Men dream as male character, women dream as female character how do trans persons dream then? Trans men as men?? Trans women as women??
Transman here. I dream as a man even when dreaming of my childhood.
How transwomen/transmen dream
Submitted 4 months ago by RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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LANIK2000@lemmy.world 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.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right, and everything is my point of view. , so what I’m experiencing, more than on me personally
shneancy@lemmy.world 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
a_new_sad_me@lemmy.world 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.
janonymous@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same
mecfs@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think asking for trans people is wrong because they genuinely are 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.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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”
stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Thank you for sharing your perspective on this.
ulkesh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What objective evidence do you have of your premise that men dream as a male character and women dream as a female character?
audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
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.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
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.”
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
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.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I transitioned nearly 20 years ago and have been involved in online trans communities since then. This is the first time I’ve heard that removing the space between transmen and transwomen is a TERF thing.
audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
It’s their way of saying that trans women aren’t women and trans men aren’t men. It’s less of a technicality thing and more of a “I’m going to be skeptical about this person’s intentions until I see more”
Atin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You dream of yourself being an NPC?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
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”
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
Nikki@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I mostly dream of drowning myself
indepndnt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
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.
Xelnoc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I normally just dream as myself, whatever that is at any given time
norimee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You dream as a “character” like in a video game?
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You make a body and gender for yourself in dreams?
To what end?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 months ago
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.
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yes, we usually dream as ourselves.
zifk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I can’t say I’m ever particularly aware of my gender when I’m dreaming
WeeSheep@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve never been aware of my gender while dreaming unless it wasn’t a PG dream
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same. My body just exists in the dream. Well. A blob sometimes? It’s just there to make sure I can cook all these eggs for my goblin friends and the cat. Or some other insane task my brain dreamed up.