Strange question for you all
May. 6th, 2010 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2Are you always yourself in your dreams?
As a teenager, I was almost never myself. I've been the matriarchal leader of a group of humans being wiped out by machines. I've been Prince Michael, determined to save his people from the black oozing menace that threatens his lands. I've been Death, collecting the souls of sorority cheerleader bunnies. I've been a knight in full armor, riding a horse, who lost his only true love. I've been a superspy agent. I've been a poor Russian peasant running with her husband from the police, who climbed a tower and then threw herself off and died. I've been in Hell, and Purgatory. I've been a mermaid in a swimming pool.
As an adult, I am usually myself, and I'm someone else about 15% of the time, I think. Going through my dream entries, it seems like that ratio more or less holds true, though in one I'm an Asian water dragon, and I think I was Snape in another. And sometimes I'm not quite myself, but a version of myself.
What about you guys? Are you ever a different person in your dreams? Are you ever a different gender? Species? I'm curious.
As a teenager, I was almost never myself. I've been the matriarchal leader of a group of humans being wiped out by machines. I've been Prince Michael, determined to save his people from the black oozing menace that threatens his lands. I've been Death, collecting the souls of sorority cheerleader bunnies. I've been a knight in full armor, riding a horse, who lost his only true love. I've been a superspy agent. I've been a poor Russian peasant running with her husband from the police, who climbed a tower and then threw herself off and died. I've been in Hell, and Purgatory. I've been a mermaid in a swimming pool.
As an adult, I am usually myself, and I'm someone else about 15% of the time, I think. Going through my dream entries, it seems like that ratio more or less holds true, though in one I'm an Asian water dragon, and I think I was Snape in another. And sometimes I'm not quite myself, but a version of myself.
What about you guys? Are you ever a different person in your dreams? Are you ever a different gender? Species? I'm curious.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-07 03:51 am (UTC)I've had dreams where I was myself but, you know, had a completely different life. Like, I'm on a pirate ship because my totally different life has brought me to that place, but I never think of myself as not being myself.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-08 02:41 am (UTC)It's weird, because there's a difference--in some dreams I'm a superspy whatever, and I'm still me, but in others I'm a superspy whatever, and I'm not me, and it's very clear to me.
Sometimes I'm just a bodiless third party, watching the dream unfold like a movie.
I've had dreams where I was myself but, you know, had a completely different life. Like, I'm on a pirate ship because my totally different life has brought me to that place, but I never think of myself as not being myself.
It's just a little shift in perspective, I think. And it isn't like I'm thinking, hey! I'm not me! woo-hoo! In fact, it barely impacts the dream, if at all. But I wake up and think, huh. That was unusual.