I was asked about nightmares on Formspring, and the thought occurred to me about my visual perspective in my dreams. For the most part they are in third person. Why? Hell I don't know. I rarely remember my dreams when I wake up or forget them shortly after they happen. But the ones I do remember have mostly been in third person. What about you?
Are your dreams in first person or third person perspective?
My dreams are all pretty much from a first-person perspective. If it's been otherwise, I do not remember.
Every dream that I've remember so far has been from a first-person perspective. The only time I saw myself in a dream was when I looked into a mirror and I was wearing a ski jacket. Plus I was pregnant. O_o
Mostly first person, but I did once have a dream that was basically a film-noir version of my high school life, with me as a private detective and the girl I was currently crushing on as a rich recent widow who may or may not have stabbed her husband in the back and left him in a pool.
The truth was up to me to find out.
That dream was AWESOME.
I say about 50 50. My nightmares though are usually in first person and that sucks. I much prefer the I am watching a movie of me doing some awesome or dumb shit perspective.
From what I remember usually first person but sometimes it'll change to third, depends on whats going on.
I have never remembered a dream, so I don't know. I find this interesting: People who grew up watching black and white TV have dreams in black and white. Those that grew up with color TVs see them in color.
I honestly don't remember ever having a dream in first person, it's always framed and shot like a movie.
Depends on the dream. I've had some in ?th person. Those were the dreams that taught me the exact value of ?. Also, they led to rape analogies.
" Mostly first person, but I did once have a dream that was basically a film-noir version of my high school life, with me as a private detective and the girl I was currently crushing on as a rich recent widow who may or may not have stabbed her husband in the back and left him in a pool.The truth was up to me to find out.That dream was AWESOME. "Sounds a bit like the movie Brick.
First person, but for some reason, along with those images comes the images of third person. I can think about dreams and have memories easily on hand which are of some sort of secondary invisible person's perspective. But I'm still telling this and experiencing them like first person. Hard to explain exactly what i mean.
Sometimes first person sometimes third.
@danimal_furry: Also,i never,ever dreamed in color,despite not watching black and white tv -.-
Almost always in third person. And mostly pretty damn vivid and intense in their nature. Which by the way can be really usefull, when you are a freelance writer (and aspiring novelist).
Weirdest dream I ever had, was me being a fucking War Craft 3 guard tower. Just standing around, chilling and of course, ocassionally firing an arrow or two at some dudes passing by.
Depends, sometimes I'm not even myself but some game character, or I'm playing a game only I don't really see myself I just se "the screen".
Basically they shift between being vauge 1st person experiences or movies either with or without me in them.
Hmm, I've never had a dream in third-person before. I'm not even sure what that would be like honestly. I mean are you implying that you are actually seeing yourself in third-person while simultaneously "being" yourself in that dream? That would be like watching yourself on TV while simultaneously being that version of yourself displayed on the TV.
I've never had a dream in first person, at least not one that I remember. Its always 3rd person, the best way I can describe it is that it is like watching a movie.
Yeah I would describe my dreams as being like a movie. They're never continuous. There's always cuts, zooms, establishing shots, tracking shots, etc.
Maybe it's because in movies when there is a dream sequence the character is never experiencing it in first person. The sequence is always filmed exactly as it is in reality. Well, more or less.
" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:OH SHIT. Now I'm freaking out. O_0" When I was a kid I had a dream where I was holding a controller and I was controlling a third person version of me in a game. "This might be the closest example of a dream within a dream. BBWWWAAAAAAAAMMMMMM... "
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