Dreaming in the third person

[ilai]

Seems normal, yet bizarre....

Last night I dreamt that I wanted to shut all my windows because I felt a draft. In my dream I had a large bedroom with high ceilings, so naturally the windows were set 7 or so feet off the floor. But one of the windows was positioned in a corner, conveniently located near a ledge jutting out of the adjacent wall. And it just so happened that the ledge faced a fireplace with a pretty deep mantel. So my sister and lokiect decided they would shut the window for me, by climbing the mantel and jumping to the ledge.

After they pushed themselves up onto the mantel, I realized my perspective had shifted such that I was looking down from where they were, and I saw myself standing on the floor. I seemed to be asking my sister if she wanted me to support her feet, so she could just step across to the ledge. But then I apparently changed my mind and approached the window myself. And somehow, by the physics only possible in the realm of dreams, I grabbed ahold of the window pane and slid it shut.

Comments

[jadia.livejournal.com]

Sounds a little like Ico. :)

[lokiect.livejournal.com]

dude, he's been infected! ;9

I dream like that all the time, really. not always so coherently, but switching perspectives, seeing myself or not, being different people, etc.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

All my dreams are from a third-person perspective. Always have been.

[ilai]

Wow. I've only ever had (and remembered) two: this one, and a dream from high school where I saw my own dead body in a wheelchair (extra fun!).