# Do you have dreams with narrators?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 9, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873 "2003-02-09T12:07:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873/1 "2003-02-09T12:07:24Z")

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I’ve been having odd dreams recently. Rather than a participant, I am the audience. In itself, that’s not too strange (for me), but now narrators are appearing to explain the plot to me.

Have you experienced this phenomenon?

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**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873/2 "2003-02-09T17:32:30Z")

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I’ve appeared in my own dreams as narrator a couple of times. Does that count?

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**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873/3 "2003-02-09T17:46:36Z")

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nah, but once I dreamt I was a character in a very realistic video game, and there was some kind of “score tally” at the top of my field of vision the whole time.

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**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873/4 "2003-02-09T19:06:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \*  
> \*\*I’ve been having odd dreams recently. Rather than a participant, I am the audience. In itself, that’s not too strange (for me), but now narrators are appearing to explain the plot to me.
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> Have you experienced this phenomenon? \*\*

I’ve done that; sadly, it’s usually in a sort of dream I’d RATHER participate in, ie some sort of trashy romance dream.

::le sigh::

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**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873/5 "2003-02-09T19:25:19Z")

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I’ve had that a lot of times. Sometimes I am/was watching the action, then became part of the action. I sometimes wanted the main character to _go_ faster, to get out of danger. I slipped into that person’s place (and ran!).

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**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873/6 "2003-02-09T19:26:55Z")

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“That” referring to the OP. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-dreams-with-narrators/153873/7 "2003-02-10T03:24:55Z")

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No…never…but now I want to have such a dream, so I’m going to try to force myself into having one. I’ll let you know if it worked tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.