Your "dream self"

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So, when I'm asleep and dreaming, I take on like this alter ego. Like, I can control what happens in my dreams, but I can't. My desires, thought processes, personality, even values change when I'm dreaming. It's like I become a completely different person. So when I'm awake I can think, "Okay, if this happens in a dream, I can do this." But if I fall asleep and that thing happens, I make a completely different decision than what I would have made in my waking life. Or I'll do a sort of distorted version of what I wanted to do in my waking life.

Anyone else experience this?
 
wut da fuck is dis

wow u r different from ur normal self in dreams

lamest far reaching idea 4 a discussion ive ever heard

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That sounds like a set-up for a main character in an RPG. lol! Not to sound like an insult, but you always seem to have crazy dreams. It must be kind of exciting! (Though, I'd also be afraid if the other person was secretly the same as me, as if that is the true me, and the other is me trying to be polite)

For the most part, I'm pretty much the same in my dreams and I do basically the same things I would if I were awake. Does that mean I'm living the dream? :p (I hope not, though, for aforementioned reasons:) It's kind of annoying though, because I'm usually doing the work or stuff I know I have to do the next day, so it feels like I have to do things twice sometimes. Also I wake up tired.. :p

I think the most interesting dream I had recently that I can remember is from earlier a few months ago:
It was set up similar to some type of RPG. I was playing some type of game, it was virtual reality like .hack or something, and for some reason everything still felt life and death for dieing in the game. Anyways, it was some deserted land were the towns people were dieing from lack of food, water, and money.

It's long, so it's kind of double abridged... (with the spoiler tag)
The kingdom was built up from the poor sections on the bottom to the richer, lush gardens and a beautiful round palace at the top. (It actually was a floating palace as the rich area was on a floating area) From far away, the whole city looked kind-a pretty with a cityscape and the floating world above a hot yellow sun all surrounded by flat dirt where ever you looked. The rich floating world always seemed to twinkle, and there was waterfalls and gardens that could be seen from their. The main buildings was white, although it featured many different colorful paintings, with architecture from around the world. The bottom half was kind of painted sand-yellow and looked like a cross between Arabian nights and LA.

My party was kind of set up with me and two of my best friends. It was kind of weird (though not as much as me because my dreams can be incredibly detailed and flawless, to the point at which it's hard to tell if it's a dream or not even after I wake up) because I had memories of other quests in the game that happened before the dream started, and this felt like some normal quest.

Anyways we reached the town and found out that it was very poor and most people were scared of any visitors. Before we could interact with anyone a Noble saw us and immediately took us up to the top land, rich area. They kept us there for the night talking about all these advancements they have before giving us a job about getting rid of some annoying person to them in the low lands.

Eventually we see what is going on and we confront the king, however the king's adviser is some sort of hexer and wizard and blows my party away breaking our weapons. So we go down and end up regrouping with the people in the low lands.
I guess, it's a really long story, but essentially it gets the point which is kind-of bobo-bo funny. (Though, in the dream this was all serious business, so maybe it was more Softon funny) For some reason when we suited up for the final battle I was dress up as some sort of young link that had spiderman's powers (from the movies)... for some reason. My friend had a large sword similar to cloud's, and the last one had a gun that shot out little swords.

It sounds very silly described that way (I also got turned into a bug by the evil wizard at some point, and had to fight as a small bug for a lot of it) but it was very funny with a lot of crazy action.
 
Lately, I'm usually a very pretty purple-haired girl (yeah...I know, it's weird), probably based off the character in my Yugioh Fic (which is a girly boy, y'know like Harley and Haku), and they usually take place in a Yugioh-esque world with Yugioh versions of my friends.

I get most of my ideas for my story from my fic, ironically. And yes, I know I should seek help immediately.
 
I've had the "can control what happens, but can't" thing happen. I mean, I'm just too unfocused and too "rationally asleep" (I've read that the reasoning part of our brains goes to sleep, and that's why dreams don't often seem weird while we're in them) to fully control things.

That leads to moments where I'm lucid enough to realize that I can affect what happens, but my desires to change things always take the form of vague statements to the effect of "I want something to change in some manner." Although I can't recall specifics, I do remember that the changes were generally negative, including (I think) Ash getting killed somehow. o_O

I also remember this semilucid dream I had where for a second, I suddenly realized that I was dreaming and everything was very... vividly colored; however, I then went along with whatever was going on in the original plot as if the lucid part never happened.

I think that in terms of desires and values, I'm generally the same in and out of dreams: I still prefer tea over coffee; I still like Pokémon, puppies, candy, and playing on the computer; I'm curious and wander off sometimes; I still feel sad for dead creatures I see; I panic about sight problems (though they are far more intense in dreams: fairly blurry sight while awake versus actually going blind in one eye in a dream? *shudders*); slaughter and torture scenes bother me immensely; and I don't like babies or little kids but would genuinely try to get them help if they needed it (other than that, I won't deal with them).

In terms of personality, I'm a little more... crazy? in dreams, I guess, though. For example, I can get somewhat paranoid when I'm home alone (or am I?), but not to the point of panicking; in a dream I had, though, the sky was odd and stormy and I was freaking out and wishing my family would get the hell back and was extremely relieved when they did. I'm also very reticent (and tend to be brief when I do speak to others) while awake, but in dreams, I talk to almost anyone if they interest me for whatever reason. I'm not much of a fighter/rebel, but once in a dream, I tried to get people to come to this vampire guy not as victims (as he intended, and as I and the other guy I was with were), but to overthrow (if not kill) him. (I like the idea that I would do something similar while awake if such a bizarre situation came up, but I'm a wuss....)

In terms of thought processes, I feel the dullness in dreams. I can actually feel that "process" of not thinking or of not feeling a sensory input, if that makes any kind of sense. o_O Occasionally my dream self (3rd person view of someone who looks and often acts like I do) has thoughts that I can sense, but usually my dreams consist of "me" (what's left of my waking consciousness) watching my DS, with thoughts occuring externally (in me the observer, not "both of us" or just my DS) but with sensations (or the "sensation" of the lack thereof... or whatever X_x) occuring in both of us. I can feel emotions, but not thoughts. I guess it's like empathizing with a TV character, and the "'sensation' of the lack of sensation" is slightly like the anticipation of something happening to the character and physically empathizing (think of recoiling and wincing, or feeling sick or a "jolt" when something terrible happens to them) despite not actually feeling the physical sensations that the character would be feeling... but different.
 
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I look like my regular self, except for the fact that I look more skinny (I mean as in less baby fat) Like I was when I was 10-12. I tend too be nicer and sweeter in my dreams then I am in real life, like I was when I was a little kid. But for the most part, it's hard too remember how I am in dreams, since most of the time I can't remember the conversations words (just the fact that I had a conversation and what it was about)...
 
I, for the most part, turn into a selfish bastard when I dream although physically, I am pretty sure I'm no different. Most often, my dreams involve:
A) Something happening, or obtaining something I really want.
B) Life-Or-Death situations (usually involving me and my friends.)
or
C) (My favourite dreams) being dropped smack-dab in the middle of one of my fandom obsessions (usually Pokemon or Doctor Who. Once I met the Beatles!)

In the case of (B) I always end up leaving my friends (or complete strangers) to be killed, offering them up as bait, using them as meat-shields etc. etc.
And in the case of (A) I always seems to disregard everyone else to get what I want.

One example of my selfishness in situation (B) came the night after I watched Dawn of The Dead.

When the dream started, I was in the middle of what I assume was some sort of meeting or conference on the top floor of a big business building (the setting is just one of those things I instantaneously "know" at the start of the dream.) Anyway, my friend and I were seated side by side on the left side of the room with an elevator at the end closest to us.
We heard the elevator coming up, and the next second there were vicious zombies pouring into the room. In the same instant, a barricade had been made of the tables and chairs, and we were pushing it forwards to keep the zombies at bay.
However, the next thing I knew, the barricade was gone and a little blonde girl in a pink dress, me, and my friend were the only people in a room full of zombies. A zombie ripped the flesh off of my friends shin, who then killed it with a chair that had just appeared in his hands. We were surrounded by zombies, so my dream-self picked up the little girl by the ankles and started beating back the zombies with her. Remembering that part afterwards was horrible, because I could recall feeling her bones break with each hit.
The next second, my friend and I, and six strangers were in the elevator going down to the lobby. My friends leg had healed, but his head was bleeding, even though there was no cut. Suddenly, a stout woman in corporate attire, trying to play a prank, began acting like a zombie. Everyone in the elevator beat her to death. The elevator reached the lobby, her body was gone, and we ran out of the building.

For those who bother to read: Messed up no?
For those who didn't: You probably saved yourself from quite a bit of trauma.
 
Recently, I've taken on a Juliet (from Romeo x Juliet) type character, in a Romeo x Juliet setting (I've forgotten the word for it...) in my dreams. Except my character is, uh, grumpy and a stubborn mule, unlike Juliet XDD

Before that, I was my usual self, but I was snarkier and more 'whoa wtf is goin on'. Because it's a dream and I have no idea what was going on XD.
 
When I dream, I rarely feature in the dream. Usually my dreams are watching other people do things--I attribute that to immersing myself in books and games and movies and such and rarely imagining my own adventures in things. I only dream as me when I'm interacting with family--and I've had weird family dreams.

When I shape my dream-self, I usually appear as a more athletic version of who I am in the real world, and usually equip myself with abilities on par with what the setting I'm dreaming about. For instance, I once dreamed I was a member of a small cabal of talented individuals (all drawn from books I've read, games I played, or shows or movies I watched) dedicated to protecting a city by the sea from a megalomaniac genius. I was on-par in strength with the rest of the group--a swordsman and spell-slinger, but not particularly overwhelming in power compared to my companions.

Generally, though, I dream about other people. Go figure.

EDIT: Oh, I just remembered. An exception to the rule: one time in a dream, the heroine of said dream was at the mercy of the villain. Somehow, I briefly "stepped into" the dream, screamed "ZA WARUDO!" and smashed the guy with a steamroller. Yeah. Like the meme, except I cheated and skipped ahead a few steps.
 
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