The way I dream

[Natelcm]

Hello all, This is my first post, im glad to be here and am looking forward to getting to know this community. Anyways on topic now, I found this site yesterday and did alot of reading I find the idea of lucid dreaming extreemly intersting and am planing on pursuing my goals for some time. For me dreaming is somewhat different than how my family dreams, or so they say. For the most part when I dream and rember it the next morning it is in 3rd person. Is that normal? Also when I go bed I can say "I want to dream about a party" and for the most part I dream about what I ask for. What do you think of that? Looking forward to meeting you all, Nate

[Valvo]

Hello Natelcm, and welcome to DreamViews. If you have any questions I might be able to help you, but I'm not the most knowledgeable person in the field. In regards to thirs person dreaming, I'm right in your alley. Almost all of my dreams are in third person. I've never had a lucid dream, but there are techniques to achieving first person view if your in a third person lucid dream. Telling yourself what to dream before you sleep happens to some people. There's a specific name for it. I wish I was that lucky, my subconcious changes my dreams like a couch potato and a TV remote. Hehehe. I hope you have a great time at DreamViews. And if you have any questions, let me know.

[.jared.]

Yeah i think some people do that ive heard of it a bunch of times so i think its safe to say you are normal. Maybe when you learn to lucid dream you will be able to shift to whichever you like. Although im not to good at lucid dreaming I often find myself in first person and 3rd person dreams. I think its quite normal. Do you ever dream in 1st person or is it strictly third person? In my dreams i switch from first person to 3rd person. I will be standing there and then get one of those matrix swirls where i zoom out and see myself and then zoom back in. Its weird. For me its like playing a first person shooter (without the shooting) and changing camera angles at times to see things better.

[LunarMoon]

Welcome to the forum; it's great to have you here. With studies run on the differences between 1st and 3rd person dreams, it was found that 3rd person dreams were relatively more rare. No scientific tests have been run to back this up though a current hypothesis is that it's somewhat affected by self-perspective and personality. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_..._33/ai_62839421

[Natelcm]

Interesting, I believe that I dream in a mixed perspective sometimes, that it's both evenly spaced out between 1st and 3rd. Although I am working on my dream recall and will be able to more accuratly tell you in about a week. I've found I have some pretty wacky dreams. My first dream I wrote down was really long and now since I wrote it down I can rember it really accuratly more so than any other dream I've had, even the parts I forgot to write down. Since then though I've had an all night party and wasn't able to sleep. Well I'll try and pay attention tonight and I'll see whats up. Nate

[Valvo]

An interesting fact LunarMoon. I wonder what that says about me, considering almost all of my dreams are in third person. I can't imagine what it would be like to dream in the first person all the time. Nate are you keeping a dream journal? It's usually a great way to improve dream recall. Any notebook or word document will do, and dreamviews has an entire forum section devoted to peoples dream journals, and they can be public or private ones too. Just thought that might interest you. Have fun on DreamViews.