A lot of these threads have advice I'm gonna try to abuse the next time I get stuck in a third person dream, unfortunately it's still not something my boyfriend can use. The real problem is the tremendous distance between "him" and everything happening in the dream. He described it as waking up and remembering a movie that you saw six months ago. So I guess maybe a better question would be whether anyone has experience getting more connected to their dreams in a non-lucid sense. It's hard to think "maybe I'm dreaming" when you aren't thinking at all in the dream.