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30p87 ,

I rarely dream, and when I do, it’s either a nightmare or the most borderline trash imaginable. I dreamt once about myself, and it was about me being trans specifically.

thesporkeffect ,

You make a body and gender for yourself in dreams?

To what end?

PhlubbaDubba ,

Not all dreams are projections of your own aspirations or true self image.

They’re random scenarios put together by your brain during sleep for purposes we don’t entirely understand yet, though they may be related to digesting the information you’ve gathered over the previous day to turn it into lessons and connections you can call on later from your unconscious memory.

indepndnt ,

I’ve had a few dreams as a cis male where I was a woman, so basically I reject your premise. However in most dreams I’m not even a character, I’m just the perspective from which the story is experienced.

tiefling ,

Yes, we usually dream as ourselves.

stringere ,

Cis male but if the topic is dreams and identity I once had a kick ass lucid dream where I transformed into a Killik and got to experience being a humanoid insect with 4 arms and 2 legs.

ulkesh ,
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What objective evidence do you have of your premise that men dream as a male character and women dream as a female character?

LANIK2000 ,

As a cis man, I’m confused. I mean I just dream about my self, do people sometimes not? Like I at most have altered memories in dreams, but it’s still fundamentally me.

AA5B ,

Right, and everything is my point of view. , so what I’m experiencing, more than on me personally

mecfs , (edited )

I think asking for trans people is wrong because they genuinely are (in a sense of their core identity and perception of themselves) the gender they transitioned too.

But a different question would be for example, for someone who got disbled later in life, are you disabled in your dreams?

The answer (atleast for me) in that case, is mostly I am, but not always, and sometimes less severely so than in real life.

stringere ,

Thank you for sharing your perspective on this.

Drusas ,

I often am even more disabled in my dreams than I am in real life, as my dreams play to my fears of being entirely unable to walk (I have muscle weakness and fatigue, but I can still walk almost all of the time) or to wake up (also have narcolepsy and sometimes can't wake up).

RebekahWSD ,
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I can only give an answer from someone who was always disabled “I am disabled in my dreams, but at the level I was in my 20s (so capable of walking unaided and stuff) despite steadily becoming worse”

Xelnoc ,
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I normally just dream as myself, whatever that is at any given time

Atin ,

You dream of yourself being an NPC?

Fizz ,
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I dream of selling overpriced potions to the adventurer who comes by my village. When he buys nothing I get frustrated i yell “come back when you’ve got some coin”

norimee ,

You dream as a “character” like in a video game?

shneancy ,

as a trans man i think my dreams have weirder things to unpack than my POV character’s gender, but overall it varies, 96% of the time i’m just me, those 4% of dreams i remember that i was someone else have a pretty 50/50 gender split

and per the me part: i’m a man but gender never really comes up so i’d be more inclined to say i’m just me

Nikki ,
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i dream of myself as the disaster of gender that i am

if im having a rough day with dysphoria irl then the dream world will typically reflect that

the trans aspect, like with most things, can be taken out of the equation. trans women being women, trans men being men, will dream being themselves most often regardless of gender

a_new_sad_me ,

Boringly straight man here: I usually dream as myself, but occasionally I’m dreaming that I’m someone else. Could be either a man or a woman. Sometimes I have no body at all.

So I know nothing about how common my style of dreams are, but I don’t see any reason why trans people would have to dream a single persona all the time.

janonymous ,

Same

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