Are You Yourself or Someone Else in your Dreams?

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Yes! I have never seen someone describe this before (haven't read Temple Grandin). This is so true for me, as well!

I thought everyone's mind worked this way. Indeed, I had no idea how odd I really am until I started quizzing people: do you do this? Do you think about this that way? etc etc.

I am always myself in my dreams, and the other people are always people that I know, but the situation is always simultaneusly semi-believeable and extremely wierd.

Sometimes I dream I'm someone else; or rather, I dream from someone else's point of view, seeing the events through their eyes. And then they leave. I'm stuck in their place, with no idea what I'm supposed to do. Fortunately most of these dreams change soon after that happens, but sometimes they don't, and then I have to, say, talk to a group of people I don't know at all, though they seemed familiar before because the person whose eyes I was seeing through knew them.

I'm not sure whether this is just the way I am (I feel like several people much of the time, and on a smaller scale, similar things have happened in real life) or a kind of partial awakening: when you realize you're dreaming without its necessarily waking you up completely. I'm still too much under the dream-logic influence to even ask myself whether I'm dreaming or not, but I know I shouldn't be in the situation. (I also often think, "Hey, you know what, this is a dream, let's analyze this!" And the dream just continues while I think about what it could mean.)

I'm usually myself, only a little older. And I can fly in my dreams too. I jump off the ground, bend my knees in the air, and then I float around like that. And i observe, but I alwatys see the action.

Mich

I'm really into analysing dreams. I can never really remember if the person representing me is me, but I know it's supposed to be me. Same with everyone else in my dreams.

What do you people as individuals think dreams mean?

As individuals... how else?
Dreams tell you what's going on; in the external world or in your own psychological "world". Sometimes they also show solutions to problems, but not always. What seems like a dream-solution can also be the way you habitually respond to the problem; it might be a good idea or not. Basically I think dreams say to you, "This is what you're doing."

I'm always human in my dreams and almost always myself (though occasionally I wind up playing a role from a science fiction series. In perhaps one of the most powerful dreams I have ever had, once I wound up having a duel with God and winning. This duel was based on Tarmon Gai'don from the Robert Jordan fantasy series).

The thing that's most unusual in the dreams is that I have my full complement of emotions! I feel love, sadness, excitement...emotions which tend to be very muted in real life. Talk about psychological defense...

ACG

I could have said "as a generalised group", meaning people with AS in general.

I've leant through myself you can't be too descriptive about asking questions.

I think my dreams are always better than any movie or book I have ever experienced.
I have been a Columbo clone, a vampire, a 13 or 14 year old girl at a modelling school, a woman, a child, I think was even black in some, and so on. I'd say about 30% to 50% of the time I and someone or something else, but I am just guessing since I don't remember all my dreams the next day. I have dreamt of flying, space fights, crumbling houses, ghost stories, I had a dream where I was taken before the queen of hearts down a long aisle in a huge assembly when I was young, the ones that used to really annoy me were ones where I dreamed I got some cool toy and when I woke I would look for it and get upset when I could not find it.

Sometimes I think I dream of future events. There have been occasions of Deja Vu, where I swear that already happened and sometimes it was in a dream.

Any else ever had the same or a similar dream, not back to back but months or even several years apart?

Cross my heart, I swear this really happened to me.

When my sons were very young (maybe 6 and 8 years old) I had a dream one night of them playing in our back yard. They were digging (in the dream) with their little tin shovels near a big tree and found a few pieces of jewelry. When they brought them in the house to show me, I was excited. I asked them where they were digging and then asked them to dig a little deeper. I came over to the digging site with a big shovel and we began to greedily dig for more "hidden treasures" with me bellowing out orders. I feel this dream was maybe a lesson to show me how greed does not pay because after a while the ground began to sink where we had dug. I didn't think much of it until one of my children, the youngest cried out to me. When I looked over, he had fallen into a deep sink hole, caused by the digging and was barely hanging on for his life. With a cry I raced over to my baby, but it was too late, he fell deep into what appeared to be a bottomless sinkhole - I woke sobbing and crying and immediately went to my sons beds to give them both a kiss on their sleeping (and safe) foreheads.

About a week later, I was in the kitchen cooking dinner and my sons ran in excitedly shouting for me to look at what they had found. They each had (in their dirt-encrusted hands) a piece of jewelry. One held a ring and the other a necklace without a chain. They said they had been digging around by the old tree in the back yard. This was not a dream!
I told them to please not dig holes in the yard anymore ESPECIALLY by the old tree, and to be happy with what they had found. They were not happy about stopping their "treasure hunt" before they hit the "big bounty" but they did listen to me. After a few days, they forgot all about this bit of fun. When they grew up I told them about the dream of the "Greedy Mother" in which finally shed light on my strange request many years past. Would you have done the same?

Oh, right... I just thought all the people on WrongPlanet couldn't possibly have a meeting about it and present the conclusion here... it seemed a bit surreal to think of that alternative...

Well, not Quantum Leap style for me (except last night!) but I don't usually dream about myself. I'm more of an 'Al' I suppose, an actress in a drama unfolding. But at the same time inside the character, becoming something else... it's weird. You know how in dreams you feel completely ordinary, not your waking self and all? In Quantum Leap he may have acted like the person channeling him, but he was always himself. I'm only lucid like that rarely.



I have had quite a few of those. My favorites actually are where I get to play a lemur, one of those precursors to simians that I fondly refer to as "Nature's Last Good Idea." I've only had two like that before... a handful as dragons. Sometimes like, animal people, but usually the animal itself.



Well, not counting where I'm actually using wings, I can count maybe... hm... I think I had 1 flying dream, once. It was more like anti-gravity than flying though. Might have even been an anti-gravity device that buoyed me in a parabolic arc saving me from the doom of jumping off the roof--I don't remember clearly.



Most of my dreams are about other people. Actually last night I had a particularly odd dream about being myself in the body of an alternate universe version of myself. Now that is what I call weird. Usually when I dream about me as myself it's some family related thing that just kind of leaves me with a profoundly bored feeling afterwards.

Is there any real need to analyise it? It's just the way I worded it. It could have meant one of several things, like discussions with anyone about it, not just the poeple here, if you want to analyse it.

I thought I'd made it right, but apparently I didn't... Please don't feel bad; I didn't mean to criticize your writing, and I didn't want/need to analyze it, it just sort of happened... I'll try not to put things like this here in the future... Okay?

no, it's ok. You can question anything, I mean It's good to know that people are happy to ask questions to help them fully understand what's worded.

I used to ask questions on every little detail on assignments that tutors just assumed people should know.