International Association for the Study of Dreams

[Rawn]

How common is it to have dreams from the perspective of someone other than yourself?

It doesnt happen too often to me, but it does happen.

For instance last week I had a dream from the perspective of a 17/18yr old boy, who had a homosexual mother who was in her 30's, and the dream revolved around elements in their life and relationship.

This scenario is way different from my life, and definitely not something I saw on tv or anything.

Since I occasionally have dreams from different perspectives like that, I didnt think much of it till I mentioned it to my wife...and she said she never had dreams from a perspective other than her own. So now I am wondering how weird it really is.
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

H P Lovecraft

[timeisnotlinear]

I've never personally had a dream from a different person's perspective before. None that I have identified as such anyway. Although I have had dreams before that didn't seem to apply to me or were things I probably wouldn't be doing, so who knows if that was one or not.