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Either. The third person ones tend to be long and involved eg murder mysteries and they don't have me in them at all. I just sort of watch it unfold.
In first person I'm not always me. I remember once in a dream I looked at my hands to see who I was and they were paws, the dream turned out to just be about trying to hunt antelope.
I also have lucid dreams sometimes.
And sometimes I dream I don't exist which is a hard one to explain. Nothing happens in those dreams except knowing that there is nothing.
But that still sounds first person to me. If you're not in the events then "you" are still inside your singular consciousness as you watch events unfolding in from of you. It sounds more like you're an invisible observer, but you're still seeing these events from behind your own eyes (so to speak)
@LanternEverywhere Not really because it's more like reading a book insfar as there's a lot of stuff I "know" instead of see.
It's hard to explain but I'm one of those people who doesn't have an interior monologue and a lot of my thoughts are more like spatial/kinetic maps. So when I'm dreaming there can be things I'm looking at and other things I just know are happening without seeing them.
So that's like 3rd person in a book. First person is where there's a "me" of some kind that has consciousness.