Dreaming in the (as the) other gender...

[Apples Mk.II]

Wow, and I thought my dreams were demented...

And that was not even bad. The worst one not only appeared as female, but in my own wedding.


Never, never, ever. PUKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

[Traivs]

Even as a little Kid I dreamed as a male but maybe thats cause all my heros and people i wanted to be like were male too. I always played a male in fantasy games with my friends apparently too one of my best and oldest friends when I came out to her to tell her that I was going to transition she simply said I am not suprized even back when we first met in like 1st grade you always pretended to be a boy in our games when we played Xenia warrior princess you played hercules. So for me I guess its just natural that I always dreamed as a male.

[TheDragonsHeart]

Majority of the time I've dreamt I was a male. I was boy when I was youngest (around 6) and each year that I grew, I also grew in my dreams. The only time I am not a male is when I'm having a very bad nightmare. It's the kind you feel is real until something forces you to wake up. It's scary sometimes but thankfully I get to go back to dreaming as my male self the next time.

[SilentArchitect]

Hey all, I guess this is something I really wanted to get some good feedback on, from everyone.  I know it will matter a bit if you've already fully transitioned, how old you are, etc, as I'm sure how we live everyday effects our dreams in terms of self, but it has always interested me.

I am nearly full time (only a couple days here and there when I still kinda have to be male), and will be full time in August, but I still dream mostly as a male.  I'm wondering if, and when it will change. I'm 42, so that's a long time of maleness... lol.

So, please vote, then tell a little about your history... and if you used to dream in biological, and now fully dream in the gender you are now, how long did that take to start?

Thanks!!

Its like anything in life, it takes time for things to change as you have been in a male role for years, not too long though.

Just depends on how comfortable you are in your new role.

[japple]

I used to always dream as female. I'd wake up, realize I was in my male body, and lay in bed wondering WTF. Lately I've been having more trans dreams. A lot of them are high anxiety dreams but I guess I'm integrating better.

[Lea]

I started having trans dreams about a year ago.  There was one – very vivid – and then nothing for weeks.  And then another. And then quite a few over a period of months.  These days I would say perhaps 20% - 25% of my dreams are trans dreams, about half clearly male bodied, and the rest indeterminate.  According to my therapist, non-trans people simply never experience this. 

[monica.soto]

I've had 2 dreams where I was female, that I can recall.

They were so vivid, every feeling, every detail.

This is one of the things I obsessively do when I lie down to sleep, everynight I hope to have a similar dream .

[JackieMarie]

In some dreams im me, in others im my birth sex, in others im my birth sex. Its weird, alot of my dreams are mashups of unrelated people and places and are always hard to make sense of lol

[Mosaic dude]

This is so interesting!  Thanks for sharing your dreams, y'all, I really enjoyed reading about them.

In my dreams I'm always real me, except for one time when I dreamed of turning into a woman and woke up thinking "well, that was weird...oh bugger".  At times I've seen real me in a mirror or from a third-person POV or something, and he's always the same.  Same face, same hair (my biological hair but a bit wirier and a bit more ginger), same height etc.  He's not too different from biological me and probably what I would look like if I was born male.  Essentially, he's the phantom me that lives inside my brain and is what my brain always thinks I am.