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

[EmpressZombiKitty]

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.

However, the perspective has changed in the middle of a dream if it's a climatic moment. Ie: extremely personal violent moment, climax in a sexual dream, a fearful moment and maybe a chase ensues, or something of that magnitude.

So, I was just curious how it was for some other people and please feel free to tell me about some instances!

 

[cp2u]

kind of both, kind of neither. It's hard to explain, but I guess that's just how dreams work.

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

I always dream in first-person.

 

[staika]

I believe I do it both ways half the time, I don't really remember most of my dreams and the ones I do I'd rather forget.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I did have one dream a while back where I died in 1st person. The weird thing is it carried on in 3rd person (in a film way, not in a over-the-shoulder way) and dreams being dreams, I just accepted that...

 

[Biodeamon]

I dream in third person except directly over the shoulder fine aim camera kind of way

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

I mostly dream in third person, as far as I can remember. Most of my bizarre dreams are in Third person I think.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

My dreams play out like a really twitchy shooter, switching the perspective constantly. Y'know, like those insanely stupid zoom-ins on the necks of every protagonist in every modern shooter (almost), ever.

 

[Osaka117]

A good balance of both actually. You'd think that while dreaming in third person I'd be smart enough to figure out it's a dream since I can see myself, but nope, I guess I'm just dumb.

 

[TakerFoxx]

First person, mainly. Occasionally second person, but those aren't nearly as fun. Ends up being like a video game.

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

A good balance of both actually. You'd think that while dreaming in third person I'd be smart enough to figure out it's a dream since I can see myself, but nope, I guess I'm just dumb.

haha. I've only had only one instances that I can think of where I figured out it was a dream. I had my, uh, 3rd person character (for lack of better term) scream at the sky saying "This is a dream and I want to wake up!" It was during a ridiculous moment though. Like, a giant squid creature floating in the air, but I was scared. It was ripping people apart.

But the dream where I was chewing my fingers off and spitting the flesh at the nurses and THEN watched it immediately regrow into skin mittens. No, that didn't make me think it was a dream. >.>

 

[Innegativeion]

When I dream that I am myself, it's 1st person. When I dream I'm some(one/thing) else, or about some(one/thing) else, it's usually in 3rd person.

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

I dream in first person, sometimes my nightmares are RTS tho.

If that happens to me now, I'll blame you.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

TF? Can you dream in the third person? Omg

 

[Saelune]

First person. I hate my face, even in my dreams.

 

[The Youth Counselor]

I dream in both and in monochrome and color.

The really weird dreams is when I'm two characters at once. Such as when I'm watching a movie but a character in that movie at the same time.

 

[Alavar91]

First-person. Then I pull out a BFG9000 and shit goes boom!

In all seriousness though, would be interesting to dream in third person.

 

[Vault101]

first person I guess...its really hard to make snese of it all

anyway Ive been dreaming of games latley, I was war from darksiders and I fell into some lava

 

[Tdc2182]

Huh... I never really thought that people could dream in third person.

I'm obviously a first person dreamer. I would freak out if I dreamt in third person. I'd feel like I'd have that thing happen where you feel like you are being paralyzed more.