Dreaming

Tara M · Post by **Tara M** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:01 am

My dreams seem to be more or less genderless. I tend not to dream about what I'm wearing but I do sometimes dream about what other people are wearing.

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:15 pm

I get crossdress dreams sometimes, inevitably ending up exposed in a situation where I would not choose to be.

I do no think it takes Freud to work that one out!

Joan

Anthony Simon · Post by **Anthony Simon** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:37 pm

I too get dreams about being exposed when dressing up. I've had them for decades, but they come and go. I also had wet dreams about dressing up when I was a teenager (and a bit older), from which I used to wake up with the same sort of feelings of guilt I had when I actually wore the clothes at the time.

At least a couple of those dreams came before very stressful days which worked out well in the end, but I had to deal with both the inherent stress and the added guilt as well (which was a pain). Part of the reason I don't get those dreams any more is that I've come to terms with the (for me) shocking need to enact femininity.

Now I mostly have dreams which are about me working out exactly where I stand - and how far I have to go - with the crossdressing. There's a Freudian concept "dreamwork" ( With an added "s" same name as Stephen Spielberg's film company - go figure) which gives that sort of sense - of working stuff out in dreams. Before, when I had those dreams about being exposed it was always bad. Now nobody seems to care very much - or be surprised by my wearing women's clothes (in my dreams. Maybe that is "in your dreams").

I think I have had one dream where I actually "was" a woman. It was very disconcerting.

Billie · Post by **Billie** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:02 pm

Its pretty cool that i have similar dreams about daily life and being exposed they must have meanings then. =]

April Rose · Post by **April Rose** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:14 pm

Billie, I don't want to disillusion you, but, I once went through long and intensive course of Jungian therapy. This is probably the most dream interpretation oriented of all the therapies. I was very strongly encouraged to remember and write down my dreams, and I took it really seriously. I ended up with a2-3 inch thick ring binder documenting my dreams over a four year period. Very few of them involved cross dressing. This, in spite of the fact that I informed the therapist that I was a cross dresser at the the interview. The fact is, the unconscious mind is going to do what it's going to do what it's going to do. If you want to have a good relationship with that unconscious mind and with your dreams, you have to accept that they are going to tell you what you need to know, that you don't want to know.

If you try to interpret dreams very specifically, especially if you are not painfully objective in that interpretation, you are not going to get any useful information. Without an experienced, uninvolved guide , the best you can do is to interpret your dreams in the broadest possible terms . In other words, if you dream that you are locked in a castle , in a silver gown, dripping with lace, with long flowing curly hair trying desperately to escape, but afraid to open a certain gate, because a certain dragon is probably lurking outside it, what the dream is probably telling you is that;
you probably could benefit from being more open in your relationships. The gown is just a habit of mind that cross dressers have. The dragon is the fact that, let's face it , if you open up to the outside world, you don't know what's going to happen.

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:33 am

Actually the furthest I'd go with that dream without some real help might be I feel trapped and afraid

Leeza · Post by **Leeza** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:07 am

I don't recall ever having crossdresser dreams.

There have been times when I look on new employment that I have had dreams about the job,. Sometimes lasting for days to months. I have made the comment that I wished I got paid for the work I did in my drems.

In looking back, I think those dreams helped me on the job. I think it was my subconscious mind preparing the conscious mind for what was ahead.

The most vivid of those times was when I started operating a workover rig in the oil field. It was a dangerious job that required knowledge, timing and speed of the whole crew. In a relative short time I could work for the most demanding of the field men and was often requested to do the work on their locations.

I felt that the dreams prepared me for the job.

Leeza

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:17 am

I worked for an architect once who said some of his best designs came to him in dreams.

Willie W · Post by **Willie W** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:49 am

Had a dream last night. I don't remember what it was about but I was looking down at my chest and had breasts showing under a striped blouse.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:08 am

Aha - wish fulfillment again - Old Freud had something there.

Hugs,

Lydia

Vivian · Post by **Vivian** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:54 pm

I dream that I am out CDing and have for years. I also dream that I am a woman. I dream that my wife and I are out and I am CDing with her and shopping for girl clothes. We do that anyway except that I am in drab. I dream my wife and I are both different genders and from past times.
I studied with a buddhist monk, medicine men and a dream warrior/shaman. I also practiced a bunch of different religions and practiced with some mystics. You can generally have lucid dreams and the same characters can come back again and again and you can work all kind of stuff out if you practice and get good at it. I have also met people from reoccuring dreams, later on in my life and we knew each when we met. You get to work out all your stuff in your dreams if you figure it out. It is a lot easier there. Enough about this stuff, it makes some people nervous.
Hugs Vivian

Rony · Post by **Rony** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:54 am

I rarely remember my dreams, my wife on the other hands dreams in colour and always remembers her dreams and can discribe the events in detail.

Ronnie

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:12 am

I don't know about dreaming in colour, I do know mine are normally accompanied by a full orchestra! I often wake up remebering the tune but nothing else

Andrea Elise · Post by **Andrea Elise** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:22 pm

I don't often dream. Or, I don't remember them.

But, on the many occasions that I have denied myself for long periods of time, I have had dreams of CDing and doing it in public AND being fully accepted as such.

Or dreaming of actually being a woman.

Then waking with a deep sense of loss.

Andrea

Azurielle · Post by **Azurielle** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:01 am

In most of my drams I'm usually either naked or just wrapped in some raggy tattered cloak for modesty's sake, probaby a reflaction of how unappealing I find male clothing to be...