Strange question for you all

[valis2]

Are 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.

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting!

For years, when I thought of myself, I would picture myself with a ponytail, even though I have almost never put my hair up in a ponytail. It persisted for so very long.

When I think of Husband, I often think of him looking as he did in the first picture I took of him, and I forget what he looks like now. Whenever I come home from a long trip, I'm always shocked at what he looks like, because he is forever fixed as that picture in my head. ;)

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

Hee, so I'm not the only one who does that, eh? That's a relief. :-) Yes, I have that for other people too. My parents will always stay young I guess.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's funny how that image can persist in your head, despite all attempts to change it. ;)