I occasionally have dreams in which I am playing an RTS videogame like Starcraft. In these, I am a disembodied entity seeing the world only as it might be displayed in such a game. During those dreams, this feels natural and unsurprising and I don't put a second thought to the matter. In fact, I've been having these dreams for a while now and only just recently noticed that odd fact that it's not me sitting at a computer playing the game, it's just the game being the only thing in the world at all.
Do other people have dreams in which they are not human-shaped or otherwise experience from a perspective that is very different from real life?
Yes to both.
It's very common for me to be human but different (child, woman, or very different looking man). Most common non-human forms are non-human-ape, wolf, or bird. Sometimes it's an imaginary monster of some sort. But dreaming in non-human forms is generally fairly rare.
Most common non-embodied perspectives are either eye-level-view, television view-style, or looking down from a distance. In these cases, I'll either self-identify with one of the bodies, or simply be an observer. This frequently switches mid-storyline.
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