Does anyone else "character" hop? When I was younger, I very rarely had dreams in which I was *me*. In fact, a lot of time, I was male lol.
To this day, though, I still frequently switch dream characters and experience the dream through the eyes of other people. I've even dreamed of being animals a few times, a bug once, and a car once
. And then there have been the dreams of being a star- at one point being "born" and another time at it's death; as well as dreaming of being an entire solar system once.
Hmmm, I've never dreamed of being plants lol nor infants.
Lucid dreaming is so difficult for me, because inconsistencies and illogical stuff are woven into the dream in such a way that it becomes believable. Or, I'll suddenly form dream memories of something always being the case (like, I'm about to drown then suddenly "remember" I've always been able to breathe under water lol).
Oh yeah. Anyhow... one of my best character hopping dreams was being in Africa, in some distant time. I started out as a native woman. Colonial soldiers were approaching my tribe and I knew war was coming. I jumped from different women as they chanted war songs. Then I jumped to the soldiers. Many of them were saddened by their orders and the deaths as they sliced off heads or ran the Natives through. Then I'd hop into the Native warriors, bravely protecting their families ; and then into a child, hiding behind its mother, terrified and grieving.
I've never had another dream quite that complex or engaging. I woke from it shaken up but awed.
Anyone else do this?