What gender are you in your dreams?

[K8]

I'm not gender-specific in most of my dreams - just me.  Before I started transition, when I had a gender I was usually male.  Now, I'm usually female but sometimes male. 

In the pre-transition days if I had a sexual dream I was often but not always male.  Now if I have a sexual dream I am usually female and the sexual feelings are very different.  It seems strange to me that I would switch like that, but I don't have a lot of control over my dreams.  (Must be the hormones. )

Most of the time, though, I'm of no identifiable gender in my dreams.

- Kate

[NDelible Gurl]

I have dreams like another poster here- first person. I see my arms and hands. I have some pretty strange dreams these days. I'm going through major life changes and school alone is enough to affect you someway 

I also have a hard time remembering my dreams. I really should keep a dream journal! It'd be interesting to read that after a month or so!

[LivingInGrey]

I've thought about a dream journal but I've come to the conclusion that my dreams don't matter. It's what I feel during my waking hours that matters the most.

If my dream causes a feeling to linger all day long, or during a week... then I have something to worry about. But for the most part they don't effect how I operate on a day to day basis.

[nmason]

I'm dressed and act as a female in dreams. I used to wake up embarrassed before I came out and accepted that it was the true me in my dreams.

[justmeinoz]

Muffin, I have read up a bit on Jung's interpretation of dreams.  He believed that the emotions were represented by a member of the opposite gender, acting as a guide or messenger.  Anima and Animus, for men and women respectively.

I don't claim to be an expert, but it sounds like your subconscious was showing you wanting your testes removed, or showing your male attributes and you moved away. Not surprising considering where we are.

I have had dreams where the 'Anima' becomes the 'Animus' , and I have changed into a woman at the same time. 

[juanita s]

When I dream, I dream that I am running towards a tall female with shoulder long hair, medium build,wearing a leather skirt just above the knee,and a turtle neck top(RED).  When I finally run up close enough to see who this person is I wake up.

[Jasmine.m]

Unless I'm dreaming specifically about gender issues, as usually happens after a therapy session or spending too much time here, I don't think I have a 'gender' in my dreams. I'll try to pay more attention to it from now on.

When I'm having a gender specific dream, it always seems that I'm a female trying to figure things out (ftm), but that's actually backwards from reality (mtf).

Dreams are weird. 

[V M]

I would dream I was girl trying to be a boy...But then I realized that I was a girl with a birth defect

[Crow]

I never really notice wat gender I am in dreams. I'm just myself as... me. But since I am typically fairly androgynous, dream-me tends to be as well.

[Miniar]

I remember, I must have been about six or seven, telling my mother about a dream I had.
I believe I really had this dream.
I dreamed I was a little older, and that I was a boy, and that I was running after this girl that was in my class. This was somewhere downtown. When I caught her, we kissed.

I don't remember exactly what mum said, but I remember.. vaguely... that it felt like the dream was being discredited somehow. Not that it was supposed to be "bad" but that it was supposed to be meaningless.

I've had that same dream since, several times.
I'm always a boy in them, but the people I chase change. Sometimes they're girls, sometimes they're boys, and they're always someone I know.
Only, since telling mum, more often than not, I can't catch them.
And then everyone laughs at me.

[insanitylives]

I'm not sure if I have a gender in dreams.

I sound 'normal', same hair and stuff, but NO BOOBS (yay!)
Er, normally people wear pants, so i wouldn't have a clue about other gender identifying features. Unless... it's a certain type of dream...

[Dana Lane]

Mine is more ambiguous than specific for the most part so I chose 'other'.  It is either ambiguous or MTF.

[Georgina]

Dreams are dreams,do they come true,I didnt think so,although some said they did and like any 'normal' person I have dreams too. When I started dressing I had dreams of looking good,feeling great,and being in a relationship with a man,WOW. Then when my dream turned to reality to my surprise,[I thought I was straight] my dreams turned to 'all my Christmas's coming at once'. Then again,maybe I just willed it all to happen,who knows.

[Rachel Bellefountaine]

It varies. Sometimes I'm a man, sometimes I'm a woman, sometimes I'm androgynous. Sometimes I will dream that in the middle of transitioning. Most of the time my dreams are first person and my sex in the dream isn't really made clear and has no relevance to the dream itself. I would assume that I am female in these particular dreams.

I can remember that in my childhood (before I even learned about HRT or SRS (or Gender Identity Disorder, for that matter.) I would sometimes have dreams in which I started out as a boy and then transformed into a girl, either by magic spells or potions, miracle medicines or sex change machines. I could always remember being far more content and happier when I became a girl in these dreams, and when and if I was offered a chance to reverse the change, I would refuse it.

[kyril]

I've always been a boy (never a man, or at least not yet - my dream-self seems to have had his development arrested in his mid-teens.) I often dream myself into a military environment or a uniform of some sort, and I look damn good in it.

When I was a kid I often had escapist boarding-school, military-school, or science fiction style "space cadet" contexts to my dreams, so the gender was relevant. You'd think those sorts of dreams would have gone away after having been in the real life military, but they didn't really, they just have some darker and more uncomfortable elements mixed in, like waking up as a boy in the girls' berthing, as well as non-gender-related stuff like falling overboard or showing up naked to a drill.

[Alex_I_Think]

haha I thought I was the only one. I'm ftm and I've always been male in my dreams, since before I even knew what trans meant.

I actually took a gender id test online and one of the questions was along the lines of "You have a dream that you have a penis... You are (a)arroused (b)excited (c)creeped out (d)indifferent.

I replied indifferent because as I said, I've always been male in my dreams, and I think it mucked up my outcome.

[Fenrir]

To be honest, most of the time in my dreams I am outside the situation, looking down upon it but not part of it. Or I switch between the various characters in my dream. One I had recently had me as a kite struggling to gain height (no wind!) with a bear chasing after it, then a girl who tried to give the kite a t-shirt so it blended in with the sky, then a boy (who had been the kite, and was jealous of another boy who had been the bear because the t-shirt girl was paying more attention to him), then I (as the other boy) turned into a bear again, I was the girl trying to calm him down for a few seconds once more but it turned out it was just myself watching this on a screen with my friends. I woke up very confused!  But a lot of my dreams are like that, I should be used to it by now.
Anyway, if I am human in any way, it switches depending on what characters are in my dream. If I am playing me, I am usually me but taller and with a flat chest (I wish!) or else I'm me as a genderless young child.

[Hikari]

Some dreams I am female, some male, however many times when I am male, I am someone else like one of my friends or a character almost never the "me" that people perceive me to be. When I am female, I am me, as in the me I see myself as almost always. I find it strange, but I am consistent as a female in my dreams but, very inconsistent as a male in my dreams....

[Walter]

Physically Female, but Male otherwise

Just like in real life

[JillEclipse]

i see myself in my dreams, a really sexy, horny, polysexual male, with super human abilities, BUT am a REALLY nice and sweet guy who feels feminine but NOT female! also i have a girls face and i wear makeup.