When you dream...do you see yourself in the 3rd person?

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When you dream...do you see yourself in the 3rd person?

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I've been experimenting with lucid dreaming lately... ( controling my dreams) and I've been trying to give myself a trigger or something to jump in...so to speak.

Well I've noticed in my dreams for the past week, how Im mostly remembering them from a 3rd person perspective, and one thats usually elevated.
Well, last night I had this dream, that I was driving in the pick up truck, and the roads were slippery....then I came to this long suspention bridge over top of this huge gourge with a raging river....
well as soon as I came to the bridge...I knew at that moment I was dreaming in my dream..it was a cool moment..but in that same instant I jumped into 3rd person mode, about 20 feet over my truck...and I saw that everything was covered in ice...and my truck slid right off the edge like it was pushed and I remember falling along with tthe truck like I was tethered to it.
I woke up screaming.
Then I laughed myself back to sleep.


I find this 3rd person perspective thing weird though...anyone else notice this>?
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/ctrl.C
/exec dreamconfig.
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Post by HM-PuFFNSTuFF »

naw i dream in first person

dremt i saw my friend lovely isaac immediately last night. i haven't seen him for years.

i hope he's well
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riddla wrote:I have a dream.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:naw i dream in first person

dremt i saw my friend lovely isaac immediately last night. i haven't seen him for years.

i hope he's well
i dream in the 2nd person
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Post by Fury »

in my most recent one, i managed to exist in two realities. i saw myself in 3rd person, as i phased from one to the other. freaky as hell dream.
The dream is dead.
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CokeMachineGlow wrote:
riddla wrote:I have a dream.
.45= win
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Fury wrote:in my most recent one, i managed to exist in two realities. i saw myself in 3rd person, as i phased from one to the other. freaky as hell dream.
I haad this dream once like that.

I was running down a road , pine trees...walls of pine trees surrounded it.
there was a pick up truck ahead of me.
with people in the back reaching and calling for me to run.
I know theres a monster behind me...its like the Alien kinda monster.
When I look back, Im the monster, I;m looking through its eyes, feel the muscles, see myself up ahead.

Then I go back to my self and Im closer to the truck....then I look back and Im the monster.

it goes back and forth like that till the monster is about to grab me and Im close enough to the truck to grab their hands and thats when I wake up.
I had that same dream for almost a year.
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CokeMachineGlow wrote:
Fury wrote:in my most recent one, i managed to exist in two realities. i saw myself in 3rd person, as i phased from one to the other. freaky as hell dream.
I haad this dream once like that.

I was running down a road , pine trees...walls of pine trees surrounded it.
there was a pick up truck ahead of me.
with people in the back reaching and calling for me to run.
I know theres a monster behind me...its like the Alien kinda monster.
When I look back, Im the monster, I;m looking through its eyes, feel the muscles, see myself up ahead.

Then I go back to my self and Im closer to the truck....then I look back and Im the monster.

it goes back and forth like that till the monster is about to grab me and Im close enough to the truck to grab their hands and thats when I wake up.
I had that same dream for almost a year.
That's really fucked
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fun stuff

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i find that i kinda switch around 1st and 3rd person in my dreams. sometimes i'll be watching over events that happen and might even at times then be one of the participants in those events.

lucid dreaming is interesting stuff. i started to experiment with it about a year back. i only had about one or two full on lucid dreams though. it's really fun when you realize you're dreaming, you don't wake up, and can then control what happens. i only worked on it for a few months but even now i'll have a dream where i realize i'm dreaming but since i'm not actively trying to control the dream it usually ends there.

one interesting thing i noticed when doing lucid dreaming was just how much more vivid my dreams became because i was starting to remember them better. i'm not sure how exactly you're going about this whole lucid dreaming thing but one of the techniques i did was to write down a journal of everthing i could remember from my dreams the night before. it was cool to look back at how vague my dreams were in the beginning, only a few lines, to soon become nearly full on stories with multiple paragraphs.

the only reason i stopped working on lucid dreaming was because my gf at the time totally flipped out when i told her about a dream i had of her cheating on me. i mean, ffs, it's only a dream. i'm glad i didnt tell her about all the other dreams involving her that i knew she wouldnt like after that incident. i think i might actually start this up again.
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Grandpa Stu wrote:
the only reason i stopped working on lucid dreaming was because my gf at the time totally flipped out when i told her about a dream i had of her cheating on me. i mean, ffs, it's only a dream.

I had that once. I walked right in on em. I strangled the guy to death too. :paranoid:
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Post by ajerara »

no, but I can see my hands holding a gun
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Post by Denz »

I'm in my dreams?
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Post by a13n »

No, always female body only.
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