First person.
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I have dreamed in third person, but I don't think I could tell when the last time was. I dream a lot more often in first person.
I dream exclusively in 2nd person.
@ivanafterall I knew someone out there was dreaming about me!
Actually you were the second person
Yes, please stop watching me.
I dream in first person, and sometimes if I realize it I can lucid dream.
My most vivid dreams have always been in first person. But I'm not always me. One dream I remember in particular is that I think I was a younger sister to an older brother? Other than that one time, all my dreams I have always been me. Even when I dream of movies or some some sort of third person narrative it feels like I'm watching a movie on a TV.
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It's always first person for me, but the one lucid dream I ever had I dreamed I was playing kirby on a gameboy advance and I was absolutely the kirby. So I suppose that was third person at least once.
Second person, i think..? I'm the viewer, distinct from myself, but also not a detached non-entity. The dream body is never mine.
Both, sort of.
Last night, i dreamed about a new AR/VR ride at a local theme park. It was like a giant crane shaped building, but it wasnt a metal structure, it was like a skyscraper with a structure built horiOntally at the top with a glass ball at the end with a bunch of chairs inside and a laser gun sticking out from it. You got in as a group and shot as flying alien ships, and it moved around like the gun pods in Star Wars. There was another building next to it that housed a VR game. Both buildings were wonky/leaning over and wouldn't be able to stand up without some supports (or being a dream)
In the case of the AR shooting thing i was both some distance away, looking at the towers whilst also being inside the ball doing some shooting amd sometimes watchk g from some floating point outside of the ball with me and my family in the ball.
The VR thing was odd. You were in a medium-sized room with a table and some couches and an open space in the middle. You had a laser gun thing, but it wasn't really a gun. You had to shoot these little shadow things that came towards you. Some were shaped like teddy bears, and some were shaped lake ants. They both made a weird creaking/squeaky noise as they moved so you knew where to look. Eventually, when you kill enough, a big dragon comes down, and you have to dodge its fire breath whilst shooting it. Beat it, and you win.
My wife went first, and you could see what she saw on a tv screen. I both watched her on the screen and also saw from her perspective. I k ow i watched on the screen because i remember when another person had a go. i was telling their friends they could watch on the screen. And then when i had my go, i remember thinking I've done this before, but i was my wife.
Dreams are weird.
Depends. I can be me, an invisible, incorporeal observer or someone else. My POV changes depending on the action.
I can dream in color, with nuances that cannot be expressed, or black and white. I can dream in pseudo-blindness where I don't see anything, but I know what's happening. I can dream in text where all I see are letters, well more like symbols... Full sentences aren't part of my repertoire, but I can catch a word or two before they squiggle and change into incomprehensible garble.
I can even simulate physics at times, but it's not pleasant.
I know it's all me because I can become anyone and anything. I was a rock, a bullet, a bird, a fish, a dragon, the abyss, a tree, even the enemies I was fighting against when the plot took that direction. Nothing is fixed.
Most of the time 1st person, sometimes 3rd person like a TV or drone camera showing me with the scenery around, like I'm watching a movie. Very rarely is it following behind my head like in a 3D video game.
Unless there is some sort of cinematic scene or I am not the focus of the dream, the dream is 100% first person.
I have found a bit of a way for me at least to control wether it's first person or theird person. Often when I'm just daydreaming some fantasy until I fall asleep the dream is 70% of the time first person. But when I'm daydreaming some sort of movie until I fall asleep 70% of the time my dream is theird person and if I'm just thinking random thoughts like who am I gonna take my car to get it's oil changed 70% of the time there's no dream. I just open my eyes and now it's mid day.
People dream?
Typically first person.
Most, if not all, of my experienced dreams so far, have been in 1st person, as if I'm the one living through whatever realism-fantasy-scifi shenanigans I'm in; thing is, most of the time, they're almost exclusively set within my home province, including the central capital city, highways and all.
Consuming and creating various creative media also has its own part in aligning perspectives in those dreams, as well as how the supposed "plot"/"storyline" plays out in its entirety.
No
The only dreams I remember are those where I'm stabbed or punched in the back because I wake up with back pain.
Yes!
Either like cinematic or just first person view