Thread: Perspective in which you dream?

I'm not sure if it's just me, but whenever I dream, and I'm not lucid (which I've only been lucid thrice), I dream in third person. As if I'm watching a movie of myself, or I'm some kind of floating camera watching my actions in the dream. Is this the same for anyone else?

Hmm, I was wondering the other day if my perspectives were "normal." Mostly (probably 70% of the time?) when I'm dreaming it's just like I'm myself, first person. But at certain points during the dream it switches seamlessly to the floating camera like you described or an overhead view, especially during climactic events or tense situations. Sometimes it's as if I'm looking over my own shoulder.

I often dream in third-person too, but more often than not it's first-person. Sometimes I see in both POVs at the same time, but it's not a split-screen effect or anything. It's like I have two sets of eyes without a discernable divider between the two views.

In my lucids, I've only been in third-person twice; both times I was in a nightmare.

Years ago I asked a niece how she knew when she was dreaming vs awake, and she said that the dream is always in third person, with her seeing herself from above and behind.

I can't recall ever seeing myself from a third person perspective, but I am very often someone else when I am dreaming, seeing things through their eyes. My gender tends to flip around quite a bit too, depending on what qualities of the relationships in the dream I am focusing on. Or sometimes I have something of an abstract perspective, not a view through any human eyes, though a representation of my human body doesn't appear in those dreams either.

Rarely ever have I been in 3rd person, unless I'm in a game or I'm trying to see in third person, but often in non-lucids I'm in second person. I see things from different people's points of view.

I don't think I've ever dreamed in first person. I always see myself from a third person perspective. I often look different in my dreams too.

Actually I have done both. Rarely 3rd person, but sometimes. I don't think you can lucid dream in 3rd person, at least I have never done that. This makes me believe it has to do with levels of awareness.

Dreaming involves differing levels of awareness, and different active cognitive functions. I use to rate, generally, how lucid I was. I do know that one can start from observer and raise one's level of awareness in the dream to become first person. I have done that.

Sometimes I will dream in 1st and 3rd person in the same dream. It will switch depending on what is going on. I can't really recall ever dreaming in 2nd person. The weird thing about when I dream in the 3rd person is that most of the time instead of the view being from behind me looking forward, it's from the front looking at me.

A lot of times when I am driving a car in my dreams it turns to a 3rd person view outside the car. Kind of like a view from a video game. Every time I have ever become lucid it has been from the 1st person. I don't see how it would be possible to be lucid when in the 3rd person.

I usually dream in first person and rarely in 3rd person.
When I'm lucid it's nearly always first person, and when lucid I can force myself back into first person as well.
I don't like dreaming in 3rd person because it usually means my senses besides vision aren't working, and I feel that is the cause for the dream slowly fading away.

I have had both pov's at the same time like other people mentioned.
If I had to describe it I'd say it feels a bit like a double consciousness, where you are at two places at the same time.