I said mostly true gender- usually I'm a guy in my dreams, though sometimes I have no gender (or it isn't easily discernible) and sometimes I'm in the body I currently have which is an androgynous mix (male top, girl bottom). The dreams with androgyny tend to lead to someone "outing" me in which I'm vehemently denying being a girl, but still know I've got girl bits.

I have really complex dreams.

I've been female in all my dreams lately.  I think it shall stay that way.  An odd note about dreams prior transition:  I have dreamed periodically since childhood, that my penis has inexplicably come off, and can remember thinking, "this should hurt", but it never did, and thought that I should be sad for its loss, but never, ever was.
Strange things, dreams......

Bev

I know some people don't believe in the symbolism that is represented in dreams but I find it very fascinating. Listenting to some of your basic dream themes, my head fills of thoughts about what each element could represent. Usually though what each element seems to obviously represent is not usually accurate.

In Bev's case, loosing a body part in a dream and experiencing no pain physically and no regret mentally depends primarily upon what the penis represents to her. Lets assume for a second that it represented the stereotypes that people associate with being male. Having it discarded as so, her subconcious could have been saying "I need to shed the stereotypes of what is expected of me" and find out that its not actually that hard to do and that you won't regret it either or miss the standards being impeded upon you. Of course Bev would have to consider what at the time it meant as a body part or what it represented and just apply the same ideas to what it meant.

If you aren't represented as a person in a dream and you don't know anyone in the dreams either, sometimes you're just having an entertainment dream because your subconcious mind wants to tell a story. So that being said, not all dreams have messages for you.

Dream a dream
Marq and Mia

I rarely have dreams, but usually when I do I cant tell because I never come across a mirror, nor do I ever look down or around, as if I'm just "there" and I don't have a physical form at the time...
but when I do have a form I am usually a girl...(meaning 25% I was male or both in the dream)

Quote from: xeno on September 26, 2007, 03:30:00 AM
I rarely have dreams, but usually when I do I cant tell because I never come across a mirror, nor do I ever look down or around, as if I'm just "there" and I don't have a physical form at the time...
but when I do have a form I am usually a girl...(meaning 25% I was male or both in the dream)

I have never had a dream where it was from the first person perspective (where I was looking out of my own eyes) it has always been more like watching a movie where I just see the events and when I see me I just know who I am in the dream

Quote from: Jessie_Heart on September 26, 2007, 03:39:06 AM

I have never had a dream where it was from the first person perspective (where I was looking out of my own eyes)

My dreams have always been, and still are in first person

Posted on: September 26, 2007, 08:23:44 AM

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Quote from: Marq and Mia on September 26, 2007, 02:50:10 AM
not all dreams have messages for you.

Dream a dream
Marq and Mia

I think my dream life is an important time for my mind to sift and sort thoughts, concepts, and especially feelings.

Then, sometimes, some of my dreams seem to be ridiculous brain farts.

Jessie,

You did not have my option in the selection menu and therefore I could not vote.  I have never had a gender in my "sleeping" dreams and I can never see myself in my dreams.  Women were always my allies in my youthful dreams.

I no longer seem to remember my sleeping dreams.

In day dreams I am a girl but I do not think that is what you wanted in your survey.

I am usually female in my dreams. I tend to dream what is physical, rather than what is truly me. Of course, I have had a few dreams in which I was male. These, needless to say, are some of my favorites.


-Merrick Scott

Sadly for me, dreams seem not to exist for me ever since I hit puberty and fully understanding I was transgendered. However lately when I have a rare dream, I appear female in the dream unless it's a nightmare which I seem to have more then dreams. Rather I prefer it the way it is right now, I fall asleep and dream of nothing but eternal darkness.. Sad to say but I do enjoy those moments over the nightmares, but not over my rare dreams.

So .. I put 50/50 for my answer in your survey.

Michelle

Um, can someone enlighten me on how to answer this question if you don't have a gender?...



Let's just say; my body fits the above description; sexless.

My dreams are usually in first person..


So...

I dunno?

I don't recall ever having any gender in my dreams and I've never seen myself so I don't know who or even what I am, although I do get the feeling that I am always naked.

I am so sorry to everyone that I didn't think to put a selection for genderless in the future I will remember this it was very incinsiderate (as in I didn't consider it there for it would be inconsiderate!). I didn't mean to leave anyone out (and once again I didn't mean to do it I just didn't consider it therefore = inconsiderate)

before I transitoined, I think I was female >.<. Now that I have, I'm male. But half the time, I don't even notice.

-Matt

Quote from: Jessie_Heart on September 28, 2007, 06:41:31 PM
I am so sorry to everyone that I didn't think to put a selection for genderless in the future I will remember this it was very incinsiderate (as in I didn't consider it there for it would be inconsiderate!). I didn't mean to leave anyone out (and once again I didn't mean to do it I just didn't consider it therefore = inconsiderate)

Not a problem at all Jessie. I for one didn't feel offended at all, and apparently didn't feel left out since I still answered the question, didn't I?

All-with-all you could have ignored it completely, but didn't. As you said yourself; you'll remember for the future, and there isn't a thing more I, or I assume, any other null could wish for.

We're all here to learn, one way or the other. Don't feel bad.

Hi all I been full time for 7 years and post op for 4 years. I didn't really start dreaming of myself as the gender I am now until a couple of years ago. I have not been able to remember dreams until these  occasional dreams I have been having in the last couple years. In the past 7 years I have also had allot of time to reflect on my childhood and growing up into my teens and early twenties. The way I see it I could very easily put myself during my growing up years up to my teens as being a girl. I associated mostly with girls. Played the dressing up thing, my mom knew and never said a word to anyone else. I was abused and raped by my ex. Oh yeah, it happens. It wasn't until I was 47 years old that I discovered what the word transsexual meant. It has been a long road but I can see with clarity whom I was all along through the years. It was the other gender that was meant to never have existed.

Cindy