Men dream as male character, women dream as female character how do trans persons dream then? Trans men as men?? Trans women as women??

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • shneancy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • a new sad me@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    4 months ago

    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. :)