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		<title>By: Bond</title>
		<link>http://fridaythang.com/blog/2009/11/19/nightmares/comment-page-1/#comment-4078</link>
		<dc:creator>Bond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yeah -- I&#039;ve worn a binder everyday since I bought one a couple of months ago, and I was wearing an almost as flattening bra for a month or two before that. The experience has been really good (I&#039;m never going back!), but it&#039;s definitely changed how I relate to my body. I feel really naked without it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah &#8212; I&#8217;ve worn a binder everyday since I bought one a couple of months ago, and I was wearing an almost as flattening bra for a month or two before that. The experience has been really good (I&#8217;m never going back!), but it&#8217;s definitely changed how I relate to my body. I feel really naked without it.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
		<link>http://fridaythang.com/blog/2009/11/19/nightmares/comment-page-1/#comment-4076</link>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I want a high school boat! ;) And yeah, I&#039;d agree this was more a stress dream than a nightmare, I just apparently blanked on the phrase &quot;stress dream&quot; when writing this post...

I do think it&#039;s interesting the way body issues manifest themselves in dreams, though. Have you been wearing a binder regularly? How has the experience been?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I want a high school boat! <img src='http://fridaythang.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  And yeah, I&#8217;d agree this was more a stress dream than a nightmare, I just apparently blanked on the phrase &#8220;stress dream&#8221; when writing this post&#8230;</p>
<p>I do think it&#8217;s interesting the way body issues manifest themselves in dreams, though. Have you been wearing a binder regularly? How has the experience been?</p>
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		<title>By: Bond</title>
		<link>http://fridaythang.com/blog/2009/11/19/nightmares/comment-page-1/#comment-4071</link>
		<dc:creator>Bond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had a sort of similar dream last night. It was one of those naked at school dreams: I was at my high school (which, incidentally, was on a boat in the middle of the ocean), but instead of being actually naked I was in a t-shirt and boxers, and without a binder so I was folding my arms across my chest over &amp; over &amp; over again. It was more of a stress dream than a nightmare, with me constantly remembering I was in my underwear and sans binder and not knowing why and looking for my pants. Never found them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a sort of similar dream last night. It was one of those naked at school dreams: I was at my high school (which, incidentally, was on a boat in the middle of the ocean), but instead of being actually naked I was in a t-shirt and boxers, and without a binder so I was folding my arms across my chest over &amp; over &amp; over again. It was more of a stress dream than a nightmare, with me constantly remembering I was in my underwear and sans binder and not knowing why and looking for my pants. Never found them.</p>
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		<title>By: Kei</title>
		<link>http://fridaythang.com/blog/2009/11/19/nightmares/comment-page-1/#comment-4053</link>
		<dc:creator>Kei</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am considering keeping a journal after your article.

But I&#039;m cis, or at least I think I am...
These dreams have been a major point of confusion for me, this is when I&#039;ve really started questioning myself.
I mean, in the dreams, I&#039;m female but I&#039;m still me and it isn&#039;t a drastic change. None of them involve sex at all.
The first time it happened years ago, I was female and people were laughing at me, but now it&#039;s just... normal.

I really need to find out what all of this means.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am considering keeping a journal after your article.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m cis, or at least I think I am&#8230;<br />
These dreams have been a major point of confusion for me, this is when I&#8217;ve really started questioning myself.<br />
I mean, in the dreams, I&#8217;m female but I&#8217;m still me and it isn&#8217;t a drastic change. None of them involve sex at all.<br />
The first time it happened years ago, I was female and people were laughing at me, but now it&#8217;s just&#8230; normal.</p>
<p>I really need to find out what all of this means.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I started keeping a dream journal a few years ago, as the first step toward &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lucid dreaming&lt;/a&gt;. I never got past the &quot;keep a dream journal&quot; stage, but I&#039;m still really glad I did it because it has let me see trends like you&#039;re describing.

For example, &quot;school&quot; for me usually means high school, even if college friends are there. &quot;Home&quot; usually means the house I lived in from when I was 9 or 10 to 15, regardless of how old I am in the dream.

I&#039;ve also specifically noticed my body in my dreams changing. I used to be male-bodied in dreams, but over the past two years or so - over the course of transitioning, basically - I&#039;ve noticed that change to either female-bodied or (like the nightmare described in this post) specifically trans. So, on the one hand, I&#039;m glad that my body in both of these dreams was more in line with my conscious gender identity than it was a few years ago, I wish my stresses and worries could find a better way to work themselves out... =p</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started keeping a dream journal a few years ago, as the first step toward <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming" rel="nofollow">lucid dreaming</a>. I never got past the &#8220;keep a dream journal&#8221; stage, but I&#8217;m still really glad I did it because it has let me see trends like you&#8217;re describing.</p>
<p>For example, &#8220;school&#8221; for me usually means high school, even if college friends are there. &#8220;Home&#8221; usually means the house I lived in from when I was 9 or 10 to 15, regardless of how old I am in the dream.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also specifically noticed my body in my dreams changing. I used to be male-bodied in dreams, but over the past two years or so &#8211; over the course of transitioning, basically &#8211; I&#8217;ve noticed that change to either female-bodied or (like the nightmare described in this post) specifically trans. So, on the one hand, I&#8217;m glad that my body in both of these dreams was more in line with my conscious gender identity than it was a few years ago, I wish my stresses and worries could find a better way to work themselves out&#8230; =p</p>
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		<title>By: Kei</title>
		<link>http://fridaythang.com/blog/2009/11/19/nightmares/comment-page-1/#comment-4051</link>
		<dc:creator>Kei</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dreams are the window to the soul, and those online &quot;dream analyses&quot; don&#039;t help.

Most of my dreams still take place in my high school where nobody of note graduated there and only three students and a teacher&#039;s aide left in the &quot;Smartest&quot; case of 1990. ;3

A rather large portion of my dreams (like 85%+) include myself female bodied but everybody else treating me normally and not even noticing (and I don&#039;t point it out). Though it isn&#039;t really the focus of the dream itself, it is a feature of the dream that has been consistent and I feel worthy of note.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dreams are the window to the soul, and those online &#8220;dream analyses&#8221; don&#8217;t help.</p>
<p>Most of my dreams still take place in my high school where nobody of note graduated there and only three students and a teacher&#8217;s aide left in the &#8220;Smartest&#8221; case of 1990. ;3</p>
<p>A rather large portion of my dreams (like 85%+) include myself female bodied but everybody else treating me normally and not even noticing (and I don&#8217;t point it out). Though it isn&#8217;t really the focus of the dream itself, it is a feature of the dream that has been consistent and I feel worthy of note.</p>
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