can you see yourself?

in all my years of dreaming i can never recall not once ever seeing myself in my dreams. some friends ofmine say they always see themselves as if being another person, but im always seeing things through my own eyes. does this happen to anyone else?

 

You know, I think it depends on your personality. I myself don't ever remember seeing myself in a dream.. I remember I was looking in a mirror once... But I looked completly different. Like there was some change, maybe it was metaphorical, I don't know, Not even now.

But, Still, I think it depends on how you think, maybe, How you use your mind?

 

yeah i have never seen my self in a dream either... i am always looking through my own eyes.

 

i have never seen myself from a third person view, but i still knew exactly what i looked like from other angles...kind of hard to explain...

 

wow thats a trip, i always see myself in my dreams, and thought that it was common

 

All my dreams are in first person, pretty much. That said, its usually not me that I am in my dreams. I've been everything from dragons to colored shapes swimming though Jell-O.

 

i thiink ive dreamed both ways. kinda like what millownotme just said

 

no ive never seen my self in a dream...

 

I have seen myself in dreams vaguely. More often, if I am not seeing through my own eyes, I am someone I know like father, brother, friend. Once, however, I saw myself through my own eyes. It was a dream dreamed while a very young child. Mom posed for a photo with other women, me the infant in her arms, on a small wooden bridge. That was an event that actually happened, but in the dream, Mom set me down for some reason. While I watched in third person, I the baby crawled to the edge and fell off. In the roll of myself as an older brother, I jumped to the edge and grabbed the baby me by the hand. For that instant, there was three-way vision: I watched the event in third person, I the baby watched the older me catch me by the hand, and I the older me looked down at the infant I held.

 

I do sometimes.I swich between a 3rd and 1st person view.But I still control my actions.

 

My dreams are both... I see myself as if I'm watching it happen to another person but at the same time I see it through my own eyes as it's happening to me. It's almost like there's a mirror with me where ever I go in my dreams so that I can see it from both viewpoints-- mine and someone else's. Wonder why....

 

I see myself through another persons eyes usually...but i've never seen my face...i alwyas see my back...other times i see through my own eyes... but I've never ever seen what my face looks like..

 

In my dreams that most closely resemble reality(with people i know in them, etc), I'm me. But in real fantasy like dreams, I'm someone else.

 

wow lizard i'm someone else once in a while. or something else. once i dreamt i was a butterfly drinking nectar from a flower and then a bee came up and chased me off the flower and then when i was flying away from him he pulled one of my legs off... when i woke up my leg was really sore, that dream i was 10.... when i was 6 i had a dream i was strawberry shortcake and had a friend named ducky who looked like darkwing duck and we were being chased by the purple pieman..... and once i had a dream kurt cobain was still alive and left courtney to be with me..... aaaahhh dreams.....

 

I heard once that if you do see yourself in a dream, it means that something bad will happen to you soon. Legend has it that Abe Lincoln saw himself in a dream one night and told his wife about it the next morning. 2 days later he was shot dead. I believe this to be true because his wife wrote it down after his death and Honest Abe would hae no reason to lie about a dream.

 

I have all sorts of 3rd person dreams..... par for the course, almost unusual to have first person dreams......

 

Yes, I also swich between a 1st and a 3rd person view. Most of the time, however, I have dreams in 1st person. Sometimes I look like myself, sometimes I'm completely different. When I was a child I had only 3rd person dreams and whatever I dreamt about I knew that was a dream and not a real event. A couple of years ago I started having 1st person dreams. Lately I've been having only 1st person dreams and they're so real and they give me horrible headaches! Can anyone explain the reason for this?!?

 

Yes, I also switch between a 1st and a 3rd person view. Most of the time, however, I have dreams in 1st person. Sometimes I look like myself, sometimes I'm completely different. When I was a child I had only 3rd person dreams and whatever I dreamt about I knew that was a dream and not a real event. A couple of years ago I started having 1st person dreams. Lately I've been having only 1st person dreams and they're so real and they give me horrible headaches! Can anyone explain the reason for this?!?

 

Years ago I kept having these dreams, off and on for years, in them I felt as if I was a different person, I could swear I was a man in my dream but nothing what-so-ever pointed to it, until finally I looked in a mirror. I wasn't aware at the time that I was dreaming, I didn't look in the mirror on purpose, and I wasn't startled by what I saw. I've had dreams where I switch "characters", I'm one person, then another completely different person. I've also had dreams where I switch and am still myself, only in a different body, seeing through the other person's eyes. I've had dreams where I'm not actually there, it's like I'm hovering directly over the main character's head, sometimes just watching, sometimes trying to help them solve their problem or help keep them out of trouble.
I don't think I ever actually saw myself in a dream as I really look.

 

anyone else have dreams where they are someone else and they are watching them, but they know they are you?

or where you are just a passive observer who can do nothing about what the other people are doing, you can hear all their thoughts, know all their motives, feel all their pain, happiness, but you are still only an observer?