I keep having trans-related nightmares, and they make me wake up feeling like ->-bleeped-<-. Last night, I had a dream that I had top surgery and it messed up and it still looked like I had boobs. I've also had dreams about being pregnant and one where my hair grew long and I couldn't cut it.

Does anyone else have nightmares like those? I've been getting them more frequently and they're really frustrating. I usually sleep a lot when I get really depressed/dysphoric, so I guess it doesn't help that I'm having these dreams a lot.

Before I bought my first binder, I had like three dreams where I got a binder and it didn't flatten me at all and it was still evident that I had boobs. It sucked  So, you're not alone

I've had a few, most of them are just odd but some are horrible. I had one not long ago where I was going in to have top surgery but the surgeon gave me breast implants instead, that freaked me out quite a bit. The worst dreams are where i'm pregnant, it's one of my biggest fears. They don't happen often though.

I had an absolutely horrifying nightmare once, beware, TRIGGER WARNINGS!!!






The nightmare was that I was at a fancy party held at a public swimming pool area (indoors). I was dressed in a suit, looked good, felt good, everyone regarded me as male (even my family). However, some old men eyed me suspiciously and pulled me into the room with the actual pool in it (the party was held in the room next to it). There, they forcibly stripped me and took turns sexually abusing me (in this dream I was a trans guy, so I had "female parts" which they abused), they had put a rag in my mouth so I couldn't scream, and told me that if I told anyone about this they'd drown me in the pool. After they were done, they walked somewhere else, so I took my clothes and went back to the party, but was too afraid to tell anyone about what had happened.

Quote from: Devyn on May 30, 2011, 10:31:35 AM
I keep having trans-related nightmares, and they make me wake up feeling like ->-bleeped-<-. Last night, I had a dream that I had top surgery and it messed up and it still looked like I had boobs. I've also had dreams about being pregnant and one where my hair grew long and I couldn't cut it.

Does anyone else have nightmares like those? I've been getting them more frequently and they're really frustrating. I usually sleep a lot when I get really depressed/dysphoric, so I guess it doesn't help that I'm having these dreams a lot.

Yeah, I get these, especially the hair one  It frustrated me so much that I also made I thread about the dreams and found that a lot of others here get them too

weird eh?

i did have a bit of a nightmare the other night but i dont remember it much now

I have a couple of nightmares that I've had more than once, one where I get my hair cut and it grows down to my shoulders overnight, and one where I go to a store to try on guy's clothes and the salesclerk keeps using female pronouns.
They aren't really horrifying in any way, just annoying. The haircut ones are real enough though that I have to check myself in the mirror when I wake up.

Oddly I've had 2 nightmares lately too. I'd rather not talk about them but they were very bad. Normally I have positive trans-related dreams though. More than anything I have dreams where I was born with a male body. I've always had natural male-bodied dreams but lately I've had more and more.

But, you're not alone in having trans-related nightmares. Mine can range from annoying and weird to terrifying.

Yes. More of a bad dream, nothing horrifying but I was scared.
It had to do with the gear that most use everyday, getting lost :/

I don't usually have nightmares that are obviously related to being trans, but usually when i think about them i realize they're related to dysphoria.  sometimes i dream that i look like a boy, but everyone else sees a girl, and they think i'm crazy when i point out that my body is a boy's body. 

when i was thirteen though, i had a horrible nightmare that stuck with me.  I was riding a bike and i ended up in hell basically.  i don't think i knew how i got there, but i was riding through a dark grey/ black area with sort of a path ahead of me.  on either side there were horrible demons doing horrible things, and though they never pulled me in, i didn't know if they would.  i kept riding my bike, and there were sort of ramps, and i kept trying to ride real fast up them so i could get up out of where i was, but i just kept doing a back flip on my bike, never quite making it out, and riding down the path until i reached the next one.  my brother was above, and he was trying to help me out when i was flying off the ramps, but he couldn't reach me.  so, i just kept cycling through hell.  looking back on it, i'm pretty sure it was about menstruation and puberty in general. 

other than that, i just have generic tornado, sometimes monsoon, dreams a lot.  they seem to be my default nightmare. 

I rarely remember my dreams for a long period, whether they be bad or good. But I do indeed recall having a really horrid dream back when I was in sixth grade, since back then I'd always be on the playground playing football, and they all decided to be shirts versus skins, and I was on the skin team, and in dreams I always have had a male body, but when I took of my shirt to play, moobs were there. I remember being depressed for days about that dream. So yeah, I've had one, well, one that I can remember at least.

Yeah I've had the horrible hair growing dreams, pregnancy dreams, and even one wear I found myself in a dress and was traumatized by it when I woke up. But I don't get nightmares anymore, oddly enough. I found these really only occurred pre-T though, seriously nothing but good dreams since then. One awkward dream though where I was shirtless...but I was flat. Also I now tend to appear exactly how I would like to look in real life in my dreams, its when I wake up that I find myself in a nightmare. :| I however usually cannot remember my dreams anymore, but all the ones I do are nice. Perhaps you need to find more peace in your waking life, rid yourself of stress.

I've had a few lately.  My hair is long again and is getting snagged on everything, I'm in my old clothes and can't take them off because they're too tight, and TMI WARNING I start bleeding and dropping bloody chunks of flesh everywhere.

In some dreams I've had lately my mother follows me around everywhere I go and vehemently insists that I'm female, but that happens a lot in real life anyway, so they're not really nightmares.  Just unpleasant.

  I don't usually, but I had one last week with Sarah Palin wanting to change my ->-bleeped-<- in it, you betcha!  May I say more?
  Joelene

I haven't had any trans related nightmares really, more like anxiety dreams. I have this recurring theme of my mom pointing out all the "fake" elements of my body, what is wrong, what is female. "where's your boobs? Why are you binding, I know you have boobs, Milly." "What's that bulge? You don't have a penis, that's a packer, why do you wear that stupid thing?" Those kinds of things. Nothing traumatic, just dysphoric and repetitive.  Sometimes my dad is there too, calling me a stupid, selfish little girl...that's a fun one, because that's what he told me pretty frequently growing up  It's a phrase I still bash myself with sometimes, because it combines my insecurities about my intelligence, an insult to my youth, fears of my identity and resulting struggle with depression being self-centered and hurtful to others, as well as denying my male identity. Admit it, that's pretty efficient, I'll give him that.

But yeah...mostly just upsetting dreams like that, most of my bad nightmares are non-trans related.

I'm never reading something like this again.

I had a nightmare (well it started that way) after reading this and then falling asleep. At least the dream had the decency to end good.

Quote from: Joelene9 on May 30, 2011, 09:47:01 PM...but I had one last week with Sarah Palin wanting to change my ->-bleeped-<- in it, you betcha!

That could be the scariest dream yet.

I had one where I went into the boys showers at the school I teach at (which definitely does not have showers) and I passed perfectly.  I was showering with the boys, feeling good, and no one suspected a thing.  Then the principal (a woman) walked in and caught me in there and I got in a lot of trouble.  It sucked.

I've had nightmares like this before--the worst was a dream I had that I got pregnant.  I felt sick for two weeks after that.