Men dream as male character, women dream as female character how do trans persons dream then? Trans men as men?? Trans women as women??
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.
Same
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.
Right, and everything is my point of view. , so what I’m experiencing, more than on me personally
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
probably most often one dreams as the gender they are but i often dream i can fly and breathe underwater all the time so i wouldn’t say it’s a red flag or invalidating if you happen to dream as a gender you aren’t. :)
I sometimes dream that I’m lovable.
you dream correctly my friend 💛
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.
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”
You dream of yourself being an NPC?
What objective evidence do you have of your premise that men dream as a male character and women dream as a female character?
Not trans, but I’d imagine it’d be same if I were: I typically dream as myself. Y’all be dreaming as other people? That’s kinda cool.
You dream as a “character” like in a video game?
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.
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
You make a body and gender for yourself in dreams?
To what end?
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.
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.
