I've seen top-down perspectives in dreams, such as those in 2D RPGs. I feel like I'm playing a video game, but I don't have an awareness of a controller or anything; the characters just do what I tell them, and the "screen" is my entire visual field. (The actual experience of playing a video game tends to be similar: I almost never think about the controller or my hand; I just make stuff happen.) I also tend not to have much of a kinesthetic sense in dreams I remember, either.
Another weird thing: Everything I try to type in dreams is invariably misspelled. Once, in a dream, I was trying to Google something, but the text I was "typing" in the search bar kept changing pretty much at random. Only the letters that I'm "looking at" during any given moment stay what they are.
Once, in a dream, I was trying to Google something, but the text I was "typing" in the search bar kept changing pretty much at random.
Happens to me too, just instead of googling it is usually me trying to write something down, e.g. someone's phone number, and failing to make the text legible or realising I wrote some nonsense instead of what I tried to write.
Actually, this is one of the techniques for lucid dreaming -- how to realize that you are in a dream. You need a test that will reliably give different results in reality and in dreams. Di...
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