March 13th, 2008
The Dream Catcher
Sometimes when you think about someone enough, you dream about that person. Have you ever had a dream from someone else’s perspective entirely? Or as you being someone else?
Transcriptorial: She took and stored millions, / nightmares to remember them by.
I had dreamed from someone else’s perspective more than once.
I almost always dream in third-person. Even when I’m in them. I’m a NPC in my own dreams!
every time i dream its almost always about zombies so i can officially say i dont sleep much.
My dreams change perspective constantly. It may start out feeling like real life from my perspective, but then it may change to a story that I’m reading or writing, or a movie that I’m watching or directing or acting in. I’ve had dreams where I was a writer, a reader, a watcher, a director, an actor, and several different characters, one after another.
The worst is when it seems like a story I’m writing, and I think about what a great story it is, and then, after I wake up, I want to write it, but then realize it was complete nonsense.
That happens to me a lot, too. But I still hold out hope of writing a brilliant story entirely in my sleep one night.
I don’t know if this counts, but sometimes I dream that I’m a boy. I’ve talked to other women with similar experiences. And I always manage to woo a beautiful woman in these dreams. Holy animus, Carl Jung!
Whenever someone I know appears in my dream, they almost always follow the exact same behavioral patterns I expect them to. Until it becomes blatantly obvious, and I wake up, saying “Silly dream, can’t fool me!”
I often dream as someone else, sometimes watching, sometimes them, sometimes more than one person in a dream…as for Jenny’s zombies *shudders* , try sleeping with a small packet of salt next to your skin, weird I know, but it works, at least it did for me :).
As a full lucid dreamer, I have dreamtime experiences I consider normal but which most find fantastic… Native American ‘dreamwebs’ can serve as focussing agents for dreams.