I can't say I'm ever particularly aware of my gender when I'm dreaming
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I've never been aware of my gender while dreaming unless it wasn't a PG dream
Transman here. I dream as a man even when dreaming of my childhood.
Wholesome af.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trans women are women and trans men are men.
As somebody who is nonbinary, I dream as some version of myself.
Also, please use “trans women” and “trans men”. Removing the space is a TERF red flag.
I'm transfemme and I've dreamed of myself as a woman for as long as I can remember.
Also what's this "trans woman" vs "transwoman?" I've for real not heard that's a problem. It's like saying "can not" or "cannot."
When you say "trans woman" you affirm that they are women, and trans is just an adjective. When you say "transwoman" it can imply that they are something different altogether, and TERFs have certainly used it as such. Like, I dunno, a carpark isn't a park? That's the first example that came to mind, anyway.
You dream of yourself being an NPC?