What do you think it means to have a dream body of the opposite sex?

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Curious if anyone knows what this means. Had an experience last night that makes me wonder about the meaning of this.

In particular I was a chinese female woman dressed similar to this:

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I saw this after I was pulled out of my dream body and she was centered in my field of vision. I watched her morph from a young woman then she turned black and white then she rapidly aged into a much older woman then she went back to color. After that I was pulled back into her body.

As I moved around in her body I was able to make all flowers in my field of view blossom instantly with a gesture of my hand and there were some weird creatures along the way, as I did the same flick it would send very small projectiles from my hand and almost instantly it would hit the creatures and make them disappear. (This was facinating, sometimes 5+ would fly out at once and hit all the creatures in an instant with pinpoint accuracy)

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Really cool dream. I have not had any experiences like this yet, not sure what it means. It may be your Anima:

Jung theorized that guys have a female aspect to them called the Anima, and women have a male aspect to them called the Animus.

It could also be a Dakini, one of the Goddesses from Buddhism, or from another religion.

I was out walking this evening, and thought about the Goddess Ceres from Roman and greek (Demeter) mythology. (Kind of an intereting synchronicity or parallels to your dream) Its a really cool myth, she was the Goddess who made all things grow. When her daughter Persephone was taken my Hades/Pluto to be his wife, Ceres cuased all life on earth to stop growing, and winter persisted. Eventually after much suffering and famine on earth, an agreement was made that Persephone would spend half the year on earth, and half in the Underworld with Hades. This causing the seasons.

Given the time of year, and the ground starting to come alive and grow, maybe you were connecting with Ceres? Who knows?

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This idea is what I think resonated the most with me. They are very clinical while talking about it but I think I understoof the concept. It may have been a result of listening to this but I had a dream with a false awakening where I was able to experience not having aphantasia. It felt pretty cool while I did not 100% believe it I stuck with it because the feeling was special. A purple wavy portal showed up and I imagined going through it and on the other side was a being blending in with an ore that had purple neon veins running through it. He looked like Drax from guardians of the galaxy and also had neon purple veins runnig through his body, as I went through I said to him who are you and before I even finished you he shouted YOU! And lunged at me jumping into me. It surprised me and pushed me into another two non lucid false awakenings and ended up being a very interesting dream. It felt like after that combining the two dreams, I may have had a male and female aspect merge into my dream body.

Had to look it up she did not feel very wrathful.

This seems more accurate it felt like while I was her the intent was nurturing the flowers and eliminating pests.

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I am no expert, but it is my understanding that they are not all wrathful, they take lots of characteristics:

"Dakini in Sanskrit, Khandro in Tibetan, literally means “sky dweller” or “sky dancer,” and is the most sacred aspect of the feminine principle in Tibetan Buddhism, embodying both humanity and divinity in feminine form.

Dakinis may appear differently in various contexts; when needed, she may appear as fierce and intense or playful and nurturing. At other times she may appear outrageous or repulsive in order to cut through conceptual thinking and mistaken perception. She may appear as a human being, as a goddess, either peaceful or wrathful, or she may be perceived as the general play of energy in the phenomenal world.

In general, the dakini represents the ever-changing flow of energy with which the yogic practitioner must work in order to become realized. Ultimately, all women are seen as some kind of dakini manifestation."

" Among the wisdom teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism are many reminders to not be fooled by appearance. What can seem frightening and even monstrous is not necessarily evil, but can be there for our benefit. Nothing illustrates this principle better than dakinis.

A dakini is a manifestation of liberating energy in female form. Sometimes they are beautiful, and sometimes they are wrathful and hideous and decorated with skulls. Because they represent liberation they often are depicted naked and dancing. The Tibetan word for dakini is khandroma, which means “sky goer.”

In Buddhist tantra, iconic dakinis help arouse blissful energy in a practitioner, transforming defiled mental states, or klesas, into enlightened awareness. In Vajrayana iconography prajna, wisdom is often depicted as the female principle to be joined with upaya, or skillful means, the masculine principle. Thus the liberation of the female dakini is the boundlessness of sunyata, emptiness, which is the perfection of wisdom."

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Very well could have been a Dakini based off those explanations. I looked very quickly through Google and landed on a page focusing on the wrathful side. She was in a sense very filling of that explanation. The flowers blossoming was very fulfilling and often the things would appear close to the flowers so it was satisfying to see them disappear and leave the flowers as the main focus in the final state of the dreamscape.

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I routinely dream of being in a female body. I won’t say being a woman as I’m nonbinary and biological sex and gender are separate for me. I think for me it’s just an expression of the more feminine side of my being. I think we all have masculine and feminine energies in us (as well as other types of energies that transcend the biological male-female binary) that occasionally need to be expressed. Whatever energy dominates in your make up is the gender you feel yourself to be inside. For men (trans as well as cis) their make up is predominantly masculine aligned energy. For women (trans as well as cis) it’s feminine energy. For agendered people it’s a more androgynous type of energy. But just because one form of energy dominates that doesn’t mean you are exclusively that energy. Men have feminine energy in them as well (as well as androgynous), women have masculine energy (and androgynous as well), and agendered people also have masculine and female energy. Because we tend to reify gender in our social structures and look down on people for gender expressions that don’t fit their biological sex, sometimes the only safe way we are able to express some of these energies are through dreams. I think this is probably what is happening. The body-mind working through a build up of feminine energy. I also think in general there is a greater amount of feminine energy around than usual during this time. We just had the spring equinox and there are always high levels of feminine energy around at this time of the year, during spring in general.

EDIT: Adding that the relationship between male and female bodies and masculine and feminine energy is complicated. I think it’s mostly our cultural expectations in Western cultures- that ties masculinity so closely with male bodies and femininity so closely with feminine bodies- that creates the expectation for masculine and feminine energy to manifest as male and female bodies in our dreams. In other cultures these energies manifest in other ways- the sun for masculine energy for example, and the moon for feminine energy. Or rain for the masculine and earth for the feminine. This isn’t always the case of course, many of these cultures also do associate masculine and feminine energy with male and female bodies. But the association isn’t as absolute as in the West.

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I would suggest that your anima is trying to get your attention, in a very empassioned way. She is offering her services to you as a guide… anima, shadow figure, wise old woman. So powerful!! I would suggest you pay attention to her especially if you are in the middle of making life decisions. She will guide you to your self and The Self. Your feminine aspects carry a lot of strength.

If a guide shows up again in your dreams I’d ask them what they’re doing there. I like to ask them, “ Show me what you need me to see/know.”

If she was dressed in red… that beautiful color of passion…. Then she’s telling you to follow your bliss. And embody that passion in yourself for this will take you to the Self.

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