Do you ever dream you are someone else?

[tickleberries]

I was wondering if anyone else experiences this. I'm sure probably a lot of people do but no one I know seems to dream that they are not themselves. I've been doing this off and on for years. These dreams are not lucid but very vivid. My dad is someone who remembers many of his dreams, as I do, and he thought it was strange when I told him about this. I know some people believe in reincarnation but I am not sure if I believe in that. My old beliefs have kinda fell away after some of these experiences with out of body and lucid dreaming.

Recently, I was a female child in a class and my teacher was keeping me after school to help me. On another day I was some type of sociologist or something studying people in a small village with an old matriarch that didn't like me (who ever I was) LOL. I was not me. That was a long dream. Sometimes I am a man or a boy. In this reality, I am a woman and it's a bit weird sometimes. Sometimes, I have a different husband, completely different kids, and it's almost like being part of a movie. Since I have been working on lucid dreaming and out of body experiences (which I am far from mastering) these dreams have become incredibly vivid.

Do you have these kind of dreams? 

[Summerlander]

I dream that I am other people too sometimes.  I once dreamt that I was a spy.  Sometimes I even have different memories in dreams which have never happened in waking life...this is very very interesting indeed.

[blis]

Happens to me quite a lot.

Some of them I'm convinced are past lives. The memories and backstories are just too detailed. I suppose they could be other people's memories that they've decided to share with me though.

But some are just dreams. Last night for instance I was Jack Reacher - a fictional character from a book.

I've been Lisa Simpson before too. That was an odd one. It went between third and first person and was still a cartoon while in first person.

[tickleberries]

I dream that I am other people too sometimes.  I once dreamt that I was a spy.  Sometimes I even have different memories in dreams which have never happened in waking life...this is very very interesting indeed.

Exactly. In one dream, I had the memory of losing a child. I was very distraught in the dream. I never lost a child. I have two sons but the child was not my current children.

It really amazes me of how detailed some of these dreams can be.

[tickleberries]

Happens to me quite a lot.

Some of them I'm convinced are past lives. The memories and backstories are just too detailed. I suppose they could be other people's memories that they've decided to share with me though.

I grew up being taught against reincarnation. Now I'm not so sure anymore. I'm starting to think that I have lived some of these dreams. I can't believe how much my beliefs have changed since I've been watching my dreams close up.

I get the goofy dreams too. LOL, One time I was a female Doctor Who flying around in my Tardis. That was a fun dream.

[Summerlander]

Let's not start jumping in excitement and say that some are past life memories. The unconscious mind is quite capable of concocting false memories as it spontaneously churns out the plots. It's not that some are dreams...ALL could be just dreams. Being detailed scenarios is no excuse to start saying it's something else. Let's not undermine the brain and all its amazing myriad connections.

[Boom]

Cant say I have.. I've always been me in a dream. However I have dreamt that I was a girl! !I had female sexual organs! lol. I've also dreamt that guys have tried it on with me! urghhk!!

In one dream I was actually pregnant and was going to give birth. I remember that one very vividly. As I was in a beach bar and this girl was being proper nice and helpful helping me to deliver this baby.

I think I woke up before I actually gave birth though haha

[c0sm0nautt]

All the time. I think it's natural. Perhaps we are these people in other realities.

[Jilt]

I was just listening to an Esther Hicks workshop where she said that sometimes when we dream we 'drop in' to other beings' consciousness to experience something different since we are connected to the stream of 'all that is' when we sleep and are less differentiated.

I sometimes dream I'm someone else but more commonly I'm me with entirely different memories and knowledge (as if I'm experiencing an alternate parallel reality).

Last night I dreamt I was in a comedy show with Seth Meyers (from Saturday Night Live) and we did a 15 minute set that was really funny. When I woke I realized I somehow came up with all those jokes myself which blows me away (have also dreamt of amazing art galleries, original symphonies, poems, movies, I'm somehow tapping into creativity that is normally not accessible in my waking state which gives me hope that I can do so someday).