Strangest dream!

[logansrogue]

I had a dream that I was able to switch my body at will. I was a gorgeous, lithe, dark-haired man or my regular womanly self, and when I was a guy, for some reason I was gay. I don't know why it would be like that since I like women as much as I like men. The funny thing was I was totally and utterly comfortable in the male body. In fact, I felt SUCH freedom! It was like a shell that protected me from the world. Nobody bothered me, nobody questioned me. But I remember in the dream that at one point, I just wanted to switch back into myself again. My female body was home.

One thing occurred to me when looking back on the dream. Clearly, I'm terrified of being who I really am - a vulnerable woman.

Comments

[lady-niav.livejournal.com]

Whoa dude, awesome dream. SO clear and you remembered so much of it. It is so great when dreams have readily apparent symbolism. Having a male body would be the end of some of your dramas anyways.

One thing that got me thinking in Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon was the idea of being able to switch bodies and have female or male bodies, as well as super enhanced ones. While I disagree with some thigns the book says, his treatement of it was interesting.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I remember my dreams quite clearly, actually. And I can control them to a certain extent as well. It's not hard to learn to do that, but I get so excited when I realise that I'm dreaming that I wake up! In my userinfo I have a list of celebrities I've snogged in my dreams! It's a ridiculously huge list! I get a lot out of my dreams creativity-wise. Lots of good ideas have come from my subconscious.

I've not read that book. Sounds rather interesting!

[zzzzsleep.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a Neil Gaiman short story called "Changes". It starts with somebody discovering a cure for cancer... with the small side effect of changing your gender, then explores what happens to society afterwards.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Hmm, might have to read that. What anthology is that in?

[zzzzsleep.livejournal.com]

It was from Smoke and Mirrors. A highly enjoyable read, although one of the stories will cause you never to be able to look at Snow White the same way again.

At home

[snyde-remark.livejournal.com]

"Clearly, I'm terrified of being who I really am - a vulnerable woman."

If that were true then you wouldn't have said this:

"I just wanted to switch back into myself again. My female body was home."

Re: At home

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Heh! Logic! I dun has it! LOL!