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Are you a woman in your dreams?

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MIdgebabe · 19/04/2018 07:45

Just thinking about what it means to feel like a woman. I am a woman in dreams involving my daughter and when I am being chased. Other dreams it is indeterminate or male. Indeterminate probably dominates these days but as a girl/teenager male dominated. Ok I have sometimes been inanimate objects also.

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Unobtainable · 15/11/2018 22:37

Intetesting topic.

Yes, I often feel neutral or male in dreams inso much as I’m big/tall/strong/influentual, wearing male clothes (sometimes I’m a cowboy!) when in reality I’m a 5’ 6” size 10 woman.

Anything erotic though and I’m back to being a woman.

Ive often wondered if this is because TV/film/media/public life is male dominated.

DonDrapersOldFashioned · 15/11/2018 22:35

Horribly, I’m always me (recognisably RL me -either in the past or in the present) in my unpleasant dreams. The nice ones that I can remember, I shapeshift between all kinds of creatures but the nasty ones, I’m me.

NC4Now · 15/11/2018 22:34

I dream in the first person, and I’m female, so I must always be a woman in my dreams too. A woman who can fly.

I often dream I’m pregnant or in labour when I’m just starting my period. Must be some kind of womb action.

DonDrapersOldFashioned · 15/11/2018 22:31

I’m not always even human in my dreams.

13thWarriorWitch · 15/11/2018 22:29

YY to the can't find a usable loo dreams. By the time I wake up I'm usually frantic Grin

I've never really thought about whether I'm male or female in my dreams, I'm just me - so I'm a woman I guess.
I really must pay more attention.

Only thing I'm sure of is that even when I get my leg bitten off by a tiger or some such, I don't feel any pain and not much fear either.

Also agree with the "not quite there" sex dreams. Bloody annoying!

SanFranBear · 15/11/2018 22:28

I'm me in my dreams but have never really thought about me as female but I presume I am. I say this as I vividly remember one dream where I had a penis and remember thinking - hmmm, I'm me (adult human female me) but I have this enormous wang! Was great if I'm honest... I think I paraded it around a bit, showing my friends and saying wasn't it weird, I suddenly had a penis!

I have dreamt of toilets too many times to count. When I was small, I would actually wet the bed when I went to the loo in my dreams. Nowadays, they are horrible dreams as the toilets are always dirty - big piles of poo overflowing and filthy communal toilets.. Envy

indieshuffle · 15/11/2018 22:08

A tiddlywink?! Grin

I had a nightmare where I was stuck in a basement with the Chucklebrothers and loads of giant ABC building blocks and we all had to escape from a murderous psychopath! That was incredibly vivid, and scary.

indieshuffle · 15/11/2018 22:04

If my dreams are reality based then I am me, a woman (also younger and fitter!) but definitely me. If they are weird or based in a place I don't know then they are more like watching TV or a film and I sort of go in and out of the view points so watching everyone as if on TV, then as one of the characters, then me again, then watching. Lots of nightmares as a child. Awfully vivid and repetitive cycles of the same dreams, seen through my eyes.

Always in colour.

I am very thankful to have had some amazing sex dreams as me, incredibly realistic, very loving and erotic and I just cannot help but have a real lingering affection for a few well known male actors. I am very grateful to my brain for dreaming them up!! I really need to learn lucid dreaming.

ThatEscalatedQuickly · 15/11/2018 22:01

I'd be worried that if I was a bloke I'd wake up peeing in the sink or wastepaper bin! Glad to know I'm not the only one who experiences this.

Catsandbootsandbootsandcats · 15/11/2018 21:53

Giant tiddlywink! Grin

I'm mostly me in my dreams, but I have been other animals like a cat or a mouse.

I also have those toilet dreams, usually I can never find one that works or isn't in view of other people. Obviously I'm female in those because if I was a bloke I'd just piss on a tree/bush/wall! Grin

RagingWhoreBag · 15/11/2018 21:53

Umpteen Confused Grin huh?!

RagingWhoreBag · 15/11/2018 21:52

ThatEscalatedQuickly - I have so many dreams about going to the loo! I’m convinced one day I’ll wake up having wet the bed, or worse Grin. It’s always a toilet with no door, or a really low door, or in the middle of a room full of people etc so I’m trying to hide myself and do it really quietly! And I’m always sitting so I guess I must be female Grin

MIdgebabe · 15/11/2018 21:52

I am usually myself, even if I am Male ( or an inanimate object) if that makes any sense at all

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FermatsTheorem · 15/11/2018 21:51

Like a PP just me - unless I'm having sex in the dream in which case I definitely have a clit and vag.

umpteennamechanges · 15/11/2018 21:45

I've only ever been myself in dreams (a woman). Except one time when I was a giant tiddlywink. 

ThatEscalatedQuickly · 15/11/2018 21:35

To add that I've also had dreams in which I was pregnant and had a real sense that I could feel the baby kicking etc so I have had physical sensations aligned with my dream as well. Also anytime I need to actually go to the loo and I'm in the dream the dream shifts so that regardless of what I was doing I start running around looking for a toilet. This can go on for some time before I wake up and realise what's going on! Thankfully never actually gone to the loo in a dream Confused

ThatEscalatedQuickly · 15/11/2018 21:32

I'm almost always me in my dreams, so therefore a woman, but that is usually incidental to the storyline. In the last year, I think due to some medication I'm currently taking, I have had some especially vivid dreams and have even been aware on a few occasions that I am dreaming. In one case I was actually trying to pinch myself in the dream to prove to myself it was a dream (as I wouldn't feel it) and I've also tried to wake myself from a dream before thinking 'this is a dream, wake up!'.

Since childhood I have had a few experiences of great dreams in which I could fly and have woken up feeling amazing and also horrid nightmares from which I have woken up sobbing.

My dreams are visual, like watching a movie but usually not very vivid in terms of colour, quite muted really.

AspieAndProud · 15/11/2018 21:31

I’m always me but younger. I don’t ‘see’ me but I know I’m younger because the dreams nearly always include family who died years ago. It makes me sad when I wake and I remember they’re gone all over again.

VickyEadie · 15/11/2018 21:27

I'm always me.

arranfan · 15/11/2018 21:26

I haven't remembered a dream in decades (might be related to a series of head injuries from childhood on that also had a substantial impact on my sleep patterns).

The only ones I recall from being young are nightmares. I was definitely me in them.

WomanOfTime · 15/11/2018 21:22

Sometimes I'm me, or a younger version of me. Sometimes I'm another person, male or female. Occasionally I'm a sort of disembodied onlooker. I once had a dream in which I died and my consciousness merged with the cosmos and I was everywhere.

In the dreams where I'm male I don't have any sense of it being somehow wrong - that's just me, for as long as the dream lasts.

IncomingCannonFire · 15/11/2018 21:22

I'm always me in dreams, so a female although I don't really focus on my feminine physical characteristics except when have sex dreams or the being pregnant one. I have occasionally had a dream from the perspective of my dh or my dm or other. Where I dream I am that person. It usually switches back to me in a different narrative.
I can influence my own dreams since I was about 7 or 8yo.

RagingWhoreBag · 15/11/2018 21:21

I’m quite often pregnant in dreams - I can feel that writhing lumpy feeling when their foot pokes out really vividly. So given that both men and women can be pregnant I guess that makes me neutral hey?! Wink

NewWomensMovement · 15/11/2018 21:19

I dreamt of having a penis years ago - the whole thing was really realistic. I can't remember the detail of the dream now apart from the fact I had a strong sense that if I was a bloke and had a cock - it would be exactly like that. It wasn't like anyone's I've seen in real life, but I remembered it being slightly disappointingly lacking in girth Grin

In dreams I can flit between male female and sexless, but I have had loads of giving birth, breastfeeding, etc dreams.

I am pretty sure I've had sex dreams from both the male and female perspective but they don't relate to reality much.

rightreckoner · 15/11/2018 21:10

How interesting. I've only ever been me in my dreams - my female body does sometimes feature like when I dream I've given birth or am pregnant again or am naked in a public place. But normally it's just me, trying to do something frustrating like trying to get to Heathrow in a canoe.

I've never dreamed that I am someone else or that I am a man. I'm just so CIS Wink