Any dreams from 'third person' perspectives?

[DreamInsights]

Dreams featuring 'third person' perspectives are where the dreamer views themselves in dreams.

I periodically experience 'third person perspectives' in dreams. Personally, most of these dreams are not notable e.g., such dreams are usually the same-old, same-old.

One exception; a dream I experienced several years ago was almost comical. I viewed my threapist's office with high-ceilings - that is, I viewed myself (several feet above floor-level) from a third person perspective. During the counseling session, I was fumbling with cue-cards, and trying to read (follow) a tele-prompter screen - all while the Beatle's song, 'The Magical Mystery Tour' was playing. The therapist surprisingly maintained their objectivity during this session.

I felt that the shifts in the tones, patterns of the song were similar (and timed) to the patterns of how the dream content progressed.

Why I had this dream - I remember being overly-judgemental in counseling sessions - sometimes to a point of being outspoken. My Therapist sometimes maintained professional objectivity, yet eased on objectivity on the lighter sides of those pressing issues in life.

Another theory, I felt that the tele-prompters, and cue cards symbolized the need for coaching/ guidance in therapy sessions. I sense, being judgmental, and sometimes treating therapy sessions with a healthy sense of humor where the main motives as to why I experienced this dream.

Why the Beatle's song, 'The Magical Mystery Tour' was a factor is unknown - yet the Beatle's where musical geniuses who demonstated many differet styles - hence, such a dynamic song to go along with a comical therapy session doesn't seem like too much a stretch of dream imaginations - as dream imaginations go!

 

[PaulKH]

Note it isn't this simple/straight-forward, because dreams can change perspectives relating to how you can process (hover, inside, yourself, other, observer, conduit, helper). Dreams are broadly a combination of information/outside experiences, and the dreamer's frame of reference makes every bit of a difference as what information they encounter while dreaming.

An academic/extreme example: a 100% self-centered person would not even know how to translate a 3rd-person extra-experience dream because they'd have no context, no mental language, to give it truth. So even if it were clearly not them, they would be confused but, in a way, force it to be them/about them, even when that wasn't the truth.

This is why I identify an aspect of dreaming designed to open our perspectives so we can begin to understand/handle more foreign-to-us experiences in some meaningful, empathy-laden way. It is reasonable to suspect that *most* people are limited by their understanding rather than by some limits coming from the dream potential. I have personally experienced an expanding on capabilities through experience/practice. This *includes* perspectives (capability) to see others as they "exist" without automatically assigning a self-reference (which would have the effect of "projecting" a limited perspective upon something far more vast than can be processed).

Recently, I've had fewer dream experiences about me (from my own/waking perspective or from a "hovering" view) than I have about others (whether that's "with them" in the sense that I understand why they are thinking and doing what they are doing, to a zoomed out view where I can fully see choice-and-consequence play out). Once the dreamer embraces and looks for the possibilities, they will experience dreams that change formats/perspectives within the same dream as needed (perhaps, as your perspective adjusts and you realize someone isn't you at all, but that you are sharing headspace/thoughts of someone other than you). I have yet to find any hard limits on this; the dreams keep expanding in ways that can show whatever information you can currently handle. Once you can hear the thoughts/feelings of others while having your own distinct/differing thoughts/analysis, you will truly know the enhanced ability to empathize (and from outside your own perspective, without needing to "anchor" it in your own limits). These kinds of experiences can be both wildly fun and rich in learning opportunities; the healthiest way you can be on your dream journey (I think) is to see how they help you grow (experienced-wise, would be the hope).

Cheers.

 

[DreamInsights]

Dreams featuring 'third person' perspectives are where the dreamer views themselves in dreams.

I periodically experience 'third person perspectives' in dreams. Personally, most of these dreams are not notable e.g., such dreams are usually the same-old, same-old.

One exception; a dream I experienced several years ago was almost comical. I viewed my threapist's office with high-ceilings - that is, I viewed myself (several feet above floor-level) from a third person perspective. During the counseling session, I was fumbling with cue-cards, and trying to read (follow) a tele-prompter screen - all while the Beatle's song, 'The Magical Mystery Tour' was playing. The therapist surprisingly maintained their objectivity during this session.

I felt that the shifts in the tones, patterns of the song were similar (and timed) to the patterns of how the dream content progressed.

Why I had this dream - I remember being overly-judgemental in counseling sessions - sometimes to a point of being outspoken. My Therapist sometimes maintained professional objectivity, yet eased on objectivity on the lighter sides of those pressing issues in life.

Another theory, I felt that the tele-prompters, and cue cards symbolized the need for coaching/ guidance in therapy sessions. I sense, being judgmental, and sometimes treating therapy sessions with a healthy sense of humor where the main motives as to why I experienced this dream.

Why the Beatle's song, 'The Magical Mystery Tour' was a factor is unknown - yet the Beatle's where musical geniuses who demonstated many differet styles - hence, such a dynamic song to go along with a comical therapy session doesn't seem like too much a stretch of dream imaginations - as dream imaginations go!

I had another 'third person' perspective in-threapy dream several years ago with music in the background.

The first 26 seconds of the 1970 'Three Dog Night' song 'Mama Told Me Not to Come' was playing in the background as I sat in a chair in a part of my therapist's office, and viewed myself in the doorway of my therapist's offfice speaking, and motioning (via non verbal cues) without actual content of what I was saying. My non-verbal motions seemed timed to rhythms of the song playing in the background.

The dream almost felt comical, and incorporated how comics might illustrate their humor to animated clips.

After the first 26 seconds of the song 'Mama Told Me Not to Come,' the song's crescendo notably increases - at which time I rushed-out of the doorway. The dream ended promptly.

The meaning of the song, are cautions from a sons's mom about wild parties. The song was irrelevant to the content of the dream. I definately was not rushing to any party of sorts as this dream ended.