It may be more similar to the concept of dissociation than to astral projection. I believe I understand what you mean when you say that you don't have awareness of "self. I have had this type of of dream.
I interpret it as meaning that the feelings being portrayed in the dream or the feelings associated with the particular situation portrayed in the dream are not conscious to me. I am somehow denying them or I don't fully realize or acknowledge that this is how I feel; that's why in the dream those feelings or the role played by "my" character in the dream are projected onto a character who doesn't consciously feel like me.
The fact that all of your dreams are like this could suggest that for some reason you are highly defended against fully experiencing your feelings because dreams are almost always about feelings. There may be some painful experiences that you are protecting yourself against. Sometimes it's appropriate to protect oneself, but with all these dreams, maybe your unconscious is sending you a message that it's time to start being more "present" to yourself and to fully inhabit your life.
The fact that you are starting to wonder about it probably means you are now ready to do this. How do you start? I would say just by telling yourself that you are open to whatever comes up in your dreams and you are willing to experience whatever your unconscious wants you to know. Try telling yourself as you go to sleep that "tonight I will inhabit my self! Post your dream for our members to interpret, explore dreams like yours, or help others understand their dreams.
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Start Prev 1 Next End 1. Allie Topic Author Offline. Posts: 1 Thank you received:. Gender: Unknown Birthdate: Unknown. Dreaming in 3rd Person was created by Allie. Rather than approaching your emotional issue from your own point of view, which can stir-up some strong and unwanted emotional responses, it can be very helpful to view the issue from a detached perspective as a witness rather than a participant.
By reviewing your issue from a third person point of view, and seeking out an alternative meaning to the entire drama, you can investigate ways of dealing with your trauma in a safe and totally detached way.
Third person lucid dreaming is also a great way to eliminate nightmares. Although lucid nightmares are rare, and are fairly easy to deal with when you are trained properly, some nightmares are a little too scary to deal with head-on from a first person perspective.
Having the ability to view a nightmare from a witness point of view can eliminate the fear and anxiety that usually accompanies the dream freeing you to deal with the nightmare effectively and even learn from it. Once we place ourselves in third person within a nightmare it is then much easier to alter the dream from an experience that is scary to something that is more pleasant.
After all, it can be difficult to change a dream when you are being faced by your worst fear. I never have and I never will. They creep me out! So, when I had a nightmare about a giant spider attacking me and suddenly became lucid in the dream I was instantly terrified. In the lucid dream, the more I wanted to get away from the dream scene the more spider would attack me. I found that as my focus remained firmly on defending myself the fear would grow inside me and this fear numbed my mind and restricted me from thinking clearly enough to change the dream.
All my focus was on the spider, which of course in true lucid dreaming style this heightened focus resulted in me getting more of what I focused on — it made the spider that much more formidable and real. At that very moment I suddenly found myself disembodied and viewing the entire scene from a fairly far off, and safe, distance. I seen my dream-self battling the spider and realized that, because you can do anything you want in a lucid dream, I was free to alter this situation in any way I wanted.
I then simply shrunk the spider while simultaneously making my dream body bigger. First or Third Person Dreams I read an older thread about this, but it didn't quite cover what I wanted to know. I have a mix of dreams in first and third person, but I'm curious as to what may trigger a dream in first person vs.
Does anyone have any ideas or theories behind it? Share Share this post on Digg Del. Hi, I don't think many if any of the things revolving around the exact "dream nature" are explained through some scientific means. But seeing how dreams often reflect thoughts and experiences gathered through the day or just in a general longer timespan, it might be interesting to hypothesize various reasons specifically through that lens. I don't have 3rd person dreams too often, but some sort of spectator like experiences do happen.
One could attribute that to the way TV or movies work, or should I say the way they could be percieved by the brain.
Video games could also be a culprit. Being interested in the whole mind-brain relationship through introspection for a long time now, I must say that I do recognize for myself, how the brain extends its perception and influence to what could be called "virtual experiences" like TV or video games.
For example when sitting down to do something on the computer in a dream, often I don't just stay in front of the computer with my hands on the keyboard, but rather the screen and whatever I'm doing, takes over the dream completely - vision, audio, perception of a body disapears etc.
That's one way I find these strange points of view come about, for me of course. Another reason could perhaps be that this is the way "you" sometimes think about yourself. When I was younger I used to remember things in 3rd person from time to time. Don't know why, but it happened. They were sort of false memories of course, since my eyes didn't float outside my body to take pictures, but still genuine.
So even now if I try to remember something generic from my childhood I remember some events just like that. Do you have something similar going on? Dreams just differ so much from person to person it's really hard to generalize something like this and find the exact cause.
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