What I find interesting is what actually remains 'true to reality' within dreams. For example, while I might have dreamt that I was a child, or quite old, I've never dreamt that I've been female. Further, I've never changed race within my dreams, except for the one time that I was a police sergeant, of Afro-Caribbean descent, trying to tackle a crime wave in Jamaica!
Further, I understand that I'm in a minority in that I usually dream 'in the third person'. So I see myself as if watching a film about me (i.e. looking from the outside), rather than looking out from my own eyes at the scene around me.
Has anyone here ever changed race or gender within their dreams? Does anyone else dream in the third person?