Apologies if this has been brought up before but I've always wondered if this is common amongst trans people or I'm just weird :0

Basically,  I dream a lot.  Every night. And I always remember my dreams. I don't think I've EVER had a dream in 23 years where I haven't had a male body, nor been seen as anything but male. And the worst time for dysmorphia is first thing in the morning - I usually wake up my partner by trying to prod him in the ass with phantom morning wood :/

It's a ->-bleeped-<-ty start to the day as it can sometimes take a good a hour to sort myself out. And I sleep way to much just to be able to escape into these dreams.

Does anyone else experience this?

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I think it is quite common for some people, others never remember their dreams at all.

Quote from: LittleSpottedCat on August 19, 2015, 04:17:01 AM
Apologies if this has been brought up before but I've always wondered if this is common amongst trans people or I'm just weird :0

Basically,  I dream a lot.  Every night. And I always remember my dreams. I don't think I've EVER had a dream in 23 years where I haven't had a male body, nor been seen as anything but male. And the worst time for dysmorphia is first thing in the morning - I usually wake up my partner by trying to prod him in the ass with phantom morning wood :/

It's a ->-bleeped-<-ty start to the day as it can sometimes take a good a hour to sort myself out. And I sleep way to much just to be able to escape into these dreams.

Does anyone else experience this?

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You just described my childhood.

As I got older though, all of my dreams are now 'first-person' and don't really show myself as any gender.

I've remembered my dreams for years, off and on. I have no specific gender in most if not all of them.

I've never been very good at remembering my dreams, but I have had some much more vivid dreams that I do remember since starting hormones.

I had my first sex dream 2 nights ago since starting hormones.  In it I was definitely a pre-op transgirl, but the girl I was with didn't mind at all.  I think it actually made her try harder, lol! 

I remember my dreams really easily, especially so if I think about them immediately after waking up (I don't feel sleepy when I wake up, apparently that's not common lol) and then it's even more solidified. I like to sometimes write stories or make ideas off of my dreams, that is a benefit to remembering them!
I don't have dreams too often, but when I do, I more than often remember. Luckily, I'm how I see myself mentally in my dreams, not how I am physically. 
Dreams can be finicky can't they?

Since I started CPAP therapy I have not been able to remember my dreams... If I'm having them.
But when I could remember my dreams my gender was not  always the same from one dream to another.
In some I was male, usually in nightmares, in some I was female, usually good dreams, and in others I was genderless, able to change gender or both at the same time.
One of my most vivid dreams I had during a particularly bad case of flu when I was running a 40℃ fever, and no the prescription was not more cowbell, but I don't think it counts.

I have never really felt any gender in any of my dreams.  I have always been just me.  But I do remember dreaming vividly of wearing a girls bikini and thoroughly enjoying it when I was about ten years old.

One other thing, though.  My whole life I have been plagued by nightmares and sleepwalking episodes, almost always during the early part of the sleep cycle, but sometimes farther in.

That all stopped after I came out to myself and started dressing female around the house, and sleeping in women's panties.  (That's my summer sleep outfit -- I need to add some cute tank tops or camisoles for winter time)

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My dreams come in all varieties.  I frequently have dreams where I am all the different characters - female and male.

I also have premonitional deja vu dreams.  The worst two (1969 and 1994) were extremely violent - again I was both female and male and different characters in them.

I had curious dreams when I began ERT.  I later learned my reaction was morning sickness same as pregnant females experience.  Well, on days I experienced my morning sickness, I also experienced dreams in varying stages of pregnancy.

My morning sickness must have brought curious looks where I was still employed and presenting as male.  I learned of this as morning sickness when I completed transition and worked temp jobs as female.  My female co-workers (none knew of my change) were the ones who comforted me in my morning sickness and asked the usual questions:  Is this your first?  How many children do you have?  Have you decided on a name? and other intimate anatomical questions.  Fortuneately, I did not find myself explaining much because these temp jobs rarely lasted long enough for me to 'show', er lack of 'show' and then draw stranger questions.
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I never remember my dreams if i do dream.  Would be great to dream and remember them.

I have had dreams where I was a Cisco girl and no memory of being a male, but it happens very infrequently. I've had a recurring dream of starting to transition and 2 men having their way with me and my wife. I had a dream where a former female coworker discovers me and takes me shopping and then helps me come out at work.

In my dream last night I had just given birth and that was weird because it's not something I ever think about, atleast it was set in some sorta sci fi dystopian future birthing facility that part was normal for my dreams.

Serena who is a geek.