Dreamed I had just started being a prostitute. Wow. I was meeting up with a friend of mine who was a more experienced prostitute and he was giving me tips. I was coming back from my third "date" on my first night doing it and for some reason I was naked each time I came back, walking around in public near a gay club. It somehow made sense in the dream, like I took off my clothes before going out with a John and put them on when I got back. (??) This was apparently a big give away to anyone around about what you had been up to so everyone knew. My prostitute friend reintroduced me to a guy I used to know right after I got my clothes back on. He was more of an acquaintance than a friend. I thought he might be into me but I was not really attracted back and I remember thinking "I wonder if he knows I'm a prostitute and he has to pay if he wants to do anything". Awkward! We walked around and chatted for a while and that was it and I was really relieved.

OMG! This was such a weird dream. Not in a million years.

My friend killing me over being tg and sharing a bowl with him.

A dream I had yesterday will not get out of my head:

I don't know how I did it but I accidentaly unleashed a fully grown T-rex on a sleepy English village. . . oops. The T-rex rampaged around eating people & it was my responsibility to catch it, I tried a train WTF!!! I tried a forklift & I tried all sorts of other vehicles including a bus.

I spent most of my time hiding in buildings & warehouses full of my male toys until it came crashing through windows & walls to get me.
I don't know how I captured it in the end, one minute it was chasing me in a bus (I was in the bus not the T-rex, that would be silly) & the next minute it was safely captured, in spite of all the damage & death everyone was happy with me.

I've tried deciphering this dream with my dream dictionary but there's a great deal that doesn't make sense.

the key points in the dream are:
BUS: a bus journey is the part of our lives where we are aware of the need to be on the move, but particularly with other people
(this matches with my feelings that I need to be starting HRT & also my feelings that i'm isolated, as good as my friends are they all struggle to understand my need to transition)

TRAIN: A train as a method of public transport & reflects the dreamers attitude towards social behaviour & relationships.
(I want to be in a relationshp but if someone wanted to be with me now they may not want to be with me after transition so this may be reflecting my fears/insecurities)

WAREHOUSE: this has the symbolism of being the repository for spiritual energy or spiritual rubbish.
(considering most of the warehouses were full of my male toys that i'm currently selling I believe this represents spiritual rubbish)

I feel the dominant part of the dream was the T-rex & have several entries that could apply
PREHISTORIC ANIMALS: represent a trauma from the past/childhood
(no further explanatin needed, lol)
DINOSAURS: These are very basic, primal images, they are large & powerfull, we need to be aware of whether it's their size or power that scares us. Urges as basic as this can threaten our existence by either their size or power.

HARNESSING THE ANIMAL: Shows the effort to control the dreamers instincts & if possible to make them productive & usefull.
HIDING FROM THE ANMAL: This is indicative of the dreamers struggle with animal instincts. The dreamer may be fearful of these instincts & concious of the fact that they have the power to go out of control & overwhelm the dreamers waking life.

I've left out certain personal parts of the dream but my rough interpretation is that my fears about transitioning are threatening to overwhelm me, I'm battling in an attempt to discard my baggage whilst trying to move forward.
My need for company whilst fighting my primal fears are getting in the way of progress as the attempts to use a bus & train to stop the T-rex failed.
Because the T-rex (my primal fears) were bested eventualy my subconcious is pushing me to make this a productive time of my life but I feel the dream is a warning that I must not let this get on top of me.

Our shared culture with others implies a certain amount of overlapping dream language and so a dictionary could be helpful, but ultimately our dreams are very personal. It's more important that you think about what those symbols mean to you. You should also be aware of emotions you felt at very points in the dream and how that emotion was associated with certain symbols. That can help you to decipher what the various symbols represent.

Quote from: dalebert on October 16, 2012, 06:05:38 PM
Our shared culture with others implies a certain amount of overlapping dream language and so a dictionary could be helpful, but ultimately our dreams are very personal. It's more important that you think about what those symbols mean to you. You should also be aware of emotions you felt at very points in the dream and how that emotion was associated with certain symbols. That can help you to decipher what the various symbols represent.

You're spot on with that, I use my dream dictionary as a starting point but the most important things to consider when interpreting a dream are your feelings & what is happening in your life.
I've had a few friends ask me to translate dreams over the years, the most i'll do is look up key points they feel are important then leave it up to them what conclusions they draw from that.
Everybodies experiences make the meaning different, as I said in my answer i've left out certain personal details, these are probably more important to mky translation than the key points i've listed

Quote from: Malachite on February 29, 2012, 05:07:59 PM
I have some of the oddest dreams.  What have your dreams been like lately?

Boring, unremembered or nonexistent. 

I also pretty much never have sexual dreams, so I'm kind of jealous. haha....

Quote from: heartlesstruths on October 17, 2012, 03:12:34 PM
I also pretty much never have sexual dreams, so I'm kind of jealous. haha....

Those are very rare for me and even when I have them, they're very unsatisfying.

I dreamt I was in a support group for trans guys (in RL not online) moderated by a cis guy who has been very kind and supportive of me and others. I talked about how I really feel and had a good cry. And I realized I haven't cried about this yet.

I had this total Inception thing the other night.

I dreamed that in a fit of pique I shaved off my hair. I was then distressed because I thought I wouldn't pass or look femme anymore. Then, in the dream, I told myself "You're only dreaming, look in the mirror." And, my hair was there (but not the shorter hair style I have now).

I literally dreamed that I was dreaming.

@ Constance:

I hate dreams within dreams. @.<

I dreamed that I lost a puppy in the couch.  I have a hole in my couch and that translated into the dream when me and some people were trying to save the puppies and other dogs from a nasty hoarder who was also abusive physically.  So, I was looking at these cute little puppies and one fell through the hole and we couldn't find him even after tearing up the entire couch.

Upsetting daytime dream in which I dream-dreamt that my friend I'm in love with was telling me to leave her alone, and then I woke up (still in the dream) lying on a bed next to her, trying to reassure myself it had just been a dream - then woke up properly (on my own), and had to reassure myself all over again. Brrr.

I paused for a moment during an action-and-espionage dream to work out where the band Horselips got their name - Four Horselips of the Apocomen. Then we carried on running, because the world's not going to save itself, you know.

I dreamed I went to a Five Finger Death Punch concert and they played Country music! really strange dream

I dreamt that I saw an old friend again.

Noticing a pattern: Sleeping with too much heat always causes me nightmares. And lately they are always gender and transition related.



The last part was funny: I was in Japan, the last day of vacations after wasting all of them not doing anything. I wanted to go to Tokyo, but my camera was dismantled, I had no batteries, and I was late for picking the train.

A good reminder that I should do some maintenance on the camera, or at least charge the batteries. I think the other parts of the dream included UFO's, weird experimental rocked and space ships... The usual things.

I dreamt that a roommate told me that I was chaos; not that I was chaotic; that I WAS chaos. He basically said that I frak everything up everywhere I go.

Bad incest dream with my father....

I dreamed that my spouse dyed a pair of medium men's T-shirts blue and we had undressed and put them on, suddenly our bodies turned completely blue and there we were Momma and Papa Smurf both naked and blue in our T-shirts....Must have been the enchilada I had for dinner last night 

In my dream I woke up in bed absolutely cosy as heaven and filled with happiness because I realised I had loads of time till I had to get up and could go back to sleep. Then about 5 seconds later my alarm went off (in real life) and I woke up cosy as heaven and realised I had to get up.

My own dream tormented me 

I dreamed that I overdrafted at the grocery store. Totally unnecessary anxiety as I'm doing fine financially right now.

I do very much enjoy hearing everyone's dreams. Humans are strange creatures.