When you dream, what gender are you?  And did it change as you transitioned?
Since I came out I've actually been waking myself up with disphoria at finding my gender is male in my dreams!  Every once in a while throughout my life I've had dreams where I was delighted to find I was a girl, but mostly up until know I hadn't noticed my own gender in dreams. 
Now I'm feeling all "WFT subconscious!  Get with the program!"

Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Did you gender while dreaming change to match as you transitioned?

Very rarely remember mine, but yes last few I've been male much to my dismay.

Changing lately, I regularly dream as a woman nowadays - often a kind of less-brutal Lara Croft adventuress .

Thanks for your replies everyone.
I'm really quite curious now to see how common it is for peoples gener identity in dreams to change as they transition as that would seem to say something about the way dreams themselves work.

I would say about half the time I have no clear sense of my gender in a dream. Most of those are more like watching a movie, being detached from the action, not really a part of it. For the other half I'd give it an even split; male and female. It varies with my emotional state. More self loathing = more dreams as a male. Then along comes a dream as a female and life is suddenly looking up again. Conversly (and perversly) when life is going great, especially my part time one as female, more of my dreams are as a female. That is untill I get too scared, or upset, or some other monkey wrench gets tossed into the works to kick the balance the other way

I have pretty much always dreamed as male i have had maybe a handful of dreams as a female in my life. Growing up i was always a power ranger or a young indiana jones or something along those lines. Though the other day I had one where I was a girl part of the time it weirded me out and made me self conscious for a few days. 

Gender rarely comes into my dreams. When I dream, I'm just me for the most part. The only times I can say for sure that gender even really made itself known I was male. In my most recent dream that had anything that I remember of my gender, I was a male detective trying to find a evil raccoon that was killing people. I was interviewing someone at their house and a topless woman walked out of the bedroom, and I looked away and quickly said "Sorry, Ma'am!" I remember seeing my reflection on something and thinking I really needed to shave. 

I do have ones where I think I am female, or where I am wearing clothes that I wore when I was presenting female, but mostly its just dreams about me being back in college.

Most of my dreams that I remember I start as my birth gender and then change to my preferred female gender. And then the rest of the dream carries on. Hopefully my life gets to mirror that

In most of my dreams I'm just me but with no gender identified.  The other times when I see my gender in the dreams seems to go in cycles.  For a while I mostly dreamed that I was female.  Now it seems that I'm male in many of my dreams.  I have no clue what causes the cycles - I wish I could get switched back to dreaming as a female!

Julie

Probably 60% female 40% male for me anyways. Dreams are weird that way.

Thanks everyone, this is really interesting to hear everyone's experiences. 
I Tend to remember my dreams pretty vividly and a lot of them are from quite strange perspectives.
I've had some where I dreamt from the perspective of almost every character in a dream in sequence and lots from the "camera's" perspective (interest in film I guess).
While I'd always noticed when my body was different in the dream from in real life, I've only just started noticing when it's the same.
I find it reassuring to hear that there don't seem to be any real commonalities of experience here!

Quote from: Twyla on October 10, 2012, 11:08:03 AM
When you dream, what gender are you?  And did it change as you transitioned?
Since I came out I've actually been waking myself up with disphoria at finding my gender is male in my dreams!  Every once in a while throughout my life I've had dreams where I was delighted to find I was a girl, but mostly up until know I hadn't noticed my own gender in dreams. 
Now I'm feeling all "WFT subconscious!  Get with the program!"

Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Did you gender while dreaming change to match as you transitioned?

I now dream as I am living today. I know in my dreams I am "a transgendered women". I don't dream that I am a man but I don't dream I am female either..

Sometimes female, sometimes fox girl. Works out. The latter dreams are always more fun :3

Don't really remember my dreams so I couldn't tell you, but I don't think the gender in dreams is very important. I know some cis friends who dream as a different gender or a different person, heck I know one guy who has dreams as inanimate objects.

i usually don't assign myself any gender in my dreams. tonight i dreamed that i had long hair again, just in the color it is right now. it was nice, and genderless

but there have been dreams that weirded me out a little, like when i was a true hermaphrodite. or when i was in bed with a woman and suddenly noticed that my penis was gone. freaked me out enough that i woke up, and after staring at the ceiling for a minute or two, i finally remembered that i never had one to begin with. dreams are funny, and the scariest ones aren't when my body is weird, but when i attempt to prey on little kids. luckily those are rare, or i'd have to consider locking myself up

Most of the time, my gender is not obvious in my dreams. If the dream takes place in my past, I'll appear female in the sense that I'll have a bathing suit and use female locker rooms (I tend to go swimming a lot in my dreams..) or similar gender cues. In dreams that are more "current", I'll sometimes be conscious about being trans, as in being all conscious about having forgotten my binder etc. (You know those typical "going to work naked" dreams? My version of that is going outside topless, and when I realise I pretend like nothing while walking around with my arms crossed. Awkward. XD )

Gender has rarily played a part in my dreams. Most of the time I'm in my male form but at times I'm in my female form. It usually depend on what I've ben thinking about the past day. It's wierd.

Since I've been a kid, a lot of the times I've dreamed where I've been a woman and at times I've had dreams where I am both and some where I am genderless.

There are a few where I forced myself to imagine I was a guy and a few where I was a guy without forcing myself. In both cases, it was felt just plain weird and awkward, and made me wonder what the hell.

All depends on the dream honestly. Sometimes I am a female, but mostly I am a male.

Both. But I prefer to be a male in my dreams, it makes me feel happy and accepting of myself.