Dream Type

[Birnam]

Have you noticed what personality type you are during your dreams?

My theory (right now anyway) is that our dream self is what we could be like if we were to develop our less prominent functions (Fi, Se, Ni, Te, Fe, Si..).

I've tried, and I can't type myself while I'm asleep- I'm more ESFJish- but I'm NOT an ESFJ in whole. I'm more like an ENTJ who cares about people, or an INFJ with some sense. Of course, I'm not really "living" in my sleep, so the usual indications of type aren't really applicable.

Any other thoughts? If you, like me, cannot tell what type you are, I'd be interested in hearing about the type of things you find yourself doing in your dreams (the "real" ones rather than the ones where you are stuck in the grocery store with out your clothes ;) ).

[Google Monster]

Most of my dreams I remain the same. I seem to never talk in my dreams now that I think of it, kinda freaky now. I always observe and think to myself in my dreams. Some times I am not even human, end up being some bird or turtle.

[Johnny]

This is an interesting question. If I understand Jung correctly, dreams are the way the archetypes communicate to us (archetypes meaning: the source of images from which we select a particular corresponding instinctual act from within our unconscious). If we have instincts buried within us, then the archetypes also exist to discriminate what instinct to use (i.e., in the animal world, a sea turtle comes to shore and buries her eggs under specific circumstances, not randomly and without purpose).

I don't know yet why Jung proposes our dreams to be what evidences the archetypes within us, but he asserts that we all possess a catalog of instincts...perhaps the exact same catalog, or an overlapping catalog. The implications, one way or the other, are interesting. The point of all this is that I think Jung, at least, wouldn't find a dream personality to be very useful - you either receive the dream and impose some conscious meaning to it which may or may not offer value to you, or you do not and keep on living as you are able regardless.

Dreams themselves, to reinforce and perhaps clarify Jung's position (I hope), are generated from within our impenetrable, but no less important, unconscious, and are themselves meaningless without our subsequent conscious manipulation. Getting stuck in the dilemma of "well, what then is there to know about dreams if I can't stop getting in the way with my limited knowledge, experience, and talent?" isn't the point - it's the portal to why, say, psychological types can have value to us.

How's that for an INTP-flavored bedtime story? :sombrero:

Sleep tight. :zzz:

[Birdsnest]

I guess I am extroverted, in the way I feel confidence in flying or swooping down and not fear falling, I guess I am E, N, T P. I do not have much F, don't feel sad, or pain in dreams normally. I voted, that I couldn't tell, because I'm not sure I'm any type in my dreams. I am bold in my dreams, so if I had to guess it would be ENTP.

[Avengardh]

ENTP....and I can say for sure because my parents are both ENTPs, it's kinda cool actually.

Although, I have always had a question about this, my parents both said that they were not always E, that when they were growing up, they were Is, I find this interesting, does this mean that perhaps I will turn into an E later on in life???

~*Aven*~

[Vagabond]

I don't think I am much different... hmm. In the dreams I remember well, I am either INTP-ish or INTJ-ish, just more extreme on my features.

Btw, I voted INTJ and not INTP because it had less votes :D

[Crazy]

I would say INTP, because I am myself in my dreams. Things that are different in my dreams are the rest of the dream world, at least sometimes it is different. Other times it will be very normal, and those are the ones that produce that Deja Vu experience when the same situation comes up in real life.

[Jkrs]

Voted untypable, as most of the dreams I can think of at the moment are third-person. Hard to put a type to someone who may as well be watching a movie.

[Google Monster]

I didn't count the dreams when I watch like a movie with no me in it.

[Seraph]

This tends to vary, but often -- oddly enough -- I act like an ENTJ in my dreams. I should probably mention that my dreams are very vivid and very violent (I think I might have a subconscious fascination with violence), and I've even killed people in my dreams before. Who I am in my dreams is an entirely new persona.

I have a theory that iNtuitives have more vivid, epic dreams than Sensors do. From what I've heard, N dreams seem to involve fantastic things like flying and shapeshifting and new worlds, whereas S dreams seem to be just about everyday life.

[Google Monster]

I must have been a Sensor when I was 16. lol. For the whole damn year in school I dreamt about a day of school and remembered every dream. I even talked to my friends about what we did yesterday and they looked at me like I was crazy. That was one confusing year.