It’s like how in a dream, you can see someone and know who they’re supposed to be, even though they may look and act nothing like that person they supposedly are. Or how you can be in both the first and third person perspective at the same time.
Heh, I’ve recently had a few weird half-lucid dreams, where on some level I seem to know that I’m dreaming, but don’t follow this to its logical conclusions and don’t gain much intentionality from it… In one of them, I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time and later found he’d left something of his with me, and I wanted to return it to him. So I thought I’d look him up on Facebook and message him there; but, I reasoned, this is a dream, so what if that wasn’t who I thought it was, but just someone else who looked exactly like him? So I felt I’d rather avoid going that route lest I message him and then feel foolish if it did turn out to be someone else, somehow accounting for this aspect of dreams but not noticing that this being a dream meant there was no real social risk to me and no pressing need to return his property in the first place. (Also kind of amusing that in retrospect he actually didn’t look that much like the person he was supposed to be, yet in the dream I was able to know who he was while wondering “what if that was someone else who just looked like him?”.)
Last night I had a dream which for some time rendered reality in aerial view as a sprite grid resembling old Gameboy RPGs, including a little pixel character who I knew was me.
Yes, me[2010-05] did not think of that :) I agree now