Dreams!!!!

[Guest Apriladam]

Hey,

Ever since I can remember i have never had a single dream in which i am the Gender i was assigned at birth, that is obviously male, I have always dreamt that i am female. However in these dreams, i have either been in first person, or once or twice i have been in a kind of third person view, looking over what is happening, but i have never seen my female face in these dreams.

Basically, my question to you all is this:

Do you or have you experienced this?

and

Is there any significant meaning behind these dreams?

April

xx

[Sally]

April,

The interpretation of dreams is a subject of great debate. Some place major importance on the dreams others don't, some see the dreams as literal while others tend to analyze a lot of symbolism into them. I think of my dreams as a sort of escape from the real world - in the few that I remember I am almost always female. On rare occasions when I have dreamt of myself as male - there was some sort of threatening confrontation in my real life and in the dream I become a sort of James Bond or Rambo and vanquish the evil doer rather handily - but the next dream I'm female again.

I believe that dreams are dreams - what you really want to be comes out in these glimpses into your subconscience. That's why I dream as female and so do you. Only great duress makes me dream as male for even the shortest periods.

Is there any significant meaning behind these dreams? Yes, it let's you know who you need to be, nothing more. Some people would place importance on the fact that you have never seen your female face - I don't we only see our own faces in reflections and photographs, so why should we in our dreams?

That's enough thinking for today, I need to sleep - purchance to dream...

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Donna Jean]

Dreams...interesting..

I always seem to dream genderless and looking down at a situation from above.I can't ever remember seeing myself as either male or female. It's like I'm watching myself, but, not really seeing myself...too weird. Must talk to therapist about this......

(once I dreamed I was eating marshmellows and when I woke up my pillow was gone! )

Donna Jean

[Guest Kelly Ann]

I was having this really strange dream the other night and woke up and my leg was irritated...I went back to sleep...I woke up, again...my leg was REALLY irritated now...I rolled over...the dream didn't come back...but I woke up again now the other leg was irritated...it's like 3:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning for crying out loud. I have to get out of the bed...turn on the lights...search the bed, I was looking for a pea...and didn't see anything. I started to rub my arm across the bed and doggoneit...there was a quill sticking out from the feather bed. Finally got back to sleep...never remembered the dream and didn't pick it back up...darn it I hardly ever dream. I'd be afraid to ask Donna Jean...or know what happened after she found her pillow gone with the marshmellow dream...I just HOPE there wasn't any foods the night before that might have caused gas the next day...hopefully it was a VEEeeeEERY smaaaall pillow (-; Kelly Ann

I've been taking Chantix to stop smoking for about 6 weeks now...and I've had more bizarre half-rememberances of dreams in the last six weeks than in years...there's actually a warning about it in the literature...I DO seem to remember sitting in some like...director's chair with some really obnoxious person egging on this rather large crowd and me too...so there I was...sticking my tounge out suddenly at him/them and walking off stage and <boink> awake with an irritated leg

[Guest geek_girl]

95% of my dreams involve me and my friends being chased by zombies lol. sometimes we win sometimes we don't, but i almost always am in first person and the times when i do dream in 3rd person i don't even look like i really do.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Good question! I read somewhere most people dream in installments, three times a night - usually REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement). Each one lasts about 15 minutes - and only the last one just before you wake up is the one you can remember, usually.

Dreams are where your brain dumps all the memories of the past day or so - but these filter through life experieces stored in your brain, so you never know what is happening. Thats probably why things change so fast in a dream ..

Personally, I don't remember most dreams - but some are so powerful I wake up! Some are erotic - and most often I am genderless in them, either way.

BUT

I do have about twenty or thirty a year where I am one hunded percent female. Most are very peaceful and I am soooo happy. Sometimes I have just accidently outed myself. Sometimes - go figure, I am with my husband and two boys aged 8 and 11. Previous life? And I do have erotic dreams as a female - nuff said bout those...

But now that I am truely at peace with my transitioning, I find I wake up feeling female almost every morning, and have to concentrate on facing the day - weekdays especially are difficult as I am not out at work. uggggh - nasty to have to shift gears - cannot wait until transition is complete - wow.

On those erotic ones, a little hint - I worry afterwards if my birth contol is gonna work! Yikes.

[Guest Karen-1954]

Of all the dreams I can remember, I have always been female. Even when it did not seem apropriate. I just figured it was another part of my always having felt I was female.

[Guest Jodytg]

Dreams...interesting..

I always seem to dream genderless and looking down at a situation from above.I can't ever remember seeing myself as either male or female. It's like I'm watching myself, but, not really seeing myself...too weird. Must talk to therapist about this......

(once I dreamed I was eating marshmellows and when I woke up my pillow was gone! )

Donna Jean

I dream this way also ......If I dream at all which is very seldom.Yes I know that we all supposedly dream but I am very seldom aware of having dreams.

The real reason I wanted to quate this was the disappearing pillow just busted me up.LOL

[Guest AshleyLauren]

Hamlet' Fifth Soliloquy, very nice (I'm a drama major, it's an all girls class ... they just don't know it)

I find that when I dream I'm usually a girl but it varies, sometimes I'm completely female in my dreams, sometimes I'm simply wearing a skirt ... dreams are strange, all i know is the ones i remember most are happy dreams, the dreams where I'm a girl ...there's my favorite one of them all where I'm a brides made at my best friends wedding

Talk again soon and remember this above all; to thine own self be true.

Alysha

[Guest Elizabeth K]

In an amazing coincidence - I was going to post on this today. I have been very nervous of where I will be in one year from now, 16 -18 mnths into HRT. I PM'd a girlfriend on this last night. THEN -I went to bed and I dreamed of what I would look like - I was beautiful!

I knew it was about a year in the future because my hair was about 6 inches longer than it is now. Wow

If it is really true! Oh if it is...

Lizzy

[Guest Soph]

Strangely enough, only lately have the dreams I've been having featured me as a female. Before that, I was sort of genderless, much like Donna Jean said, but lately my gender has played a rather prominent role, from me sitting at a table with some girls being depressed because they're talking about having children and I can't (so perhaps not fully female) to me and a boyfriend (that does not exist in real life ;-. However, before the dreams in which I was female, I seldom remembered them... and now I seem to be remembering nearly all of my dreams, or if not remembering in clarity, remembering that it did feature me as a female.

[Guest My_Genesis]

sorry to be boring here but my dreams are usually unrelated to trans stuff...at least not internally or directly (occasionally ill have a dream such as the one where a guy tried to kiss me and i punched him and said "what the **** is wrong with you?!?!")

lol.

but really i cant say what gender i am in my dreams, theyre focused on whats going around me and im kinda just watching it all and not paying attention to my gender.

im still waiting for one of those sex dreams so many people here keep posting threads about though