This may be triggering to some who have tendencies to delusional thinking, so I apologize ahead of time. I wouldn’t encourage you to keep reading.
Now normally I have very intense, graphic, or disturbing dreams, sometimes downright nightmares. But the weird thing about it is, I’m never myself in my dreams. Not even in my good dreams. I’m come to the belief that I am actually just soul jumping into other people’s bodies while I am sleeping, as if my consciousness is watching through somebody else’s life.
Does anyone else experience anything similar? Everyone I’ve talked to has told me that they are always themselves in their dreams. Should this be worrisome? I don’t usually wake up rested, as if I’ve been traveling all night, but I can’t see this as being harmful…
There was a movie I forget the actor’s name but it was in the title and this man figured out how to get in this famous actors mind and see and feel what he feels. Sounds like maybe you might be seeing things that happen kind of psychickly. I once dreamed that my friend was being killed by tigers the very moment he died in high school of quaaludes and whiskey. Try not to worry.
It’s like being trapped in somebody’s head without having control over anything, but you can also hear their thoughts. I’ve jumped into many people’s bodies during a time of crisis and got to hear a lot of inner monologue.
One was a crippled black man who was in a phone booth and he couldn’t decide whether or not to make some call. Eventually he got onto a bus, I remember he used a cane, and the bus ran over a cat’s tail or something and pulled over and the dude flew to the front of the bus from the brakes slamming so hard. Then he looked over and saw a woman run out of her kitchen to chase her tailless cat. I woke up sometime after this, but hearing his thoughts was insane. I remember him distinctly thinking “I never would have had any consideration for the crippled until I became one.”
A second one I had was watching a family get evicted from their house. I think I was in the mother, it was a large family. And I could feel their utter sadness and trauma. Was very sad. I remember her thinking something along the lines of being too poor to keep her family safe.
My dreams are mostly astral projections and obes, but when I do dream I am always in control in first to third person depending on the different type dreams I have. I never have bad dreams or scary dreams I just shift my perspective and change my footprint within the dream going with it not against it, this is mostly due to how I project myself within the dream.
If they are with you, you are experiencing dreams from their prospective and their memories this is why your dreams are perceived the way you experience them.
I have had obes and astral projections my whole life. I learned my own natural body position and mantra that I have followed from an early age. I have had some of the coolest experiences in my life, I just hope they never go away.
I never thought of it as dangerous just part of me. You just need to not be afraid to be strong and only experience it not try to become it. Do not allow the experiences to run over into the thoughts of this world. Obes and astral projections if done with the right mentality can change your life and assist you in many life questions.
I often have dreams where I am observing interactions of importance, or futuristic ones. Sometimes when I fall asleep, rarely, I’ll shut my eyes and see flickering images of people putting their heads in their hands or praying. I recently saw a monk praying.
It doesn’t sound harmful it actually sounds like you have a healthy open mind. Shamans would call it dreamwalking.
I did look up dreamwalking but I do not have lucid dreaming at all. I am completely out of control in my dreams as other people. And it’s not just once a month, its literally every night. Sometimes it’s interesting, other times its sad, and it doesn’t feel like I am watching their dreams. It feels like I’m watching a bit of their life. Like something that was happening at that very moment somewhere in the country. I wonder if when I die I could become a ghost and possess some people and (not doing anything harmful) get to kind of live through another person’s life. It would be really interesting. But I think after death, I will not care much for life anymore so that kind of thing wouldn’t occur to me haha.
I experienced the EXACT same thing for a while, like I was in the Salem witch trials, a miko 9Or Japanese Priestess), and other things, and it was really weird, or I was experiencing a past life or something
No. I am also very often not myself in dreams. I’ve lived as countless different people and animals with very different lives from my own. I’ve been a girl in India who was dreading an arranged marriage, I’ve been a young African American boy back during the Jim Crowe days, I’ve been a service dog for a little girl who was very sick and a police dog, I’ve been an adult male private detective with a wife and child, an orphaned little girl with terrible burn scars who was saved by the kindness of others…
The list goes on and on and on. And sometimes I’ll even switch perspectives during the dream. Like in the one where I was an orphan girl I randomly jumped into a nurse’s body helping her before jumping back. And the weird thing is when I am these other people I don’t really know much about them, I kind of learn more about their lives as I live them. Like I’m put into someone else’s world for a while.
Most recently I was an orphaned immigrant girl living in the city during the Victorian age in America.
Then I wake up again and I’m only this one girl and it’s weird. It’s cool to hear someone else experiences this.