would end with me waking up and screaming if I were involved rather than just watching.

 

[Zhadramekel]

Very occasionally I get third-person dreams but they're nearly all in first. Which of course makes it worse when I wake up from a good dream

 

[Scarim Coral]

99.9% of my dreams are in first person. I think I have only dreamt in 3rd person about three times now.

 

[Legion]

First, always. Although it always feels kind of blurry, it 's more like being inside my own head and seeing through my eyes than actually looking through my own eyes like I do in reality.

 

[StormShaun]

Usually both, but It depends on the dream, but usually we dont remember dreams...its annoying *sigh*

 

[gideonkain]

I often dream as being other people, looking at myself...so second person perspective?

 

[DirgeNovak]

Mostly first person, but I have the odd dream in third. Just had one. It was fucking weird.

 

[Outright Villainy]

I can't remember a single time I've dreamt in the third person. Now I'm really curious as to what that's like...

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I absolutely had to (and accurate too: I sure as hell don't dream in HD)

As for 1st vs 3rd person: I dream in 1st person.

 

[fessferenc]

For the most part I dream in first person, with the odd jump to third person perspective dream, and then I occasionally get something... else. Like this one time I had this dream that was just this weird picture floating in an empty black void. The picture was of gnomes or smurfs or something, a picture like what you might see hanging on the back of a doctor's office door or something, I can't describe it much better than that. That was the entirety of the dream, a picture floating in an empty void, it was almost 2 dimensional...

 

[F'Angus]

Hell I've never thought about that before. I dream in a bit of both to be honest. Though don't realise when it changes between them.

 

[Baron_BJ]

I dream in third person, with precisely controlled camera angles, like in a very well done movie.

I can often figure out if things are dreams, though it has nothing to do with the angles, it has to do with the way tings touch, or if I see something that my mind has been taught that it will NOT dream about (I like zombies, but if I have a dream involving them then shit is hitting the fan and I will get up), though that's not going to be easy, because then I need to fight off the effects of sleep paralysis mid-dream, but that makes things flicker in a way which kind of urges me on with the knowledge it's not truly real (though that doesn't stop or slow things at all, it goes on as though it's some kind of movie). Will still scare me shitless though.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Usually in 1st-person. I can't imagine "being" myself, but not seeing everything for myself.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I've had both happen, and third person is weird, I think. And to anyone who replied that they don't dream: everybody has dreams, you just don't remember them.

 

[Womplord]

Definitely both happen to me. I remember a lot of third person dreams, and first person dreams seem a bit more vague to remember but its likely to happen more often than the third person ones for me.

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

It's really cool to see that there are so many other 3rd person dreamers. Only thing, before I made this poll, I suppose I should have checked to see if 2nd person perspective was possible. I, strangely, didnt even give that a thought. I feel like adding another poll option for 2nd perspective may be mute at this point though.

 

[Dieter Meyer]

My dreams have a HORRIBLE camera...

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

I dream in 3rd person almost all the time. My dreams are usually like movies, where the camera moves around to wherever it needs to be. Often times I control myself, but I rarely see what's going on from my own perspective. I had a talk about this with someone at work once, and she said she always dreams in the first person, and I found that odd.

Very rarely do I ever have control of someone other then myself if at all, but my mind has ways to get around this basically. My dreams rarely consist of people I actually know well. They're full of aquantances, so that I can imprint how I think they'd behave in whatever situation onto them. I'm guessing this is to create a movie like effect, because my mind doesn't want people to be included wherein I would know their reaction to certain circumstances.

My dreams are also usually pretty uneventful... with fairly average things happening but with one slight exaduration that makes things odd. Occasionally though, I have crazy awesome dreams that would make fantastic actual movies.

Also, I often lucid dream, and therefore can control many things within it often times. I only ever dream after I have woken up and then gone back to bed. It's more fun this way anyway lol.

I sometimes have the movie effect, but usually I suddenly fall into a character and become that person.

Also, I was told by someone who was studying this (but maybe he's full of it), but more times than not, you will dream of things that you commonly do everyday or of people you see all the time. Obviously not always, but I've had plenty of mundane dreams where I am at work doing what I do everyday, with my cat by my side. Which is just combining two things.

So, he was telling me (my friend) that if you truly wanted to dream about something, that it is technically possible to take time out of your day and do something or watch something and probably dream about it.

Like this:

First person 99.9% of the time. I had a brief spell of WoW related dreams which were inevitably third person.
hilarious and embarrassing, my girlfriend told me that i had been talking in my sleep, i had apparently seemed in distress and fearing i was having a nightmare she tried to wake me. She later told me that i had explained to her with quite some urgency how important it was for me to get the epic dagger... Even in my dreams i was after the purpz...

He apparently played this over and over and ended up with dreams of WoW. So, it seems that it's possible.