Dreams

[Sinclair]

Very interesting turn, not sure what it means. Lately in my dreams I'm presenting as female. That is new. I had a dream last nite that I was at a guarded thingy ... my best guess would be an airport screening area, and the female attendant looked at me and referred to me in all female terms. Cool! In the dream I had my hair out, long and curly and in my dream I noted that my hair was the primary female cue -- not sure what that means. In my dream I noted to myself that I was still a work in progress, but that people recognized that I was female right away. So, what does this mean? One, it further demonstrates to me I'm on the right path? Two, omg, I'm a girl and I love it!? 

Please post any dream info. Dreams you are having. I love dreams, they seem to cut through the crap of daytime worries and simply show you some truths. Anyone ever studied dreams? What they mean?

[Daniellekai]

A simple resource for dream interpretation is a dream dictionary, I generally use this site: http://www.dreammoods.com/

They're not great for complex dreams, but symbols that stand out can be interpreted, like you say you were at an airport, it doesn't matter if it looked like an airport, but you KNOW it was an airport. So check airport:

To see an airport in your dream symbolizes birth (arrivals) and death (departures). If the airport is busy, then it signifies the desire for freedom, high ideals, ambition, and hopes. It is an indication that you are approaching a new departure in your life. Some new idea is taking off or is ready to take off. You may be experiencing a new relationship, new career path or new adventure.

To dream of a deserted airport indicates that your plans or goals will be changed or delayed. You are having to put some aspect of your life on hold.

Repeat that for every major symbol you remember and try to piece it together, you'll find a pretty surprisingly coherent story that says something about your life more often than not.

I had a more ham fisted version where I looked in the mirror and saw a pretty girl there, lol.


(Added later)
The fact you were stopped at security is probably something like gate keeping assuming it's related to transition, which since you think it is, it is. I didn't look that one up but it sounds about right anyway.

[Janes Groove]

I think the airport is very significant and could symbolize flying and freedom.

Flying in a dream is an expression of the joy of life.  Since you are presenting as female in the dream it could be an affirmation dream about how living as a woman is your path forward to happiness and joy.

[VeronicaLynn]

While I do sometimes have dreams where I am socially a woman, most of my dreams are of me hanging out with my old friends back in high school/college and actually had a social life. I am usually, though not always socially male in these dreams.

I tend to interpret these dreams as me wanting an actual social life again. That I am still not out but yet still semi-active on social media with these old friends probably has a lot to do with this.

[Denise]

Okay, you asked for dreams... When I was about 14 I had a recurring dream that I was turned into a girl and I hid it from my friends.  When they eventually found out they.... Cough cough... had their way with me in the back seat of a car like K9s in heat.

[Sinclair]

I think the airport is very significant and could symbolize flying and freedom.

Flying in a dream is an expression of the joy of life.  Since you are presenting as female in the dream it could be an affirmation dream about how living as a woman is your path forward to happiness and joy.

Wow Jane, those are beautiful thoughts. Thank you. I feel even more inspired.

Denise, no idea what that reoccurring dream may mean. In the dream was it a positive or negative experience?

[maksim]

For most of my life I've struggled with nightmares from PTSD, but I remember that in all of my good ones when I was younger I was a cis guy. Now, occasionally I'll have a good dream where I'm a trans guy, but in most of them I'm still cis. However, in my nightmares, I'm ALWAYS a girl, without fail.

[JeanetteLW]

For as long as I can remember I believed I either didn't dream or had nightmares which may or may not involve me crossdressing. Since starting HRT I have had several more pleasant dreams where I was a woman in them. I think I prefer this newer variety ones.

[Kylo]

I used to dream about social situations that would warp and become nightmarish. Powerlessness being a major theme. Since HRT I haven't had a single one like that.

[JeanetteLW]

My nightmares I used to have involving me crossdressed usually involved being discovered then pursued  by others intent on harm. I would wake with a beating heart and terrified.

Hugs
    Jeanette

[Janes Groove]

I had a dream many years ago, when I first moved into an apartment in Denver's Capitol Hill neighbor hood (Denver's gay/LGBT mecca).  It was a Saturday afternoon and I was taking a nap at the time I had the dream.  In the dream, I was in a friend's apartment about a block away where a woman was in the room with me. She was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.  Mysterious and exotic.  Dark hair and dark eyes.   Without speaking she motioned me to come into another room with her and then left the room.  It was one of the most vivid and powerful dreams of my life. 

When I awoke at first I thought I was about to meet this woman in real life.  After a few months and that didn't happen, I started to consider other explanations.  I finally realized she was my inner female gender identity that I had been suppressing and denying for so long.

Dreams really aren't that complicated.

[Sinclair]

For as long as I can remember I believed I either didn't dream or had nightmares which may or may not involve me crossdressing. Since starting HRT I have had several more pleasant dreams where I was a woman in them. I think I prefer this newer variety ones.

I'm not aware of any studies, but I believe HRT does effect dreams.

I used to have a crazy reoccurring dream that I was trapped outside of my house naked, and I would be desperately trying to find cover, or/and a way into my house. I don't have that dream anymore. I think perhaps that dream represented my past angst of revealing who I am.